Jiří Sekáč

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Jiří Sekáč
Date of birth June 10, 1992
place of birth Kladno , Czechoslovakia
size 183 cm
Weight 79 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 2009 HC Kladno
2009 Peterborough Petes
2009-2011 Youngstown Phantoms
2011–2012 HC Lev Poprad
2012-2014 HC Lev Prague
2014-2015 Canadiens de Montréal
2015-2016 Anaheim Ducks
2016 Chicago Blackhawks
Arizona Coyotes
2016-2019 Ak Bars Kazan
2019-2020 HK CSKA Moscow
since 2020 HK Awangard Omsk

Jiří Sekáč (born June 10, 1992 in Kladno , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Awangard Omsk from the Continental Hockey League (KHL) since July 2020 and plays there in the position of the center .

Career

Jiří Sekáč began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of HC Kladno , where he was active until 2009. Subsequently, the center joined the Peterborough Petes from the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League (OHL), but left the team after eight games without a point and penalty to play for the Youngstown Phantoms in the Junior League United States Hockey League in the following two years (USHL) to accrue.

For the 2011/12 season , Sekáč was obliged by HC Lev Poprad from the Continental Hockey League (KHL). In the 2-4 home defeat against HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk on September 12, 2011, he was for the first time in the squad of HC Lev Poprad in the KHL. In July of the following year he received a contract extension with HC Lev, which had meanwhile moved to Prague. From November 2012 he joined the partner team HC Sparta Prague in the Extraliga before he established himself as a regular player in the 2013/14 season and reached the play-off final for the Gagarin Cup with HC Lev . He was then nominated for the 2014 World Cup .

His achievements in the KHL and at the World Championship drew the interest of some NHL franchises to Sekáč, who ultimately signed a two-year contract with the Canadiens de Montréal . There he played until February 2015, before the Canadiens gave him over to the Anaheim Ducks and Devante Smith-Pelly received in return . The Czech also stayed in Anaheim for less than a year until he was given to the Chicago Blackhawks in January 2016 in exchange for Ryan Garbutt . When the Blackhawks wanted to send him to the American Hockey League (AHL) via the waiver a month later , he was instead signed by the Arizona Coyotes .

Following the 2015/16 season, he returned to the Continental Hockey League when he signed a one-year contract with Ak Bars Kazan in June 2016 . There the Czech was on the ice for three years and won the Gagarin Cup with the team in 2018 , before he was transferred to HK CSKA Moscow in May 2019 . After a season there in which he had collected 25 scorer points in 45 season games, he joined league rivals HK Awangard Omsk in July 2020 .

International

For the Czech Republic , Sekáč took part in the 2010 U18 World Junior Championship and scored four goals in six games. Two years later, he took part in the U20 World Junior Championship before completing his first men's World Championship in 2014 . He also took part in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2007/08 HC Kladno U18 U18 extra league 45 6th 9 15th 8th 3 2 1 3 0
2008/09 HC Kladno U18 U18 extra league 46 38 49 87 48 5 3 3 6th 6th
2009/10 Peterborough Petes OHL 8th 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2009/10 Youngstown Phantoms USHL 38 2 9 11 35 - - - - -
2010/11 Youngstown Phantoms USHL 58 18th 27 45 27 - - - - -
2011/12 Tatranskí Vlci MHL 6th 8th 2 10 22nd - - - - -
2011/12 HC Lev Poprad KHL 36 2 8th 10 4th - - - - -
2012/13 HC Lev Prague KHL 26th 0 1 1 8th 3 0 0 0 0
2012/13 HC Sparta Prague Extra league 21st 4th 6th 10 8th - - - - -
2013/14 HC Lev Prague KHL 47 11 17th 28 18th 21st 1 7th 8th 24
2014/15 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 50 7th 9 16 18th - - - - -
2014/15 Anaheim Ducks NHL 19th 2 5 7th 4th 7th 0 0 0 2
2015/16 Anaheim Ducks NHL 22nd 1 2 3 4th - - - - -
2015/16 San Diego Gulls AHL 1 1 0 1 0 - - - - -
2015/16 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 6th 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2015/16 Arizona Coyotes NHL 11 0 2 2 10 - - - - -
2016/17 Ak Bars Kazan KHL 47 13 14th 27 41 15th 6th 4th 10 2
2017/18 Ak Bars Kazan KHL 50 16 26th 42 16 15th 4th 9 13 2
2018/19 Ak Bars Kazan KHL 60 23 24 47 16 4th 1 0 1 2
2019/20 HK CSKA Moscow KHL 45 12 13 25th 12 - - - - -
U18 extra league overall 91 44 58 102 56 8th 5 4th 9 6th
USHL total 96 20th 36 56 62 - - - - -
NHL overall 108 10 19th 29 38 7th 0 0 0 2
KHL total 312 77 103 180 115 58 12 20th 32 30th

International

Represented the Czech Republic at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2010 Czech Republic U18 World Cup 6th place 6th 4th 0 4th 2
2012 Czech Republic U20 World Cup 5th place 6th 0 3 3 2
2014 Czech Republic WM 4th Place 10 2 0 2 4th
2018 Czech Republic Olympia 4th Place 5 0 1 1 2
Juniors overall 12 4th 3 7th 4th
Men overall 15th 2 1 3 6th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Jiří Sekáč  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jiri Sekac Signs Deal With Ak Bars Kazan in KHL. In: The Hockey Writers. Retrieved June 6, 2016, June 7, 2016 (American English).
  2. ↑ Reprezentační útočník Sekáč mění v Rusku dres, od Příští sezony pixelbude HRA. In: irozhlas.cz. July 17, 2020, accessed July 22, 2020 (Czech).
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Squad of HK Awangard Omsk in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Sekáč, Jiří
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sekac, Jiri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Kladno , Czechoslovakia