Peter Ihnačák

Peter Ihnačák
Date of birth	May 3, 1957
place of birth	Poprad , Czechoslovakia
size	180 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	center
number	# 18
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1982 , 2nd round, 25th position Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
1978-1979	Dukla Jihlava
1979-1982	HC Sparta Prague
1982-1990	Toronto Maple Leafs
1990-1991	EC Hedos Munich
1991-1992	EHC Freiburg
1992-1993	HC Ajoie
1993-1997	Krefelder EV

Peter Ihnačák (born May 3, 1957 in Poprad , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Slovak ice hockey player and current coach .

Career

Peter Ihnačák began his career in the youth teams of TJ Tatran Poprad , before he played for Dukla Jihlava in the first division from 1978 . After completing his military service, he moved to Sparta Prague , where he was under contract until 1982. During the ice hockey world championship in 1982 , he fled the team hotel in Helsinki and came to Canada via Stockholm .

Therefore, Ihnačák was only selected at the age of 25 in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the second round in 25th place. He made it straight to the National Hockey League . Here he was able to convince in his first season 1982/83 and still holds the club record for the most points as a rookie with 66 points scorer (28 goals and 38 assists). After six successful years, the now 31-year-old was mainly employed in the farm team. After only five NHL games in the 1989/90 season , he left North America and moved to Europe for the 1990/91 season.

He spent the first two seasons with Hedos Munich and EHC Freiburg in the 1st Bundesliga . In Freiburg he met a teammate from his time in Toronto with Miroslav Fryčer . In 1992/93 he moved to Krefeld and stayed here - with a small interruption, he played one season with HC Ajoie - until the end of his career in 1997.

He spent the years 1998 to 2000 as a trainer with the Nürnberg Ice Tigers . Today he works as a Europe scout for the Toronto Maple Leafs .

From December 18 to 31, 2015, he worked as an interim trainer for the Lausitzer Füchsen in Weißwasser . Despite an offer to stay in East Saxony until the end of the season, the Slovak left Lusatia again.

Achievements and Awards

• 1977 bronze medal at the Junior World Championship

Career statistics

				Regular season							Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1977/78	Dukla Jihlava	1st League		5	0	1	1	4th			3	0	2	2	2
1978/79	Dukla Jihlava	1st League		44	22nd	12	34	14th			-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	Sparta CKD Prague	1st League		44	19th	28	47	18th			-	-	-	-	-
1980/81	Sparta CKD Prague	1st League		44	23	22nd	45	22nd			-	-	-	-	-
1981/82	Sparta CKD Prague	1st League		39	16	22nd	38	50			-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		80	28	38	66	44	+6		-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		47	10	13	23	24	−21		-	-	-	-	-
1984/85	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		70	22nd	22nd	44	24	−26		-	-	-	-	-
1985/86	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		63	18th	27	45	16	−9		10	2	3	5	12
1986/87	Newmarket Saints	AHL		8th	2	6th	8th	0			-	-	-	-	-
1986/87	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		58	12	27	39	16	+5		13	2	4th	6th	9
1987/88	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		68	10	20th	30th	41	−6		5	0	3	3	4th
1988/89	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		26th	2	16	18th	10	+3		-	-	-	-	-
1988/89	Newmarket Saints	AHL		38	14th	16	30th	8th			-	-	-	-	-
1989/90	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		5	0	2	2	0	+3		-	-	-	-	-
1989/90	Newmarket Saints	AHL		72	26th	47	73	40			-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	EC Hedos Munich	1st BL		20th	6th	17th	23	23			-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	EHC Freiburg	1st BL		10	5	5	10	12			-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	EHC Freiburg	1st BL		41	21st	36	57	34			4th	0	0	0	4th
1991/92	EHC Kloten	NLA		1	0	0	0	0			-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	HC Ajoie	NLB		13	3	8th	11	10			-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	Krefelder EV	1st BL		15th	5	5	10	10			4th	1	3	4th	2
1993/94	Krefelder EV	1st BL		42	10	25th	35	25th			5	3	2	5	6th
1994/95	Krefeld penguins	DEL		19th	7th	6th	13	8th			15th	2	4th	6th	16
1995/96	Krefeld penguins	DEL		47	9	34	43	22nd			5	1	4th	5	2
1996/97	Krefeld penguins	DEL		48	20th	17th	37	30th			-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				417	102	165	267	175	−45		28	4th	10	14th	25th
DEL total				114	36	57	93	60			20th	3	8th	11	18th

( 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. ↑ nationalpost.com, Enemy of the State  ( 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.  
2. ↑ eishockey.info, Toronto scout Peter Ihnacak in conversation
3. ↑ Peter Ihnačák becomes interim trainer at the Füchsen. (No longer available online.) Lausitzer Füchse, December 18, 2015, archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; Retrieved December 18, 2015 . 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.  

family

His brother Miroslav Ihnačák was also a professional ice hockey player and both played together at times for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL. Later both played in the ice hockey Bundesliga . His son Brian Ihnacak is also a professional ice hockey player.

Web links

• Peter Ihnačák in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Peter Ihnačák at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Peter Ihnačák at rodi-db.de
• Peter Ihnačák at eurohockey.com
• Peter Ihnačák at hockeydb.com (English)
• Peter Ihnačák in the database of hockey-reference.com (English)