Miroslav Fryčer

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Czech RepublicCzech Republic  Miroslav Fryčer Ice hockey player
Date of birth September 27, 1959
place of birth Opava , Czechoslovakia
date of death April 27, 2021
Nickname Mirko, Frigo
size 183 cm
position Right wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1977-1981 TJ Vítkovice
1981-1982 Nordiques de Quebec
1982-1988 Toronto Maple Leafs
1988-1989 Detroit Red Wings
1989 Edmonton Oilers
1989-1991 EHC Freiburg
1991-1992 EV Bruneck
Czech RepublicCzech Republic  Miroslav Fryčer
Coaching stations
1994 HC Vítkovice Steel ( assistant coach )
1995-1996 AZ Havířov
1996-1998 EV Bruneck
1998-2001 HC Merano
2001-2002 Ritten sport
2006-2007 HC Vítkovice Steel
2008 SG Cortina
2008 AZ Havířov
2010-2013 SHC Fassa
2013 HC Merano
2014 KH Sanok
2016 HC Morzine-Avoriaz
2017-2021 HC Orli Znojmo

Miroslav "Mirko" Fryčer (born September 27, 1959 in Opava , Czechoslovakia , † April 27, 2021 ) was a Czech ice hockey player and coach. In his career, he completed more than 400 games for the Nordiques de Québec , Toronto Maple Leafs , Detroit Red Wings and Edmonton Oilers in the National Hockey League .

Career as a player

Miroslav Fryčer began his career in the youth teams of TJ Vítkovice , for whose men's team he made his debut in the 1977/78 season in the top division of Czechoslovakia, the 1st division . In the following three years he established himself within the team and contributed 33 goals and 24 assists to winning the Czechoslovak Championship in the 1980/81 season .

After this success, Fryčer decided to leave Czechoslovakia and fled to Canada. There he was obliged by the Nordiques de Québec , who first used him in the American Hockey League at Fredericton Express . In October 1981 he made his debut for the Nordiques in the NHL and scored a hat trick against the Toronto Maple Leafs in his first game . In addition to Fryčer, three other Czechoslovaks played with the Nordiques with the three Šťastný brothers Anton , Peter and Marián . Since the brothers mostly acted together in a row, Fryčer played with Canadians in a row, so that he remained largely isolated due to the language barrier. Despite 37 scorer points in 49 NHL games, the Nordiques gave Fryčer to the Toronto Maple Leafs shortly before the trade deadline in 1982, which sent Wilf Paiement to Québec .

In the following seven years, Fryčer played for the Maple Leafs, which were among the worst teams in the NHL in the 1980s. Fryčer flourished at the side of Peter Ihnačák and reached 75 scorer points in 73 season games in the 1985/86 season, which earned him an invitation to the 37th National Hockey League All-Star Game . On January 8, 1986 Fryčer scored four goals in a game against the Edmonton Oilers - after the game Oilers player Wayne Gretzky described Fryčer as a "great ice hockey player".

In the following years Fryčer had to struggle with injuries again and again, so that he never completed more than 40 season games. In addition, he did not get along with the new coach of the Maple Leafs, John Brophy , so he was given in June 1988 in exchange for Darren Veitch to the Detroit Red Wings . But he could not establish himself in Detroit and was handed over to the Edmonton Oilers in January 1989. After 14 games for the Oilers, in which he scored another ten points, he ended his NHL career. In total, he completed 432 games in the NHL, in which he scored 150 goals and gave 191 templates.

After leaving the NHL, Fryčer returned to Europe and joined the EHC Freiburg , which his father Jaromir looked after as head coach. As early as 1987 Jaromir and Miroslav Fryčer had built a house in Freiburg-Hochdorf , where Miroslav Fryčer spent the summer breaks of the NHL. He also took part in the EHCF's summer training several times as a guest. After leaving North America, Fryčer bought another house in Freiburg, which he moved into in September 1989 with his wife Vera and their two daughters Lucie and Petra. In two seasons for the EHCF, where he played with other Czechoslovaks such as Jiří Crha , Milan Chalupa and Vítězslav Ďuriš , he scored 22 goals and 36 assists before moving to Serie A at EV Bruneck . With the club from the Pustertal he played parallel in Serie A and in the Alpine League . In the summer of 1992 he returned to Germany and was signed by ESV Königsbrunn before finally ending his active career.

International

In addition to his successes at club level, Fryčer was a regular for the Czechoslovak national team around 1980 . In 1977 he took part in the European Championship with the U18 selection. In 1978 and 1979 he was a member of the U20 Junior World Championship squad, with whom he won the silver medal at the 1979 U20 World Championship.

With the men's national team, he took part in two world championships and an Olympic ice hockey tournament. At the 1980 Winter Olympics , he finished fifth with the national team. He also won a silver and a bronze medal at the World Championships in 1979 and 1981. He played a total of 52 games in the national jersey, in which he scored 14 goals.

Career as a coach

Since the end of his career, Fryčer has been working as an ice hockey coach and player agent. In June 1994 he was hired by HC Havířov as head coach, but left this club in November of the same year to become assistant coach at HC Vítkovice . Since he was released in January 2005 at his hometown club, he returned to HC Havířov. He stayed there until the end of the 1995/96 season. In the summer of 1996 he was signed by his former club EV Bruneck , and with this he reached third place in Serie A in 1997 . He was also nominated for Trainer of the Year.

In 1998 he moved within Serie A to HC Meran , which he was head coach until 2001 and with whom he won the Italian championship in 1999. In the 2001/02 season he worked at SV Ritten before he devoted himself to founding and building up his FG Sports Agency , a player and coaching agency , between 2002 and 2006 . In addition, he trained the U20 juniors of SK Karviná during this time .

In November 2006 he received the offer to succeed Vladimír Vůjtek at his hometown club. He worked for HC Vítkovice until December 2007, before he was fired and replaced by Ernest Bokroš . In the same month he was committed by SG Cortina from Serie A, which he led to the playoff quarter-finals.

Between September and December 2008 Fryčer looked after the HC Havířov again. In early September 2010 he signed a contract as head coach at SHC Fassa from the Italian A1 series , where he replaced Steve Stirling . On September 14, it was announced that he, too, is leaving SHC Fassa before the season starts. After Mike Posma's dismissal in December 2010, the Czech was hired again as head coach at SHC Fassa. For the 2013/14 season he was signed by the second division HC Meran, but dismissed in November 2013 and replaced by Larry Suarez .

On January 11, 2014, he became the head coach of the Polish Ciarko PBS Bank Sanok and was responsible for this club until the end of the 2014/15 season. He was then sports director at SK Karvina before he was hired as head coach by HC Morzine-Avoriaz from Ligue Magnus in January 2016 .

Since February 2018, Fryčer has been the head coach of Orli Znojmo from the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League .

He died at the end of April 2021 after a brief illness.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

As a player

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V. Pt SM Sp T V. Pt SM
1977-78 TJ Vítkovice 1st League 34 12th 10 22nd 24          
1978-79 TJ Vítkovice 1st League 44 22nd 12th 34            
1979-80 TJ Vítkovice 1st League 44 31 15th 46 0          
1980-81 TJ Vítkovice 1st League 34 33 24 57 0          
1981-82 Fredericton Express AHL 11 9 5 14th 16          
1981-82 Nordiques de Quebec NHL 49 20th 17th 37 47          
Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 10 4th 6th 10 31          
1982-83 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 67 25th 30th 55 90 4th 2 5 7th 0
1983-84 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 47 10 16 26 55          
1984-85 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 65 25th 30th 55 55          
1985-86 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 73 32 43 75 74 10 1 3 4th 10
1986-87 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 29 7th 8th 15th 28          
1987-88 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 38 12th 20th 32 41 3 0 0 0 6th
1988-89 Detroit Red Wings NHL 23 7th 8th 15th 47          
Edmonton Oilers NHL 14th 5 5 10 18th          
1989-90 EHC Freiburg 1st BL 11 4th 13th 17th 19th          
1990-91 EHC Freiburg 1st BL 33 18th 23 41 48          
1991-92 EV Bruneck Alpine League 18th 9 24 33 21  
1991-92 EV Bruneck Series A 17th 19th 15th 34 16 3 1 3 4th 4th
1992-93 ESV Königsbrunn OIL                    
NHL overall 415 147 183 330 486 17th 3 8th 11 16

( 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 )

As a trainer

Source: FG Sports Agency

Period team position league placement
June 1994 - November 1994 HC Havířov Trainer 1st League
November 1994 - January 1995 HC Vítkovice Assistant coach Extra league
January 1995 - April 1995 HC Havířov Trainer 1st League final
1995/96 HC Havířov Trainer 1st League 4th Place
1996/97 EV Bruneck Trainer Series A 3rd place
1997/98 EV Bruneck Trainer Series A 5th place
1998/99 HC Merano Trainer Alpine League Semifinals
1998/99 HC Merano Trainer Series A master
1999/00 HC Merano Trainer Series A Play-offs
2000/01 HC Merano Trainer Series A Play-offs
2001/02 SV Renon Trainer Series A
2002-2006 Development of the FG Sports Agency
November 2006 - December 2007 HC Vítkovice Trainer Extra league
December 2007 - April 2008 SG Cortina Trainer Series A Quarter finals
September 2008 - December 2008 HC Havířov Trainer 1st League
December 2010 - 2013 SHC Fassa Trainer Series A1
Summer 2013 - November 2013 HC Merano Trainer Inter-National League dismiss
January 2014 - April 2015 KH Sanok Trainer Ekstraliga master

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c mapleleafslegends.blogspot.com, Legend Miroslav Frycer
  2. ↑ Miroslav Frycer in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  3. ↑ a b historie.hokej.cz, Miroslav Fryčer
  4. ↑ http://hokej.hansal.cz/cs_nej.html
  5. ↑ hc-vitkovice.cz trenér M. Fryčer
  6. ↑ hockeyclubfassa.com, Il Fassa volta pagina e annuncia Miroslav Frycer ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hockeyclubfassa.com
  7. ↑ Hockeytime.net, Fassa - Anche Frycer non verrà
  8. ↑ http://khsanok.net/news/114-miroslav-frycer-trenerem-ciarko-pbs-bank-kh-sanok
  9. ^ Zemřel Miroslav Fryčer . In: hcorli.cz from April 27, 2021.
  10. ↑ fgs.bz.it, Coaching Stats ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fgs.bz.it
personal data
SURNAME Fryčer, Miroslav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fryčer, Mirko; Frycer, Miroslav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Opava , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2021