Martin Procházka

Martin Prochazka ( born March 3, 1972 in Slany, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech ice hockey player who is under contract with EV Regensburg from the hockey league since June 2011. Previously he had played for many years in the tschechiene Extraliga for HC Kladno. During his career he has also completed 32 games for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Atlanta Thrashers in the National Hockey League.

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Career

Martin Prochazka began his career with HC Poldi Kladno, where he made ​​his debut in the Czechoslovak Extraliga in the 1989/90 season. NHL Entry Draft 1991 Prochazka was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the seventh round at 135th place. However, he is not moved to North America, but played until 1996 for his hometown club. From year to year he could improve his game and won in the season 1994/95 Player of the Year of the Czech Extraliga.

In summer 1996, he moved along with his strike partners in Kladno and in the Czech national team, Pavel Patera and Otakar Vejvoda, to Sweden in the Elitserien for AIK Stockholm. Prochazka moved a year later to the Toronto Maple Leafs, while Vejvoda had to end his career due to an injury early in the season 1997/98 and remained patera in Sweden. After one season with the Leafs, he returned to the Czech Republic back to HC and won with Vsetín Vsetín Czech Championship.

The Leafs had in the meantime made ​​his NHL rights to the Atlanta Thrashers, Martin Prochazka but completed only three games in the 1999/2000 season for the Thrashers and returned to Vsetín. As his attempts to gain a foothold in North America, were unsuccessful, he decided a change within the Czech Extraliga and signed for HC Vitkovice.

The Russian Avangard Omsk HK first division made ​​in the summer of 2001 Ivan Hlinka head coach, the middle of the 2001/02 season had committed several Czech top player. So changed Tomáš Vlasák from HC Ambri -Piotta, Prochazka and Patera to Avangard. Prochazka played a total of two years for Omsk, but sat in the season 2002/ 03 by the engagement of Jiří Šlégr only as a supernumerary foreigners in the stands. Therefore he moved in summer 2003 to Chimik Woskressensk while Patera remained in Omsk and there won the Russian Championship.

After just three games for Chimik in which he failed to reach a point scorer, he returned to his hometown club Kladno, for which he plays continuously since then. He played particularly successful in the 2006/07 season and was eurohockey.net virtue of its performance through the portal Hockey Player of the Month in January voted.

In 1998, Martin Prochazka was awarded the honorary citizenship of the city of Kladno. In 2010, he ended his career due to health problems.

On June 21, 2011, announced that he will make his comeback to the 2011/12 season at the Oberliga EV Regensburg.

Internationally

Martin Prochazka has participated in all major international championships during his career. With the Czech national team, he won four gold and two bronze medals at the World Championships, and two bronze medals at U20 World Championships with the Czechoslovak U20 selection. The greatest success of his career was winning the gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. In the jersey of the national team, he completed 222 games in which he scored 60 goals. Its main goal was the game-winning goal in the final of the World Cup against Canada at the World Championships in Vienna in 1996, as he gave the puck to 3:2 sank 19 seconds left in the game behind goalkeeper Curtis Joseph.

Awards and achievements

  • Bronze medal at the U20 World Cup in 1990 and 1991
  • Winning the World Cup 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001
  • Bronze medal at the World Championships in 1997 and 1998
  • 1998: Olympic champion in ice hockey
  • 1999: Winning the Czech Cup
  • Most valuable player of the regular season 1994/95
  • Leading scorer and top scorer at the 1997 World Series
  • All- Star team at the Ice Hockey World Championship 1997
  • Most valuable player in the World Cup 2000
  • Fair Play trophy Extraliga 2004/ 05

Career Stats

Internationally

Martin Prochazka graduated in his career total of 190 matches in which he scored 60 goals. He represented Czechoslovakia at:

  • U20 Junior World Cup 1990
  • U18 European Junior Championships 1990
  • U20 World Junior Championships 1991
  • U20 World Junior Championships 1992

He also played for the Czech Republic in:

  • 1995 World Cup
  • World Cup 1996
  • World Cup of Hockey 1996
  • World Cup 1997
  • 1998 Winter Olympics
  • World Cup 1997
  • World Cup 1998
  • 1999 World Cup
  • World Cup 2000
  • World Cup 2001
  • World Cup 2002

( 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 )

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