Martin Hosták

Martin Hosták
Date of birth	November 11, 1967
place of birth	Hradec Králové , Czechoslovakia
size	190 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1987 , 3rd round, 62nd position Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
until 1986	TJ Stadium Hradec Králové
1986-1990	Sparta ČKD Prague
1990-1992	Philadelphia Flyers
1992-1996	MODO hockey
1996	HC Sparta Prague
1996-1998	Södertälje SK
1998-2001	Luleå HF

Martin Hosták (born November 11, 1967 in Hradec Králové , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player who played for the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League from 1986 to 2001 . Since 2017 he has been General Manager of HC Zlín from the Czech Extraliga .

Career

Martin Hosták began his career as an ice hockey player at the TJ Stadion Hradec Králové . From 1986 he played for the professional team of Sparta ČKD Prague in the Czechoslovak 1st division . During this period he was selected in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft in the third round as a total of 62nd player by the Philadelphia Flyers . Initially, however, he stayed in Czechoslovakia and won the Czechoslovak championship with Prague in the 1989/90 season . Following this success, the winger went to North America, where he was under contract with the Philadelphia Flyers from 1990 to 1992. In the 1990/91 season , his rookie year in the National Hockey League , he scored three goals in 50 games and gave ten templates. He also ran 14 times for the Flyers' farm team , the Hershey Bears from the American Hockey League . In the 1991/92 season he came only to five NHL appearances for Philadelphia and spent the entire remaining season in the AHL team from Hershey.

From 1992 to 1996 Hosták played for MODO Hockey in the Swedish Elitserien . With his team he failed in the 1993/94 season only in the playoff final at Malmö IF . The 1996/97 season started the 1994 Olympian with his ex-club HC Sparta Prague in the Czech Extraliga , but returned to Sweden during the current season, where he received a contract with Södertälje SK , for which he spent the following year and a half stood on the ice. The left shooter last played for Luleå HF from 1998 to 2001 , before ending his active career at the age of 33.

International

For Czechoslovakia Hosták took part in the U128 Junior European Championship 1985 and the U20 Junior World Championship in 1987 . For the men's national team of the ČSSR he went on the ice at the 1990 World Cup , where he won the bronze medal.

For the Czech Republic he was in the squad at the World Championships in 1993 and 1995 , and at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer . With the Czech Republic he also won the bronze medal at the 1993 World Cup.

As a trainer

After his career he worked temporarily as a trainer in the Czech Republic, among others at HC Chrudim and HC Hradec Králové . In the 2010/11 season he was in charge of the Czech U18 national team.

Since 2017 he has been General Manager of HC Zlín from the Czech Extraliga .

Achievements and Awards

• 1985 bronze medal at the U18 European Junior Championship
• 1987 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 1990 Czechoslovakian champion with Sparta ČKD Prague
• 1990 bronze medal at the world championship
• 1993 bronze medal at the world championship
• 1994 Swedish runner-up with MODO Hockey

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	2	55	3	11	14th	24
Elitserien main round	9	348	141	148	289	286
Elitserien Playoffs	6th	45	10	9	19th	42

Web links

• Martin Hosták at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Martin Hosták at eliteprospects.com (English)