Tomáš Plíhal

Tomáš Plíhal
Date of birth	March 28, 1983
place of birth	Frýdlant v Čechách , Czechoslovakia
size	190 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	center
number	# 39
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2001 , 5th lap, 140th position San Jose Sharks
Career stations
until 2001	HC Liberec
2001-2003	Kootenay Ice
2003-2006	Cleveland Barons
2006-2009	San Jose Sharks
2009–2012	TPS Turku
2012-2013	Kärpät Oulu
2013-2014	Tappara Tampere
2014-2016	HC Oceláři Třinec
2016-2018	Orli Znojmo
2018	Heilbronn falcon
2018-2019	HC Jablonec nad Nisou
2019	EV Landshut
2019-2020	HC Kobra Prague HC Jablonec nad Nisou
2020	EV Landshut
since 2020	HC Jablonec nad Nisou

Tomáš Plíhal (born March 28, 1983 in Frýdlant v Čechách , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Czech third division club HC Jablonec nad Nisou since July 2020, where he is head coach and manager at the same time. Plíhal previously worked in North America, among other places, where he played 93 games for the San Jose Sharks in the National Hockey League (NHL).

Career

Plíhal first played in the Czech U18 and U20 extra leagues at HC Liberec . After successfully participating in the U18 World Cup in 2001 with the Czech national team and the selection by the San Jose Sharks in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft in the fifth round in 140th position, Plíhal decided to work in North America.

Plíhal in the jersey of the San Jose Sharks

At the beginning of the 2001/02 season he moved to the Kootenay Ice in the Western Hockey League , where he stayed two seasons. In 2002 he won both the President's Cup and the Memorial Cup with the Ice . With consistently good performances and strong offensive statistics, he attracted the attention of the Sharks' scouts. This piloted him in the summer of 2003 to the Cleveland Barons , the Sharks' farm team at the time, in the American Hockey League , where Plíhal played for three seasons. In the 2006/07 season , the Czech first played with the Worcester Sharks , the new farm team San Joses, before they called him on January 25, 2007 for the first time in the NHL squad. He played his first game a day later against the Edmonton Oilers and two more missions followed. At the beginning of the 2007/08 season , the Czech was out for a long time with a shoulder injury and was only able to intervene in the game at the beginning of December. After he had played in Worcester until mid-January 2008, he was again ordered to San Jose. There he stayed for the rest of the season and came to a total of 22 NHL appearances in the regular season and four in the playoffs. In contrast, there were 22 more on the farm team. Overall, he came to four points in the 22 NHL encounters, including one goal. The Czech Republic spent the 2008/09 season entirely in San Jose, making 64 appearances. His 13 scorer points earned him the club's internal rookie of the year award .

Nevertheless, the management did not extend the striker's contract, whereupon he signed a contract with the Finnish club TPS Turku from the SM-liiga in early September 2009 . The Czech belonged to the club for three years, before one year engagements with the league rivals Kärpät Oulu and Tappara Tampere followed. From May 2014 Plíhal was under contract with HC Oceláři Třinec in the Czech Extra League and reached the runner-up with this at the end of the 2014/15 season. In September 2016 he finally moved to Orli Znojmo .

On March 1, 2018, the Heilbronner Falken announced his commitment, where he was under contract until the end of the 2017/18 season.

Achievements and Awards

2002 President's Cup win with the Kootenay Ice 2002 Memorial Cup win with the Kootenay Ice 2002 George Parsons Trophy 2010 Finnish champion with TPS Turku

2014 Finnish runner-up with Tappara Tampere 2015 Czech runner-up with HC Oceláři Třinec 2019 Oberliga champion and promotion to the DEL2 with EV Landshut

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2001/02	Kootenay Ice	WHL		72	32	54	86	28		22nd	4th	10	14th	14th
2002	Kootenay Ice	Memorial Cup								4th	2	2	4th	2
2002/03	Kootenay Ice	WHL		67	35	42	77	113		11	2	4th	6th	18th
2003/04	Cleveland Barons	AHL		51	4th	12	16	16		6th	0	3	3	2
2004/05	Cleveland Barons	AHL		62	17th	11	28	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	HC VČE Hradec Králové	1st League		2	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Cleveland Barons	AHL		74	11	19th	30th	53		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Worcester Sharks	AHL		47	6th	9	15th	28		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	San Jose Sharks	NHL		3	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Worcester Sharks	AHL		22nd	5	7th	12	12		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	San Jose Sharks	NHL		22nd	2	1	3	4th		4th	0	0	0	0
2008/09	San Jose Sharks	NHL		64	5	8th	13	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	TPS Turku	SM-liiga		52	19th	18th	37	73		15th	4th	4th	8th	28
2010/11	TPS Turku	SM-liiga		42	11	11	22nd	53		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	TPS Turku	SM-liiga		59	16	20th	36	66		2	0	2	2	0
2012/13	Kärpät Oulu	SM-liiga		41	6th	5	11	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Tappara Tampere	Liiga		56	4th	4th	8th	42		11	1	3	4th	26th
2014/15	HC Trinec	Extra league		28	11	9	20th	28		17th	4th	4th	8th	16
2015/16	HC Trinec	Extra league		48	5	11	16	18th		4th	0	0	0	4th
2016/17	Orli Znojmo	EBEL		30th	7th	9	16	6th		4th	1	1	2	4th
2017/18	Orli Znojmo	EBEL		45	3	12	15th	28		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Heilbronn falcon	DEL2		2	1	0	1	2		7th	2	1	3	2
2018/19	HC Jablonec nad Nisou	2nd league		25th	14th	27	41	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	EV Landshut	Oberliga		18th	6th	21st	27	4th		15th	8th	13	21st	28
2019/20	HC Kobra Prague	2nd league		12	9	17th	26th	10		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	HC Jablonec nad Nisou	2nd league		16	8th	18th	26th	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	EV Landshut	DEL2		8th	4th	5	9	2		-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				139	67	96	163	141		33	6th	14th	20th	32
AHL total				256	43	58	101	135		6th	0	3	3	2
NHL overall				89	7th	9	16	26th		4th	0	0	0	0
SM-liiga / Liiga total				250	56	58	114	252		28	5	9	14th	54
2nd league (Czech Republic) overall				53	31	62	91	42		-	-	-	-	-
Extraliga overall				76	16	20th	36	46		21st	4th	4th	8th	20th
EBEL total				75	10	21st	31	34		4th	1	1	2	4th
DEL2 total				10	5	5	10	4th		7th	2	1	3	2

International

Represented the Czech Republic at:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2000
• U18 Junior World Championship 2001

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2000	Czech Republic	U17-WHC	5th place		5	1	1	2
2001	Czech Republic	U18 World Cup	4th Place		7th	1	1	2	2
Juniors overall					12	2	2	4th	2

( 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

• Tomáš Plíhal at legendsofhockey.net ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Tomáš Plíhal at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephan Sonntag: Falken sign Czech striker. In: STIMME.de (Heilbronn voice). March 1, 2018, accessed March 5, 2018 .