Tomáš Kucharčík

Tomáš Kucharčík
Date of birth	May 10, 1970
place of birth	Mladá Boleslav , Czechoslovakia
size	189 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1991 , 8th round, 167th position Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
until 1993	ASD Dukla Jihlava
1993-1995	HC Škoda Plzeň
1994	St. John's Maple Leafs
1995-2000	HC Slavia Prague
2000-2001	Ässät Pori
2001-2004	HPK Hämeenlinna
2004-2005	HC Znojemští Orli Leksands IF
2005-2006	HC Ambrì-Piotta Forward Morges HC Lukko Rauma
2006-2007	HK Nitra Vsetínská hokejová WSV Sterzing Broncos
2007	HC Benešov
2007-2009	Wolves Freiburg
2009-2011	SV Kaltern ice hockey

Tomáš Kucharčík (born May 10, 1970 in Mladá Boleslav , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player who was active during his career for HC Slavia Prague and HC Škoda Plzeň in the Czech extra league. In 1999 he won the gold medal at the Ice Hockey World Championship .

Career

Tomáš Kucharčík began his career as a hockey player at ASD Dukla Jihlava , for whose professional team he was active in the top Czechoslovakian league from 1990 to 1993 . With his team, the attacker won the national championship in the 1990/91 season . He was then selected in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft in the eighth round as a total of 167th player from the Toronto Maple Leafs , for which he however never played. Instead, he ran from 1993 to 1995 for HC Škoda Plzeň in the Czech Extraliga , where he ended the 1993/94 season with Toronto's farm team , the St. John's Maple Leafs , in the American Hockey League .

During the 1995/96 season, Kucharčík moved to HC Slavia Prague , for which he played in the Extraliga until 2000. He then stood for a year for Ässät Pori and then for three years for HPK Hämeenlinna in the Finnish SM-liiga . After the left-handed shooter had started the 2004/05 season at HC Znojemští Orli in the Extraliga, he ended it at Leksands IF from HockeyAllsvenskan , the second Swedish division. With Leksands he was second division champion and then rose in the SuperAllsvenskan in the Elitserien . Instead of staying with the Northern Europeans, however, the former international went to Switzerland, where he stormed for HC Ambrì-Piotta and Forward Morges HC in National League A and National League B. However, he ended the season with Lukko Rauma in the SM-liiga.

In the 2006/07 season Kucharčík played for HK Nitra in the Slovak Extra League , and Vsetínská hokejová in the Czech Republic. The Czech ended the season at the WSV Sterzing Broncos in the A2 series, the second Italian division. After a brief engagement with HC Benešov in the third-class 2nd division, the 1999 World Champion was signed by the Wölfen Freiburg from the Oberliga . With the Breisgauer, the center immediately achieved promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga , in which he scored six goals in a total of 49 games and provided 24 assists. In November 2009 he signed a contract with SV Kaltern ice hockey from the Italian A2 series .

International

For the Czech Republic Kucharčík took part in the 1999 World Cup, where he became world champion with his team. A total of 61 international matches for the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia, in which he scored 12 goals.

Achievements and Awards

• 1991 Czechoslovakian champion with the ASD Dukla Jihlava
• 1999 gold medal at the world championship
• 2003 Veli Pekka Ketola Trophy
• 2003 Aarne Honkavaara Trophy
• 2005 Champion of the Hockey Allsvenskan and promotion to the Elitserien with Leksands IF
• 2005 Best plus / minus balance of the SuperAllsvenskan
• 2008 promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga with the Wölfen Freiburg

SM liiga statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	5	230	69	91	160	218
Playoffs	3	29	5	12	17th	36

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Tomáš Kucharčík at hockeydb.com (English)
• Tomáš Kucharčík at eurohockey.com
• Tomáš Kucharčík at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

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