Tomáš JelÃnek
Tomáš Jelinek ( born April 29, 1962 in Prague, Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech professional ice hockey player who played in his time from 1979 to 1999 among others for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League. His son Tomas Jelinek junior was also a professional hockey player.
Career
Tomáš Jelinek began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the junior department of Sparta CKD Prague, for the first team he in the 1979/80 season his debut in the first league, the highest Czechoslovak league, gave. Subsequently, he served for two years from his military service and played it for the army club Dukla Trenčín. When he had completed this, he returned to Prague, where he belonged in the next seven years to the guide players of his team. 1989 traded it his club against Petr Briza of the TJ Motor České Budějovice. For motor Jelinek graduated two game years before he first went abroad in Europe, where he HPK Hämeenlinna for in the Finnish SM- liiga in 41 games 47 scorer points, including 24 goals scored in the 1991/92 season. So that he could convince the scouts in North America and was only chosen at the age of 30 years in the NHL Entry Draft in 1992 in the eleventh round when a total of 242 players from the Ottawa Senators. For this, he scored in the 1992/93 season in 49 games seven goals and six assists.
The 1993/94 season began Jelinek farm team in Ottawa at the Prince Edward Iceland senator. After just two games in the American Hockey League, he returned to Europe, where he first six games played for his hometown club Sparta Prague in the after Czechoslovakia split inaugural Extraliga and finished it with the Zurich SC in the Swiss National League A.
In the following season, he ran on for HC Slavia Prague in the Extraliga and then two and a half years for his league rivals HC Škoda Plzeň. In the middle of the season 1997/98 the Czech returned again to Sparta Prague, where he also began the following season. In the rest of the season, he also played for Sparta League rivals HC HC Vitkovice and Slezan Opava. The playing time himself and his career, he finished the first EV Weiden, for whom he played until the end of season in the third-tier league 1.
Following his playing career Jelinek worked among other things as European scout for the NHL's Calgary Flames.
Internationally
For Czechoslovakia Jelinek took at junior level at the U18 European Junior Championships in 1980 and the U20 World Junior Championships in 1981 and 1982 in part. In the U18 European Championship in 1980 and the U20 World Cup 1982, he won with his team the silver medal each.
In the senior level, he stood in his country's squad at the World Championships in 1989, 1990 and 1992, where he won the bronze medal and 1991 respectively at the Canada Cup. The culmination of his international career was winning the bronze medal with the Czechoslovakia at the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville. In the decisive place match against the USA he succeeded the interim 2-0.