Václav Pletka

Vaclav Pletka ( born June 8, 1979 in Mladá Boleslav, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech ice hockey player who is under contract with HC Škoda Plzeň in the Czech Extraliga since November 2011.

Career

Vaclav Pletka began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth of the HC Mladá Boleslav, in which he was active until 1998. He then moved to HC Ocelari Třinec, for in the Czech Extraliga, he was on the ice from 1998 to 2000. During this period, the winger was also selected in the NHL Entry Draft in the seventh round in 1999 when a total of 208 players from the Philadelphia Flyers, for whom he made ​​his debut in the National Hockey League in the 2001/ 02 season, where he only in a game was used, where he remained point - and unpunished. The remaining two years in the franchise of the Philadelphia Flyers spent the Czech at their farm team in the American Hockey League, the Philadelphia Phantoms.

In summer 2002, Pletka returned to his former club HC Ocelari Třinec, for whom he played the following four years in the Extraliga. In addition, he graduated from in the season 2005/ 06 a total of eight games for the HK Dynamo Moscow of the Russian Super League, with whom he won the IIHF European Champions Cup. The season ended the links Sagittarius the Czech first division Liberec White Tigers, for whom he played until 2010.

In January 2010 he was given in exchange for Stepan Hřebejk to HC České Budějovice.

In November 2011 Pletka was initially borrowed from HC České Budějovice in the HC Škoda Plzeň, later moving firmly to Pilsen. With his new club Pletka won the 2013 Czech championship.

Internationally

For Pletka Czech Republic took part in the U20 World Youth Championship in 1999, when he finished in seventh place with his team.

Awards and achievements

Statistics

(End of season 2010/11)