Photo: Markéta Křížová
The fairy tale of Třinec continues. The team, which has five titles in a row, became the first Czech team in history to become the best in all of Europe! The prestigious award is awarded by the Alliance of European Hockey Clubs.
In this year’s playoffs, he always succeeded after the seventh decisive game. In the semi-final against Sparta, they even lost 0:3 per match, but as the first Czech team in history, they were able to reverse the unfavorable development.
In addition, in the final, he defeated the strong Dynamo – in extra time of the seventh game.
This is simply Třinec! The best European club of the past season. The prestigious award was received directly in Prague’s Stages Hotel by the president of Ocelarů Ján Moder.
The Czech representative succeeded in the competition of the Finnish Tappara Tampere, the Slovak Nitra, the Swedish Skellefteå AIK and the German Fischtown Pinguins.
V kategorii Young Player of the Year for the greatest hope of European hockey, Swede Jonathan Lekkerimäki from Örebro HK succeeded, the Swedish winner has i coach of the year categorywhen Skellefteå AIK coach Robert Ohlsson won the award.
Carrer Excellence Award, which evaluates not only the past hockey year, but also the contribution of the player’s entire career to European hockey, was mastered by Finn Valtteri Filppula. He won the Champions League this year in the service of Servette Geneva.
The Czechs dominated the fan vote
In this year’s European Hockey Awards, Czech hockey had its nominees in the final five of all categories, and it is not without interest that the Tipsport extraliga representatives dominated all rankings in the fan vote.
He was the talent of the year according to the fans Kladno defender from all over Europe
Jiří Ticháček
defender, 21 years old
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Martin Ružička
attacker, 38 years old
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The European Hockey Awards are awarded annually by the EHC Alliance, an association of 107 European hockey clubs. The expert jury also votes, and the auxiliary votes are also the public vote of the fans.
Club of the year – HC Steelers Třinec (Czech Republic)
Other nominees: Fischtown Pinguins (GER), HK Nitra (SVK), Skellefteå AIK (SWE), Tappara Tampere (FIN).
Coach of the Year – Robert Ohlsson (Skellefteå AIK, Sweden)
Other nominees: Rikard Grönborg (Tappara Tampere, FIN), Zdeněk Moták (HC Oceláři Třinec, CZE), Thomas Popiesch (Fischtown Pinguins, GER), Geoff Ward (Lausanne HC, SUI).
Young Player of the Year – Jonathan Lekkerimäki (Örebro HK, Sweden)
Other nominees: Ville Koivunen (Kärpät Oulu, FIN), Jani Nyman (Ilves Tampere, FIN), Axel Sandin-Pellikka (Skellefteå AIK, SWE), Jiří Ticháček (Rytíři Kladno, CZE).
Lifetime Achievement Award – Valtteri Filppula (Genève-Servette, Switzerland)
Other nominees: Roman Červenka (R-Jona Lakers, SUI), Beat Forster (EHC Biel-Bienne, SUI), Linus Omark (Luleå HF), Martin Růžička (HC Oceláři Třinec).
E.H.C. Leadership Award – Gaby Sennebogen (Straubing Tigers, Germany)
It is awarded to a prominent representative of European club ice hockey for outstanding business and social achievements within his club and community.
The Kånken Youth Retention Award – Barani Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)
It is awarded to clubs that can best work with youth. Especially whether they can keep children playing hockey for a long time, but also, for example, how they raise their own coaches.
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