Martin Frk

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Martin Frk
Date of birth 5th October 1993
place of birth Pelhřimov , Czech Republic
size 185 cm
Weight 88 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
KHL Junior Draft 2010 , 1st round, 24th position
HK Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk
NHL Entry Draft 2012 , 2nd round, 49th position
Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
until 2010 HC Karlovy Vary
2010-2013 Halifax Mooseheads
2013-2016 Grand Rapids Griffins
2016 Carolina Hurricanes
2016-2019 Detroit Red Wings
Grand Rapids Griffins
since 2019 Los Angeles Kings
Ontario Reign

Martin Frk (born October 5, 1993 in Pelhřimov ) is a Czech ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League since July 2019 and for their farm team , the Ontario Reign , in the American Hockey League on the position of right winger plays.

Career

Frk with the Calder Cup (2017)

Frk spent his junior years in the youth department of HC Karlovy Vary until 2010 . After making selections in the KHL Junior Draft and CHL Import Draft , the 17-year-old striker decided to continue his career in North America in August 2010. He joined the Halifax Mooseheads from the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec , who had chosen him in the draft. The Czech spent three seasons there. After a successful rookie season with 50 points in 62 games, he only played 34 games the following year due to injury. Nevertheless, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2012 in the second round in 49th position by the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League . However, Frk remained in the QMJHL for another year and led the Mooseheads together with Jonathan Drouin and Nathan MacKinnon to both winning the Coupe du Président and winning the traditional Memorial Cup .

The right wing attacker then switched to the Detroit Red Wings organization in the summer of 2013, after they had provided him with an NHL entry contract in July of the previous year . Frk spent the first two seasons in the professional field with the farm teams of the Red Wings, the Toledo Walleye from the ECHL and the Grand Rapids Griffins from the American Hockey League . For the 2015/16 season he then managed to establish himself permanently with the Griffins. Shortly before the start of the 2016/17 season , Detroit's management decided that Frk should continue to play in the AHL. For this, however, he had to pass the waiver , from where the league competitor Carolina Hurricanes selected him. The striker made his NHL debut there at the beginning of the season. After two missions for the Hurricanes, at the end of October they also tried to send Frk to the Charlotte Checkers via the Waiver in the AHL . However, the Detroit Red Wings took the chance and brought the striker back into their franchise , eventually reassigning him to the Grand Rapids Griffins. With the Griffins, the Czech won the AHL playoffs for the Calder Cup at the end of the season .

With the start of the 2017/18 season, Frk established himself in the Red Wings squad and scored 25 points scorer in 68 games in his first NHL season. He was unable to defend this in the following year and then joined the Los Angeles Kings free agent in July 2019 . There he was mainly used at the Ontario Reign in the AHL and, as part of the AHL All-Star Classic 2020, fired the hardest shot in ice hockey history at 175.7 km / h that has been measured to date.

International

For his home country, Frk played at the U18 Junior World Championships in 2010 and 2011 and the U20 Junior World Championships in 2011 and 2013 . The striker played six games for the team in all four tournaments. His best result was seven scorer points at the U18 Junior World Championship 2010. In total, he collected 22 scorer points in 24 World Cup games. He finished the 2011 U20 World Youth Championship as the player with the most penalty minutes.

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
2010/11 Halifax Mooseheads LHJMQ 62 22nd 28 50 75 4th 0 2 2 8th
2011/12 Halifax Mooseheads LHJMQ 34 16 13 29 41 17th 5 6th 11 26th
2012/13 Halifax Mooseheads LHJMQ 56 35 49 84 84 17th 13 20th 33 32
2013 Halifax Mooseheads Memorial Cup 4th 5 4th 9 8th
2013/14 Toledo Walleye ECHL 15th 5 8th 13 10 - - - - -
2013/14 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 50 3 9 12 22nd 4th 0 0 0 0
2014/15 Toledo Walleye ECHL 29 23 15th 38 16 14th 9 4th 13 10
2014/15 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 32 6th 6th 12 16 2 0 2 2 0
2015/16 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 67 27 17th 44 89 4th 1 3 4th 2
2016/17 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 65 27 23 50 58 16 5 10 15th 20th
2016/17 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2017/18 Detroit Red Wings NHL 68 11 14th 25th 14th - - - - -
2018/19 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 13 5 9 14th 6th 3 1 2 3 16
2018/19 Detroit Red Wings NHL 30th 1 5 6th 4th - - - - -
2019/20 Ontario Reign AHL 37 23 13 36 59 - - - - -
2019/20 Los Angeles Kings NHL 17th 6th 2 8th 4th - - - - -
LHJMQ total 152 73 90 163 200 38 18th 28 46 66
ECHL total 44 28 23 51 26th 14th 9 4th 13 10
AHL total 264 91 77 168 250 29 7th 17th 24 38
NHL overall 117 18th 21st 39 22nd - - - - -

International

Represented the Czech Republic at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2010 Czech Republic U18 World Cup 6th place 6th 2 5 7th 6th
2011 Czech Republic U20 World Cup 7th place 6th 3 3 6th 31
2011 Czech Republic U18 World Cup 8th place 6th 1 4th 5 2
2013 Czech Republic U20 World Cup 5th place 6th 3 1 4th 16
Juniors overall 24 9 13 22nd 55

( 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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personal data
SURNAME Frk, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Pelhřimov , Czech Republic