Roman Šimíček

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Czech RepublicCzech Republic  Roman Šimíček Ice hockey player
Date of birth 4th November 1971
place of birth Ostrava , Czechoslovakia
size 190 cm
Weight 108 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2000 , 9th lap, 273rd position
Pittsburgh Penguins
Career stations
1989-1998 HC Vítkovice
1998-2000 HPK Hämeenlinna
2000-2001 Pittsburgh Penguins
2001-2002 Minnesota Wild
2002-2003 HIFK Helsinki
2003-2004 HC Sparta Prague
2004-2009 HC Vítkovice Steel
2009-2010 HC Dukla Trenčín
2010-2013 GKS Tychy

Roman Šimíček (born November 4, 1971 in Ostrava , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player who played for HC Vítkovice in the Czech Extra League , the Pittsburgh Penguins and Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League and for HPK Hämeenlinna in the SM-liiga was active. Since 2018 he has been head coach at HC Košice from the Slovak extra league .

Career

Club

Roman Šimíček began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown at HC Vítkovice , for whose professional team he played from 1989 to 1998, initially in the top Czechoslovak league , and from the 1993/94 season in the newly founded Czech extra league. With Vítkovice the attacker failed in the 1996/97 season in the playoff final for the championship at HC Petra Vsetín . In the summer of 1998, the Czech moved to other European countries for the first time, where he was on the ice for the HPK Hämeenlinna in the Finnish SM-liiga in the following two years .

In the NHL Entry Draft 2000 , Šimíček was selected in the ninth round as a total of 273rd player by the Pittsburgh Penguins . For the Americans, he scored three goals and provided six assists in 29 games in the National Hockey League . On January 13, 2001, he was given in exchange for Steve McKenna to the Minnesota Wild , for which he ran up in the following one and a half years, where he in the 2001/02 season mainly for their farm team , the Houston Eros , in the American Hockey League was used. The Czech started the 2002/03 season at HIFK Helsinki in Finland and ended it at HC Sparta Prague in the Extraliga. After a year and a half, the left shooter left the capital and signed with his ex-club HC Vítkovice Steel, with which he was under contract until 2009. For the 2009/10 season, the 1999 world champion was signed by HC Dukla Trenčín from the Slovak Extra League.

For the 2010/11 season , Šimíček moved to GKS Tychy from the Polish Ekstraliga . With the team, he was runner-up right away. During the 2012/13 season he was player assistant coach at GKS before retiring from his career.

As a trainer

From the end of his career in 2013, Šimíček was assistant coach at HC Vítkovice before he was dismissed in the middle of the 2014/15 season and moved to the coaching staff of HC Košice . There he was under contract until October 2015 and then took over the position of head coach at HK 36 Skalica .

From December 2016, Šimíček was head coach at Orli Znojmo from the multinational EBEL before his contract was terminated at the end of January 2018 and he moved to HC Košice.

International

For the Czech Republic , Šimíček took part in the 1997 and 1999 World Championships .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1989/90 TJ Vítkovice 1st League 5 3 4th 7th 2
1990/91 TJ Vítkovice 1st League 35 2 4th 6th
1991/92 TJ Vítkovice 1st League 33 6th 9 15th 12 2 7th 9
1992/93 TJ Vítkovice 1st League 38 8th 15th 23 52 14th 5 4th 9
1993/94 HC Vítkovice EL (Cz) 40 18th 16 34 5 0 2 2
1994/95 HC Vítkovice EL (Cz) 47 12 17th 29 108 - - - - -
1995/96 HC Vítkovice EL (Cz) 39 9 11 20th 38 4th 2 0 2 8th
1996/97 HC Vítkovice EL (Cz) 49 18th 19th 37 38 9 4th 4th 8th 22nd
1997/98 HC Vítkovice EL (Cz) 40 16 27 43 71 9 2 4th 6th 6th
1998/99 HPK Hämeenlinna SM-liiga 49 24 27 51 75 8th 2 5 7th 18th
1999/00 HPK Hämeenlinna SM-liiga 23 10 17th 27 50 8th 2 4th 6th 10
2000/01 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 29 3 6th 9 30th - - - - -
Minnesota Wild NHL 28 2 4th 6th 21st - - - - -
2001/02 Houston Eros AHL 49 12 14th 26th 61 4th 1 0 1 2
Minnesota Wild NHL 6th 2 0 2 8th - - - - -
2002/03 HIFK Helsinki SM-liiga 30th 4th 11 15th 49 - - - - -
HC Sparta Prague EL (Cz) 11 3 5 8th 14th 10 2 8th 10 10
2003/04 HC Sparta Prague EL (Cz) 36 6th 13 19th 85 13 2 4th 6th 12
2004/05 HC Vítkovice EL (Cz) 45 8th 18th 26th 101 10 2 1 3 41
2005/06 HC Vítkovice EL (Cz) 39 10 15th 25th 52 6th 0 3 3 6th
2006/07 HC Vítkovice EL (Cz) 30th 2 7th 9 32 - - - - -
2007/08 HC Vítkovice EL (Cz) 42 7th 8th 15th 68 - - - - -
2008/09 HC Vítkovice EL (Cz) 44 9 12 21st 44 5 0 1 1 2
NHL overall 63 7th 10 17th 59 - - - - -
SM-liiga total 102 38 55 93 174 16 4th 9 13 28
Extraliga overall 566 118 158 276 651 71 14th 27 41 135

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hokejportal.net, Českú légiu v Dukle posilní Roman Šimíček , June 2, 2009, accessed on April 11, 2014
  2. ↑ hc-vitkovice.cz, Roman Šimíček se vrací domů, stane se asistentem Petera Oremuse
  3. ↑ Jiri Reznar is history - Orli Znojmo has a new head coach in Roman Simicek. In: sportreport.biz. December 29, 2016, accessed January 4, 2017 .
  4. ^ Ex-Orli Znojmo trainer Roman Simicek signs with HC Kosice. In: sportreport.biz. February 1, 2018, accessed June 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Šimíček, novel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simicek, Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostrava , Czechoslovakia