Petr Čáslava

Petr Čáslava
Date of birth	3rd September 1979
place of birth	Pardubice , Czechoslovakia
size	193 cm
Weight	99 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1997-2007	HC Pardubice
2007-2008	Severstal Cherepovets
2008-2009	HC Pardubice
2009-2010	Timrå IK
2010–2012	HK CSKA Moscow
2012-2014	Severstal Cherepovets
since 2014	HC ČSOB Pojišťovna Pardubice

Petr Čáslava (born September 3, 1979 in Pardubice , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech ice hockey player who has been under contract with HC ČSOB Pojišťovna Pardubice in the Tipsport Extraliga since April 2014 .

Career

Petr Čáslava began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of HC Pardubice , for whose professional team he made his debut in the extra league in the 1997/98 season . In the following years, the defender came in parallel to the game operation with Pardubice in the extra league also in the second-class first division , in which he ran for HC Berounští Medvědi , HC Dukla Jihlava and HC Hradec Králové . His greatest successes with Pardubice were the runner-up in 2003 and 2007 and the championship title in the 2004/05 season .

In the summer of 2007, Čáslava accepted a contract offer from Severstal Tscherepowez from the Russian Super League , but left the club after only one year to return to his home club from Pardubice for one season. After the left shooter had started the 2009/10 season at Pardubice, he moved to Timrå IK from the Swedish Elitserien after 17 games , while Pardubice was champions at the end of the season. For the 2010/11 season , the Czech national player was signed by HK CSKA Moscow from the Continental Hockey League and played for CSKA until 2012.

In May 2012 he returned to Severstal and completed a further 105 KHL games for the club in the following two seasons, where he ran up as team captain in the 2013/14 season. After that same season, his contract expired and Čáslava returned to his hometown club, where he also took over the captaincy. At the same time he acted as an assistant coach for the U18 juniors of the HCPE.

International

For the Czech Republic , Čáslava took part in the U20 World Junior Championship in 1999 , as well as the World Championships in 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 and 2013 . He achieved his greatest success at international level with the 2010 world championship.

Achievements and Awards

Celebration for winning the gold medal at the 2010 World Cup (Čáslava in the center of the picture with the A )

• 2003 Czech runner-up with HC Pardubice
• 2005 Czech champion with HC Moeller Pardubice
• 2007 Czech runner-up with HC Moeller Pardubice

International

• 2010 gold medal at the world championship
• 2011 bronze medal at the world championship
• 2012 bronze medal at the world championship

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	4th	200	8th	24	32	179
KHL playoffs	2	15th	0	2	2	10
Super League main round	1	54	2	8th	10	69
Super League Playoffs	1	8th	1	2	3	6th
Elitserien main round	1	43	3	8th	11	34
Elitserien Playoffs	1	5	1	2	3	0

(Status: end of the 2013/14 season)

Web links

Commons : Petr Čáslava  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Petr Čáslava at hockeydb.com (English)
• Petr Čáslava at eliteprospects.com (English)