Miroslav Fryčer

Miroslav " Mirko " Fryčer ( born September 27, 1959 in Opava, Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player and current coach. In his career, he completed more than 400 games for the Nordiques de Québec, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings and Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League.

• 4.1 As a player
• 4.2 As a coach

Career as a player

Miroslav Fryčer began his career in the youth teams of TJ Vitkovice, for the men's team, he in the season 1977/78 in the top division of Czechoslovakia, the first league debut. In the following three years he established himself in the team and contributed in the season 1980/81 33 goals and 24 assists to the profit of the Czechoslovak championship.

Following this success, Fryčer decided to leave Czechoslovakia and fled to Canada. There he was engaged by the Nordiques de Québec, which initially put it in the American Hockey League in Fredericton Express. In October 1981, he made his debut for the Nordiques in the NHL and scored in his first game a hat-trick against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Besides Fryčer played at the Nordiques with the three Šťastný brothers Anton, Peter and Marián three other Czechoslovaks. Since the brothers usually acted together in a row, played Fryčer with Canadians in a row, so that he remained largely isolated because of the language barrier. Despite 37 scorer points in 49 NHL games, the Nordiques Fryčer gave shortly before the trade deadline from 1982 to the Toronto Maple Leafs, who sent for Wilf Paiement to Quebec.

Over the next seven years Fryčer played for the Maple Leafs, who scored in the 1980's to the worst teams in the NHL. Fryčer flourished on the side of Peter and reached Ihnačák in the season 1985/86 75 scorer points in 73 games this season, which earned him an invitation to the 37th National Hockey League All-Star Game. On 8 January 1986 Fryčer scored in a game against the Edmonton Oilers four goals - after the game designated Oilers player Wayne Gretzky Fryčer as "a great hockey player ."

In the following years Fryčer had always struggled with injuries, so that he never completed more than 40 season games. In addition, he did not come with the new coach of the Maple Leafs, John Brophy, rightly so, he was discharged to the Detroit Red Wings in June 1988 in exchange for Darren Veitch. But in Detroit, he could not establish itself and was delivered to the Edmonton Oilers in January 1989. After 14 games for the Oilers, in which he succeeded in a further ten points scorer, he finished his NHL career. Overall, he completed 432 games in the NHL, where he scored 150 goals and gave 191 templates.

After his retirement from the NHL Fryčer returned to Europe and joined the EHC Freiburg, his father Jaromir served as head coach. As early as 1987 had Jaromir and Miroslav Fryčer a house in Freiburg- high village built in which Miroslav Fryčer spent the summer breaks the NHL. He also took several times as a guest at the summer training of EHCF. After his departure from North America Fryčer bought another house in Freiburg, which he received in September 1989 with his wife Vera and their two daughters Lucie and Petra. In two seasons for the EHCF, where he played together with other Czechoslovaks Jiří Crha, Milan Chalupa and Vítězslav Ďuriš, he reached 22 goals and 36 assists, before he moved to the Serie A for EV Bruneck. With the club from the Pusteria he played in parallel in Serie A and in the Alps league. In the summer of 1992 he returned to Germany and was taken from the ESV Königsbrunn under contract before he ended his active career final.

Internationally

Addition to his success at the club level was Fryčer around 1980 regular player of the Czechoslovak national team. In 1977 he took part with the U18 selection at the European Championship. In 1978 and 1979 he was a member of the World Cup squad of U20 Juniors, with whom he won the silver medal at the U20 World Cup in 1979.

With the Men's National Team, he participated in two World Cups and one Olympic Hockey Tournament. At the 1980 Winter Olympics, he finished with the national team to fifth place. He also won one each silver and one bronze medal at the World Championships in 1979 and 1981. Overall he completed 52 games in the national team, in which he scored 14 goals.

Career as a coach

Since end of his career working as Fryčer Hockey coaches and players' agents. In June 1994, he was obliged by HC Havířov as head coach, this club but left in November of the same year to become assistant coach at HC Vitkovice. Since he was released in January 2005 at his home club, he returned to the HC Havířov. There he remained until the end of 1995 / 96th In the summer of 1996, he was obliged by his former club EV Bruneck, and reaching with this 1997 third place in Serie A. He was also nominated for the Coach of the Year.

In 1998 he moved within the Serie A for HC Merano, he served as head coach until 2001 and with whom he won the Italian championship in 1999. In the season 2001/ 02 he worked at SV Ritten before between 2002 and 2006, the creation and the development of his FG Sport Agency, a player and coach placement, devoted. He also coached at this time the U20 Juniors of SK Karvina.

In November 2006 he received the offer to become the successor of Vladimír Vůjtek at his home club. He worked until December 2007 for the HC Vitkovice before he was fired and replaced by Ernest Bokroš. In the same month he was obliged by the SG Cortina of the Serie A, which he led until the playoff quarterfinals.

Between September and December 2008, supervised Fryčer again the HC Havířov. In early September 2010, he signed a contract as head coach at SHC Fassa in the Italian Serie A1, where he replaced Steve Stirling. On September 14 it was announced that he leaves the SHC Fassa before the season. After the dismissal of Mike Posma in December 2010, the Czech was again hired as head coach at SHC Fassa. For the 2013/14 season, he was obliged by the second division HC Merano, but was released in November 2013 and replaced by Larry Suarez.

On January 11, 2014, he became head coach of the Polish Ciarko PBS Bank Sanok.

Awards and achievements

Career Stats

As a player

( 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 )

As a coach

Source: FG Sports Agency