Radek Křesťan

Radek Křesťan
Date of birth	2nd December 1981
place of birth	Opava , Czechoslovakia
size	180 cm
Weight	80 kg
position	striker
number	# 91
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1999-2003	HC Havířov
2003-2004	Hanover Scorpions
2004-2006	REV Bremerhaven
2006-2008	Frankfurt Lions
2008-2009	Schwenninger Wild Wings
2009-2010	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg
2010–2012	Schwenninger Wild Wings
2012-2016	Ravensburg tower stars
2016-2019	EC Bad Nauheim

Radek Křesťan (born December 2, 1981 in Opava ) is a former German - Czech ice hockey player who was most recently under contract with EC Bad Nauheim from the DEL2 . Since 2019 he has been working as a junior coach at EC Bad Nauheim.

Career

Křesťan began his career in the offspring of the Czech first division club HC Havířov , where he was active in the junior team since 1999. After he scored 35 points in 45 games in his first season and increased this point yield in the following year, the striker was called up to the professional team of HC Havířov during the 2000/01 season , where he then played 22 league games and scored five points .

Born in the Czech Republic , he stayed in Havířov until 2003 before moving to the Hannover Scorpions from the German Ice Hockey League . There the right-shooter was used 54 times and scored three times. At the beginning of the 2004/05 season , the Scorpions equipped him with a support license , with which Křesťan was also eligible to play for the Hanoverian cooperation partner, REV Bremerhaven . Until 2006, the attacker mostly went on the ice for the REV in the 2nd Bundesliga. In Bremerhaven, the Czech was a member of the regular squad and was also one of the most successful offensive players in the league. Křesťan's best season was the 2005/06 season , when he scored 90 scorer points in 64 completed games. Thus, he had a significant share in reaching the play-off final, where he lost with the REV in a best-of-five series with 2-3 wins.

Due to the performances shown, the striker joined the Frankfurt Lions from the DEL in the summer of 2006 . With the Lions he reached the play-off semi-finals of the German Ice Hockey League in the 2007/08 season . His contract, which expired in 2008, was not renewed. Křesťan then moved again to the 2nd Bundesliga to the Schwenninger Wild Wings , where he was the league's top scorer with 73 points in 47 completed games . At the beginning of March 2009, SERC fans voted him Player of the Year in a vote by the daily Südkurier . His contract in Schwenningen ran until the end of the 2009/10 season , but the winger accepted an offer from Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg from the German Ice Hockey League.

For the 2010/11 season Křesťan moved again to the Schwenninger Wild Wings in the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga. From 2012 to 2016 he was under contract with the Ravensburg Towerstars . For the 2016/17 season he moved to EC Bad Nauheim within the DEL2 .

In 2019 he ended his career and became a junior coach at ECBN.

DEL statistics

	Playing times	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	5	197	14th	28	42	81
Playoffs	4th	27	0	2	2	6th

(Status: end of the 2009/10 season)

Web links

• Radek Křesťan at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Radek Krestan remains a red devil. In: rt-bn.de. May 13, 2019, accessed September 5, 2019 .