Kamil Kreps
Kamil Kreps ( born November 18, 1984 in Litoměřice, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech professional ice hockey player who stands since 2013 in Ässät Pori in the SM- liiga under contract.
Career
Kamil Kreps began his career as a hockey player in his Czech homeland in the youth of the HC Litvinov, for which he was active until 2001. Then the attacker joined the Ontario Hockey League, where he ran aground three years for the Brampton Battalion. During this time he was in the second round than a total of 38 players selected during the NHL Entry Draft in 2003 by the Florida Panthers. In the season 2004/ 05 Kreps played for the first time in professional hockey after he had been appointed prior to the season in the squad of Florida damaligem farm team, the San Antonio Rampage of the American Hockey League. On January 7, 2007 Kreps made his debut in the National Hockey League for the Florida Panthers, as he was in the game against the Vancouver Canucks on the ice.
After he had graduated by 2010 over 200 NHL games for the Panthers, he did not get contract extension and returned to Europe. There he was engaged by Kärpät Oulu of the SM - liiga. After a year he left the Finns and signed for the 2011/12 season a contract with Barys Astana of the Kontinental Hockey League.
In August 2012, Kreps was committed from the new KHL participants HC Slovan Bratislava, his contract was terminated shortly before the season starts. A few weeks later the Czech signed a contract for one season at the Kloten Flyers of the National League A, for which he graduated in Episode 26 NLA games, but was not often used as a supernumerary foreigners. Since May 2013 Kreps is at Ässät Pori under contract.
Internationally
For Kreps Czech Republic took part in the U18 World Youth Championship in 2002 and the U20 World Youth Championship in 2004. In the former tournament of the right shooter stood in eight games on the ice and recorded five points scorer. He also won the bronze medal with the Czech selection. In the latter competition took Kreps - after defeats against Canada in the semifinals and Finland in the match for third place - with the team to fourth place, where he remained no points in seven games.
Awards and achievements
- 2002 bronze medal at the U18 World Youth Championship
NHL stats
(End of season 2010/11)