Martin Hosták
Hošták Martin ( born November 11, 1967 in Hradec Králové, Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player who has played in its active period from 1986 to 2001, including for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League.
Career
Martin Hošták began his career as a hockey player with the TJ Stadion Hradec Králové. In 1986 he played for the first team of Sparta Prague CKD in the Czechoslovak first league. During this period, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1987 in the third round than a total of 62 players from the Philadelphia Flyers. First, he remained in Czechoslovakia and won with Prague in the 1989/90 season the Czechoslovak championship. Following this success, the winger went to North America, where he was from 1990 to 1992 at the Philadelphia Flyers under contract. In the season 1990/91, his rookie year in the National Hockey League, he scored three goals in 50 games and gave ten templates. He also ran 14 times for the farm team of the Flyers, the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League on. In the 1991/92 season he was only five NHL appearances for Philadelphia and spent the entire rest of the season in the AHL team of Hershey.
From 1992 to 1996 Hošták played for MODO Hockey in the Swedish Elitserien. With his team, he failed in the 1993/94 season until the playoff final on Malmo IF. The 1996/97 season began the Olympians 1994 with his former club HC Sparta Prague in the Czech Extraliga, but returned during the current season to Sweden, where he received a contract with Södertälje SK, for which he in the following year and a half stood on the ice. Last of the links Sagittarius from 1998 to 2001 ran for Luleå HF, before he ended his active career at the age of 33 years.
Internationally
For Czechoslovakia Hošták participated in the U128 - European Junior Championships in 1985 and the U20 World Youth Championship in 1987. For the men's national team of Czechoslovakia he was at the 1990 World Cup on the ice, where he won the bronze medal.
For the Czech Republic he stood in the squad at the World Championships in 1993 and 1995, and at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. With the Czech Republic, he also won the bronze medal at the 1993 World Cup.