Ivan Baranka
Ivan Baranka (born 19 May 1985 in Ilava, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak ice hockey player who is under contract with Avangard Omsk in the HK Kontinental Hockey League since August 2013.
Career
Ivan Baranka began his career as a hockey player with the HK Spartak Dubnica, for whom he made his debut in the Extraliga in the season 2002/ 03. In two games, he was spot - and with impunity. Previously Baranka had already played several years in the youth field for Dubnica. After the season he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2003 in the second round than a total of 50 players from the New York Rangers. First, however, the Slovak spent two years playing for the Everett Silvertips of the Western Hockey League.
Before the season 2005/ 06 Baranka was included in the squad of New York's farm team, the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League, for which he was the next three years almost exclusively active. Only during the 2007/ 08 season was Baranka a time for the New York Rangers on the ice when he made his debut in the National Hockey League, where he scored one assist. After the season Baranka signed a contract with HK Spartak Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League newly established. For Spartak Baranka completed in the next four years playing 218 KHL games in which he collected 90 points scorer. During the 2011/12 season, he was one of the assistant captains his team.
In May 2012, Baranke moved within the KHL Salavat Yulaev Ufa to, again a year later to HK Avangard Omsk.
Internationally
For Slovakia Baranka took at junior level at the Under-18 Junior World Cup in 2003 and the U20 World Junior Championships in 2004 and 2005 in part. In the senior level, he stood in the squad of his country at the World Championships in 2009, 2011 and 2012 and at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.
Awards and achievements
- 2003 Silver medal at the U18 World Youth Championship
- 2012 Silver medal at the World Championships
KHL stats
(End of season 2010/11)