Miloš Holaň
Miloš Holaň ( born April 22, 1971 in Bílovec, Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player and current coach, of the BK Mladá Boleslav serves as head coach since the end of October 2010. During his playing career he played for the Philadelphia Flyers and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the National Hockey League.
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Career
Miloš Holaň began his career in the junior TJ Vitkovice, for whom he made his debut during the 1988/ 89 in the first league. In 1990 he moved due to his military service to the army club Dukla Trenčín, with whom he reached the 1992 Czechoslovak championship. After this success, he returned to his original club and excelled in the following season with 35 goals this season. Therefore, he was honored at the end of the season with the Golden Stick, the Zlata Hokejka, as well as play-off MVP and Best Defender of the 1st league.
During the NHL Entry Draft 1993 Holaň than a total of 77 players was selected by the Philadelphia Flyers and, after a few games the following season to North America. He completed eight games for the Flyers in the National Hockey League before they him. To their farm team, the Hershey Bears sent, With the Bears, he spent the rest of the season 1993 /94, and most of the following season before he was released in March 1995 in exchange for Anatoli Semenov to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. For the Ducks, he completed 41 NHL games when he reached 14 points scorer. Two months after the start of the 1995/96 season, on 22 October 1995 was diagnosed with Holaň as part of a routine medical examination chronic myeloid leukemia, so that his career seemed to have ended. As a player of the Mighty Ducks, he was treated to the highest medical standards in the cancer clinic " City of Hope " in Duarte, California. Until the actual treatment began, he still went for the Mighty Ducks on the ice and scored in 16 games, two goals and two assists.
Due to the disease, a bone marrow transplant was necessary - because no one in his family had to show what is medically appropriate bone marrow, after a few months with Robert Stransky junior from Jessup, Maryland was a suitable donor has been found. After the transplant had been performed, the doctor, Dr. Stephen Forman, Miloš Holaň was released about two years after diagnosis than healed.
During the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, he worked as co-commentator for hockey broadcasts of Czech Television.
Prior to the 1998/99 season Holaň took part in the training camp of the Ducks, but there was no chance of head coach Craig Hartsburg. As Pierre Gauthier Manager wanted to send a two-way contract to the farm team to Cincinnati him General, to Holaň decided to return to the Czech Republic. There he graduated from in the season 1998/99 under coach Ladislav Svozil in his parent club Vitkovice in 34 games. In late summer 1999, he again took part in a training camp in North America, this time with the Atlanta Thrashers.
As he again did not get a NHL contract, he again returned to the Czech Republic and was awarded a contract with HC Ocelari Třinec. There Miloš Holaň was only the first ten games of the season contest before he had to reorient again: The end of his NHL career brought Miloš Holaň a settlement from an insurance one. This settlement, however, was subject to the condition that henceforth he was allowed to play as a professional in the respective highest league in no association in the world. This condition led to Holaň not moved to Jokerit Helsinki or the Hannover Scorpions, who were also interested in signing, but for EHC Freiburg in the 2nd Hockey League. As he was taken for cost reasons only shortly before the crucial stage of the championship under contract, he completed just 13 games for the Wolves before he finished his career.
About his cancer Holaň has written a book called City of Hope.
Internationally
Miloš Holaň represented Czechoslovakia at the U20 World Junior Championships in 1990 and 1991, where he won the bronze medal in each case with the national team. He also took on the team of the Czech Republic and Slovakia participated in the men's World Cup in 1993 and won a bronze medal there. A year later, he ran for the Czech national ice hockey team, which placed itself in seventh place.
As a coach
After the end of his playing career Miloš Holaň completed a coach training. Between 2004 and November 2006, he was an assistant coach at HC Vitkovice Steel before he oversaw in the 2007/ 08 season the team of Lillehammer IK as head coach. In 2008 he was obliged by HKm Zvolen where he stood until October 2009, under the contract. From the end of October of the same year was Holaň new assistant coach at HC Sparta Prague, but was replaced on 26 October 2010 due to failure by Miloslav Horava. Two days later Holaň was introduced as the new coach of the BK Mladá Boleslav.
Awards and achievements
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Czechoslovakia at:
- U20 Junior World Cup 1990
- U20 World Junior Championships 1991
Represented the Czech Republic at:
- World Cup 1993
- World Cup 1994
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )