Josef Vašíček

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Josef Vašíček
Date of birth September 12, 1980
place of birth Havlíčkův Brod , Czechoslovakia
date of death September 7, 2011
Place of death Tunoschna near Yaroslavl , Russia
size 193 cm
Weight 104 kg
position center
number # 63
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1998 , 4th round, 91st position
Carolina Hurricanes
Career stations
until 1996 BK Havlíčkův Brod
1996-1998 HC Slavia Prague
1998-2000 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds
2000-2006 Carolina Hurricanes
2004-2005 HC Slavia Prague
2006-2007 Nashville Predators
2007 Carolina Hurricanes
2007-2008 New York Islanders
2008-2011 Yaroslavl locomotive

Josef Vašíček (born September 12, 1980 in Havlíčkův Brod , Czechoslovakia ; † September 7, 2011 in Tunoschna near Yaroslavl , Russia ) was a Czech ice hockey player who played for the Carolina Hurricanes , Nashville Predators and New York Islanders played in the National Hockey League as well as Lokomotive Yaroslavl in the Continental Hockey League on the position of the center .

Josef Vašíček's sister is married to the brother of the Austrian ice hockey player Thomas Vanek .

Career

As a junior (until 2000)

Vašíček played as a youth in his hometown for BK Havlíčkův Brod before moving to the juniors of HC Slavia Prague in 1996 . For the club's U17 team, he scored a total of 20 goals during the 1996/97 season and prepared 40 more. In the following season he was accepted into the U20 team of Slavia at the age of 17, for which he collected 33 scorer points in 34 games. Because of the performances shown, he was selected 91st place by the Carolina Hurricanes during the 1998 NHL Entry Draft . Then Vašíček moved to the OHL , one of the three highest Canadian junior leagues. There he played for Sault Ste for two years . Marie Greyhounds , reaching 59 scorer points in his first OHL season. In the 1999/2000 season he improved his offensive game again and scored 26 goals and 46 assists in 54 games of the regular season, making it the second best scorer of the greyhounds behind Ryan Jardine . He also acted as the team captain of the greyhounds. In the playoffs, he and his team advanced to the conference final, in which the greyhounds failed 4-1 at the Plymouth Whalers . Vašíček reached another 20 scorer points in the playoffs and was one of the top scorers of the finals. In addition, at the end of the season he was elected to the third All-Star team of the OHL.

Carolina Hurricanes, HC Slavia Prague and Nashville Predators (2000-2007)

In late summer 2000 he took part in the training camp of his draft team, the Carolina Hurricanes, and won a regular place in the NHL roster of the Hurricanes for the 2000/01 season . He played his first NHL game on October 7, 2000 against the Washington Capitals . He scored his first goal in the NHL six days later against Trevor Kidd of the Florida Panthers . He finished his rookie season with 21 points from 76 games. On April 12, 2001 he completed his first NHL playoff game, in which he scored his first NHL goal against Martin Brodeur of the New Jersey Devils . After the elimination of the Hurricanes from the finals, Vašíček was used in three playoff games with the Cincinnati Cyclones in the International Hockey League .

In the 2001/02 season he failed with Carolina in the final of the Stanley Cup at the Detroit Red Wings .

During the strike season 2004/05 he played again in his homeland for Slavia Prague. In the 2005/06 season he was able to win the Stanley Cup with the Hurricanes , although thrown back in a knee injury in the middle of the season. In the summer of 2006 he was given in exchange for Scott Walker to the Nashville Predators , but returned to Carolina in February 2007 for Éric Bélanger , but his contract was not renewed after the end of the season.

New York Islanders (2007-2008)

On August 15, 2007 Vašíček signed a contract for a year and US $ 750,000 with the New York Islanders . He made his debut as an islander on October 5, 2007, when he contributed a goal to the 6-4 victory over the Buffalo Sabers . With a total of 35 points scorer in the following 80 season games, he scored as many points as last in the 2003/04 season. At the end of the season Vašíček became an unrestricted free agent .

Yaroslavl locomotive (2008-2011)

Memorial to Jan Marek , Karel Rachůnek , Pavol Demitra and Josef Vašíček in the Old Town Square in Prague in September 2011
Graffiti in memory of Jan Marek, Karel Rachůnek and Josef Vašíček in Adamov , September 7, 2011

After he had not received a contract in the NHL, Vašíček moved back to Europe in the summer in the newly established Continental Hockey League and signed a two-year contract with Lokomotive Yaroslavl . At Lokomotive he played as the center of the wingers Alexei Jaschin and Zbyněk Irgl , with whom he led his team to the playoff final of the Gagarin Cup in 2009 . Vašíček scored 32 points scorer in 56 main round games and another 15 points in 19 playoff games. In the following season he improved his points yield to 21 goals and 27 assists in the regular season and another 13 points scorer in the playoffs.

On September 7, 2011, he was killed in a plane crash near Yaroslavl . His body was buried in his hometown on September 15. The Carolina Hurricanes announced on the same day that they would honor Vašíček in the 2011/12 season with a jersey patch with his number 63.

International

Vašíček represented his home country for the first time at the U18 European Junior Championship in 1998 , where he scored two goals and four assists. Two years later he was nominated to the squad for the U20 World Junior Championship . In this tournament he scored one goal and three assists in seven games and helped his team win the gold medal. In the senior sector, he had his first assignment at the 2003 World Cup , where he played nine games and finished fourth with the Czech selection. He also came to work at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey , where the Czech Republic won the bronze medal.

A year later he was active for the Czech Republic at the 2005 World Cup in Austria . There he won the gold medal with the national team, with Vašíček contributing a goal and an assist to this success. In the following three years he was not active internationally for the Czech Republic before he collected three scorer points in six games at the 2009 World Cup in Switzerland and finished sixth with his team. At the 2010 Winter Olympics , he was used in five games in which he remained pointless. In the 2010/11 season he was part of the national team at two tournaments on the Euro Hockey Tour , but was not nominated for the 2011 World Cup .

After his death in September 2011, his jersey number 63 was banned by the Czech Ice Hockey Federation for all national ice hockey teams in the country.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1995-96 BK Havlíčkův Brod CZ-U17 36 25th 25th 50 - - - - -
1996-97 HC Slavia Prague CZ-U17 37 20th 40 60 - - - - - -
1997-98 HC Slavia Prague U20 extra league 34 13 20th 33 - - - - -
1998-99 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 66 21st 35 56 30th 5 3 0 3 10
1999-00 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 54 26th 46 72 49 17th 5 15th 20th 8th
2000-01 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 76 8th 13 21st 53 6th 2 0 2 0
Cincinnati Cyclones IHL - - - - - 3 0 0 0 0
2001-02 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 78 14th 17th 31 53 23 3 2 5 12
2002-03 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 57 10 10 20th 33 - - - - -
2003-04 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 82 19th 26th 45 60 - - - - -
2004-05 HC Slavia Prague Extra league 52 20th 23 43 42 7th 1 6th 7th 10
2005-06 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 23 4th 5 9 8th 8th 0 0 0 2
2006-07 Nashville Predators NHL 38 4th 9 13 29 - - - - -
Carolina Hurricanes NHL 25th 2 7th 9 22nd - - - - -
2007-08 New York Islanders NHL 81 16 19th 35 53 - - - - -
2008-09 Yaroslavl locomotive KHL 56 12 22nd 34 81 19th 5 10 15th 20th
2009-10 Yaroslavl locomotive KHL 56 21st 27 48 54 17th 6th 7th 13 26th
2010-11 Yaroslavl locomotive KHL 54 24 31 55 34 18th 7th 15th 22nd 16
OHL total 120 47 81 128 79 22nd 8th 15th 23 18th
IHL total - - - - - 3 0 0 0 0
NHL overall 460 77 106 183 311 37 5 2 7th 14th
Extraliga overall 52 20th 23 43 42 7th 1 6th 7th 10
KHL total 166 57 80 137 169 54 18th 32 50 62

International

Represented the Czech Republic at:

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
1998 Czech Republic U18 European Championship 6th 2 4th 6th 4th
2000 Czech Republic U20 World Cup 7th 1 3 4th 2
2003 Czech Republic WM 9 0 2 2 2
2004 Czech Republic World cup 1 0 0 0 0
2005 Czech Republic WM 8th 1 1 2 4th
2009 Czech Republic WM 6th 1 2 3 6th
2010 Czech Republic Olympia 5 0 0 0 2
Juniors overall 13 3 7th 10 6th
Men overall 29 2 5 7th 14th

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. a b izvestia.ru, Список погибших хоккеистов «Локомотива»
  2. Tom Vanek mourns the loss of his friend Josef Vasicek
  3. a b saultstar.com, Tragedy for KHL team - former Hound Vasicek dies  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.saultstar.com  
  4. puckfans.at, Josef Vasicek also moves to Russia  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / alt.puckfans.at  
  5. allhockey.ru, Чешский форвард Йозеф Васичек перешел в "Локомотив"
  6. eishockeynews.de, Czech shifts start to the season for funeral of Jan Marek ( Memento of 31 July 2012 in the Web archive archive.today )
  7. canescountry.com, Hurricanes To Honor Josef Vasicek With Jersey Patch
  8. ^ Czechs, Slovaks honor victims. In: iihf.com. September 9, 2011, accessed January 4, 2016 .