Miloš Holaň

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Czech RepublicCzech Republic  Miloš Holaň Ice hockey player
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

Czech RepublicCzech Republic  Miloš Holaň
Coaching stations
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

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
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
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

  1. ^ Seattletimes.nwsource.com, The Man Who Saved My Life
  2. ↑ a b c d canoe.ca, After beating leukemia, Holan tries to make it back with Thrashers
  3. ↑ 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 .
  4. ↑ 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / alt.puckfans.at  

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personal data
SURNAME Holaň, Miloš
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Bílovec , Czechoslovakia