Jan ÄŒaloun

January Čaloun ( born December 20, 1972 in Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player who has played in its active from 1990 to 2010 was for the San Jose Sharks and Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League.

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Career

Čaloun first played in the youth teams of the HC Chemopetrol Litvinov. There he accomplished for the season 1990/91 promotion to the seniors team that played in the Extraliga. After four years in the top Czech league winger made ​​the jump to North America, where he signed a contract with the San Jose Sharks, who had chosen him already in the NHL Entry Draft in 1992 in the fourth round to 75th place.

The Sharks put the Czechs initially the entire 1994/95 season in the International Hockey League with their farm team, the Kansas City Blades one, which was also due to the lockout -induced shortening of the NHL season. In the 1995/96 season Čaloun played eleven games for San Jose in the National Hockey League. There, he scored eleven points, including eight goals. In addition, his first four shots on goal of his NHL career were both gates, which he set an NHL record. Nevertheless, he managed not to get a regular place in the squad, so he moved to two other games in the NHL season 1996/97 to 1997/ 98 in the Finnish SM- liiga for HIFK Helsinki. He remained there for four years and won a championship, and once the MVP trophy in the SM- liiga.

After the San Jose Sharks, however, had given her rights to the Columbus Blue Jackets, he returned in 2000 returned to North America, where it already but after a short time his contract disbanded and returned for the rest of the season after Helsinki. For the season 2001 /02 he moved within the league for three years to the Espoo Blues. At the beginning of the 2004/05 season Čaloun signed with his hometown club in Litvinov, but went during the game year in the Russian Super League and ran there for Sibir Novosibirsk on Severstal Cherepovets and. From the season 2005/ 06 he was playing in the Czech Republic for HC Moeller Pardubice. In summer 2007, he joined the newly promoted HC Slovan Ustecti Lvi, where he stayed for one year after the re- direct descent. Players out on loan as he came in the 2008 /09 season in addition to two appearances in the Extraliga for an ex- HC Litvinov. Most recently, he played in the 2009/10 season at second division HC Vrchlabí. He then ended his career.

Internationally

Čaloun represented the Czech national team for the first time at the Junior World Championships in 1992, where he finished fifth with the team. In the following years he played for the senior team at the World Championships in 1993 and 1999., Where he won a bronze and a gold medal. He also played in the Olympic ice hockey tournament in Nagano in 1998, where the Czechs sensationally won gold after they had beaten in the final of Russia.

Awards and achievements

Internationally

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