Vincent Lukáč

Career as a player

Lukáč Vincent began his career in 1967 at the young TJ VSZ Kosice. 1971, at the age of 17, he made ​​his debut in the top division of Czechoslovakia. In the following years he became one of the most dominant offensive player of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, which had a high speed and excellent bat handling. Together with his brothers Josef Imrich and he formed in the late 1970s one of the most dangerous attack ranks of the league. In 1981, he moved within the league for Dukla Jihlava ASD, with whom he won the 1982 Czechoslovak championship. After this success with Dukla he went back to his hometown club. 1980 ( 40 goals) and 1982 (49 goals), he won the top scorer of the league, in 1983, he was also honored with the highest award of the Czechoslovak ice hockey, the Zlata Hokejka ( Golden Bat ).

In total, he scored in the Czechoslovak league 393 goals in 513 games, making it one of the most successful scorers in the history of the Czechoslovak ice hockey.

During the NHL Entry Draft in 1982, he was selected in the tenth round in a total of 202 out of the Quebec Nordiques, but never played in the National Hockey League. Only in 1985 Lukáč received permission to switch to other Western European countries. He then joined the SB Rosenheim. Further stations of his career were the Vienna EV (1987 /88), the Fife Flyers from Kirkcaldy, Scotland (1988 /89), the Streatham Redskins from London (1989 /90) and the Glen Rother Glasgow.

Internationally

Addition to his success at club level Lukáč was in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a regular player of the Czechoslovak national team. He usually played it along with two other Slovaks, Darius Rusnák and Igor Liba. He took 1977-1985 participated in four world championships, where he won three medals. Immediately on his first world championship, in 1977, he won the gold medal. He also took part in the Canada Cup in 1984 and at the Winter Olympics in 1980 and 1984, where in 1984 he won the silver medal. Overall, he completed 146 games in the National Jersey, in which he scored 70 goals.

Career as a coach

Since ending his playing career Lukáč works as a hockey coach. In the season 1994/95 he was responsible for the HC Košice as assistant coach. In the following season, he took over the head coaching job in Košice and won with the club, the Slovak Championship. At the same time he was coach of the Slovak national team, with whom he performed in the World Cup of Hockey in 1996, the Olympic qualification in 1997 and the Ice Hockey World Championship in 1997.

In 2000, he was head coach of the South African national team. In the season 2002/ 03 he was responsible for the MsHK Žilina as head coach. In 2004 he was honored with induction into the Slovak Hockey Hall of Fame, he also has been awarded the Cross Order of the President first class, he was awarded by the then President of Slovakia, Rudolf Schuster.

Awards and achievements

• Czechoslovak champion in 1982
• For Olympic Winter Games: 1980 5th Place
• 1984 winning the silver medal

• Top scorer of Czechoslovakia in 1980 and 1982
• 1983 profit of Zlata Hokejka
• 2004 Member of the Slovak Hockey Hall of Fame
• 2004 winner of the Order of the Cross of the President

Career in politics

Vincent Lukáč was elected in the parliamentary elections in Slovakia in 2010 to the National Council of the Slovak Republic, after he had been appointed by the Slovak National Party as their candidate. In an interview he shares with Ján Slota talking about what not only he, but also the majority of people think in Parliament, and that the SNS is not intended as unprincipled and vulgar as it is portrayed by the media. He explains that he time a member of any party of his life. In the interview he describes Ján Slota as a geradsinnigen, good, sensitive and kind man ( Je to dobrý, citlivý chlap, kamarátsky, priateľský. ). Both know each other from the time when Lukáč in Žilina coach worked and Slota was president of MsHK Žilina.

Others

Vincent Lukáč is the father of the Slovak ice hockey player Jiří Bicek, who played for the New Jersey Devils in the NHL.