Lukáš KrajÃÄek
Lukáš Krajíček ( born March 11, 1983 in Prostějov, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech ice hockey player who is under contract with HC Dinamo Minsk in the Kontinental Hockey League since May 2011.
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Career
Lukáš Krajíček began his career as a hockey player in his Czech homeland, where he was active in the youth of the HC Zlín until 1999. He then moved to the Detroit Compuware Ambassadors in the Junior League North American Hockey League, which he left after only one year in order aground 2000-2003 for the Peterborough Petes in the Canadian top junior league Ontario Hockey League. During this period, the defender in the NHL Entry Draft in 2001 was selected in the first round than a total of 24 players from the Florida Panthers.
For the Panthers, he was in the 2001/ 02 season, his debut in the National Hockey League, where he remained point - and impunity in five games in his rookie year. After the links Sagittarius 2003-2005 mainly for Florida's farm team of the American Hockey League, which was San Antonio Rampage on the ice, he scored in the 2005/06 season in his first full NHL season in 67 games in total 16 points scorer, including two goals.
On 23 June 2006 Krajíček was submitted along with Roberto Luongo and a Sechtsrunden suffrage for the NHL Entry Draft in exchange for Todd Bertuzzi in 2006, Bryan Allen and Alex Auld to the Vancouver Canucks, for whom he played in the next two years. In the summer of 2008, the Czech has been committed by the Tampa Bay Lightning, where he played until January 2010. He then wrote a contract with the Philadelphia Flyers, after he had been released a week earlier at the Lightning as a free agent. In September 2010, he went back to his Czech homeland and signed a contract with HC there Ocelari Třinec in the Extraliga. With this he won the Czech Championship in the 2010/11 season. In May 2011 Krajíček received a contract at HK Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Internationally
For Krajíček Czech Republic took part in the U20 World Junior Championships in 2002 and 2003, as well as the 2006 World Cup in part.
Awards and achievements
- 2001 CHL Top Prospects Game
- 2001 OHL First All - Rookie team
- 2001 CHL All- Rookie Team
- 2003 OHL First All - Star Team
- 2003 CHL Second All- Star Team
- 2011 Czech champion with the HC Ocelari Třinec
Internationally
- 2006 Silver medal at the World Championships
- 2011 bronze medal at the World Championships
- 2012 bronze medal at the World Championships
NHL stats
(End of season 2010/11)