Zdeněk Blatný

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Czech RepublicCzech Republic  Zdeněk Blatný Ice hockey player
Date of birth January 14, 1981
place of birth Brno
size 187 cm
Weight 94 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1999 , 3rd round, 68th position
Atlanta Thrashers
Career stations
until 1998 HC Kometa Brno
1998-1999 Seattle Thunderbirds
1999-2001 Kootenay Ice
2001-2004 Chicago Wolves
2004-2005 Pelicans Lahti
HC Znojemští Orli
2005-2006 Providence Bruins
2006-2007 Springfield Falcons
2007 MODO Hockey
HC Ambrì-Piotta
2007-2010 Bílí Tygři Liberec
2010-2011 Hanover Indians
2011 HC Košice
HC Dukla Trenčín
2011–2012 EC Graz 99ers
2012-2013 Vienna Capitals
2013-2014 Orli Znojmo
2014 Frederikshavn
2014-2015 Dornbirn EC

Zdeněk Blatný (born January 14, 1981 in Brno ) is a former Czech ice hockey player who was last under contract at Dornbirner EC in the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League .

Career

Zdeněk Blatný began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of HC Kometa Brno , where he was active until 1998. He then moved to the Canadian Junior Western Hockey League , in which he ran up for the Seattle Thunderbirds and Kootenay Ice . With Kootenay he won the Ed Chynoweth Cup , the championship of the WHL, in the 1999/2000 season . He contributed to this success with 27 scorer points in the 21 playoff games. With 17 assists, the winger was the best assists in the entire league. He was also elected to the second All-Star Team of the WHL East. In the 1999 NHL Entry Draft he was selected in the third round as the 68th player by the Atlanta Thrashers . For this he was only used sporadically in the National Hockey League from 2001 to 2004 . Mostly he played for their farm teams , the Chicago Wolves in the American Hockey League and the Greenville Grrrowl in the ECHL .

During the lockout in the 2004/05 season , Blatný was in Europe with the Pelicans Lahti from the Finnish SM-liiga and in his Czech homeland with HC Znojemští Orli from the Extraliga under contract. After resumption of play in the NHL, the junior world champion of 2001 signed on September 29, 2005 as a free agent with the Boston Bruins . Although he was on the ice in five games for Boston in the NHL, he was able to convince with 30 scorer points in 35 games with their AHL farm team Providence Bruins . In exchange for Brian Eklund , the Czech was transferred to the Tampa Bay Lightning on February 8, 2006 . In the following year and a half, however, he only played for their AHL farm team Springfield Falcons . On January 12, 2007 he signed a contract with MODO Hockey from the Swedish Elitserien , with which he won the national championship at the end of the 2006/07 season .

Following this success, the former NHL player at the beginning changed the 2007/08 season for HC Ambri-Piotta in the Swiss National League A . After he had only played ten games for his new club, he returned to the Czech Republic and ran there in the following two and a half seasons for the Bílí Tygři Liberec . In November 2010 he received a contract with the Hanover Indians from the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga , but left it again after a few games and played four games for HC Košice before he was signed by HC Dukla Trenčín in January 2011 . For the 2011/12 season he first moved to the Grazer 99ers and was there after a contract extension until March 2012, before he transferred to the Vienna Capitals . After he was there for over a year under contract, he moved within the league to Orli Znojmo , where he also completed a full season and was also represented in the play-offs. On October 10, 2014, his move to Denmark to join the Frederikshavn White Hawks was finally announced. After the mutually agreed contract contained a clause that served to terminate the contract within one month, this option was chosen to terminate the contract in the first week of November 2014. After a few days of speculation about another transfer of the Czech, the Dornbirn EC announced the signing of the 1.87 m tall winger on November 11, 2014. On the following weekend, the Czech made his debut in a 3-1 home win over HC Bozen and equalized the 1-1 draw in the 37th minute. After the 2014/15 season, Zdeněk Blatný received no more contract with Dornbirn EC and then ended his career.

International

For the Czech Republic Blatný took part in the U20 World Junior Championship in 2001 . In this he became world champion with his team. He contributed to this success with five goals and two assists in seven games.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1997/98 HC Kometa Brno U18 Czech U18 42 22nd 21st 43 40 - - - - -
1998/99 Seattle Thunderbirds WHL 44 18th 15th 33 25th 11 4th 0 4th 24
1999/00 Seattle Thunderbirds WHL 7th 4th 5 9 12 - - - - -
1999/00 Kootenay Ice WHL 61 43 39 82 119 21st 10 17th 27 46
2000/01 Kootenay Ice WHL 58 37 48 85 120 11 8th 10 18th 24
2001/02 Chicago Wolves AHL 41 4th 3 7th 30th 3 2 0 2 0
2001/02 Greenville Grrrowl ECHL 12 5 5 10 17th 9 2 8th 10 14th
2002/03 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 4th 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2002/03 Chicago Wolves AHL 72 12 9 21st 62 9 0 2 2 20th
2003/04 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 16 3 0 3 6th - - - - -
2003/04 Chicago Wolves AHL 61 11 23 34 115 10 0 4th 4th 24
2004/05 Pelicans SM-liiga 9 1 1 2 32 - - - - -
2004/05 HC Znojemští Orli Extra league 15th 3 4th 7th 28 - - - - -
2005/06 Boston Bruins NHL 5 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2005/06 Providence Bruins AHL 35 8th 22nd 30th 21st - - - - -
2005/06 Springfield Falcons AHL 31 14th 15th 29 20th - - - - -
2006/07 Springfield Falcons AHL 19th 6th 7th 13 18th - - - - -
2006/07 MODO hockey Elitserien 16 2 1 3 44 20th 3 4th 7th 34
2007/08 HC Ambrì-Piotta NLA 10 2 3 5 14th - - - - -
2007/08 Bílí Tygři Liberec Extraliga (CZE) 23 4th 5 9 73 11 0 1 1 22nd
2008/09 Bílí Tygři Liberec Extraliga (CZE) 51 4th 21st 25th 129 3 0 0 0 0
2008/09 HC Benátky nad Jizerou 1st League (CZE) 1 1 1 2 2 - - - - -
2009/10 Bílí Tygři Liberec Extraliga (CZE) 50 7th 8th 15th 42 15th 0 1 1 37
2010/11 Hanover Indians 2nd Bundesliga 6th 2 4th 6th 4th - - - - -
2010/11 HC Košice Extraliga (SVK) 4th 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2010/11 HK Dukla Trenčín Extraliga (SVK) 12 1 9 10 8th 11 3 2 5 16
2011/12 EC Graz 99ers EBEL 47 20th 26th 46 70 - - - - -
2012/13 Vienna Capitals EBEL 33 8th 8th 16 27 - - - - -
2013/14 Orli Znojmo EBEL 40 9 20th 29 61 5 2 2 4th 13
2014/15 Frederikshavn White Hawks Metal leagues 5 3 5 8th 6th - - - - -
2014/15 Dornbirn EC EBEL 25th 8th 2 10 53 - - - - -
AHL total 259 55 79 134 266 22nd 2 6th 8th 44
Extraliga (CZE) overall 139 18th 38 56 272 29 0 2 2 59
EBEL total 145 45 56 101 211 5 2 2 4th 13
NHL overall 25th 3 0 3 8th - - - - -
WHL overall 170 102 107 209 276 43 22nd 27 49 94

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ny spiller i White Hawks trøjen. (Danish), accessed November 17, 2014
  2. ↑ White Hawks opsiger kontrakten med Zdenek Blatny (Danish), accessed on November 17, 2014
  3. ↑ Information about the transfer on the club's official Facebook page , accessed on November 17, 2014
  4. ↑ Bulldogs Beat Masters Again , accessed November 17, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Blatný, Zdeněk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blatny, Zdenek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno , Czechoslovakia