Miloš Holaň
Date of birth | April 22, 1971 |
place of birth | Bílovec , Czechoslovakia |
size | 181 cm |
position | defender |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
1993 , 3rd round, 77th position Philadelphia Flyers |
Career stations | |
until 1990 | TJ Vítkovice |
1990-1992 | Dukla Trenčín |
1992-1993 | HC Vítkovice |
1993 | Philadelphia Flyers |
1993-1995 | Hershey Bears |
1995 | Mighty Ducks of Anaheim |
1998-1999 | HC Vítkovice |
1999 | HC Oceláři Třinec |
2000 | EHC Freiburg |
Miloš Holaň (born April 22, 1971 in Bílovec , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player and today's coach, who was last head coach of the HC Dynamo Pardubice . During his active career he played for the Philadelphia Flyers and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the National Hockey League .
Career
Miloš Holaň began his career in the offspring of TJ Vítkovice , for whom he made his debut in the first division during the 1988/89 season . In 1990 he moved due to his military service to the army club Dukla Trenčín , with which he reached the Czechoslovak championship in 1992 . After this success he returned to his home club and excelled in the following season with 35 goals this season. Therefore, at the end of the season he was awarded the Golden Stick , the Zlatá hokejka , as well as play-off MVP and best defender in the first division.
During the NHL Entry Draft 1993 Holaň was selected as a total of 77th player by the Philadelphia Flyers and moved to North America after a few games of the following season. He played eight games for the Flyers in the National Hockey League before they sent him to their farm team, the Hershey Bears . With the Bears he spent the remainder of the 1993/94 season and most of the following season before he was given in March 1995 in exchange for Anatoly Semenov to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim . For the Ducks he completed 41 NHL games, in which he reached 14 points scorer. Two months after the start of the 1995/96 season, on October 22, 1995, Holaň was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia as part of a routine medical examination , so that his career seemed to be over. As a Mighty Ducks player, he was treated to the highest medical standards at the City of Hope National Medical Center Cancer Clinic in Duarte , California. Until the real deal began, he continued to hit the ice for the Mighty Ducks, scoring two goals and two assists in 16 games.
Due to the disease, a bone marrow transplant became necessary - since no one of his relatives had the medically suitable bone marrow to show, a suitable donor was found after a few months in Robert Stransky junior from Jessup , Maryland. After the transplant was done, the doctor, Dr. Stephan Forman, Miloš Holaň released as cured around two years after the diagnosis.
During the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , he worked as a co-commentator for the ice hockey broadcasts on Czech television .
Before the 1998/99 season Holaň took part in the training camp of the Ducks, but got no chance from head coach Craig Hartsburg . When General Manager Pierre Gauthier wanted to send him to the farm team in Cincinnati with a two-way contract , Holaň decided to return to the Czech Republic. There he completed 34 games in the 1998/99 season under coach Ladislav Svozil at his home club in Vitkovice. In late summer 1999 he again took part in a training camp in North America, this time with the Atlanta Thrashers .
Since he again got no NHL contract, he returned to the Czech Republic and received a contract with HC Oceláři Třinec . There Miloš Holaň could only play the first ten games of the season before he had to orientate himself again: the end of his NHL career brought Miloš Holaň a severance payment from an insurance company. This severance payment was tied to the condition that from then on he was not allowed to play as a professional in the highest league in any association in the world. This condition meant that Holaň did not move to Jokerit Helsinki or the Hannover Scorpions , who were also interested in a commitment, but to EHC Freiburg in the 2nd Bundesliga ice hockey . Since he was only signed shortly before the crucial phase of the championship for cost reasons, he only completed 13 games for the Wolves before ending his career.
Holaň wrote a book called City of Hope about his cancer .
International
Miloš Holaň represented Czechoslovakia at the U20 Junior World Championships in 1990 and 1991 , where he won the bronze medal with the national team. He also took part in the men's world championship in 1993 for the teams from the Czech Republic and Slovakia , where he won another bronze medal. A year later he ran for the Czech national ice hockey team , which placed seventh.
As a trainer
Coaching stations | |
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2004-2006 | HC Vítkovice Steel (Ass.) |
2007-2008 | Lillehammer IK |
2008-2009 | HKm Zvolen |
2009-2010 | HC Sparta Prague (Ass.) |
2010 | BK Mladá Boleslav |
2012-2013 | HK Berkut Kiev |
2013-2015 | VEU Feldkirch |
2015-2016 | HK Nyoman Hrodna |
2016 | HK Dukla Trenčín |
2017-2018 | HC Dynamo Pardubice |
After the end of his playing career, Miloš Holaň completed a coaching education. Between 2004 and November 2006 he was assistant coach at HC Vítkovice Steel , before he was head coach of the Lillehammer IK team in the 2007/08 season . In 2008 he was signed by HKm Zvolen , where he was under contract until October 2009. From the end of October of the same year Holaň was the new assistant coach at HC Sparta Prague , but was replaced on October 26, 2010 due to unsuccessfulness by Miloslav Horava . Two days later, Holaň was introduced as the new interim coach of BK Mladá Boleslav and replaced a few weeks later by Vladimir Jerabek .
In the 2012/13 season he was in charge of HK Berkut Kiev , then for two years the VEU Feldkirch from the Inter-National League . For the 2015/16 season he was head coach at HK Njoman Hrodna .
At the beginning of the 2016/17 season he was the head coach at HK Dukla Trenčín before he was fired in October 2016. In January 2017 he took over the coaching position at HC Dynamo Pardubice , for which he worked until October 2018 and was then replaced by Břetislav Kopřiva .
Achievements and Awards
- 1989 silver medal at the European Junior Championships
- 1990 bronze medal at the U20 World Cup
- 1991 bronze medal at the U20 World Cup
- 1992 Czechoslovakian champion with Dukla Trenčín
- 1993 Czechoslovak runner-up with HC Vítkovice
- 1993 Zlatá hokejka won
- 1993 Award as play-off MVP and best defender in the first division
- 1993 bronze medal at the world championship
Career statistics
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1988/89 | TJ Vítkovice | 1st League | 7th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1989/90 | TJ Vítkovice | 1st League | 43 | 6th | 7th | 13 | 7th | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
1990/91 | Dukla Trenčín | 1st League | 53 | 6th | 13 | 19th | - | - | - | - | - | |||
1991/92 | Dukla Trenčín | 1st League | 51 | 13 | 22nd | 35 | 32 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1992/93 | TJ Vítkovice | 1st League | 39 | 27 | 25th | 52 | 14th | 8th | 8th | 16 | ||||
1993/94 | HC Vítkovice | Extra league | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1993/94 | Philadelphia Flyers | NHL | 8th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1993/94 | Hershey Bears | AHL | 27 | 7th | 22nd | 29 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1994/95 | Hershey Bears | AHL | 55 | 22nd | 27 | 49 | 75 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1994/95 | Mighty Ducks of Anaheim | NHL | 25th | 2 | 8th | 10 | 14th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1995/96 | Mighty Ducks of Anaheim | NHL | 16 | 2 | 2 | 4th | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1998/99 | HC Vítkovice | Extra league | 30th | 9 | 13 | 22nd | 26th | 4th | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
1999/00 | HC Třinec | Extra league | 11 | 1 | 5 | 6th | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1999/00 | EHC Freiburg | 2nd BL | 13 | 4th | 6th | 10 | 26th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
Extra league & 1st league overall | 248 | 70 | 93 | 163 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||||
NHL overall | 49 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 42 | - | - | - | - | - |
International
Represented Czechoslovakia in:
Represented the Czech Republic at:
year | team | event | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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1990 | Czechoslovakia | U20 World Cup | 4th | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
1991 | Czechoslovakia | U20 World Cup | 6th | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
1993 | Czech Republic | WM | 8th | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | |
1994 | Czech Republic | WM | 6th | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8th |
( 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 )
Individual evidence
- ^ Seattletimes.nwsource.com, The Man Who Saved My Life
- ↑ a b c d canoe.ca, After beating leukemia, Holan tries to make it back with Thrashers
- ↑ Large chair back at Sparta Prague. (No longer available online.) November 2003, archived from the original on November 15, 2003 ; accessed on February 26, 2019 .
- ↑ puckfans.at, trainer Holan from Sparta to Mlada Boleslav ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Miloš Holaň at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Miloš Holaň at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- The Milos Holan story - ice hockey as the elixir of life ( Memento from November 15, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
- International Hockey Legends: Milos Holan
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Holaň, Miloš |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech ice hockey player and coach |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1971 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bílovec , Czechoslovakia |