Marek Malík

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Marek Malík
Date of birth June 24, 1975
place of birth Ostrava , Czechoslovakia
size 198 cm
Weight 109 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1993 , 3rd lap, 72nd position
Hartford Whalers
Career stations
until 1994 HC Vítkovice
1994-1996 Springfield Falcons
1996-1997 Hartford Whalers
1997-1998 Malmo Redhawks
1998-2002 Carolina Hurricanes
2002-2004 Vancouver Canucks
2004-2005 HC Vítkovice
2005-2008 New York Rangers
2008-2009 Tampa Bay Lightning
2009-2013 HC Vítkovice Steel
2009-2010 Genève-Servette HC
2013-2014 HC Innsbruck

Marek Malík (* 24. June 1975 in Ostrava , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech hockey player and current - trainer , who during his playing career from 1992 to 2014 among other 756 games for the Carolina Hurricanes , Vancouver Canucks and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League has contested on the position of defender . In addition, he completed another 267 games for his home club HC Vítkovice in the Czech extra league , with which he was Czech runner-up in 2011. Malík celebrated his greatest career success in the jersey of the Czech national team by winning the bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics .

Career

Marek Malík in the jersey of the Genève-Servette HC

Marek Malík began his career in his hometown with HC Vítkovice before he was selected in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft by the Hartford Whalers in the third round in 72nd place. He stayed in Vítkovice for a year before moving to North America for the 1994/95 season.

In the following two years he played mostly in the American Hockey League on the farm team, with the Springfield Falcons . After eight NHL games in the first two years, he came to 47 NHL appearances in the 1996/97 season . The following year he moved to Sweden for Malmö IF , but returned to the United States a year later. The Whalers had moved to Carolina and the new partner team in the AHL was Beast of New Haven , but played with the Carolina Hurricanes for most of the season . This time he made the breakthrough. Shortly after the start of the 2002/03 season, he moved with Darren Langdon to the Vancouver Canucks and stayed there for another season. That season he won the NHL Plus / Minus Award with Tampa Bay's Martin St. Louis .

In the strike season 2004/05 Malík returned to his homeland and played for HC Vitkovice. After the lockout, he received a three-year contract with the New York Rangers before the 2005/06 season . Malík stayed with the Rangers until 2008 before signing a one-year contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning in October 2008 . A year later he became an unrestricted free agent and didn't decide to return to the Czech Republic until October 2009. First he played again for his home club in the Extraliga, before he was loaned to Genève-Servette HC from the National League A in November 2009 . At the end of July 2010 he signed a three-year contract extension with HC Vítkovice Steel. At the end of the following season he reached the playoff final with his team, in which they failed with 1: 4 wins at HC Oceláři Třinec .

After the 2013/14 season, which he spent at HC Innsbruck , he ended his career. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season he began to work as a coach in his Czech homeland, including briefly as assistant coach for the first division club HC Oceláři Třinec. Since 2016 he has been working in this position at the second division club HC Frýdek-Místek .

International

Marek Malík took part in 1993 with the Czech U18 selection at the U18 European Junior Championship , where they won the bronze medal. In the following two years he played for the U20 national team and took part in the Junior World Cup in 1994 and 1995 .

For the men's national team of the Czech Republic he took in 2004 at the World Cup of Hockey in part. Two years later he was a member of the Czech Olympic team at the Olympic Winter Games in Turin . He won the bronze medal in the men's selection.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1992/93 HC Vítkovice U20 U20 extra league 29 5 19th 24 16 - - - - -
1993/94 HC Vítkovice Extra league 41 3 4th 7th 0 2 0 0 0 2
1994/95 Springfield Falcons AHL 58 11 30th 41 91 - - - - -
1994/95 Hartford Whalers NHL 1 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
1995/96 Springfield Falcons AHL 68 8th 14th 22nd 135 8th 1 3 4th 20th
1995/96 Hartford Whalers NHL 7th 0 0 0 4th - - - - -
1996/97 Springfield Falcons AHL 3 0 3 3 4th - - - - -
1996/97 Hartford Whalers NHL 47 1 5 6th 50 - - - - -
1997/98 Malmö IF Elitserien 37 1 5 6th 21st - - - - -
1998/99 Beast of New Haven AHL 21st 2 8th 10 28 - - - - -
1998/99 HC Vítkovice Extra league 1 1 0 1 6th - - - - -
1998/99 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 52 2 9 11 36 4th 0 0 0 4th
1999/00 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 57 4th 10 14th 63 - - - - -
2000/01 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 61 6th 14th 20th 34 3 0 0 0 6th
2001/02 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 82 4th 19th 23 88 23 0 3 3 18th
2002/03 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 10 0 2 2 16 - - - - -
2002/03 Vancouver Canucks NHL 69 7th 11 18th 52 14th 1 1 2 10
2003/04 Vancouver Canucks NHL 78 3 16 19th 45 7th 0 0 0 10
2004/05 HC Vítkovice Extra league 42 1 9 10 50 7th 0 0 0 37
2005/06 New York Rangers NHL 74 2 16 18th 78 4th 0 1 1 6th
2006/07 New York Rangers NHL 69 2 19th 21st 70 10 1 3 4th 10
2007/08 New York Rangers NHL 42 2 8th 10 48 - - - - -
2008/09 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 42 0 5 5 36 - - - - -
2009/10 HC Vítkovice Extra league 8th 0 4th 4th 6th - - - - -
2009/10 Genève-Servette HC NLA 25th 0 4th 4th 10 20th 2 8th 10 14th
2010/11 HC Vítkovice Extra league 47 5 24 29 134 14th 1 4th 5 6th
2011/12 HC Vítkovice Extra league 48 2 14th 16 155 - - - - -
2012/13 HC Vítkovice Extra league 49 1 16 17th 91 9 0 0 0 54
2013/14 HC Innsbruck EBEL 47 4th 14th 18th 48 - - - - -
Extraliga overall 235 13 71 84 505 32 1 4th 5 99
AHL total 150 21st 55 76 258 8th 1 3 4th 20th
NHL overall 691 33 135 168 620 65 2 8th 10 64

International

Represented the Czech Republic at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1993 Czech Republic U18 European Championship 3rd place, bronze 2 0 2 2 0
1994 Czech Republic U20 World Cup 5th place 7th 2 4th 6th 20th
1995 Czech Republic U20 World Cup 6th place 7th 2 5 7th 12
2004 Czech Republic World cup 3rd place 4th 0 0 0 4th
2006 Czech Republic Olympia 3rd place, bronze 8th 0 0 0 0
Juniors overall 16 4th 11 15th 32
Men overall 12 0 0 0 12

( 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 )

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SURNAME Malík, Marek
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malik, Marek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostrava , Czechoslovakia