Jiřà Dopita
Jiří Dopita ( born December 2, 1968 in Šumperk, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech ice hockey player who is under contract with HC Olomouc in the Czech first league since 2011.
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Career
His professional career began in 1989 in the Czechoslovak first league with HC Dukla Jihlava. After his first season, he moved to TJ DS Olomouc and played there until 1993. The team was renamed at this time in HC Olomouc. The NHL had become aware of him and then the Boston Bruins secured the NHL Entry Draft in 1992 the rights to Dopita, they chose it as the 133.
At the end of the 1992/93 season, he joined the German Bundesliga to the polar bear Berlin. In the coming season he helped significantly with to get the class and posted in the relegation round four goals in four games and prepared four more goals before. He then helped again into the final round at HC Olomouc and could be Czech Master there. Back at the polar bear, he fought back to avoid relegation, but personally was the best scorer in the DEL 1994/95 season, he had scored more goals than John Chabot scorer at 68 points.
In 1995 he again played in the Czech Extraliga for HC Petra Vsetín. By 2001, he was six times Czech champion and was not just in one year top scorer of the team. After he signed in Boston for the NHL no contract, he was pulled again at the age of thirty years at the NHL Entry Draft 1998 ( position 123 ), this time from the New York Islanders. Although he subsequently time being played in the Czech Extraliga, this time more intensive contacts were conducted at the NHL teams.
The Florida Panthers had already announced that Dopita would go for it for goals, but the treaty was bursting. For the season 2001 /02 he moved still in the National Hockey League, where he played for the Philadelphia Flyers. For the following year he moved to the Edmonton Oilers where he was, however, used only in 21 games before he returned to the Czech Republic. The season he finished with some games in Olomouc in the second league.
From 2003 he played for HC Moeller Pardubice in his native Czech Republic. In 2004, he was again the best scorer of his team and in 2005 he was with the team, which has been amplified in this season due to the NHL lockout by some NHL players such as Milan Hejduk and Jan Bulis, win the league title once more.
From the 2005/06 season he played for HC Orli Znojemští. Since the club withdrew from the Extraliga after the 2009, Dopita moved to HC Kometa Brno, whose farm team of HC Orli was Znojemští. In May 2010, the now 41 -year-old Dopita extended his contract with Kometa for another year, after he had heard in the 2009 /10 with 25 goals and 24 assists for the performers of his team. For the 2011/12 season he returned to his hometown club HC Olomouc back in the second class first division.
Internationally
For Czechoslovakia, Jiří Dopita played ten games in which he scored four goals. For the Czech Republic, he played 129 times and scored 38 goals. His first international match was on 30 August 1992, the game Czechoslovakia against Russia in Helsinki.
With the Czech national Dopita was once Olympic champion, three-time world champion and World Cup bronze medalist twice.