Jaroslav Bednář

Jaroslav Bednář
Jaroslav Bednář at match between Bílí Tygři Liberec and HC Slavia Praha, October 2007
Born	(1976-11-09) November 9, 1976 Prague, Czechoslovakia
Height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight	176 lb (80 kg; 12 st 8 lb)
Position	Right Wing
Shot	Right
Czech.2 team Former teams	HC Vrchlabí HC Slavia Praha HC Sparta Praha HC Plzeň JYP HIFK Los Angeles Kings Florida Panthers Avangard Omsk Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod HC Davos HC Lugano SC Bern HK Hradec Kralove
National team	Czech Republic
NHL draft	51st overall, 2001 Los Angeles Kings
Playing career	1994–2021

Jaroslav Bednář (born 9 November 1976) is a Czech professional ice hockey winger, who currently plays with HC Vrchlabí in the Czech.2 Liga

Playing career

Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Bednář began his career with Slavia Prague in 1994 and stayed there for three years before moving to rivals Sparta Prague. He played just 14 games before moving to Plzeň and then returned to play for Sparta for the next season. He then spent the next two seasons playing in Finland's SM-liiga with spells at JYP and HIFK where he led the teams in goals and points.

NHL

Bednář was drafted 51st overall by the Los Angeles Kings in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft, but never managed to recapture the form he had in Finland. He played 37 games for the Kings, scoring 4 goals and 11 assists for 15 points. On November 26, 2002, Bednář, along with Andreas Lilja was traded to the Florida Panthers for Dmitri Yushkevich, he played 65 games for Florida, scoring 6 goals and 14 assists for 20 points. Overall, Bednář played 102 regular season games, scoring 10 goals and 25 assists for 35 points.

Return to Europe

Bednář moved to Russia during the cancelled 2004–05 NHL season and played for Avangard Omsk where he played alongside Jaromír Jágr, Alexander Perezhogin and Oleg Tverdovsky. In 2005, Bednář returned to Slavia Prague where he has become one of their core players and left the team after four years on 29 April 2009 to sign with Atlant Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League. In 2010, Bednář signed a one-year contract with HC Davos from the Swiss NLA where he played alongside 3 other Czech players: Petr Sýkora, Petr Tatíček and Josef Marha. During the 2010–11 regular season, Bednář scored 35 goals and 15 assists for a total of 50 points in 43 games. On May 21, 2013, Bednar returned again to his original club, HC Slavia Praha, for a fourth stint. He would play three seasons with HK Hradec Králové through to 2018.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1994–95	HC Slavia Praha	ELH		20	6	7	13	4		3	0	0	0	0
1995–96	HC Slavia Praha	ELH		20	3	1	4	6		3	0	0	0	0
1996–97	HC Slavia Praha	ELH		45	18	12	30	18		—	—	—	—	—
1997–98	HC Slavia Praha	ELH		14	2	5	7	6		—	—	—	—	—
1997–98	HC Keramika Plzeň	ELH		34	26	15	41	16		5	2	4	6	4
1998–99	HC Sparta Praha	ELH		52	23	14	37	30		8	5	2	7	0
1999–2000	JYP	SM-l		53	34	28	62	56		—	—	—	—	—
2000–01	HIFK	SM-l		56	32	28	60	51		5	3	1	4	0
2001–02	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		22	4	2	6	8		3	0	0	0	0
2001–02	Manchester Monarchs	AHL		48	16	21	37	16		—	—	—	—	—
2002–03	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		15	0	9	9	4		—	—	—	—	—
2002–03	Florida Panthers	NHL		52	5	13	18	14		—	—	—	—	—
2003–04	Florida Panthers	NHL		13	1	1	2	4		—	—	—	—	—
2003–04	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		2	2	1	3	0		—	—	—	—	—
2003–04	Avangard Omsk	RSL		29	10	5	15	34		11	2	0	2	2
2004–05	Avangard Omsk	RSL		53	12	16	28	56		10	2	1	3	6
2005–06	HC Slavia Praha	ELH		52	21	23	44	58		15	3	8	11	16
2006–07	HC Slavia Praha	ELH		52	22	23	45	66		6	1	4	5	0
2007–08	HC Slavia Praha	ELH		40	25	11	36	61		19	10	3	13	8
2008–09	HC Slavia Praha	ELH		46	27	41	68	44		18	12	12	24	8
2009–10	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	KHL		53	14	20	34	40		—	—	—	—	—
2010–11	HC Davos	NLA		45	21	28	49	20		12	5	12	17	6
2011–12	HC Lugano	NLA		45	16	33	49	18		6	1	1	2	4
2012–13	HC Slavia Praha	ELH		13	12	3	15	6		—	—	—	—	—
2012–13	HC Lugano	NLA		8	0	0	0	4		—	—	—	—	—
2012–13	HC Lugano	NLA		12	6	11	17	4		8	3	5	8	4
2013–14	HC Slavia Praha	ELH		47	21	27	48	16		4	2	1	3	0
2014–15	HC Slavia Praha	ELH		51	18	28	46	30		—	—	—	—	—
2015–16	Mountfield HK	ELH		50	13	29	42	44		6	4	2	6	8
2016–17	Mountfield HK	ELH		49	11	36	47	12		11	2	7	9	4
2017–18	Mountfield HK	ELH		46	15	27	42	20		12	1	4	5	4
2018–19	HC Stadion Vrchlabí	CZE.3		8	3	8	11	4		11	4	10	14	4
2019–20	HC Stadion Vrchlabí	CZE.3		32	24	44	68	20		—	—	—	—	—
2020–21	HC Slavia Praha	CZE.2		21	7	14	21	14		5	1	3	4	4
ELH totals				621	259	300	559	427		117	40	51	91	68
SM-liiga totals				109	66	56	122	107		5	3	1	4	0
NHL totals				102	10	25	35	30		3	0	0	0	0

International

Year	Team	Event		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
2006	Czech Republic	WC		7	0	0	0	0
2007	Czech Republic	WC		7	1	0	1	0
Senior totals				14	1	0	1	0

External links

• Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or The Internet Hockey Database