Jan Novák (born February 9, 1979, in

Havlíčkův Brod Havlíčkův Brod (, until 1945 Německý Brod; german: Deutschbrod) is a town in Havlíčkův Brod District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 23,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law a ...

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) is a Czech professional

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player. He has spent nine seasons with

HC Slavia Prague HC Slavia Praha (eng: HC Slavia Prague) is a Czech ice hockey team located in Prague playing the Czech 1st National Hockey League, the second-highest league in the country. Slavia played in the Extraliga from 1994 until 2015, winning the natio ...

in the

Czech Extraliga The Czech Extraliga ( cs, Extraliga ledního hokeje, ELH) is the highest-level ice hockey league in the Czech Republic. It was created by the 1993 split of the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League following the breakup of Czechoslovakia. The leag ...

between 1997 and 2006 and won the championship in 2003. Novák moved to the

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in 2006 and played one season for

Aq Bars Kazan Hockey Club Ak Bars (russian: Ак Барс, tt-Cyrl, Ак Барс, en, Snow Leopard), also known as Ak Bars Kazan, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Kazan. They are members of the Kharlamov Division of the Kontinental Hockey ...

. He has since then also played for Skellefteå AIK of

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, but left them early in the 2007–08 season and moved to HC Slavia Praha, before on 12 January 2009 loaned to

BK Mladá Boleslav BK Mladá Boleslav ( cs, Bruslařský klub Mladá Boleslav) is a Czech ice hockey team, which plays in the Czech Extraliga, the country's highest level. They were promoted into the league on 18 April 2014 after a two-year absence. They play their ...

. He currently plays with HC České Budějovice in the

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* 1979 births Ak Bars Kazan players Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg players Czech ice hockey defencemen Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Russia Living people Skellefteå AIK players HC Slavia Praha players Motor České Budějovice players Ice hockey people from Havlíčkův Brod Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Finland Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden Czech expatriate sportspeople in Italy Czech expatriate sportspeople in Austria Expatriate ice hockey players in Italy Expatriate ice hockey players in Austria Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Slovakia BK Mladá Boleslav players HK 36 Skalica players Graz 99ers players SHC Fassa players Oulun Kärpät players {{CzechRepublic-icehockey-defenceman-stub