Radim Bičánek

Radim Bičánek ( born January 18, 1975 in Uherské Hradiště, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech ice hockey player who is under contract with HC Kometa Brno in the Extraliga since 2009.

Career

Radim Bičánek began his career as a hockey player in the junior section of the HC Dukla Jihlava, for the first team he. In the 1992/93 season in the first league, the highest Czechoslovak league, made ​​his debut In his rookie year he scored in 43 games and two goals were three templates. He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1993 in the second round than a total of 27 players from the Ottawa Senators. First, the defender spent two years playing in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League for the Belleville Bulls before he first ran aground near the end of the 1994/95 season in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators. Throughout the following season he was exclusively for their farm team, the Prince Edward Iceland senator in the American Hockey League action. When the Ottawa Senators he could never completely through in the following three years, making it suitable for their farm team in the Minor Leagues was predominantly on the ice. These were the Detroit Vipers, Manitoba Moose and Grand Rapids Griffins in the International Hockey League, and the Worcester IceCats in the AHL.

On 12 March 1999 Bičánek was issued in exchange for a sixth- round option for the NHL Entry Draft in 1999 at the Chicago Blackhawks just before the trade deadline. In little more than a season, he only ran 18 times on in the NHL for the team from Illinois, while he was active for their IHL farm team Cleveland Lumberjacks in a total of 79 games alone in the 1999/2000 season. On 23 June 2000, the Columbus Blue Jackets to the Czechs committed within the NHL Expansion Draft. After he was run sporadically in the NHL and mainly for their AHL farm team Syracuse Crunch even with the Blue Jackets in the 2000 /01 season, he was able to fight for a place in the NHL squad in the following season. In the only full NHL season of his career in 60 games he scored a goal and had five assists. The season 2002/ 03 he spent again in the AHL, first with the Syracuse Crunch and then at the Binghamton Senators.

After a one year break from Hockey Bičánek returned back to the Czech Republic in 2004 and played in the next five years for the HC Orli Znojemští in the Extraliga - in the last two years as team captain. After the sale of licenses of HC Orli Znojemští he joined the 2009/10 season within the league for HC Kometa Brno, for which he has since standing on the ice.

Internationally

For the Czech junior national Bičánek took part in the U18 European Junior Championships in 1993 and the Junior World Championship in 1993. In the former, he was awarded as the best defender and elected to the All- Star team.

For the men's selection of the Czech Republic in 2006 he ran in three games of the Euro Hockey Tour on.

Awards and achievements

Statistics

(As of the end of the 2010/11 season )