Jakub Kovář

Jakub Kovar ( born July 19, 1988 in Pisek, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender who stands since May 2013 in Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg in the Kontinental Hockey League contract. His brother Jan is also a professional hockey player.

Career

Jakub Kovar began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the junior department of the IHC Pisek. From there, the goalkeeper moved in 2005 to the U20 Juniors of HC České Budějovice, for which he was active in the following two years. During this period, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2006 in the fourth round as a total of 109 players from the Philadelphia Flyers, for whom he never played, however. Instead, he ran on in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League in the 2007/08 season for the Oshawa Generals and Windsor Spitfires. For the season 2008/ 09 he returned to České Budějovice back and completed a total of 23 games in the Extraliga and prevented only in the relegation with his team that was still the main circuit Primus in the previous year, the descent. At the European level it was in a match of the Champions Hockey League between the posts. In addition, he completed three games as Players out on loan for the SK Slavia Horacka Třebíč in the first league, the second Czech league.

The 2009/10 season Kovar spent alternately at HC České Budějovice in the Extraliga and as Players out on loan at second division HC Tábor. In the season 2010/11 the national team was goalkeeper at HC Mountfield, for he was in a total of 58 games on the ice. Especially in the playoffs, he was able to convince, as in the section he allowed only 1.79 goals per game in six games and reached a quota of 94.7 percent.

In January 2013, initially extended his contract by two years, but made ​​in May of the same year by an exit clause and moved for two years to Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg in the Continental Hockey League.

Internationally

For the Czech Republic Kovar took at junior level at the Under-18 Junior World Cup in 2006, where he won the bronze medal with his team, as well as the U20 World Junior Championships in 2007 and 2008 in part. In the senior level, he stood in 2011 at the Euro Hockey Tour in the squad for the first time in his country. He also represented the Czech Republic at the 2011 World Championships, where he won the bronze medal with his team as a goalkeeper without use.

Awards and achievements

• 2006 bronze medal at the U18 World Youth Championship
• 2011 bronze medal at the World Championships
• 2012 bronze medal at the World Championships