Radek Faksa

Czech Republic Radek Faksa

Date of birth	January 9, 1994
place of birth	Opava , Czech Republic
size	191 cm
Weight	96 kg

position	center
number	# 12
Shot hand	Left

Draft

KHL Junior Draft	2012 , 1st round, 7th position Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 1st round, 13th position Dallas Stars

Career stations

until 2011	HC Oceláři Třinec
2011-2014	Kitchener Rangers
2014	Sudbury Wolves
2013-2016	Texas Stars
since 2015	Dallas Stars

Radek Faksa (born January 9, 1994 in Opava ; according to other sources in Vítkov ) is a Czech ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League since July 2012 .

Career

youth

Radek Faksa played for the youth department of the Czech first division club HC Oceláři Třinec since he was eleven . In the 2010/11 season he got 15 scorer points in 24 games for his U20 selection , although he was also eligible to play for the U18. After he had represented his home country at the U18 World Cup in 2011 , he was selected in the CHL Import Draft by the Kitchener Rangers in 22nd position and subsequently decided to switch to the Canadian Ontario Hockey League (OHL). The attacker finished his first OHL season with an average of over one point per game, leading all the rookies in the league in goals (29), assists (37) and scorer points (66) and subsequently became part of the First All-Rookie Team elected to the league; he was also represented at the CHL Top Prospects Game . Over the turn of the year, Faksa also took part in the U20 World Cup in 2012 with the Czech U20 team, where they finished fifth with the team. After the season the Czech was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2012 in 13th position by the Dallas Stars , who provided him with an entry contract in July of the same year . A few weeks earlier he was also drawn in the first round in the 2012 KHL Junior Draft , in seventh place by Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk .

As expected, Faksa returned to the OHL for the time being, but completed only 39 games for the Rangers in the 2012/13 season due to illness and a knee injury. Nevertheless, he took part again in the U20 World Cup in 2013 and once again reached fifth place with the team. After the end of the OHL season, the attacker switched to the organization of the stars for the first time and made his professional debut with the Texas Stars in the American Hockey League (AHL), the farm team of the Dallas Stars. Nevertheless, Faksa returned to the OHL for the 2013/14 season, where he was given in January 2014 by the Rangers to the Sudbury Wolves , who in return sent his compatriot Dominik Kubalík and two draft suffrage to Kitchener. He also represented the Czech Republic at the 2014 U20 World Cup for the last time in this age group.

Dallas Stars

After the attacker had ended the season in Sudbury, he moved again to the Texas Stars, with whom he subsequently won the AHL playoffs and thus the Calder Cup . Due to a shoulder injury, Faksa missed a large part of the 2014/15 season, so he only made his debut for the Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League (NHL) at the beginning of the 2015/16 season . There, however, Faksa convinced so far that he subsequently came to a total of 45 appearances in the top division of North America and recorded five goals and seven assists. Subsequently, he was appointed to the senior national team of the Czech Republic for the first time and took part in the 2016 World Cup and a few months later in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey .

Achievements and Awards

2012 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game
2012 OHL First All-Rookie Team
2014 Calder Cup win with the Texas Stars

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

			Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2009/10	HC Oceláři Třinec U20	CZE-U20	3	0	0	0	-4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	HC Oceláři Třinec U20	CZE-U20	24	9	6th	15th	+19	12	2	2	2	4th	± 0	4th
2011/12	Kitchener Rangers	OHL	62	29	37	66	+19	47	13	2	4th	6th	-3	10
2012/13	Kitchener Rangers	OHL	39	9	22nd	31	-1	26th	10	4th	2	6th	-3	4th
2012/13	Texas Stars	AHL	2	0	1	1	-1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Kitchener Rangers	OHL	30th	16	11	27	-8th	22nd	-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Sudbury Wolves	OHL	29	5	16	21st	-1	26th	5	1	2	3	± 0	10
2013/14	Texas Stars	AHL	6th	1	2	3	-2	6th	21st	4th	0	4th	+2	8th
2014/15	Texas Stars	AHL	32	4th	6th	10	-13	12	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Texas Stars	AHL	28	15th	11	26th	+12	22nd	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Dallas Stars	NHL	45	5	7th	12	+9	16	13	3	2	5	+2	2
2016/17	Dallas Stars	NHL	80	12	21st	33	–6	67	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Dallas Stars	NHL	79	17th	16	33	+21	36	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Dallas Stars	NHL	81	15th	15th	30th	-3	54	13	0	1	1	-1	6th
CZE U20 overall			27	9	6th	15th	+15	14th	2	2	2	4th	± 0	4th
OHL total			160	59	86	145	+9	121	28	7th	8th	15th	–6	24
AHL total			68	20th	20th	40	-4	40	21st	4th	0	4th	+2	8th
NHL overall			285	49	59	108	+21	173	26th	3	3	6th	+1	8th

International

Represented the Czech Republic at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2011	Czech Republic	U18 World Cup	8th place	6th	0	0	0	-4	2
2012	Czech Republic	U20 World Cup	5th place	6th	2	0	2	-3	4th
2013	Czech Republic	U20 World Cup	5th place	6th	0	2	2	+1	2
2014	Czech Republic	U20 World Cup	6th place	5	1	0	1	-1	2
2016	Czech Republic	WM	5th place	3	0	0	0	+1	0
2016	Czech Republic	World cup	6th place	1	0	0	0	-1	0
2018	Czech Republic	WM	7th place	8th	0	3	3	+1	4th
2019	Czech Republic	WM	4th Place	7th	1	3	4th	−1	2
Juniors overall				23	3	2	5	–7	10
Men overall				19th	1	6th	7th	± 0	6th

( 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

Player biography on the Dallas Stars website
Radek Faksa at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Jan Zikmund: V jedácti daleko od rodiny. Teď talent Faksa poznává NHL. hokej.idnes.cz, April 29, 2016, accessed July 17, 2016 (Czech).
↑ Radek Faksa at hockeydb.com (English); Radek Faksa in the database of hockey-reference.com (English) (each accessed on July 17, 2016)
↑ Mark Stepneski: Faksa Excited As Camp Begins. stars.nhl.com, July 6, 2012, accessed July 17, 2016 .
↑ Wolves Acquire Faksa. sudburywolves.com, January 9, 2014, accessed July 17, 2016 .
↑ Steve Hunt: Healthy at last, center Faksa eager to impress Stars. nhl.com, July 17, 2015, accessed July 17, 2016 .

Squad of the Dallas Stars in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Faksa, Radek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	January 9, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH	Opava or Vítkov , Czech Republic

[Hokej-1] A ^b Jan Zikmund: V jedácti daleko od rodiny. Teď talent Faksa poznává NHL. hokej.idnes.cz, April 29, 2016, accessed July 17, 2016 (Czech).

[2] Radek Faksa at hockeydb.com (English); Radek Faksa in the database of hockey-reference.com (English) (each accessed on July 17, 2016)

[3] Mark Stepneski: Faksa Excited As Camp Begins. stars.nhl.com, July 6, 2012, accessed July 17, 2016 .

[4] Wolves Acquire Faksa. sudburywolves.com, January 9, 2014, accessed July 17, 2016 .

[5] Steve Hunt: Healthy at last, center Faksa eager to impress Stars. nhl.com, July 17, 2015, accessed July 17, 2016 .