Petr Kanko
Petr Kanko (born 7 February 1984 in Pribram, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech professional ice hockey player who stands since 2011 at Orli Znojmo in the Austrian Hockey League contract.
Career
Petr Kanko began his career as a hockey player with the HC Sparta Prague, for the first team, he made his debut in the Extraliga in the 2000 /01 season. In his rookie year in six games, he scored a goal. He then played three years for the Kitchener Rangers in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League and won with the Canadians in 2003 both the J. Ross Robertson Cup as OHL Champions, as well as the Memorial Cup, the final tournament for the championship of the Canadian Hockey League. In his time with the Kitchener Rangers winger was also selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2002 in the third round than a total of 66 players from the Los Angeles Kings, for their farm team, he played in the American Hockey League from 2004 to 2008. In the season 2005/ 06 he was also in ten games for the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League itself on the ice, scoring a goal. In the 2007 /08 season, he also came to a commitment to the Reading Royals in the ECHL.
From 2008 to 2010 Kanko played in his Czech homeland for the Extraliga HC participants Ocelari Třinec, with whom he did not come on the first playoff round addition. In the season 2010/11 the former youth international standing by the HC Litvinov in the Extraliga under contract. However, for this, he completed just a game and spent the entire legal season at HC Slovan Ustecti Lvi in the first second-rate league. For the 2011/12 season he joined Orli Znojmo of the Austrian Hockey League.
Internationally
For Kanko Czech Republic took part in the U18 World Youth Championship 2001 and the U20 Junior World Championship in 2004.
Awards and achievements
- 2002 CHL Top Prospects Game
- 2002 OHL Second All- Rookie team
- 2003 J. Ross Robertson Cup with the Kitchener Rangers win
- 2003 Memorial Cup with the Kitchener Rangers win
Statistics
(End of season 2010/11)