Radko Gudas

Radko Gudas
Date of birth	June 5th 1990
place of birth	Kladno , Czechoslovakia
Nickname	Gudy
size	183 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	defender
number	# 3
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2010 , 3rd round, 66th position Tampa Bay Lightning
Career stations
until 2009	HC Kladno
2006-2009	HC Berounští Medvědi
2009-2010	Everett Silvertips
2010–2012	Norfolk Admirals
2012-2013	Syracuse crunch
2013-2015	Tampa Bay Lightning
2015-2019	Philadelphia Flyers
since 2019	Washington Capitals

Radko Gudas (born June 5, 1990 in Kladno , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech ice hockey player who has played for the Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League (NHL) since June 2019 . His father Leo was also a hockey player and is now a coach in the Czech Republic.

Career

Radko Gudas comes from the offspring of HC Kladno , for whose U18 team he was active in the U18 extra league from 2004. In his second season in the U18 division, as a 15-year-old, he collected 29 scorer points in 51 season games and received 186 penalty minutes. This made him the most punished player in the entire league. During the 2006/07 season he received his first appearances in the U20 extra league, and he was also used in nine games at HC Berounští Medvědi in the Czech second division, the first division . From autumn 2007 he played on loan at HC Berounští Medvědi, before he made his debut in the Extraliga playoffs in 2008 for his home club in the top division . In the 2008/09 season he was used by both HC Kladno and HC Berounští Medvědi - he made a total of 14 appearances in the extra league.

Radko Gudas (right) in a fist fight with Jarred Tinordi , November 2012

In the summer of 2009, he decided to move to North America to increase his chances of a good placement in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft . With the Everett Silvertips he played in the Western Hockey League and collected 155 penalty minutes in 68 games this season. However, he was not only defensive, but also conspicuous offensively, in which he collected 39 scorer points as a defender. Therefore, he was elected to the Second All-Star Team of the WHL at the end of the season . During the NHL Entry Draft Gudas was selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning in 66th place and used by these in the American Hockey League with the Norfolk Admirals the following season . He convinced again as an offensive defender with 54 points from 76 games, where he sat in the penalty box for 165 minutes. He was also active for the Admirals in the 2011/12 season and was awarded a total of 209 penalty minutes over the course of the season. With the Admirals he won the Calder Cup at the end of the season . During the 2012/13 season shortened by the lockout , he made his debut on March 11, 2013 for the Lightning in the National Hockey League. In total, he came to 22 NHL games and otherwise played for the new farm team of the Lightning, the Syracuse Crunch . During the season he took part in the AHL All-Star Classic and at the end of the season had the best plus / minus balance of all AHL players with +32 .

In May 2013, Gudas received a three-year contract from the Tampa Bay Lightning , which was only for the NHL and brings him a total of just under $ 3 million. Due to the lockout , he was in the 2012/13 season in the squad of the farm team Syracuse Crunch in the AHL, before he was appointed to the NHL squad of the Lightning in March 2013. The following season 2013/14 he played completely for the Lightning in the NHL and marked 22 scorer points from 77 season games. In March 2015, the Lightning gave him, including a first- and third-round vote in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft, to the Philadelphia Flyers and received Braydon Coburn in return . The Czech finally spent three seasons in Philadelphia until June 2019 before he was given to the Washington Capitals in exchange for Matt Niskanen .

International

Radko Gudas played for the Czech Republic at the U18 Junior World Championship in 2008 and the U20 Junior World Championship in 2009 and 2010 .

In January 2014 he was nominated for the Winter Olympics in Sochi , although he had not previously played a game for the Czech national team . In September 2016 he was supposed to be part of the Czech squad at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 , but canceled due to an injury.

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 WHL Second All-Star Team
• 2012 Calder Cup win with the Norfolk Admirals
• 2013 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic
• 2013 Best plus / minus balance of the American Hockey League (+32)

International

• 2008 Promotion to the top division at the U18 Junior World Championship in Division I.

Career statistics

Gudas in the Jersey of the Tampa Bay Lightning (2013)

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2004/05	HC Kladno	U18 extra league		46	1	5	6th	70		7th	0	0	0	10
2005/06	HC Kladno	U18 extra league		46	12	14th	26th	178		5	1	2	3	8th
2006/07	HC Kladno	U18 extra league		16	6th	7th	13	34		7th	4th	1	5	14th
2006/07	HC Kladno	U20 extra league		15th	0	1	1	18th		1	0	0	0	0
2006/07	HC Berounští Medvědi	1. ČHL		9	0	1	1	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	HC Berounští Medvědi	1. ČHL		43	1	5	6th	90		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	HC Geus Okna Kladno	Extra league		-	-	-	-	-		1	0	0	0	0
2008/09	HC Kladno	U20 extra league		2	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	HC Berounští Medvědi	1. ČHL		32	1	6th	7th	110		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	HC Geus Okna Kladno	Extra league		14th	0	1	1	10		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Everett Silvertips	WHL		65	7th	30th	37	151		3	0	2	2	4th
2010/11	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		76	11	43	54	165		6th	0	0	0	7th
2011/12	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		73	7th	13	20th	195		16	0	3	3	14th
2012/13	Syracuse crunch	AHL		57	4th	16	20th	207		12	2	0	2	34
2012/13	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		22nd	2	3	5	38		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		73	3	19th	22nd	152		3	0	1	1	9
2014/15	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		31	2	3	5	34		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		76	5	9	14th	116		6th	0	0	0	18th
2016/17	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		67	6th	17th	23	93		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		70	2	14th	16	83		6th	0	0	0	9
2018/19	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		77	4th	16	20th	63		-	-	-	-	-
1. ČHL overall				84	2	12	14th	206		-	-	-	-	-
U18 extra league overall				108	19th	26th	45	282		19th	5	3	8th	32
AHL total				206	15th	42	57	567		34	2	3	5	55
NHL overall				416	24	81	105	579		15th	0	1	1	36

International

Represented the Czech Republic at:

Division I U18 Junior World Championship 2008 U20 Junior World Championship 2009 U20 Junior World Championship 2010 2014 Winter Olympics

World Championship 2017 World Championship 2018 World Championship 2019

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2008	Czech Republic	U18 World Championship Div. I.	1st place		5	1	1	2	12
2009	Czech Republic	U20 World Cup	6th place		6th	2	1	3	8th
2010	Czech Republic	U20 World Cup	7th place		6th	0	2	2	14th
2014	Czech Republic	Olympia	6th place		3	0	0	0	4th
2017	Czech Republic	WM	7th place		8th	2	1	3	6th
2018	Czech Republic	WM	7th place		8th	0	2	2	4th
2019	Czech Republic	WM	4th Place		10	1	3	4th	8th
Juniors overall					17th	3	4th	7th	34
Men overall					29	3	6th	9	22nd

( 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 : Radko Gudas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Washington Capitals website
• Radko Gudas at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lightning recall defenseman Radko Gudas from Syracuse. lightning.nhl.com, March 11, 2013, accessed January 24, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Lightning signs D Radko Gudas to 3-year, $ 2,975 million deal. (No longer available online.) Tampa Bay Times , May 6, 2013, archived from the original on February 2, 2014 ; accessed on January 24, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.