Ondřej Němec
Ondřej Němec ( born April 18, 1984 in Třebíč, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech ice hockey player who is since May 2012 when HC Lev Prague in the Kontinental Hockey League contract.
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Career
Ondřej Němec began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the junior department of the SK Slavia Horacka Třebíč. This he left in 1999 at the age of 15 years and moved to the youth department of Vsetínská hokejová for whose first team he in the 2001/ 02 season, his debut in the Extraliga was. In his rookie year, the defender scored 44 games five goals and three assists gave parallel he played like in the next four years for his club Vsetínská hokejová in the first second-rate league.
In the NHL Entry Draft 2002 Němec was selected in the second round than a total 35 players from the Pittsburgh Penguins for which, however, he never played. Only the 2003/04 season he finished with their farm team, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in the American Hockey League. For the 2005/06 season the right shooter moved to HC Energie Karlovy Vary, Czech champion with whom he was first in the 2008 /09 season. With his team he could rely to return the favor when HC Slavia Prague, which he still lost the previous year with the HC energy in the playoff finals.
2010 joined Severstal Cherepovets to Němec in the Continental Hockey League and completed in the next two years a total of 108 KHL game appearances for the team in which he scored 33 points scorer. In May 2012, he returned to the Czech Republic and was obliged by HC Lev Prague for two years.
Internationally
For Němec Czech Republic took part in the U18 World Youth Championship in 2002, the U20 Junior World Championship in 2004 and the 2009 World Championships in part.
Awards and achievements
- 2008 Czech runner-up with the HC Energie Karlovy Vary
- 2009 Czech champion with the HC Energie Karlovy Vary
Internationally
- 2002 bronze medal at the U18 World Youth Championship
- 2010 Gold medal at the World Championships
- 2011 bronze medal at the World Championships
- 2012 bronze medal at the World Championships