Radim Bičánek

Radim Bičánek
Date of birth	18th January 1975
place of birth	Uherské Hradiště , Czechoslovakia
size	187 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1993 , 2nd round, 27th position Ottawa Senators
Career stations
until 1993	HC Dukla Jihlava
1993-1995	Belleville Bulls
1995-1996	Prince Edward Island Senators
1996-1997	Ottawa Senators Worcester IceCats
1997-1998	Manitoba mosses
1998-1999	Grand Rapids Griffins
1999-2000	Chicago Blackhawks
2000-2002	Columbus Blue Jackets
2002-2003	Syracuse crunch
2003	Binghamton Senators
2004-2009	HC Znojemští Orli
2009-2013	HC Kometa Brno
2013-2016	HC Energie Karlovy Vary

Radim Bičánek (born January 18, 1975 in Uherské Hradiště , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player . During his career he made 129 appearances in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Blackhawks and the Columbus Blue Jackets . He also played for many years with HC Znojemští Orli , HC Kometa Brno and HC Energie Karlovy Vary in the Czech extra league .

Career

Radim Bičánek began his career as a hockey player in the youth department of HC Dukla Jihlava , for whose professional team he made his debut in the 1992/93 season in the first division , the highest Czechoslovak division. In his rookie year , he scored two goals in 43 games and made three assists. He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1993 in the second round as a total of 27 players by the Ottawa Senators . First, the defender played for two years in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League for the Belleville Bulls , before he played for the first time in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators towards the end of the 1994/95 season. In the entire following season he was exclusively for their farm team , the Prince Edward Island Senators , in the American Hockey League for use. With the Ottawa Senators, he could never fully assert himself in the following three years, so that he was mostly on the ice for their farm teams in the minor leagues . These were the Detroit Vipers , Manitoba Moose and Grand Rapids Griffins in the International Hockey League , and the Worcester IceCats in the AHL.

On March 12, 1999 Bičánek was given shortly before the end of the trade deadline in exchange for a six-round vote for the 1999 NHL Entry Draft to the Chicago Blackhawks . In a little more than one season he ran only 18 times in the NHL for the team from Illinois, while he was active in the 1999/2000 season in a total of 79 games for their IHL farm team Cleveland Lumberjacks . On June 23, 2000, the Columbus Blue Jackets signed the Czechs as part of the NHL Expansion Draft . After he was only sporadically accrued to the Blue Jackets in the 2000/01 season in the NHL and mainly for their AHL farm team Syracuse Crunch , he was able to fight for a regular place in the NHL squad in the following season . In the only full NHL season of his career, he scored one goal in 60 games and gave five assists. The 2002/03 season he spent again in the AHL, first with the Syracuse Crunch and then with the Binghamton Senators .

After a year-long hiatus from ice hockey, Bičánek returned to the Czech Republic in 2004 and played for HC Znojemští Orli in the extra league over the next five years - in the last two years as team captain. After the license sale of HC Znojemští Orli, he moved within the league to HC Kometa Brno for the 2009/10 season , for which he was on the ice until 2013 and was runner-up in 2012.

Between 2013 and 2016 he ended his career at HC Energie Karlovy Vary .

International

For the Czech junior national teams , Bičánek took part in the U18 European Junior Championship in 1993 and the 1993 World Junior Championship . In the former, he was named best defender and voted into the All-Star team.

For the men's selection of the Czech Republic , he ran in three games on the Euro Hockey Tour in 2006 .

Achievements and Awards

• 1993 bronze medal at the U18 European Junior Championship
• 1993 All-Star-Team of the U18 Junior European Championship
• 1993 Best defender of the U18 European Junior Championship
• 1993 bronze medal at the Junior World Championship
• 2001 AHL Second All-Star Team
• 2012 Czech runner-up with HC Kometa Brno

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	7th	122	1	11	12	62
NHL playoffs	1	7th	0	0	0	8th
Extraliga main round	7th	377	51	79	130	657
Extraliga playoffs	2	14th	0	1	1	47
Extraliga relegation	3	28	4th	4th	8th	22nd

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Radim Bičánek at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Radim Bičánek at eliteprospects.com (English)