Jan Benda (born 28 April 1972) is a
Belgian
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-born
German
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ice hockey
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coach and retired player. He appeared in a total of nine
National Hockey League
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games for the
Washington Capitals
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and participated in three Olympic Winter Games with the German national team.
Career
Born in Belgium to
Czech
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*Czech, ...
parents, Benda started his career in the
OHL OHL or Ohl may refer to:
Initialisms
*Latvian Hockey Higher League, known in Latvian as the ''Optibet hokeja līga''
*Oberste Heeresleitung, the Supreme Army Command of Germany in World War I
*Obrascón Huarte Lain, a Spanish construction company
* ...
with the
Oshawa
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Generals
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, where he played with future
NHL
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stars such as
Eric Lindros
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,
Jason Arnott
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He began his National Hockey League career with the Edmonton Oilers in 1993–94 after being selected seventh overall in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft ...
, and
Stephane Yelle Stephane may refer to:
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* Stephane (Ancient Greece)
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. In his final year with the Generals, he would finish with 35
points in 61 games. After playing 2 seasons in Germany, Benda would return to
North America
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for the
1994-95 ECHL
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The E ...
season to play for the
Richmond Renegades
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Th ...
. He would finish the season with 60 points in 62 games, which ranked fifth on the team that season. That season, he also briefly played for
Binghamton
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Rangers, the
AHL affiliate of the
New York Rangers
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. The next two seasons, Benda would play for
HC Sparta Praha.
Benda would later return to North America for the
1997-98 season, where he was assigned to the
Washington
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Capitals
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AHL affiliate, the
Portland
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Pirates
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. He was later recalled to play for the Capitals, where he would score three
assists in nine games. Upon completion of the
1997-98 season, Benda would return to
Europe
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. He would play the next three seasons in
SM-Liiga
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, where he would lead his team in points during the
1998-99 season (with
Ässät Ässät or Ässä may refer to:
* HC Ässät Pori Oy, Finnish sports club
** Porin Ässät (men's ice hockey)
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*, Finnish band from Oulu
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Pori
)
, website www.pori.fi
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) and in
1999-2000 (with
Jokerit
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). Benda would leave
SM-Liiga
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in 2001 to sign with
Ak Bars Kazan
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of the
Russia
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n
Superleague. He would spend the next three seasons in Kazan and would split his final year between
Khimik Voskresensk
Hockey Club Atlant Moscow Oblast (russian: ХК Атлант Московская область, en, Atlas Hockey Club Moscow Region) was a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Mytishchi, Moscow Oblast. They were members of the Bobro ...
and
Cherepovets Severstal.
Benda played in the
Czech Republic
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for
BK Mladá Boleslav
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, whom he joined in 2008 where he was the captain. Before joining
BK Mladá Boleslav
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, he had played with
HC Litvínov
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Honours
Domestic
Czech Extraliga
* Winners (1): 2014–15
* Runners-up (1): 19 ...
from 2006-08.
Benda has represented Germany at the
2002
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World Championships
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, the
1996
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World Cup of Hockey
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, and the
Winter
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Olympics
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in
1994
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,
1998
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Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
, and
2002
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.
Benda played for
HC Plzeň 1929 and scored 35 points in 51 regular season games during the 2009-10 season.
In 2011, he returned to Germany, joining the
Nürnberg Ice Tigers
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History
The roots of the team can be traced back to SG Nürnberg, an ice hockey cl ...
of the
Deutsche Eishockey Liga
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on a short-term deal, before signing with
EHC München EHC may refer to:
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for the remainder of the 2011-12 season.
He then spent the 2012-13 campaign with the
Dresdner Eislöwen
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in Germany's second-tier league DEL2.
The 2014-15 season saw Benda score 10 goals and dish 29 assists in 42 games for
Deggendorf Fire
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in the German Oberliga. For the 2015-16 season, he moved to
ECDC Memmingen
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, a member of the Bayernliga in Germany. Along with his playing duties he served as a coach in the club's youth program. When ECDC head coach Alexander Wedl was sacked in January 2016, Benda took over head coaching duties on an interim basis.
His playing career ended in June 2018 at age 46.
Following his playing days, Benda worked for ECDC Memmingen as an assistant coach and youth coach.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
References
External links
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1972 births
Living people
Ak Bars Kazan players
Ässät players
Binghamton Rangers players
Deggendorfer SC players
EHC Freiburg players
Expatriate ice hockey players in Russia
German expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic
German expatriate sportspeople in Russia
German expatriate sportspeople in Canada
German expatriate sportspeople in the United States
German expatriate ice hockey people
German ice hockey centres
German people of Czech descent
HC Khimik Voskresensk players
HC Litvínov players
HC Plzeň players
HC Slavia Praha players
HC Sparta Praha players
PSG Berani Zlín players
Eishockey-Bundesliga players
Ice hockey players at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Jokerit players
Olympic ice hockey players of Germany
Oshawa Generals players
People from Rumst
Portland Pirates players
Richmond Renegades players
Severstal Cherepovets players
Undrafted National Hockey League players
Washington Capitals players
West German ice hockey centres
West German expatriate sportspeople in Canada
Expatriate ice hockey players in Canada
Expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Expatriate ice hockey players in the Czech Republic
Expatriate ice hockey players in Finland
German ice hockey coaches
BK Mladá Boleslav players
Dresdner Eislöwen players
EHC München players
Nürnberg Ice Tigers players