Michal Kempný

Czech Republic Michal Kempný


Date of birth	September 8, 1990
place of birth	Hodonín , Czechoslovakia
size	183 cm
Weight	88 kg

position	defender
number	# 6
Shot hand	Left

Career stations

until 2008	HK 36 Skalica
2008–2012	HC Kometa Brno
2012-2013	HC Slavia Prague
2013-2015	HC Kometa Brno
2015-2016	HK Awangard Omsk
2016-2018	Chicago Blackhawks
since 2018	Washington Capitals

Michal Kempný (born September 8, 1990 in Hodonín , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech ice hockey player who has been playing in the National Hockey League's position of defender with the Washington Capitals since February 2018 . With the team he won the Stanley Cup in the 2018 playoffs .

Career

Kempný learned to play ice hockey in the youth department of the SHK Hodonín , the club of his hometown. He spent the last years of his junior career until 2008 with the B and A juniors of the Slovak club HK 36 Skalica , where he also made his professional debut in the Slovak extra league in the 2007/08 season . For the 2008/09 season , the defender returned to his home country and joined HC Kometa Brno , who was playing in the second-class first division at that time . In addition to appearances for the men's team, Kempný was also used for the A-Juniors and on loan for his home club SHK Hodonín.

In the following three years the defender was contractually bound to HC Kometa Brno, who had dared to make the leap into the Czech extra league by purchasing a license for the 2009/10 season . Kempný came there again and again in the course of the three game years, but this time was also marked by loans. He therefore spent large parts of the 2009/10 and 2010/11 seasons in the first division - first at SK Horácká Slavia Třebíč and later at HC Rebel Havlíčkův Brod , for which he also played three more games in the 2011/12 season . During this season he was mainly in action for Brno. With the team he celebrated the runner-up at the end of the season, before he left the club after four years and moved to league rivals HC Slavia Prague .

In his new club, Kempný became a regular player and played 51 games in the course of the year. Nevertheless, he returned to Kometa Brno after the season and confirmed there the performances of the previous season. He also won the country's runner-up title with the team. The defensive player made his final breakthrough on the European continent in the 2014/15 season , when he scored 29 points in 43 games , thereby proving his offensive qualities. This earned the 24-year-old an offer from HK Awangard Omsk from the Continental Hockey League in April 2015 , to which he finally switched for a year in the 2015/16 season. Here, too, the Czech was able to convince with 21 points in 59 games and received an offer from the National Hockey League after his one-year contract expired in May 2016 . There the Chicago Blackhawks secured the services of the undrafted free agent .

About the pre-season training camp in September Kempný earned a place in the squad of the NHL club from Chicago and celebrated his season opener on October 12th. He was then regularly on the ice for Chicago until he was given to Washington Capitals in February 2018 in exchange for a third-round vote in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft . With the Capitals, he won the first Stanley Cup in franchise history in the following playoffs in 2018 . The defense attorney then signed a new four-year contract in Washington, which should earn him an average annual salary of $ 2.5 million.

International

At the international level, Kempný was active in both the junior and senior sector. For the Czech junior team he ran from 2007 on and was used for the first time at an international tournament at the U18 Junior World Championship 2008 of Division I in Toruń, Poland . The defender contributed two assists in five tournament games for promotion to the top division. Two years later he ran again for the Czech Republic at the U20 World Junior Championship in Canada in 2010 and reached seventh place.

Kempný has been part of the men's squad since the 2014/15 season when he made his first appearances on the Euro Hockey Tour . In international tournaments, he first appeared at the 2016 World Cup in Russia , which the Czechs finished in fifth place. The defender collected two assists in eight matches and secured a place in the squad for the World Cup of Hockey 2016 in Toronto, Canada, a few weeks later . He missed the 2015 home World Cup due to a shoulder injury.

Achievements and Awards

2012 Czech runner-up with HC Kometa Brno
2014 Czech runner-up with HC Kometa Brno
2018 Stanley Cup win with the Washington Capitals

International

2008 Promotion to the top division at the U18 Junior World Championship in Division I.

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

			Regular season					Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2007/08	HK 36 Skalica	Extraliga (Svk)	1	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	HC Kometa Brno	1st League	18th	1	0	1	6th	14th	1	0	1	6th
2008/09	SHK Hodonín	2nd league	1	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	HC Kometa Brno	Extraliga (Cze)	24	0	0	0	18th	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	SK Horácká Slavia Třebíč	1st League	8th	1	0	1	14th	11	2	1	3	32
2010/11	HC Kometa Brno	Extraliga (Cze)	21st	0	0	0	14th	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	HC Rebel Havlíčkův Brod	1st League	32	3	4th	7th	26th	14th	1	6th	7th	16
2011/12	HC Kometa Brno	Extraliga (Cze)	23	1	1	2	14th	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	HC Rebel Havlíčkův Brod	1st League	3	0	0	0	2	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	HC Slavia Prague	Extraliga (Cze)	51	5	9	14th	32	11	1	3	4th	12
2013/14	HC Kometa Brno	Extraliga (Cze)	51	7th	8th	15th	74	18th	2	4th	6th	20th
2014/15	HC Kometa Brno	Extraliga (Cze)	43	8th	21st	29	94	2	1	0	1	2
2015/16	HK Awangard Omsk	KHL	59	5	16	21st	46	11	2	2	4th	12
2016/17	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL	50	1	6th	8th	22nd	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL	31	1	6th	7th	12	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Washington Capitals	NHL	22nd	2	1	3	14th	24	2	3	5	10
2018/19	Washington Capitals	NHL	71	6th	19th	25th	60	-	-	-	-	-
1st league overall			61	5	4th	9	48	39	4th	7th	11	54
Extraliga (Czech Republic) overall			213	21st	39	60	246	39	5	8th	13	42
KHL total			59	5	16	21st	46	11	2	2	4th	12
NHL overall			174	11	32	43	108	25th	2	3	5	10

International

Represented the Czech Republic at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2008	Czech Republic	U18 World Championship Div. I.	1st place	5	0	2	2	0
2010	Czech Republic	U20 World Cup	7th place	6th	0	2	2	0
2016	Czech Republic	WM	5th place	8th	0	2	2	10
2016	Czech Republic	World cup	6th place	3	0	0	0	2
2017	Czech Republic	WM	7th place	8th	2	1	3	12
Juniors overall				11	0	4th	4th	0
Men overall				19th	2	3	5	24

( 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 : Michal Kempný - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Player biography on the Washington Capitals website
Michal Kempný at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Capitals Acquire Michal Kempny from Chicago Blackhawks. nhl.com, February 19, 2018, accessed on February 20, 2018 .
↑ Capitals Re-sign Michal Kempny. nhl.com, June 29, 2018, accessed June 30, 2018 .

Squad of the Washington Capitals in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Kempný, Michal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kempny, Michal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	September 8, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hodonín , Czechoslovakia

[1] Capitals Acquire Michal Kempny from Chicago Blackhawks. nhl.com, February 19, 2018, accessed on February 20, 2018 .

[2] Capitals Re-sign Michal Kempny. nhl.com, June 29, 2018, accessed June 30, 2018 .