Gábor Ocskay
Gábor Ocskay junior [ ɡa ː bor otʃkɒ.i ] (Hungarian Gábor Ocskay; born September 11, 1975 in Budapest, † March 25, 2009 ) was a Hungarian ice hockey player. During his career he played 1993-2009 exclusively for Alba Volán Székesfehérvár. He also played 187 games for the Hungarian national team and is considered one of the most successful Hungarian player of all time.
Career
Ocskay, who was born in the Hungarian capital Budapest, denied the first time in 1993 - at the age of 18 years - Games for Alba Volán Székesfehérvár in the highest Hungarian league. Previously, he had been present several times the youth team of the country in international tournaments.
In subsequent years, the trained Center was one of the best players in the country and filled a vital role in the national team out. After he was C- in went up with the national team in the World Cup tournaments of the year in 1998 by the B group, he celebrated the following year with Alba Volánbusz their first league title since 1981. Although the Hungarian national team just a year later went with him again in the C group from, but after only one more year was the re-emergence in the now renamed Division I second-rate group.
At the national level collected the striker further titles and earning so with the team from Székesfehérvár between 2001 and 2009, eight out of nine possible national championship titles, although a heart muscle disease was in 2004 found, but that did not stop him from four months after the diagnosis of a to celebrate successful comeback. Furthermore, the Hungarians also played for the national team, with him in 2008 - after 70 years in the second and third division - the promotion to the A group of the world championship. He also finished the first qualifying round for the 2010 Winter Olympics as the top scoring player of his country, which he was instrumental in reaching the second qualifying round.
Mar 25, 2009 Ocskay died at the age of 33 of a heart attack. Even on the weekend before, he had prepared a goal in the decisive victory for the tenth championship Alba Volans. According to him, the Gábor Ocskay Memorial Tournament was named.
Awards and achievements
- 2006 Hungarian Champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár
- 2006 Best striker Hungary
- 2006 Hungary Ice Hockey Player of the Year
- 2007 Hungarian Champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár
- 2007 Best striker Hungary
- 2008 Hungarian Champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár
- 2009 Hungarian Champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár
Internationally
- 2006 Best original donor in the world championship of Division I, Group A (together with Olivier Coqueux )
- 2008 promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I