David Moravec
David Moravec ( born March 24, 1973 in Opava, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech ice hockey player, who was last to 2011 when HC Orlová from the 2nd národní hokejová league contract. In his long career, he has only played one game for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League.
Career
David Moravec began his career with HC Vitkovice, for whom he made his debut in the Czech Extraliga during the season 1994/95. He remained loyal to his club until 1999 and improved his game from year to year. 1997 HC Vitkovice Czech runner was behind the HC Vsetín. In the following season the team Moravec scorer of the Extraliga and was reached third place league.
Only at the age of 25 years Moravec was selected at the NHL Entry Draft in 1998 by the Buffalo Sabres in the eighth round at 218th place. However, he moved immediately to North America, but still played the 1998/99 season for his hometown club. In the summer of 1999, he then moved to the Sabres, but returned already back to an NHL game after Vitkovice. In the 2001 /02 season he was again with the HC Vitkovice runner-up, after the team in the playoff finals on HC Sparta Prague had failed.
After a one year stint with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Russian Super League Moravec returned to the Extra Liga and played back for Vitkovice and when from 2005 for the HC Lasselsberger Plzeň. At the end of the season 2005/ 06 he was bound by the then Swedish second division team Malmö Redhawks, with whom he realized the rise in the Kvalserien in the Elitserien.
In the following season Moravec then completed 30 games for the Malmö Redhawks in the Elitserien. Middle of the season 2006/ 07 he moved to HPK Hämeenlinna in the Finnish SM- liiga, where he reached the playoff semi-finals with his new team.
In July 2007, the DEL - Up Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg announced the signing of David Moravec. EHC Sports Director Karl -Heinz Fliegauf said about Moravec: " David has proven his international class already over many years consistently demonstrated Whether in his native Czech Republic, Russia, Sweden and most recently in Finland, he studied again a new one.. challenge and wants to show his class in the DEL. he is a player who is universally applicable due to its playful class. I am sure that he will be a cornerstone of our team with us. with its profits liable setting David is also be a role model for our younger players who can secure a lot to learn from him. "
After only 24 games for the Grizzlies, his contract was dissolved and Moravec moved back to the Czech Republic for HC Ocelari Třinec. In October 2009, he was loaned to HC Havířov to play matches. He also completed some games for Hokej Šumperk 2003 before he joined 32 Liptovsky Mikulas in the Slovak Extraliga for MHk. Since the MHk 32 relegation end of the season, Moravec further searches of a new club and went in eleven games the following season for the HK Nitra on the ice before he was released again. The 2010/11 season he finished third in the Czech league, the 2nd národní hokejová league, the HC Orlová.
Internationally
David Moravec has participated in all major international championships during his career. With the Czech national team, he won two gold and one bronze medals at the world championships. The greatest success of his career was winning the gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
His most important goal of the National Dress was the game-winning goal in the final of the World Cup against Finland at the IIHF World Men's Championship in 2001 in Hanover, when he sunk the puck in the eleventh minute of extra time to 3:2.
Career Stats
( 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 )
Awards and achievements
- Winning the World Cup in 1999 and 2001
- Bronze medal at the 1997 World Championships
- 1998: Olympic champion in ice hockey
- Top scorer of the Extraliga 1997/98
- 2006: Winning the Kvalserien and rise in the Elitserien with the Malmö Redhawks