Radek Bonk

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Radek Bonk
Date of birth January 9, 1976
place of birth Krnov , Czechoslovakia
size 191 cm
Weight 100 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1994 , 1st round, 3rd position
Ottawa Senators
Career stations
1990-1991 HC Slezan Opava
1991-1993 AC ZPS Zlín
1993-1994 Las Vegas Thunder
1994-2004 Ottawa Senators
2004-2005 HC Oceláři Třinec
HC Hamé Zlín
2005-2007 Canadiens de Montréal
2007-2009 Nashville Predators
2009 Yaroslavl locomotive
2009-2014 HC Oceláři Třinec

Radek Bonk (* 9. January 1976 in Krnov , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player , who during his playing career from 1990 to 2014, among other 1042 games for the Ottawa Senators , Montreal Canadiens and Nashville Predators in the National Hockey League on contested the position of the center . In addition, he completed another 319 games in the Czech Extra League , where he was Czech champion with HC Oceláři Třinec in 2011 . Bonk celebrated his greatest career success, who was selected in third overall position in the NHL Entry Draft in 1994 , but in the jersey of the Czech national team by winning the gold medal at the 1996 World Cup .

Career

Bonk he grew up in the Czech town of Krnov near Ostrava . He has three siblings. His talent for ice hockey was discovered early on. In his homeland he played for ZPS Zlín . In 1993 he moved across the pond to the International Hockey League at Las Vegas Thunder . There he played an outstanding season and was drafted in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft by the Ottawa Senators in the first round as third. He made it into the NHL in his first season, but could not fully live up to the great expectations. In the first five years he never got over 35 scorer points. Only then did the knot burst and Bonk was always among the top scorers of the Senators in the following years. After 10 years, Bonk and the Senators parted ways. He spent the 2004/05 strike season in his native Czech Republic and then returned to the NHL. His first season with the Canadiens de Montréal was mixed and the second ended without qualifying for the play-offs .

In the summer of 2007 he moved to the Nashville Predators . Before the 2009/10 season he signed a contract with Lokomotive Yaroslavl in the Continental Hockey League , but left the team after seven games and returned to the Czech Republic. There he played at HC Oceláři Třinec . With this he won the Czech championship title at the end of the 2010/11 season .

He ended his career in May 2014 at the age of 38.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1990/91 HC Slezan Opava U20 league 35 47 42 89 25th - - - - -
1991/92 AC ZPS Zlín U20 league 45 47 36 83 30th - - - - -
1992/93 AC ZPS Zlín 1st League 23 4th 3 7th 10 6th 1 1 2
1993/94 Las Vegas Thunder IHL 76 42 45 87 208 5 1 2 3 10
1994/95 Las Vegas Thunder IHL 33 7th 13 20th 62 - - - - -
1994/95 Ottawa Senators NHL 42 3 8th 11 28 - - - - -
1994/95 Prince Edward Island Senators AHL - - - - - 1 0 0 0 0
1995/96 Ottawa Senators NHL 76 16 19th 35 36 - - - - -
1996/97 Ottawa Senators NHL 53 5 13 18th 14th 7th 0 1 1 4th
1997/98 Ottawa Senators NHL 65 7th 9 16 16 5 0 0 0 2
1998/99 Ottawa Senators NHL 81 16 16 32 48 4th 0 0 0 6th
1999/00 HC IPB / ČSOB Pojišťovna Pardubice Extra league 3 1 0 1 4th - - - - -
1999/00 Ottawa Senators NHL 80 23 37 60 53 6th 0 0 0 8th
2000/01 Ottawa Senators NHL 74 23 36 59 52 2 0 0 0 2
2001/02 Ottawa Senators NHL 82 25th 45 70 52 12 3 7th 10 6th
2002/03 Ottawa Senators NHL 70 22nd 32 54 36 18th 6th 5 11 10
2003/04 Ottawa Senators NHL 66 12 32 44 66 7th 0 2 2 0
2004/05 HC Oceláři Třinec Extra league 27 6th 10 16 44 - - - - -
2004/05 HC Hamé Zlín Extra league 6th 3 2 5 4th 6th 0 2 2 8th
2005/06 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 61 6th 15th 21st 52 6th 2 0 2 2
2006/07 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 74 13 10 23 54 - - - - -
2007/08 Nashville Predators NHL 79 14th 15th 29 40 6th 1 0 1 2
2008/09 Nashville Predators NHL 66 9 16 25th 34 - - - - -
2009/10 Yaroslavl locomotive KHL 7th 0 2 2 6th - - - - -
2009/10 HC Oceláři Třinec Extra league 39 5 12 17th 60 5 2 3 5 4th
2010/11 HC Oceláři Třinec Extra league 50 14th 25th 39 68 18th 6th 7th 13 24
2011/12 HC Oceláři Třinec Extra league 48 11 14th 25th 44 5 0 1 1 0
2012/13 HC Oceláři Třinec Extra league 39 14th 26th 40 30th 13 4th 6th 10 10
2013/14 HC Oceláři Třinec Extra league 49 8th 23 31 30th 11 4th 8th 12 6th
U20 league overall 80 94 78 172 55 - - - - -
Extraliga overall 261 62 112 174 284 58 16 27 43 52
IHL total 109 49 58 107 270 5 1 2 3 10
NHL overall 969 194 303 497 581 73 12 15th 27 42

International

Represented the Czech Republic at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1993 Czech Republic U18 European Championship 3rd place, bronze 6th 4th 2 6th 6th
1996 Czech Republic WM 1st place, gold 8th 2 2 4th 14th
1996 Czech Republic World cup 8th place 3 1 0 1 0
Juniors overall 6th 4th 2 6th 6th
Men overall 11 3 2 5 14th

( 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 )

Web links

Commons : Radek Bonk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hcocelari.cz, Radek Bonk posilou Ocelářů! , October 8, 2009
  2. ↑ prohockeytalk. nbcsports.com, Radek Bonk calls it a career , May 9, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Bonk, Radek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Krnov , Czechoslovakia