Slavomír Lener

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Coaching stations
1992-1995 Calgary Flames
1996-1998 HC Sparta Prague
1996-1998 Czech national team
1999-2002 Florida panthers
2002-2005 HC Sparta Prague
2002-2004 Czech national team
2005-2007 Luleå HF
2007 DEG Metro Stars
2008-2010 Linköpings HC
since 2010 Czech national team

Slavomír "Slava" Lener (born March 10, 1955 in Beroun , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player and current coach who has been the head coach of the Czech ice hockey federation and general manager of the Czech national team since 2010 .

Career

Slavomír Lener grew up in Všeradice , later his family moved to Dobříš , where Lener attended the Karla Čapka Gymnázium. There he also tried various sports such as soccer, ice hockey and tennis. As an ice hockey player, he was with KP Dobříš. He later studied at the Faculty of Sports Education at Charles University in Prague , among others with Vladimír Kostka , Luděk Bukač and Pavel Wohl .

He completed his military service at the ASD Dukla Jihlava Army Club , where he worked between 1979 and 1980 as an assistant coach for the men's team and as a coach for the junior team. In the 1980/81 season he looked after the second team of Dukla Jihlava before he was active as head coach at I. ČLTK Prague between 1981 and 1986 .

From 1982 he was employed by the Czechoslovak Ice Hockey Association as a training methodologist and in 1986 completed a stay abroad in China. After the political upheaval, Lener went to Canada in 1990, where he was engaged from 1991 to 1992 at Hockey Canada and the University of Calgary .

In the North American professional league National Hockey League he worked between 1992 and 1995 as an assistant coach of the Calgary Flames . This made him the second European coach in the NHL. In 1995 he returned to the Czech Republic and became the head coach of the U20 national team in his home country. With this he reached the semi-finals at the Junior World Championship in 1996 . He was also appointed by Luděk Bukač as assistant coach of the men's national team, with whom he won the gold medal at the 1996 World Cup .

Together with Ivan Hlinka , Slavomír Lener coached the Czech national team from 1997, which won the 1998 Olympic gold medal in Nagano during this time . Other titles under his aegis were the bronze medals at the World Championships in Sweden in 1997 and in Switzerland in 1998 , also as a coaching duo with Hlinka.

From 1996 to 1998 Lener was also head coach at HC Sparta Prague . He then returned to North America and became an assistant coach with the Florida Panthers . He held this position until 2002.

Before the 2002/03 season, Lener was again head coach at HC Sparta Prague and remained in this position until 2005. At the same time, he was again the head coach of the Czech national team from 2002 to 2004 and achieved fourth and fifth place respectively at two world championships.

From 2005 to 2007 he was in charge of the Swedish Elitserien team Luleå HF . On June 13, 2007, the DEG Metro Stars announced his commitment as head coach for the 2007/08 season . Lener replaced Don Jackson, who had switched to the Eisbären Berlin . After a disappointing season, Lener was released on November 4, 2007, whereupon manager Lance Nethery took over the coaching office for the rest of the season. Lener returned to Sweden after a short time and became the coach of Linköpings HC .

Since 2010 Slavomír Lener has been the head coach of the Czech Ice Hockey Federation, General Manager of the Czech national team and is also responsible for player development in the association. Between 1987 and 2010 Lener was a sought-after lecturer at coaching symposia organized by the IIHF , Hockey Canada , the Swedish and Czech ice hockey federations.

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d cslh.cz, Životopis - Slavomír Lener - career and successes
  2. ↑ Miroslav Olič u. a., Dobříš, město na Zlaté stezce , Prague 1998, pp. 170-172

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personal data
SURNAME Lener, Slavomír
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lener, Slavomir; Lener, Slava
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Beroun , Czechoslovakia