Tomáš Plekanec
 Tomáš Plekanec 
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| Date of birth | October 31, 1982 |
| place of birth | Kladno , Czechoslovakia |
| size | 178 cm |
| Weight | 88 kg |
| position | center |
| number | # 14 |
| Shot hand | Left |
| Draft | |
| NHL Entry Draft |
2001 , 3rd round, 71st position Canadiens de Montréal |
| Career stations | |
| until 2002 | HC Kladno |
| 2002-2005 | Hamilton Bulldogs |
| 2005-2018 | Canadiens de Montréal |
| 2018 |
Toronto Maple Leafs Canadiens de Montréal |
| since 2018 | Rytíři Kladno |
| 2018-2019 | HC Kometa Brno |
Tomas Plekanec (* 31 October 1982 in Kladno , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech ice hockey player who since November 2018 in the Rytíři Kladno in the Czech first league under contract and parallel to be borrowed for the HC Kometa Brno in the higher-ranked Extraliga used comes. Before that, the center played a total of over 1,000 games for the Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League between 2005 and 2018 , while also briefly playing with the Toronto Maple Leafs . He represented the Czech national team at numerous international tournaments, including the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics , and won with them the silver medal at the 2006 World Cup .
Career
Tomáš Plekanec started playing ice hockey at kindergarten age when he was invited to a trial training session in Kladno. From then on, he went through all the youth teams of HC Kladno up to the U18 and U20 juniors. While playing in the U20 extra league as a 15- or 16-year-old, he got his first three appearances in the men's team under head coach Otakar Vejvoda senior . After he had always played on the right wing as a junior, he took the position of the center from 1999. In the summer of 1999 he signed his first professional contract with Kladno, which brought in 3000 Czech crowns per month. After the U20 extra league season was over, he completed some games in the third-class 2nd division for HC Slaný and HC Kralupy nad Vltavou .
From 2000 Plekanec then belonged regularly to the men's team Kladnos, which played in the Czech extra league. At the end of the 2000/01 season he supported HC Mladá Boleslav in its promotion efforts in the first division , where he scored 19 points in ten games . In the following two seasons he established himself in the extra league and was able to improve his point yield. During the NHL Entry Draft 2001 he was selected by the Canadiens de Montréal from the National Hockey League in the third round in a total of 71st place. A year later he decided to move to North America and was first used in the American Hockey League with the Hamilton Bulldogs , the farm team of the Canadiens de Montréal.
The Czech made his debut in the NHL during the 2003-04 season but returned to the Bulldogs and became the team's top scorer that season. Because of the performances shown, he was nominated for the AHL All-Star Classic 2004. He was the Bulldogs' pre-eminent player the following season : he scored the most goals, set up the most goals, scored the most power play and underpaid goals. Therefore he was nominated again for the AHL All-Star Classic and was named Most Valuable Player there. He also won the Fastest Skater competition. Since the end of the NHL lockout after the 2004/05 season, Plekanec was a permanent member of the Canadiens' NHL squad and improved his game from year to year. In the 2007/08 season he was the second best scorer of the French Canadians behind the Russian Alexei Kowaljow and on February 29, 2008 scored his first NHL hat trick against the Buffalo Sabers .
After almost 16 years in the organization of the Canadiens, the attacker and Kyle Baun were handed over to the Toronto Maple Leafs in February 2018 shortly before the trade deadline . In return, Rinat Walijew , Kerby Rychel and a second-round vote in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft moved to Montréal. In addition, the Canadiens continued to take 50 percent of Plekanec's salary. After the end of the 2017/18 season , the Czech returned to Montréal as a free agent under a one-year contract and played his 1000th game of the regular season there shortly after the start of the 2018/19 season. A little later, however, both parties agreed on an early termination of his contract in November 2018, while at the same time he declared his NHL career over and announced that he would return to his Czech homeland. He did this by joining his homeland and training association, the now renamed Rytíři Kladno . While he is supposed to help Kladno to move up to the extra league, he is on loan for HC Kometa Brno in order to get more working time. With his home club Kladno, he rose at the end of the season via relegation to the extra league. He had completed the playoffs of the 1st division as a top scorer.
International
Tomáš Plekanec began early on in his career to represent his home country in international championships and tournaments. He received his first appointment to a junior team in the Czech Republic at the age of 14 and from that point on was an integral part of the youth development program. In total, he took part in three world championships in the junior division: With the U18 national team, he completed the U18 junior world championship in 2000 . In the following two years he was part of the squad of the U20 national selection , where he won the gold medal at the U20 Junior World Championship in 2001 .
Since 2006 Plekanec has played regularly for the men's selection team and won the silver medal with the team at the 2006 World Cup in Riga, Latvia . The striker celebrated two further medals in the form of bronze medals at the 2011 and 2012 World Championships . In total, Plekanec had played eleven world championship tournaments by 2018. He also took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Russia , and the 2016 World Cup of Hockey .
Achievements and Awards
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International
- 2001 gold medal at the U20 Junior World Championship
- 2006 silver medal at the world championship
- 2011 bronze medal at the world championship
- 2012 bronze medal at the world championship
Career statistics
Status: end of the 2018/19 season
| Regular season | Playoffs / -downs | |||||||||||||
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| season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
| 1996/97 | HC Kladno | U18 extra league | 13 | 1 | 3 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1997/98 | HC Kladno | U18 extra league | 45 | 38 | 26th | 64 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1998/99 | HC Kladno | U20 extra league | 53 | 22nd | 20th | 42 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1998/99 | HC Kladno | Extra league | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1999/00 | HC Kladno | U20 extra league | 43 | 14th | 16 | 30th | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1999/00 | HC Kralupy nad Vltavou | 2nd league | 6th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1999/00 | HC Slaný | 2nd league | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2000/01 | HC Kladno | U20 extra league | 9 | 6th | 4th | 10 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2000/01 | HC Mladá Boleslav | 1st League | 4th | 5 | 5 | 10 | 4th | 6th | 6th | 3 | 9 | 14th | ||
| 2000/01 | HC Kladno | Extra league | 47 | 9 | 9 | 18th | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2001/02 | HC Kladno | Extra league | 48 | 7th | 17th | 24 | 28 | 5 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2002/03 | Hamilton Bulldogs | AHL | 77 | 19th | 27 | 46 | 74 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8th | ||
| 2003/04 | Hamilton Bulldogs | AHL | 74 | 23 | 43 | 66 | 90 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 7th | 6th | ||
| 2003/04 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2004/05 | Hamilton Bulldogs | AHL | 80 | 29 | 35 | 64 | 68 | 4th | 2 | 4th | 6th | 6th | ||
| 2005/06 | Hamilton Bulldogs | AHL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2005/06 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 67 | 9 | 20th | 29 | 32 | 6th | 0 | 4th | 4th | 6th | ||
| 2006/07 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 81 | 20th | 27 | 47 | 36 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2007/08 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 81 | 29 | 40 | 69 | 42 | 12 | 4th | 5 | 9 | 2 | ||
| 2008/09 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 80 | 20th | 19th | 39 | 54 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4th | ||
| 2009/10 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 82 | 25th | 45 | 70 | 50 | 19th | 4th | 7th | 11 | 20th | ||
| 2010/11 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 77 | 22nd | 35 | 57 | 60 | 7th | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | ||
| 2011/12 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 81 | 17th | 35 | 52 | 56 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2012/13 | HC Kladno | Extra league | 32 | 21st | 25th | 46 | 38 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2012/13 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 47 | 14th | 19th | 33 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 4th | 4th | 2 | ||
| 2013/14 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 81 | 20th | 23 | 43 | 38 | 17th | 4th | 5 | 9 | 8th | ||
| 2014/15 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 82 | 26th | 34 | 60 | 46 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 4th | 6th | ||
| 2015/16 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 82 | 14th | 40 | 54 | 36 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2016/17 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 78 | 10 | 18th | 28 | 24 | 6th | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2017/18 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 60 | 6th | 18th | 24 | 39 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2017/18 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 17th | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6th | 7th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 2 | ||
| 2018/19 | Canadiens de Montréal | NHL | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2018/19 | HC Kometa Brno | Extra league | 16 | 0 | 7th | 7th | 14th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2018/19 | Rytíři Kladno | 1st League | 10 | 5 | 7th | 12 | 12 | 21st | 5 | 24 | 29 | 28 | ||
| U18 extra league overall | 58 | 39 | 29 | 68 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| U20 extra league overall | 105 | 42 | 40 | 82 | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| 1st league overall | 14th | 10 | 12 | 22nd | 16 | 27 | 11 | 27 | 38 | 42 | ||||
| Extraliga overall | 146 | 37 | 58 | 95 | 104 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| AHL total | 233 | 71 | 105 | 176 | 234 | 27 | 7th | 11 | 18th | 20th | ||||
| NHL overall | 1001 | 233 | 375 | 608 | 543 | 94 | 18th | 35 | 53 | 52 | ||||
International
Represented the Czech Republic at:
| year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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| 2000 | Czech Republic | U18 World Cup | 6th place | 6th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| 2001 | Czech Republic | U20 World Cup |
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7th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6th | |
| 2002 | Czech Republic | U20 World Cup | 7th place | 7th | 3 | 4th | 7th | 0 | |
| 2006 | Czech Republic | WM |
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9 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 20th | |
| 2007 | Czech Republic | WM | 7th place | 7th | 4th | 4th | 8th | 2 | |
| 2008 | Czech Republic | WM | 5th place | 4th | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| 2009 | Czech Republic | WM | 6th place | 7th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4th | |
| 2010 | Czech Republic | Olympia | 7th place | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |
| 2011 | Czech Republic | WM |
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8th | 6th | 4th | 10 | 6th | |
| 2012 | Czech Republic | WM |
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10 | 1 | 6th | 7th | 4th | |
| 2013 | Czech Republic | WM | 7th place | 2 | 0 | 4th | 4th | 2 | |
| 2014 | Czech Republic | Olympia | 6th place | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4th | 0 | |
| 2015 | Czech Republic | WM | 4th Place | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2016 | Czech Republic | WM | 5th place | 8th | 5 | 0 | 5 | 8th | |
| 2016 | Czech Republic | World cup | 6th place | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2017 | Czech Republic | WM | 7th place | 8th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4th | |
| 2018 | Czech Republic | WM | 7th place | 8th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Juniors overall | 20th | 5 | 6th | 11 | 8th | ||||
| Men overall | 86 | 22nd | 27 | 49 | 56 | ||||
( 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 Plekanec in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
- Tomáš Plekanec at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Tomáš Plekanec at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ plekanec.cz, 1999/2000 - A Professional Contract for next to Nothing ( Memento of December 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Douglas Gelevan: Tomas Plekanec: A loyal team mate until the end. cbc.ca, November 10, 2018, accessed on November 11, 2018 .
- ↑ plekanec.cz, 1996/1997 - At the Age of 14 - On the young Junior Team ( Memento from December 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | Plekanec, Tomáš |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Plekanec, Tomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech ice hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kladno , Czechoslovakia |