Radim Šimek

Radim Šimek
Date of birth	20th September 1992
place of birth	Mladá Boleslav , Czechoslovakia
size	180 cm
Weight	89 kg
position	defender
number	# 51
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2009	HC Benátky nad Jizerou
2009-2017	Bílí Tygři Liberec
2017-2018	San Jose Barracuda
since 2018	San Jose Sharks

Radim Šimek (born September 20, 1992 in Mladá Boleslav , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech ice hockey player who has been under contract with the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League since May 2017 and plays for them in the position of defender .

Career

Šimek comes from the youth department of HC Benátky nad Jizerou , for which the defender was active until the start of the 2009/10 season up to the U20 team. From there he moved to the offspring of HC Liberec , whose professional team played under the name Bílí Tygři Liberec in the Extra League. Šimek was first in the squad of the U18 team, then later in the U20 team, for which he played until the 2011/12 season. In the course of the 2011/12 season , the defender also celebrated his professional debut after he was loaned to his regular club in Benátky nad Jizerou and came to the team in the second-rate first division .

At the beginning of the 2012/13 game year , the 20-year-old switched completely to the professional field. In the course of the following three seasons, the defensive player was both in the Extraliga squad of Bílí Tygři Liberec and on loan in that of HC Benátky nad Jizerou. After mainly playing time there in the first year, he was almost a regular player in Liberecs in the 2014/15 season . In the 2015/16 season , Šimek played a key role in ensuring that Liberec finished the main round as the team with the highest points and was able to celebrate winning the Czech championship at the end of the playoffs . The defender was named the most valuable player in the playoffs. In the following game year, the White Tigers with Šimek again advanced to the final, but failed there at HC Kometa Brno .

After these successes and Šimek's achievements in the league, he was signed by the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League in May 2017 , who secured the services of the undrafted free agent for one year. In the 2017/18 season , the Sharks used the Czech in their farm team , the San Jose Barracuda , in the American Hockey League . After he had scored 27 scorer points in 71 missions over the course of the season , the franchise extended the expiring contract early by two years at the end of April 2018. For the 2018/19 game year , the Czech finally made the leap into the NHL squad San Joses, where he established himself as a regular player after his debut from December 2018. In March 2019, however, the defender seriously injured his right knee and fell out with a tear in the anterior cruciate ligament and inner ligament . By this time he had completed 41 season games.

International

Šimek made his debut for his home country as part of the Euro Hockey Tour 2015/16 . As a result, the defender played with the Czech national team at the 2016 World Cup in Russia and 2017 in Germany and France , where he was eliminated in the quarter-finals.

Achievements and Awards

• 2016 Czech champion with Bílí Tygři Liberec
• 2016 Most valuable player in the Extraliga playoffs
• 2017 Czech runner-up with Bílí Tygři Liberec

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2011/12	HC Benátky nad Jizerou	1st League		9	0	0	0	8th		7th	0	0	0	2
2012/13	Bílí Tygři Liberec	Extra league		7th	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	HC Benátky nad Jizerou	1st League		37	0	5	5	41		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Bílí Tygři Liberec	Extra league		24	0	0	0	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	HC Benátky nad Jizerou	1st League		19th	1	1	2	20th		2	0	0	0	0
2014/15	Bílí Tygři Liberec	Extra league		47	10	13	23	24		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	HC Benátky nad Jizerou	1st League		2	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Bílí Tygři Liberec	Extra league		51	9	12	21st	28		14th	3	7th	10	8th
2016/17	Bílí Tygři Liberec	Extra league		42	11	13	24	30th		16	2	6th	8th	6th
2017/18	San Jose Barracuda	AHL		67	7th	20th	27	20th		4th	0	0	0	0
2018/19	San Jose Sharks	NHL		41	1	8th	9	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	San Jose Barracuda	AHL		2	0	2	2	0		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	San Jose Sharks	NHL		48	2	7th	9	14th		-	-	-	-	-
1st league overall				67	2	6th	8th	69		9	0	0	0	2
Extraliga overall				171	30th	38	68	88		40	7th	16	23	22nd
AHL total				69	7th	22nd	29	20th		4th	0	0	0	0
NHL overall				89	3	15th	18th	22nd		-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented the Czech Republic at:

• World Championship 2016
• World Championship 2017

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2016	Czech Republic	WM	5th place		8th	1	0	1	4th
2017	Czech Republic	WM	7th place		8th	1	1	2	0
Men overall					16	2	1	3	4th

( 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 San Jose Sharks website
• Radim Šimek at eliteprospects.com (English)