Matic Kralj

Slovenia Matic Kralj

Date of birth	January 15, 1983
place of birth	Ljubljana , SR Slovenia
size	186 cm
Weight	87 kg

position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left

Career stations

until 2002	HDD Olimpija Ljubljana
2002-2003	Lubbock Cotton Kings
2003-2006	Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees
2006-2007	Rocky Mountain Rage
2007-2008	HK Slavija Ljubljana Alba Volán Székesfehérvár
2008-2009	HDK Stavbar Maribor
2009-2010	Newcastle Vipers
2010-2011	HC Morzine-Avoriaz
since 2011	Coventry Blaze

Matic Kralj (born January 15, 1983 in Ljubljana , SR Slovenia ) is a Slovenian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Coventry Blaze in the British Elite Ice Hockey League since 2011 .

Career

Matic Kralj began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of HDD Olimpija Ljubljana , where he was active until 2002. For the 2002/03 season, the winger moved to the Lubbock Cotton Kings from the Central Hockey League , but ended this at Olimpija Ljubljana in the Slovenian ice hockey league . From 2003 to 2006 he ran for the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees in the CHL, where he was again at the end of the season for Olimpija Ljubljana in the Slovenian ice hockey league on the ice. In the 2006/07 season he competed for the CHL participant Rocky Mountain Rage . He started the 2007/08 season at HK Slavija Ljubljana in Slovenia and finished it with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár . For the latter, he competed in both the Hungarian ice hockey league and the Austrian ice hockey league . In the 2008/09 season he played again in Slovenia, this time for HDK Stavbar Maribor .

The 2009/10 season Kralj spent with the Newcastle Vipers from the British Elite Ice Hockey League . There he was just as convincing as in the following season at HC Morzine-Avoriaz from the French Ligue Magnus . For the 2011/12 season , the former junior international returned to the EIHL and joined Coventry Blaze , for which he has played since then.