Rok Jakopič

Rok Jakopič
Date of birth	July 11, 1987
place of birth	Jesenice , SR Slovenia
size	181 cm
Weight	77 kg
position	striker
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2003-2009	HK Jesenice
2007-2009	HD mladi Jesenice
2009-2010	KHL Medveščak Zagreb
2010-2011	EC Pfaffenhofen
2011–2012	HDD Bled
since 2012	Al Ain Theebs

Rok Jakopič (born July 11, 1987 in Jesenice , SR Slovenia ) is a Slovenian - Croatian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Al Ain Theebs in the Emirates Ice Hockey League since 2012 .

Career

Rok Jakopič began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of HK Jesenice , the HD mladi Jesenice , for which he was active in the Slovenian junior league from 2003 to 2007. At the same time, the attacker played for the HK HIT Casino Kranjska Gora in the Slovenian ice hockey league from 2003 to 2006 and for the professional team at HK Jesenice in the Interliga from 2005 to 2007 . In the 2007/08 season Jakopič scored 28 goals and a total of 46 scorer points in 33 games for the HD mladi Jesenice, making it the top goalscorer and top scorer in the league. During the following season he was used more often at HK Jesenice in the Austrian ice hockey league .

In the summer of 2009 Jakopič was committed by the KHL Medveščak Zagreb , which was newly admitted to the Austrian ice hockey league. There he did not fall under the quota of foreigners due to his dual citizenship. At Medveščak he was immediately used regularly, where he also ran for the second team in the Slohokej League , with which he was also Croatian champion . The 2010/11 season he started again with Medveščak, for which he scored two goals and two assists in 20 games and with the newly founded cooperation partner, the Zagreb team , in the Slohokej League. In December 2010, the dual national moved to the fourth German division, the Bavarian Ice Hockey League , in which he scored 25 scorer points in a total of 20 games, including twelve goals, for EC Pfaffenhofen by the end of the season. He then left the club again and joined the HDD Bled from the Slohokej League for the 2011/12 season . The season itself, however, he ended with the Al Ain Theebs in the Emirates Ice Hockey League .

International

For Slovenia , Jakopič took part in the junior division of the U18 Junior B World Championships in 2004 and 2005 and the U20 Junior B World Championships in 2006 and 2007 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2008 Top scorer in the Slovenian Ice Hockey League
• 2008 top scorer of the Slovenian ice hockey league
• 2010 Croatian champion with the KHL Medveščak Zagreb

EBEL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	4th	109	9	8th	17th	16
Playoffs	2	15th	1	1	2	0

(Status: end of the 2011/12 season)

Web links

• Rok Jakopič at eurohockey.com
• Rok Jakopič at eliteprospects.com (English)