Jiří Lála

Jiří Lála ( born August 21, 1959 in Tabor, Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player who played for the Frankfurt Lions, the Mannheimer ERC and the EV Regensburg.

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Career

He began with the 1969 at the Junior Hockey Spartak Sobeslav, before joining Motor České Budějovice with 15 years in 1974. During his military service from 1980 to 1982 he played for the army club Dukla Jihlava and then returned to Budweis. The manager of the NHL teams were aware of him and he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1982 by the Quebec Nordiques in the fourth round as 76, but never played overseas. After 510 games with 297 goals in the Czech Republic, he moved to Germany in 1989.

Right away he was repeating it at his new club Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga season 1989/90 top scorer and could this year. In his third season in the Bundesliga, he moved to Mannheim ERC for which he successfully went hunting for points three years. For DEL 1994/95 season he returned to Frankfurt, where the team now Frankfurt Lions said.

After a trip to Britain, where he played for the Ayr Scottish Eagles, he returned in 1997 returned to Germany and played for ERC Selb and to 2002 for the EV Regensburg, where he player-coach was in January 2002, and after his career end in the summer of 2002 to worked in 2006 as a sports manager.

Internationally

For Czechoslovakia, he played in 203 international matches in which he scored 89 goals. He played at the World Championships in 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985 and 1986, where in 1985 he won the gold medal. An Olympic silver medal he won at the 1984 Winter Olympics and at the Winter Games in 1988 he was one of the national squad.

Awards and achievements

Internationally

Career Stats

Internationally

( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )