Václav Varaďa

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Václav Varaďa
Date of birth April 26, 1976
place of birth Vsetín , Czechoslovakia
size 183 cm
Weight 95 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1994 , 4th lap, 89th position
San Jose Sharks
Career stations
1992-1994 HC Vítkovice
1994-1995 Tacoma Rockets
1995-1996 Kelowna Rockets
1996-2003 Buffalo Sabers
2003-2006 Ottawa Senators
2004-2005 HC Vítkovice
2006-2007 HC Davos
2007-2008 SCL Tigers
2008-2009 HC Vítkovice Steel
2009-2010 HC Kometa Brno
2010-2014 HC Oceláři Třinec

Václav Varaďa (born April 26, 1976 in Vsetín , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player and current coach . The right winger completed, among other things, over 500 games in the National Hockey League , most of them for the Buffalo Sabers . With the Czech national team he won two gold medals at world championships.

Career

Václav Varaďa began his career as an ice hockey player in the youth division of HC Vítkovice , for whose professional team he made his debut in the last season of the highest Czechoslovak ice hockey division, the 1st league , in the 1992/93 season . In the following season, the attacker scored 15 points in a total of 29 games, whereupon he was selected in the fourth round of the NHL Entry Draft in 1994 as the 89th player of the San Jose Sharks , for which he never played. Instead, he played one season each in the Canadian Junior Western Hockey League for the Tacoma Rockets and their successor team, the Kelowna Rockets . During this period, the San Jose Sharks transferred the Czech to their league rivals Buffalo Sabers , for whom he was on the ice for the first time in the National Hockey League in the 1995/96 season .

For Buffalo Varaďa played in the following eight years regularly in the NHL, where he ran in his first three seasons in the Sabers franchise in parallel for their farm team from the American Hockey League , the Rochester Americans . On February 25, 2003, the left shooter was transferred to the Ottawa Senators in exchange for his compatriot Jakub Klepiš along with a five-round vote in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft . With the Senators he immediately reached the final games of the Stanley Cup in the 2002/03 season , in which he and his team were defeated by the New Jersey Devils with just 3: 4 wins. For Ottawa he was active for a total of three and a half years, bridging the lockout during the NHL season 2004/05 at his ex-club HC Vítkovice Steel in the extra league.

In summer 2006 Vara Va signed with HC Davos from the Swiss National League A , with which he first won the Spengler Cup , and then for the first and only time in his career the Swiss championship . Following this success, the winger switched to their league rivals SCL Tigers , for whom he scored a total of 32 scorer points in 37 games. In the 2008/09 season , the two-time world champion was back under contract with HC Vítkovice Steel before he was loaned to HC Kometa Brno in November 2009, after 19 games in the 2009/10 season .

In August 2010 he moved from HC Vítkovice to HC Oceláři Třinec . With this he won the Czech championship title at the end of the 2010/11 season . He ended his active career after the 2013/14 season.

After he switched to the position of assistant coach at HC Oceláři Třinec at the end of his active career, Varaďa took over the Czech junior national team in the 2016/17 season and won the gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2016 . For the 2017/18 season, however, he returned to HC Oceláři Třinec, which he now took over as head coach.

International

For the Czech Republic, Varaďa took part in the U20 Junior World Championships in 1995 and 1996 and the World Championships in 2000 and 2005 . In addition, since 2007, since he has been back in Europe, he has been used in international test matches and tournaments on the Euro Hockey Tour .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1992/93 TJ Vítkovice 1st League 1 0 0 0 0
1993/94 HC Vítkovice Extra league 29 7th 8th 15th 0 5 1 1 2
1994/95 Tacoma Rockets WHL 68 50 38 88 108 4th 4th 3 7th 11
1995/96 Kelowna Rockets WHL 59 39 46 85 100 6th 3 3 6th 16
1995/96 Rochester Americans AHL 5 3 0 3 4th - - - - -
1995/96 Buffalo Sabers NHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1996/97 Rochester Americans AHL 53 23 25th 48 81 10 1 6th 7th 27
1996/97 Buffalo Sabers NHL 5 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
1997/98 Rochester Americans AHL 45 30th 26th 56 74 - - - - -
1997/98 Buffalo Sabers NHL 27 5 6th 11 15th 15th 3 4th 7th 18th
1998/99 Buffalo Sabers NHL 72 7th 24 31 61 21st 5 4th 9 14th
1999/00 HC Vítkovice Extra league 5 2 3 5 12 - - - - -
1999/00 Buffalo Sabers NHL 76 10 27 37 62 5 0 0 0 8th
2000/01 Buffalo Sabers NHL 75 10 21st 31 81 13 0 4th 4th 8th
2001/02 Buffalo Sabers NHL 76 7th 16 23 82 - - - - -
2002/03 Buffalo Sabers NHL 44 7th 4th 11 23 - - - - -
2002/03 Ottawa Senators NHL 11 2 6th 8th 8th 18th 2 4th 6th 18th
2003/04 Ottawa Senators NHL 30th 5 5 10 26th 7th 1 1 2 4th
2004/05 HC Vítkovice Extra league 44 8th 19th 27 83 11 3 3 6th 37
2005/06 Ottawa Senators NHL 76 5 16 21st 50 8th 0 2 2 12
2006/07 HC Davos NLA 25th 6th 4th 10 26th - - - - -
2007/08 SCL Tigers NLA 37 12 20th 32 56 2 1 0 0 0 2
2008/09 HC Vítkovice Extra league 16 5 5 10 22nd 4th 2 2 4th 2
2009/10 HC Vítkovice Extra league 19th 2 8th 10 12 - - - - -
2009/10 HC Kometa Brno Extra league 14th 4th 4th 8th 10 - - - - -
2010/11 HC Oceláři Třinec Extra league 51 12 25th 37 44 18th 2 9 11 38
2011/12 HC Oceláři Třinec Extra league 16 6th 7th 13 20th 5 0 2 2 4th
2011/12 HC Slovan Ústečtí Lvi 1st League - - - - - 5 2 0 2 4th
2012/13 HC Oceláři Třinec Extra league 51 14th 23 37 60 10 3 1 4th 10
2013/14 HC Oceláři Třinec Extra league 36 4th 5 9 28 1 0 0 0 0
Extraliga overall 278 63 107 170 301 62 11 18th 29 101
NLA total 62 18th 24 42 82 2 0 1 1 2
WHL overall 127 89 84 173 208 10 7th 6th 13 27
AHL total 103 56 51 107 159 10 1 6th 7th 27
NHL overall 493 58 125 183 410 87 11 19th 30th 82

International

Represented the Czech Republic at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1994 Czech Republic U18 European Championship 3rd place, bronze 5 3 3 6th 6th
1995 Czech Republic U20 World Cup 6th place 7th 6th 4th 10 25th
1996 Czech Republic U20 World Cup 4th Place 6th 5 1 6th 8th
2000 Czech Republic WM 1st place, gold 9 2 4th 6th 6th
2005 Czech Republic WM 1st place, gold 9 1 0 1 2
Juniors overall 18th 14th 8th 22nd 39
Men overall 18th 3 4th 7th 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 Varaďa, Václav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Varada, Vaclav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Vsetín , Czechoslovakia