HC Plzeň

HC Škoda Plzeň

City	Plzeň, Czech Republic
League	Czech Extraliga
Founded	1929 (1929)
Home arena	Home Monitoring Aréna (Capacity: 8,236)
Colours	blue, white
General manager	Martin Straka
Head coach	Michal Straka
Captain	Ondřej Kratěna
Website www.hcskoda.cz

HC Škoda Plzeň is a professional Czech ice hockey team based in Plzeň, Czech Republic. It currently plays in the Czech Extraliga. Their home arena is Home Monitoring Aréna. The traditional ice hockey club was founded at 1929. In 2013, for the first time in history, HC Plzeň were the Czech Extraliga champions after beating Zlín 4:3 in the seventh match of the dramatic final.

During the 2010-2011 season, the team was docked 19 points for having used players who were not correctly registered to the club, an affair which also involved the clubs BK Mladá Boleslav and HC Kladno.^[1]

Club names

1929 – Hokejový klub při SK (Sportovní klub) Viktoria Plzeň
1948 – Sokol Plzeň IV
1949 – ZSJ Škodovy závody
1952 – ZSJ Leninovy závody
1953 – Spartak Plzeň LZ
1965 – TJ Škoda Plzeň
1991 – HC Škoda Plzeň
1994 – HC Interconnex Plzeň
1995 – HC ZKZ Plzeň
1997 – HC Keramika Plzeň
2003 – HC Lasselsberger Plzeň
2009 – HC Plzeň 1929
2012 – HC Škoda Plzeň

Honours

Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League - Runner-up (1958,1959,1992) Third place (1957)
Czech Extraliga - Champion (2013), Third Place (2000,2012) Presidents Trophy (2010)

Famous Players

Current Players

Roster for 2012/2013.

Position	#	Name	Came from	Acquired
G	23	Dominik Halmoši	Academy	-
G	2	Marek Mazanec	Academy	-
G	31	Adam Svoboda	HC ČSOB Pojišťovna Pardubice	2011
D	86	Dominik Boháč	Rouyn-Noranda Huskies	2008
D	4	Tomáš Frolo	HC České Budějovice	2010
D	?	David Havíř	HC Bílí Tygři Liberec	2012
D	8	Jiří Hanzlík	HC Energie Karlovy Vary	2009
D	?	Jakub Houfek	Academy	-
D	5	Jakub Jeřábek	Academy	-
D	74	Vojtěch Mozík	BK Mladá Boleslav	2012
D	9	Jakub Ruprecht	Academy	-
O	55	Dan Růžička	Academy	-
D	54	Tomáš Slovák	Dynamo Minsk	2012
D	7	Nicolas St. Pierre	Norfolk Admirals	2010
F	11	Jozef Balej	HC Kometa Brno	2012
F	52	Michal Dvořák	HC Energie Karlovy Vary	2007
F	77	Milan Gulaš	HC České Budějovice	2012
F	66	Ondřej Havlíček	HC Slovan Ústečtí Lvi	2011
F	96	Martin Heřman	HC Spartak Pelhřimov	2009
F	44	Ryan Hollweg	Portland Pirates	2012
F	80	Nicholas Johnson	Sacred Heart University	2010
F	29	Pavel Kašpařík	HC České Budějovice	2012
F	43	Jan Kovář	IHC Písek	2004
F	22	Ondřej Kratěna	HC Sparta Praha	2011
F	30	Jakub Lev	Academy	-
F	78	Patrik Petruška	Academy	-
F	88	Václav Pletka	HC České Budějovice	2011
F	40	Pavel Sedláček	Academy	-
F	13	Jan Schleiss	Academy	-
F	28	Martin Straka	New York Rangers	2008
F	55	Mário Bližňák	HC Slovan Bratislava	2014
F	26	Tomáš Vlasák	Linköpings HC	2007