Jaroslav Kudrna
Jaroslav Kudrna ( born December 5, 1975 in Hradec Králové, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech ice hockey player. Since 2010 he plays for the White Tigers Liberec in the Czech Extraliga.
Career
Jaroslav Kudrna began his career as a hockey player with the HC Hradec Kralove, for which he was active in the Czech Extraliga 1993-1995. He was then selected in the sixth round in the NHL Entry Draft in 1995 as a total 142 players from the San Jose Sharks, for which he, however, never played. After the attackers had spent the 1995/96 season at HC Pardubice, he was for the 1996/97 season in the squad of the former farm team of the San Jose Sharks, the Kentucky Thoroughblades of the American Hockey League, was added. However, he left this team after only seven games and returned to HC Pardubice, for which he was in the next eight years on the ice.
After a one year commitment to the HC Lasselsberger Plzeň Kudrna signed in 2005 with its domestic rivals HC Ocelari Třinec, for whom he played the following year and a half before he was committed during the 2006/07 season from Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Russian Super League. With Magnitogorsk he was at the end of the season for the first time in his career, Champion of Russia. He also won the following year with his team the IIHF European Champions Cup. In the 2008 /09 season with Metallurg Kudrna reached the final of the newly formed Champions Hockey League, where he lost to the ZSC Lions from Switzerland with his team.
Since 2010 he plays in the Czech Extraliga for the White Tigers Liberec
Internationally
For Kudrna Czech Republic took part in the U20 World Youth Championship 1995, where he finished sixth with his team.
Awards and achievements
- 2007 Champion of Russia with the HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
- 2008 IIHF European Champions Cup win with the HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
- 2009 2nd Place Champions Hockey League with the HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
- 2009 KHL All-Star Game
KHL stats
(End of season 2010/11)