Jiří Novák (ice hockey player)

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Czech RepublicCzech Republic  Jiří Novák Ice hockey player
Date of birth June 6, 1950
place of birth Jaroměř , Czechoslovakia
size 171 cm
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 1970 Tesla Pardubice
1970-1972 ASD Dukla Jihlava
1972-1980 Tesla Pardubice
1980-1982 HC Lausanne
1982-1983 Ours de Villard-de-Lans
1983-1984 SG Cortina

Jiří Novák (born June 6, 1950 in Jaroměř , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player who played for many years in the Czechoslovak league for Tesla Pardubice and for the Czechoslovak national team as a center forward .

Career

Jiří Novák began his career in 1962 in the Tesla Pardubice youth team . At the age of 17 he made his debut during the season 1967/68 in the top division of Czechoslovakia, the 1st division . He quickly established himself within the team, so that he already scored 14 goals and eleven assists in the 1969/70 season. This was followed by two years of military service, which Novák served at the ASD Dukla Jihlava army club . With Dukla he won the Czechoslovak Championship in 1971 and 1972 before returning to his hometown club. In the following nine years he went exclusively for Tesla Pardubice on the ice and formed there together with the left winger Bohuslav Šťastný and the right winger Vladimír Martinec one of the best attack lines in the league, which also played together in the Czechoslovak national team.

Overall, Novák scored on the side of Šistsastný and Martinec 255 goals and 76 assists in 480 games in the first division. At the end of his career, Novák received permission to move to western countries. While Šťastný and Vladimír Martinec moved to ESV Kaufbeuren , Novák opted for HC Lausanne . In Switzerland, he completed one season each in the National League A and National League B for Lausanne, before moving to the Ours de Villard-de-Lans in the French ice hockey league , the Nationale A.

In the 1983/84 season he went on the ice for SG Cortina in Serie A before ending his career. In his honor, the number 20 is no longer awarded by his hometown club, today's HC Pardubice.

Today Novák owns the Hotel Euro in Pardubice.

International

In addition to his success at club level, Novák also had great success in international championships. With the Czechoslovak men's selection , he won a silver medal at the Winter Olympics and six medals at world championships .

He received his first appointment to the national team for the U19 European Championship in 1968, where he won the gold medal with the U19 selection from his home country. Novák scored seven goals and three assists in five games. A year later he belonged again to the U19 squad of Czechoslovakia, which won the bronze medal of the U19 European Championship. In the junior division, Novák played together with Milan Hejduk senior , Milan Hejduk's father , in an attacking formation.

He completed his first men's tournament at the 1973 World Cup , where he won the bronze medal with the national team. From 1975 he took part in the world title competitions every year, winning two gold and three silver medals. In 1976 he played his first Winter Olympics, where he won the silver medal with the Czechoslovak selection. In the same year he was also a member of the ČSSR squad at the Canada Cup . The Canadian Steve Shutt checked him so hard that Novák was almost paralyzed by an injury to seven cervical vertebrae.

Jiří Novák played his last international tournament at the 1980 Winter Olympics . In the national jersey he scored 76 goals in 160 international matches for Czechoslovakia.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1968 gold medal at the U19 European Junior Championship
  • 1969 bronze medal at the U19 European Junior Championship
  • 1971 Czechoslovakian champion with Dukla Jihlava
  • 1972 Czechoslovakian champion with Dukla Jihlava
  • 1973 Czechoslovakian champion with Tesla Pardubice
  • 1973 bronze medal at the world championship
  • 1975 silver medal at the world championship
  • 1976 silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games
  • 1976 gold medal at the world championship
  • 1977 gold medal at the world championship
  • 1978 silver medal at the world championship
  • 1979 silver medal at the world championship

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e historie.hcpce.cz, Jiří Novák ( Memento from April 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b c hokej.cz, Jiří Novák přešel od hokeje k podnikání, s křídly Martincem a Šťastným se nikdy nepohádal
  3. ↑ pce.wgz.cz, History of Moelleru
  4. ↑ internationalhockeylegends.blogspot.com, Jiri Novak
personal data
SURNAME Novák, Jiří
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Novak, Jiri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Jaroměř , Czechoslovakia