JerguÅ¡ BaÄa
Jerguš Bača ( born January 4, 1965 in Liptovsky Mikulas, Czechoslovakia ) is a former Slovak ice hockey player who played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, among others, for the Hartford Whalers in the National Hockey League and the Revierlöwen Oberhausen during his active career from 1987 to 2005 has. Since end of his career he worked as a hockey coach and was responsible for the Slovak national team in several tournaments as assistant coach.
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Career
Jerguš Bača began his career as a hockey player with the HC Košice, for which he was from 1987 to 1990 in the first league, the highest Czechoslovak league, active. With his team he won in the 1987/88 season and took the championship in the following season in second place in the European Cup. In the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 the defender was selected in the seventh round as a total of 141 players from the Hartford Whalers. First, however, he completed almost the entire season in 1990/91 at the farm team of the Whalers, the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League, with whom he won the Calder Cup. In this and the following year he played only ten games for Hartford in the National Hockey League. The rest of the time he spent again at the Indians before he from 1992 to 1994 for the new farm team of the Whalers, the Milwaukee Admirals of the International Hockey League, played.
For the 1994/95 season Bača signed with Leksand IF of the Swedish Elitserien. After his first stop in Europe, the Slovak returned for another year to the Milwaukee Admirals in the IHL before he graduated from the 1996/97 season mainly at HC Olomouc of the Czech Extraliga. Even before the end of the season he left the team but already again and moved to his former club HC Košice, with which he again won the Slovak Championship in 1999. Following this success he was bound by the Revierlöwen Oberhausen from the German Ice Hockey League, which he left after its termination, 2002. Then he returned to Slovakia back to where in his hometown for the MHk 32 Liptovsky Mikulas he stood up to his career in late 2005 on the ice, where he finished the season 2002/ 03 in the HC Dukla Trenčín.
Internationally
For Czechoslovakia Bača participated in the World Championships in 1989 and 1990. For Slovakia, he participated in the World Championships in 1997 and 2002. In addition, he was in the squad of Slovakia at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer and the World Cup of Hockey 1996.
As a coach
At the World Championships in 2006 and 2012 and at the 2006 Winter Olympics, he oversaw the Slovak national team as assistant coach.