VladimÃr Vůjtek (ice hockey b. 1947)
Vladimír Vůjtek senior ( born May 17, 1947 in Klimkovice, Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player and current coach. Most recently, he was head coach of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Kontinental Hockey League. His son Vladimír Vůjtek junior was also a professional hockey player.
Career
Vladimír Vůjtek senior began his career as a hockey player with the TJ Vitkovice, for the first team to 1979 he was active from 1968 in the first league, the highest Czechoslovak league. Yet his team reached the 1979 third place in the championship. He then spent two years playing for the Slovak army sports club Dukla Trenčín.
Following his playing career Vůjtek to pursue a career as a coach. First, he was from 1982 to 1985 worked as a head coach for the second division side SK Karviná. He was then with the exception of the 1987/88 season, in which he was active again for the second division side SK Karviná as head coach until 1994 throughout hired as coach at his former club HC Vitkovice, he in the first league and then in 1993/94 season in charge in the Extraliga newly established due to the division of Czechoslovakia. From 1994 to 1996 he was head coach at Extraliga station AC ZPS Zlín, with which he was runner-up in the 1994/95 season. From 1993 to 1995, the Czech was parallel for the Czech Under-20 national junior team active. With this he won the bronze medal, in the following two years he was head coach of the junior national team at the U20 World Youth Championship in 1993 as an assistant coach.
From 1996 to 2000 Vůjtek trained again the HC Vitkovice, with which he was runner-up in 97 of the season 1996 /. He then spent one season as coach of HC Ocelari Třinec before he spent two years working for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Russian Super League. He was the first Czech head coach in the Russian professional ice hockey. With this he won the national championship in seasons 2001/ 02 and 2002/ 03. Following this success, he received a contract with Ak Bars Kazan Lokomotives League rivals for the 2003/ 04 season. From 2004 to 2007, he supervised the HC Vitkovice again in the Extraliga, then he was in the 2008/09 season working for the HK Dynamo Moscow in the Kontinental Hockey League. With Dynamo Moscow he won the 2008 Spengler Cup.
From November 2010 to April 2011 Vůjtek was head coach at his former club Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the KHL. He replaced the Finns Kai Suikkanen.
Since August 2011 Vůjtek is coach of the Slovak national team.
Awards and achievements
- 2003 Champion of Russia with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
- 2008 Spengler Cup win with the HK Dynamo Moscow