Sabahudin Kovačevič

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Sabahudin Kovačevič
Date of birth February 26, 1986
place of birth Jesenice , SR Slovenia
size 190 cm
Weight 95 kg
position defender
number # 86
Shot hand Right
Career stations
until 2010 HK Jesenice
2010 Asiago Hockey
2010-2011 HC Alleghe
2011 Herning Blue Fox
2011-2013 HK Poprad
2013-2014 HK Saryarka Karaganda
2014 HK Kuban Krasnodar
2014-2015 HK Saryarka Karaganda
2015-2016 EC Graz 99ers
2016-2017 HK Junost Minsk
2017 HC Nové Zámky
since 2017 HC Energie Karlovy Vary

Sabahudin Kovačevič (born February 26, 1986 in Jesenice , SR Slovenia ) is a Slovenian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HC Energie Karlovy Vary since November 2017 and has played with the club in the Czech Extraliga since 2018 .

Career

Sabahudin Kovačevič started his career in his hometown at HK Jesenice. From the 2002/03 season, the defender played for the club's U20 team and was also used for the first time for HK Kranjska Gora in the Slovenian ice hockey league, the country's top division. There he was able to continuously increase the number of his missions in the following three years and established himself in the league. From 2005 he received a contract for the first team at his home club in Jesenice. Until 2010 he was active for the club in both the Austrian ice hockey league and the Slovenian ice hockey league. In the latter, he won a total of four championship titles with the team that is eligible to start in the Slovenian play-offs after being eliminated from the ÖEHL . For the 2010/11 season, Kovacevic initially signed a contract with the reigning Italian champions Asiago Hockey , but moved to HC Alleghe after only 13 games in the A1 series .

For the 2011/12 season Kovačevič signed a one-year contract with the Danish first division club Herning Blue Fox . However, he left this in November 2011 and joined HK Poprad from the Slovak extra league . For the 2013/14 season he moved to the Kazakh club HK Saryarka Karaganda in the Wysschaja Hockey League , which he was able to win with the team right away. In the summer of 2014 he moved to HK Kuban Krasnodar within the league . In December 2014 he returned to Karaganda for four games before moving to EC Graz 99ers in January 2015 , for which he played in the Austrian ice hockey league until 2016. After a year at HK Junost Minsk in the Belarusian extra league, he returned to Slovakia, where he now played for HC Nové Zámky . However, he left the club again in November 2017 and joined HC Energie Karlovy Vary from the Czech 1st division , the country's second-highest division. With the team from Karlovy Vary, he was promoted to the extra league in 2018 .

International

Kovačevič represented his home country in various tournaments as a youth player. In the junior division, he took part in the 2004 U18 World Junior Championships and the 2005 and 2006 U20 World Junior Championships in Division I.

He then belonged to the squad of the men's national team , but initially missed a few tournaments due to injuries. At the 2009 , 2010 , 2012 , 2016 World Championships , when he was elected to the tournament's All-Star Team, and in 2018 , when he was reappointed to the All-Star Team, he was in Division I In the top division he played for Slovenia in 2011 , 2013 , 2015 and 2017 . He also represented his colors at the qualifying tournaments for the 2010 , 2014 and 2018 Olympic Winter Games , as well as at the 2014 Games in Sochi , where the Slovenes took a surprising seventh place, and in Pyeongchang in 2018 , when his team finished ninth.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2002/03 HK Jesenice U20 offspring 8th 0 1 1 6th
2002/03 HK Kranjska Gora SEL 3 0 0 0 0
2003/04 HK Jesenice U20 offspring 17th 5 4th 9 14th 5 1 1 2 0
2003/04 HK Kranjska Gora SEL 15th 0 0 0 4th 4th 0 0 0 0
2004/05 HK Jesenice U20 offspring 18th 7th 8th 15th 51 2 1 1 2 2
2004/05 HK Kranjska Gora SEL 28 1 5 6th 32
2005/06 HK Kranjska Gora SEL 31 13 10 23 118
2005/06 HK Jesenice Interliga 5 0 0 0 0
2006/07 HK Jesenice II Interliga 22nd 5 7th 12 91
2006/07 HK Jesenice ÖEHL 4th 0 0 0 0
2007/08 HK Jesenice ÖEHL 45 2 3 5 38 5 0 1 1 0
2007/08 HK Jesenice SEL 8th 2 1 3 20th
2008/09 HK Jesenice ÖEHL 54 10 14th 24 69 5 0 1 1 6th
2008/09 HK Jesenice SEL 6th 1 1 2 8th
2009/10 HK Jesenice ÖEHL 51 7th 12 19th 59
2009/10 HK Jesenice SEL 4th 1 2 3 2 6th 1 4th 5 29
2010/11 Asiago Hockey Series A1 13 0 4th 4th 6th
2010/11 HC Alleghe Series A1 20th 2 1 3 8th 5 1 1 2 6th
2011/12 Herning Blue Fox AL-Bank Ligaen 16 1 5 6th 14th
2011/12 HK Poprad Extra league 36 3 14th 17th 51 6th 0 0 0 8th
2012/13 HK Poprad Extra league 54 7th 14th 21st 65 7th 1 0 1 2
2013/14 HK Saryarka Karaganda Vysschaya Hockey League 44 9 12 21st 10 19th 1 8th 9 4th
2014/15 HK Kuban Krasnodar Vysschaya Hockey League 26th 0 6th 6th 6th
2014/15 HK Saryarka Karaganda Vysschaya Hockey League 4th 0 1 1 2
2014/15 EC Graz 99ers ÖEHL 13 0 2 2 6th
2015/16 EC Graz 99ers ÖEHL 48 4th 14th 18th 26th
2016/17 HK Junost Minsk Extra league 26th 3 10 13 34 9 0 2 2 0
2017/18 HC Nové Zámky Extra league 16 0 3 3 51
2017/18 HC Energie Karlovy Vary 1st League 19th 3 9 12 12 8th 1 4th 5 4th
ÖEHL overall 215 23 45 68 198 10 0 2 2 6th
SEL / Interliga overall 81 15th 17th 32 156 24 4th 6th 10 57
Series A1 overall 33 2 5 7th 14th 5 1 1 2 6th
Slovak extra league overall 106 10 31 41 167 13 1 0 1 10
Belarusian extra league overall 26th 3 10 13 34 9 0 2 2 0

International

Represented Slovenia at:

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
2004 Slovenia U18 World Cup 4th 0 2 2 0
2005 Slovenia U20 World Cup 5 0 0 0 0
2006 Slovenia U18 World Cup 5 0 2 2 8th
2009 Slovenia WM Div.I 5 1 3 4th 2
2009 Slovenia Olympic qualification 3 0 0 0 0
2010 Slovenia WM Div.I 5 2 2 4th 0
2011 Slovenia WM 6th 0 0 0 0
2012 Slovenia WM Div.I 5 0 1 1 10
2013 Slovenia WM 7th 0 0 0 6th
2013 Slovenia Olympic qualification 3 0 0 0 0
2014 Slovenia Olympia 4th 1 1 2 2
2015 Slovenia WM 7th 0 2 2 2
2016 Slovenia WM Div.I 5 1 3 4th 4th
2016 Slovenia Olympic qualification 3 1 1 2 0
2017 Slovenia WM 7th 0 1 1 4th
2018 Slovenia Olympia 4th 0 0 0 0
2018 Slovenia WM Div.I 5 3 0 3 0
Men overall 63 9 14th 23 30th
Juniors overall 14th 0 4th 4th 8th

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Kovačevič, Sabahudin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kovacevic, Sabahudin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Jesenice , SR Slovenia