Richard Král

Richard Král
Richard Král (right)
Date of birth	May 16, 1970
place of birth	Pardubice , Czechoslovakia
size	186 cm
Weight	96 kg
position	striker
number	# 91
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 1995	Tesla Pardubice
1995-2005	HC Oceláři Třinec
2005-2006	HC Hamé Zlín
2006	HC Lasselsberger Plzeň
2006-2010	BK Mladá Boleslav
2010-2014	JKH GKS Jastrzębie

Richard Král (born May 16, 1970 in Pardubice , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player who was active for many years for HC Oceláři Třinec and BK Mladá Boleslav in the Czech extra league. Most recently he played for four years for the Polish club JKH GKS Jastrzębie in the Ekstraliga .

Career

Richard Král began his career in the Tesla Pardubice youth team and went through all of the youth teams there. For Tesla's professional team, he made his debut in the top division of Czechoslovakia, the 1st division, during the season 1988/89 . At the end of the season, Tesla Pardubice won the Czechoslovak Championship and Král completed a total of three appearances in the season. In the following years he established himself within the team and scored 34 scorer points in 33 games in the last season of the first division, the 1992/93 season. In the first season of the newly founded Extraliga, his club, renamed HC Pardubice, won the runner-up. Král contributed 33 goals to this success, with which he also won the league's top scorer's crown.

In 1995 Richard Král moved to Wiener EV , but returned four games to the Czech Republic and was signed by HC Železárny Třinec . In the following ten seasons Král was exclusively in Třinec under contract and in 1997 was again Czech runner-up with this club . In addition, he was twice top scorer in the Extraliga and twice best assists. On October 28, 2001 he scored his 250th goal in the Extraliga against HC Litvínov . After ten years in Třinec, Král decided in 2005 to move to HC Hamé Zlín , where he played until 2006. The 2006/07 season he began at HC Lasselsberger Plzeň , before he was signed by BK Mladá Boleslav , who was then playing in the second-class first division . Richard Král was captain at BK Mladá Boleslav between 2006 and 2010 .

At the end of the 2007/08 season he and his new team were promoted to the Extraliga, where the club has been playing ever since. Král scored 18 points in 15 playoff games, which also made him the top scorer in the first division.

Between 2010 and 2014 he was active for the JKH GKS Jastrzębie in the Polish Ekstraliga . In March 2014, he ended his career and became a youth coach at his home club.

International

Richard Král was part of the extended squad of the Czechoslovak national team in the early 1990s , but was not used in any major tournament. In 1994 he was initially nominated for the 1994 World Cup , but was eliminated from the squad shortly before the tournament. Out of annoyance at this cut in the squad, he refused any invitations to national team games in the following years.

It was not until 2002 that he played again for his national team in two tournaments on the Euro Hockey Tour .

Achievements and Awards

1994 Czech runner-up with HC Pardubice 1994 Top scorer in the main round of the Extraliga 1997 Czech runner-up with HC Oceláři Třinec 2000 top scorer in the Extraliga 2000 Best assists in the Extraliga

2003 top scorer in the Extraliga 2003 Best template provider in the Extraliga 2008 top scorer in the playoffs of the 1st division 2008 promotion to the extra league

International

• 1998 gold medal at the street hockey world championship

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1988/89	Tesla Pardubice	1st League		3	1	0	1	0
1989/90	Tesla Pardubice	1st League		37	8th	11	19th
1990/91	Tesla Pardubice	1st League		37	10	14th	24
1991/92	HC Pardubice	1st League		28	12	9	21st			5	0	5	5
1992/93	HC Pardubice	1st League		33	22nd	12	34
1993/94	HC Pardubice	Extra league		54	33	30th	63
1994/95	HC Pardubice	Extra league		41	22nd	20th	42
1995/96	CE Vienna	OIL		4th	2	4th	6th	2
1996/97	HC Železárny Třinec	Extra league		51	24	34	58	32
1997/98	HC Železárny Třinec	Extra league		47	19th	25th	44	63		11	8th	12	20th	18th
1998/99	HC Železárny Třinec	Extra league		47	15th	41	56	82		10	3	7th	10	30th
1999/2000	HC Oceláři Třinec	Extra league		49	24	53	77	85		4th	0	2	2	4th
2000/01	HC Oceláři Třinec	Extra league		42	17th	32	49	83
2001/02	HC Oceláři Třinec	Extra league		48	24	24	48	133		6th	3	3	6th	6th
2002/03	HC Oceláři Třinec	Extra league		45	22nd	45	67	50		12	4th	8th	12	40
2003/04	HC Oceláři Třinec	Extra league		41	13	23	36	86		1	0	0	0	0
2004/05	HC Oceláři Třinec	Extra league		40	11	16	27	54
2005/06	HC Hamé Zlín	Extra league		51	16	15th	31	75		6th	0	0	0	2
2006/07	HC Lasselsberger Plzeň	Extra league		21st	2	3	5	34
2006/07	BK Mladá Boleslav	1st League		19th	13	18th	31	18th		8th	1	6th	7th	20th
2007/08	BK Mladá Boleslav	1st League		39	19th	23	42	53		15th	11	7th	18th	6th
2008/09	BK Mladá Boleslav	Extra league		47	11	26th	37	26th
2008/09	BK Mladá Boleslav	EL playdowns		10	3	2	5	4th		4th	1	1	2	2
2009/10	BK Mladá Boleslav	Extra league		50	18th	21st	39	44
2010/11	JKH GKS Jastrzębie	Ekstraliga		35	28	39	67	44		13	3	7th	10	26th
2011/12	JKH GKS Jastrzębie	Ekstraliga		32	16	28	44	26th		8th	3	3	6th	13
2012/13	JKH GKS Jastrzębie	Ekstraliga		37	26th	27	53	22nd		11	4th	9	13	0
2013/14	JKH GKS Jastrzębie	Ekstraliga		45	18th	34	52	18th		11	4th	8th	12	14th

( 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

• Richard Král at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://sport.aktualne.cz/posledni-reminek-dokousan-richard-kral-ukoncil-karieru/r~5d2c33b2b80211e3a6490025900fea04/
2. ↑ hokej.cz, Richard Král - Hráčská karta
3. ↑ sportovci.cz, Richard Král - Životopis sportovce ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.