Petr Kopta

Petr Kopta
Date of birth	October 23, 1965
place of birth	Chomutov , Czechoslovakia
size	182 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	striker
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 1984	HC Kladno
1984-1985	Oshawa Generals Lethbridge Broncos
1986-1987	EC Kassel
1987-1988	EV Landshut
1988-1990	EC Hedos Munich
1990-1991	ESC Frankfurt
1991-1995	Schwenninger ERC
1995-1997	Frankfurt Lions
1997-1998	Hamburg crocodiles
1998-1999	EC Pfaffenhofen
1999-2000	EV Ravensburg
2003-2004	ESV Balingen

Petr Kopta (* 23. October 1965 in Chomutov , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech hockey player of 1987-1997 in the hockey Bundesliga and the German Ice Hockey League for the EV Landshut , EC Hedos Munich , the Frankfurt Lions and Schwenninger ERC played . Most recently he was team manager at SERC Wild Wings .

Career

In his home town in Kladno, Petr Kopta learned to play ice hockey. The talented Kopta tried to gain a foothold in North America at a very young age. At age 17, he joined the Oshawa Generals in the Ontario Hockey League . Here in the highest Canadian junior league with teams around Toronto , he only played 23 games and switched to the Lethbridge Broncos in the Western Hockey League , which is the highest junior league in western Canada.

Shortly before the start of the 1986/87 season, the second division club EC Kassel signed the now 21-year-old Kopta. He played a convincing season, so that he was able to move to the first division for EV Landshut the following season . But the Landshut team around Erich Kühnhackl was still a size too big for Kopta and so he returned to the second division after 24 games and joined the EC Hedos Munich . At that time Munich was one of the up-and-coming clubs and so he was promoted to the Bundesliga with this team in his second season.

This time the leap to first class was successful. After a good season in Munich, he moved to the Frankfurt Lions . There he proved that he can keep up in the top German league. After a year in Frankfurt, he moved to Schwenninger ERC , where after three years in the Bundesliga he was the DEL team captain in his first year . In 1995 he returned to the Frankfurt Lions. He played there in the DEL for another two years before he moved to the Hamburg Crocodiles in the second highest league at the age of 32 , which was then called 1. Liga Nord.

He let his career end in Ravensburg.

In the 05/06 season , Kopta is the sporting director of the SERC Wild Wings and also took over the coaching job at short notice.

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
1. Bundesliga / DEL	9	357	91	109	200	244
Bundesliga playoffs	8th	50	14th	19th	33	59
2nd Bundesliga	4th	190	107	104	211	162

Web links

• Petr Kopta at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Petr Kopta at rodi-db.de
• Petr Kopta at hockeydb.com (English)
• Petr Kopta at eurohockey.com