Josef Straka (ice hockey player)
 Josef Straka 
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| Date of birth | February 11, 1978 |
| place of birth | Jindřichův Hradec , Czechoslovakia |
| size | 180 cm |
| Weight | 88 kg |
| position | center |
| number | # 78 |
| Shot hand | Right |
| Draft | |
| NHL Entry Draft |
1996 , 5th lap, 122nd position Calgary Flames |
| Career stations | |
| 1995-1999 | HC Litvínov |
| 1999-2005 | HC Plzeň |
| 2005 |
HC Sparta Prague HC Znojemští Orli EHC Linz |
| 2005-2006 | HC Plzeň HC Sparta Prague |
| 2006-2007 | Lukko Rauma |
| 2007–2012 | Severstal Cherepovets |
| 2012 |
Ak Bars Kazan Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg |
| 2013 | Lukko Rauma SCL Tigers HC Plzeň |
| 2013-2014 | Piráti Chomutov |
| 2014-2016 | HC České Budějovice |
| 2016-2017 | HC Gherdëina |
| 2017-2018 | 1. EV Weiden |
| 2018-2019 | ERV Schweinfurt |
| since 2019 | EHC Waldkraiburg |
Josef Straka (born February 11, 1978 in Jindřichův Hradec , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech ice hockey player who has been under contract with EHC Waldkraiburg in the Bavarian ice hockey league since 2019 .
Career
Josef Straka began his career as a hockey player at HC Litvínov , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Czech extra league in the 1995/96 season . He was used in 33 games and scored eleven points and was runner-up. In the following seasons, the center forward was a regular in Lítvinov, before he moved to HC Plzeň during the 1999/2000 season. At his new club he played for four years across the seasons before he ended the 2004/05 season after temporary stints at its league rivals HC Sparta Prague and HC Znojemští Orli , at EHC Linz in the Austrian ice hockey league .
The 2005/06 season began Straka at his ex-club HC Plzeň and ended it at HC Sparta Prague, for which he had already played the previous year. At the end of the season he was Czech champion with the capitals . For the following season , the right -shooter was committed by Lukko Rauma from the Finnish SM-liiga . For the Northern Europeans, he scored 24 goals in 56 games and gave another 36 assists. After a year he left the club and joined the Russian club Severstal Tscherepowez , for which he played until 2012 - initially for a year in the Russian Super League and from the 2008/09 season in the newly founded Continental Hockey League . He completed a total of over 200 games for Severstal, in which he scored 79 goals.
In January 2012, Straka moved within the KHL to Ak Bars Kazan , for whom he played in 22 games by the end of the season and scored five goals and three assists in these. After that he did not get a new contract with Ak Bars and was signed by Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg in June 2012 . There he played until the end of December 2012, before he was signed again by Lukko Rauma in early January 2013.
For the 2013/14 season Straka signed a contract with the SCL Tigers from the National League B . For Langnauer, however, he only played six games before the contractual relationship was terminated early. This was followed by a try-out at the Czech first division club HC Plzeň, where he did not receive a long-term contract. Finally, the center was signed by Piráti Chomutov in November 2013 .
International
For the Czech Republic , Straka took part in the junior European championships in 1995 and 1996, as well as the junior world championships in 1996 and 1998 . In the senior sector he was in his country's squad for the Euro Hockey Tour in 2007 and 2008 .
Achievements and Awards
- 1996 Czech runner-up with HC Litvínov
- 2006 Czech champion with HC Sparta Prague
Career statistics
| Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||||
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| season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | ||
| 1991/92 | HC Litvínov-U18 | Extraliga U18 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 10 | - | 6th | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | ||
| 1992/93 | HC Litvínov-U18 | Extraliga U18 | 36 | 49 | 46 | 95 | - | 37 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4th | - | 0 | ||
| 1993/94 | HC Litvínov-U18 | Extraliga U18 | 37 | 71 | 50 | 121 | - | 50 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1993/94 | HC Litvínov-U20 | Extraliga U20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1994/95 | HC Litvínov-U20 | Extraliga U20 | 40 | 34 | 39 | 73 | - | 22nd | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1995/96 | HC Litvínov-U20 | Extraliga U20 | 7th | 4th | 0 | 4th | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1995/96 | HC Litvínov | Extra league | 33 | 5 | 6th | 11 | - | 14th | 15th | 3 | 1 | 4th | - | 2 | ||
| 1996/97 | HC Litvínov | Extra league | 52 | 14th | 16 | 30th | - | 32 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1997/98 | HC Litvínov-U20 | Extraliga U20 | 16 | 11 | 20th | 31 | - | 4th | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | - | 0 | ||
| 1997/98 | HC Litvínov | Extra league | 17th | 2 | 2 | 4th | - | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1998/99 | HC Litvínov-U20 | Extraliga U20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1998/99 | HC Litvínov | Extra league | 50 | 6th | 17th | 23 | - | 48 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1998/99 | HC Litvínov | Euro Hockey League | 6th | 3 | 3 | 6th | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1999/00 | HC Litvínov | Extra league | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1999/00 | HC Plzeň | Extra league | 26th | 5 | 4th | 9 | +2 | 8th | 7th | 0 | 2 | 2 | +4 | 0 | ||
| 2000/01 | HC Plzeň | Extra league | 50 | 12 | 15th | 27 | −10 | 39 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2000/01 | BK Mladá Boleslav | 1st League | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8th | 2 | 5 | 7th | −1 | 2 | ||
| 2001/02 | HC Plzeň | Extra league | 59 | 29 | 27 | 56 | +22 | 38 | 6th | 1 | 2 | 3 | −4 | 4th | ||
| 2002/03 | HC Plzeň | Extra league | 52 | 16 | 24 | 40 | −10 | 22nd | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2003/04 | HC Plzeň | Extra league | 52 | 23 | 32 | 55 | +18 | 28 | 12 | 7th | 6th | 13 | −3 | 8th | ||
| 2004/05 | HC Plzeň | Extra league | 27 | 6th | 12 | 18th | +3 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2004/05 | HC Sparta Prague | Extra league | 6th | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2004/05 | HC Znojemští Orli | Extra league | 12 | 1 | 4th | 5 | –6 | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2004/05 | EHC Linz | EBEL | 7th | 3 | 1 | 4th | -5 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2005/06 | HC Plzeň | Extra league | 13 | 3 | 3 | 6th | -2 | 14th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2005/06 | HC Sparta Prague | Extra league | 38 | 12 | 15th | 27 | +3 | 10 | 17th | 1 | 9 | 10 | +3 | 4th | ||
| 2006/07 | Lukko Rauma | SM-liiga | 56 | 24 | 36 | 60 | -8th | 66 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 2 | ||
| 2007/08 | Severstal Cherepovets | Super league | 55 | 15th | 15th | 30th | +3 | 30th | 8th | 0 | 5 | 5 | ± 0 | 22nd | ||
| 2008/09 | Severstal Cherepovets | KHL | 50 | 12 | 14th | 26th | -17 | 18th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2009/10 | Severstal Cherepovets | KHL | 53 | 21st | 22nd | 43 | -5 | 65 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2010/11 | Severstal Cherepovets | KHL | 52 | 19th | 21st | 40 | +1 | 16 | 6th | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 0 | ||
| 2011/12 | Severstal Cherepovets | KHL | 36 | 11 | 10 | 21st | +6 | 18th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2011/12 | Ak Bars Kazan | KHL | 13 | 4th | 2 | 6th | -1 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -3 | 2 | ||
| 2012/13 | Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg | KHL | 31 | 7th | 3 | 10 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 2012/13 | Lukko Rauma | SM-liiga | 15th | 5 | 2 | 7th | 4th | 11 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | ||||
| 2013/14 | SCL Tigers | NLB | 6th | 0 | 4th | 4th | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 2013/14 | HC Škoda Plzeň | Extra league | 8th | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 2013/14 | KLH Chomutov | Extra league | 30th | 8th | 6th | 14th | 6th | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| 2014/15 | HC České Budějovice | 1st League | 51 | 30th | 47 | 77 | 48 | 23 | 8th | 15th | 23 | 10 | ||||
| 2014/15 | HC Sparta Prague | Extra league | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| KHL total | 204 | 67 | 69 | 136 | −16 | 127 | 15th | 2 | 3 | 5 | −1 | 2 | ||||
| Super league overall | 55 | 15th | 15th | 30th | +3 | 30th | 8th | 0 | 5 | 5 | ± 0 | 22nd | ||||
International
| year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | |
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| 1995 | Czech Republic | U18 European Championship | 5th place | 5 | 3 | 5 | 8th | +9 | 2 | |
| 1996 | Czech Republic | U18 European Championship | 5th place | 5 | 1 | 5 | 6th | - | 0 | |
| 1996 | Czech Republic | U20 World Cup | 4th Place | 6th | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | |
| 1998 | Czech Republic | U20 World Cup | 4th Place | 7th | 2 | 2 | 4th | - | 2 |
( 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
- Josef Straka at hockeydb.com (English)
- Josef Straka at eliteprospects.com (English)
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| SURNAME | Straka, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech ice hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jindřichův Hradec , Czechoslovakia |