ĽubomÃr Vaic
Lubomir Vaic ( born March 6, 1977 in Ves, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak ice hockey player standing since June 2011 when HK Poprad in the Slovak Extraliga under contract.
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Career
Lubomir Vaic began his career as a hockey player with the SKP Poprad PS, for whom he made his debut in the Slovak Extraliga in the 1993/94 season. After the season he signed a contract with the League rival HK Ves , with whom he subsequently descended in the first league. Therefore, the attacker moved to TJ VSZ Kosice, Slovak champion with whom he was in 1996. He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in the ninth round in 1996 when a total of 227 players from the Vancouver Canucks. After Vaic initially remained another year in Košice, he gave in the 1997/98 season his debut in the National Hockey League for Vancouver. However, the majority of the season he spent at their farm team, the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League.
For the season 1998/99 Vaic returned to his Slovak homeland, where he was champion again with the HC Košice. Then he got a new opportunity in Vancouver, but was again not recognized in the NHL. In the 1999/2000 season he played only four games in which he remained point and impunity. The rest of the season he was again included in the squad of the Syracuse Crunch of the AHL. In the summer of 2000, the Center moved first to Western Europe, where he worked for the Polar Bears Berlin from the German Ice Hockey League was on the ice a season long. Even after the Slovak remained abroad. This was followed by one year each at Vsetínská hokejová from the Czech Extraliga, Jokerit in the Finnish SM- Lapeenranta from liiga and the HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Russian Super League.
From 2004 to 2008 Vaic was again in the Czech Extraliga under contract, where he started a season aground three years for White Tigers Liberec and subsequently used for the HC Sparta Prague. With Sparta he reached the final of the IIHF European Champions Cup in which he the Russian master and his former club from Magnitogorsk subject with his team with 2:5 in the 2007/ 08 season. Before the season 2008/ 09 Vaic returned after ten years abroad in his Slovak homeland, where he was obliged by HC Slovan Bratislava, for whom he scored in the group stage of the newly formed Champions Hockey League three goals in four games. In January 2011, the Slovak accepted an offer of VIK Västerås HK from the HockeyAllsvenskan for which the striker scored 13 points in 18 games. In June 2011, he received a one-year contract with HK Poprad.
Internationally
For Slovakia Vaic participated in the Junior C- 1994 World Cup, the U18 European Junior Championships in 1995 and the Junior World Championships in 1996 and 1997 in part. In addition, he was in the squad of Slovakia in the World Championships 2000, 2003 and 2006.