ĽubomÃr KolnÃk
Lubomir Kolník ( born January 23, 1968 in Nitra, Czechoslovakia ) is a former Slovak ice hockey player who was both nationally and internationally very successful in its active period from 1986 to 2009.
- 2.1 International
- 3.1 International
Career
Lubomir Kolník began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the junior department of the HK Nitra. For the first team of the club he was in the 1986/87 season his debut in the second Czechoslovak league, the first Slovenská Národná hokejová league. In his rookie year he scoring 18 goals and 14 assists. For the following season the Center HC Dukla Trenčín moved to the 1st League, the top division of Czechoslovakia in Hockey. He was also able to push through right away and was able to improve continuously at his new club in his first years. Following the 1989/90 season in which he scored 37 goals and 25 Assists in 53 games, scouts from North America were aware of him. Finally, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 in the sixth round as the 116th overall player by the New Jersey Devils, which then, however, did not accept him under contract. Instead, he stayed with HC Dukla Trenčín for which he a new personal record aufstellte in the 1990/91 season when he scored 79 points scorer in a total of 58 games, including 39 goals. In the following season he won the Czechoslovak league titles with his team. Although he initially did not match the points yield the previous two years in the main round, but he was with seven goals and eleven originals in his 18 playoff inserts a guarantee of reaching the championship.
Following the championship title with Trenčín Kolník looking for a new challenge and joined JoKP Joensuu off of I- divisioona, the Finnish second division, at. For the Finns, he scored in his first season abroad on average nearly two points per game scorer and finished the season with 84 points in 44 games scorer. With JoKP he qualified for the play-offs for promotion to the SM- liiga, but could not prevail with his team in this. The 1993/94 season began the links Sagittarius at JoKP Joensuu in the I- divisioona, where he scored 40 points scorer in 22 games. Thus he could for a contract with Lukko Rauma of the SM - liiga, the top Finnish league, recommend. In Lukko Rauma he put his talent into one of the strongest European leagues demonstrated. In 34 games he scored 14 goals and ten templates. The 1994/95 season spent the Slovak in his home with his former club HC Dukla Trenčín for which he stood in the formed after the division of Czechoslovakia Slovak Extraliga on the ice. Once again, he was both within the team, and the league to the Topscorern and drove in 36 games with 54 points scorer. Then he once again took up the challenge SM- liiga in which played in the 1995/96 season for Kiekko - Espoo.
From 1996 to 2001 ran on Kolnik for the Slovakian top team HC Slovan Bratislava. The capital club he won the national championship in seasons 1997/98 and 1999/ 2000. Final opponents were the TJ VSZ Kosice and Zvolen HKm. Against Kosice defeated longtime Slovakian international and Olympic athletes in 1994 and 1998 also in the season 1998/99 until the playoff finals, with Bratislava home was right. From 2001 to 2003, he played one year each long for his hometown club HK Nitra and the HKm Zvoeln in the Slovak Extraliga. From the season 2003/ 04 he was permanently on the HK Nitra. With this he took in the 2005/06 season the first place after the main round, which he as top scorer in the league played a major role with 28 goals. In the playoffs, he stepped down from Nitra in the semifinals to eventual champion MsHK Žilina 2:4 wins in the best- of-seven series. After he started the 2008/09 season in Nitra, he moved to league rivals HK 36 Skalica. With only one goal and three assists in 20 Extraliga games for both clubs, the veteran appears to be well short of its previous performance. Therefore, he joined the second division HK Nové Zámky, for he held until end of the season in 13 games 20 points scorer, eleven goals scored. He then finished his career at the age of 41 years.
Internationally
For the Czechoslovak national Kolník first played at the 1991 World Championships in Finland. During the tournament, he took his team to sixth place ( eight participants ), whereby Czechoslovakia finished fourth of six seats for the Hockey Championship in parallel for the last time calculated rating. Here, only the duels between the European World Cup participants counted. He scored two goals in ten games and a template. In August and September of the same year he went to his team during the Canada Cup. In the fifth edition of the tournament, which took place in the pre-season and therefore, in contrast to the world championships, which collided with the game operation of the National Hockey League, was truly impressive, he did not come through the sixth and thus last place out of the Czechoslovakian national team. At the only victory of his team in the tournament he scored the intermediate 1-0 5-2 success against the Soviet Union. This was also his only scoring in five games.
After the division of Czechoslovakia ran Kolník on for the newly established Slovak national team. With six scorer points, including four goals in four games in the qualifying tournament, he played a decisive role in ensuring that Slovakia, the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway reached. At the Olympic Winter Games he could convince with four goals and an assist in five games and also reached founded only a year earlier Slovakian national team a respectable sixth place. At the world championships but the team had to start again in the last World Cup stage, as the Czech national ice hockey team officially became the successor of the Czechoslovak selection. Here the striker managed with his teammates at the sweeps in 1994 and 1995, the direct walkover in the A Championship. For A World Cup itself occupied Kolník with Slovakia at the tournaments in 1996, 1997 and 1999 placement in the lower middle. In addition, he performed with his team at the 1996 World Cup of Hockey, the successor to the Canada Cup tournament on. There Slovakia was assigned along with Russia the North American pool and lost all three games. In the scarce 2:3 defeat against eventual finalists Canada, he scored the interim 2-1 lead. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, he finished with Slovakia tenth. He himself remained no points in four games and won two penalty minutes.
Overall denied Kolník for Czechoslovakia and Slovakia together 61 official international games. He scored 19 goals and 15 prepared before. In addition, he received a total of 22 penalty minutes.
Awards and achievements
Internationally
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Czechoslovakia at:
- A World Cup 1991
- Canada Cup 1991
Represented Slovakia at:
- Olympic qualification in 1993
- Olympic Winter Games in 1994
- C World Cup 1994
- B- World Cup 1995
- A World Cup 1996
- World Cup of Hockey 1996
- A World Cup 1997
- Winter Olympics 1998
- A World Cup 1999
( 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 )