Konstantin Komarek

Konstantin Komarek
Date of birth	November 8, 1992
place of birth	Vienna , Austria
size	182 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 67
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2006-2007	Vienna Ice Lions Association
2007-2008	EHC Team Vienna
2008–2012	Luleå HF
2012-2016	EC Red Bull Salzburg
2016-2017	Malmo Redhawks
2017-2018	Karlskrona HK
2018-2020	Malmo Redhawks
2020	Luleå HF
since 2020	Dinamo Riga

Konstantin Komarek (born November 8, 1992 in Vienna ) is an Austrian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Dinamo Riga from the Continental Hockey League (KHL) since August 2020 and plays there in the position of right winger .

Career

Komarek began his career in his hometown of Vienna, where he made his debut in the second division at the age of 14. After two seasons in the second division and in the U20 league, he moved to Luleå HF in Sweden in 2008 . There he scored 18 points in 18 games in the Swedish J18 Elit. The second season was also successful. Komarek was able to establish himself in the Luleå U20 team.

In November 2010, Komarek made his debut in the Elitserien . In spring 2011 he was listed in the final ranking for the NHL Entry Draft in 55th place among European outfield players. After a total of 64 games in the Elitserien, the striker returned to Austria in summer 2012, where he signed a contract with EC Red Bull Salzburg . There he was able to assert himself immediately and completed a total of 116 games in the Austrian ice hockey league in his first two seasons .

On January 31, 2016, with three goals in 122 seconds against Orli Znojmo , he scored the fastest hat-trick in the EBEL's league history and improved a 3: 7 deficit to the later final score of 6: 7. In his four years in Salzburg he was twice (2015 and 2016) champion of the Austrian ice hockey league . In 2014 he was second in the league with Salzburg, as they were defeated in the final with HC Bozen to a foreign member of the league, but Salzburg was Austrian champion.

In April 2016, the Swedish first division team Malmö Redhawks Komarek announced. Komarek stayed there for a season before spending the 2017/18 season at league rivals Karlskrona HK . Then the Austrian returned to Malmö. His second engagement with the Redhawks lasted until January 2020. Then he switched to Luleå HF . In August 2020 Komarek joined the Latvian club Dinamo Riga from the Continental Hockey League (KHL).

International

Komarek played for Austria as a junior. He took part in the U18 World Championships in Division I in 2008 , 2009 and 2010 as well as in the U20 World Championships in 2010 (in the top division), 2011 and 2012 (both in Division I). At the U20 World Cup in 2010 he was the second youngest player in the tournament.

For the men's national team , he was on the ice for the first time in the international match against Latvia on April 13, 2011 in Innsbruck . He made his World Cup debut at the Division I tournament in 2014 , when he and his team were promoted to the top division. There he played with the Alpine nationals at the 2015 World Cup . After relegation, he played again in Division I in 2016 and 2017 , when he was second-best scorer and scorer and second-best preparer behind Kazak Nigel Dawes (together with Kazak Brandon Bochenski behind his compatriot Martin Schumnig ). In addition, he was in 2017 in elected the All-Star-Team and together with his compatriot Dominique Heinrich had the best plus / minus balance of the tournament.

Achievements and Awards

• 2014 Austrian champion with the EC Red Bull Salzburg
• 2015 Austrian champion with the EC Red Bull Salzburg
• 2016 Austrian champion with the EC Red Bull Salzburg

International

• 2014 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I, Group A.
• 2017 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship of Division I, Group A.
• 2017 All-Star Team of the World Championship Division I, Group A.
• 2017 Best plus / minus balance of the World Championship in Division I, Group A (together with Dominique Heinrich )

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	+/-
2006/07	Vienna Ice Lions Association	U20		25th	2	5	7th	6th	-
2006/07	Vienna Ice Lions Association	National league		2	0	0	0	0	-
2007/08	EHC Team Vienna	U20		4th	2	4th	6th	8th	-		1	0	1	1	0	-
2007/08	EHC Team Vienna	National league		25th	4th	4th	8th	16	-		3	0	0	0	0	-
2008/09	Luleå HF	J18 elite		18th	8th	10	18th	10	+11
2008/09	Luleå HF	J18 Allsvenskan		14th	4th	4th	8th	20th	0		3	0	1	1	2	0
2009/10	Luleå HF	J18 elite		9	7th	7th	14th	24	+11
2009/10	Luleå HF	J18 Allsvenskan		6th	6th	6th	12	0	+8
2009/10	Luleå HF	J20 SuperElit		32	7th	11	18th	45	+3		4th	2	2	4th	8th	+3
2010/11	Luleå HF	J20 SuperElit		24	8th	12	20th	8th	−4		2	0	0	0	0	−1
2010/11	Luleå HF	Elitserien		19th	1	0	1	2	−1		12	1	2	3	4th	+1
2011/12	Luleå HF	J20 SuperElit		9	2	6th	8th	4th	+3
2011/12	Luleå HF	Elitserien		45	2	3	5	4th	−1		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	EC Red Bull Salzburg	EBEL		42	8th	7th	15th	8th	+4		10	0	2	2	2	-2
2013/14	EC Red Bull Salzburg	EBEL		50	7th	13	20th	24	+8		14th	4th	5	9	6th	+1
2014/15	EC Red Bull Salzburg	EBEL		53	10	25th	35	14th	+15		13	0	4th	4th	10	-1
2015/16	EC Red Bull Salzburg	EBEL		42	17th	23	40	41	+20		19th	4th	9	13	14th	+6
2016/17	Malmo Redhawks	SHL		36	6th	10	16	2	+2		5	0	0	0	2	-5
2017/18	Karlskrona HK	SHL		52	8th	19th	27	6th	-22		7 1	0	2	2	6th	-5
2018/19	Malmo Redhawks	SHL		49	13	26th	39	18th	+2		5	1	1	2	2	-4
2019/20	Malmo Redhawks	SHL		20th	4th	4th	8th	14th	-5		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Luleå HF	SHL		19th	4th	10	14th	2	+4		-	-	-	-	-	-
J20 SuperElit overall				65	17th	29	46	57	+2		6th	2	2	4th	8th	+2
Elitserien / SHL overall				240	38	72	110	48	-21		29	2	5	7th	14th	-13
EBEL total				187	42	68	110	87	+47		56	8th	20th	28	32	+4

( 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 : Konstantin Komarek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Konstantin Komarek at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The next Viennese on Vanek's footsteps. In: sport.orf.at. April 20, 2011, accessed December 1, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Red Bulls are happy about two strong young talents from Austria
3. ↑ Österrikisk mästare clear för Malmö Redhawks. In: Malmö Redhawks. Retrieved April 13, 2016 .