Jiří Sekáč (born 10 June 1992) is a

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professional

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player who is currently playing with

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of the

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(NL).

Playing career

As a youth, Sekáč played in the 2005

Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament The Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament (french: Tournoi international de hockey pee-wee de Québec) is an annual minor ice hockey event in Quebec City. The tournament was founded in 1960 to coincide with the Quebec Winter Carnival, ...

with a team from Chomutov. Sekáč later played with

HC Lev Praha Hockey Club Lev Praha (stylized as HC LEV Praha) was a professional ice hockey team located in Prague, Czech Republic, which played in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) in the 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons. In their two seasons played, ...

in the

Kontinental Hockey League The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; russian: Континентальная хоккейная лига (КХЛ), Kontinental'naya khokkeynaya liga) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs ba ...

and

HC Sparta Praha Hockey Club Sparta Praha, commonly known as HC Sparta Prague, is a Prague-based Czech ice hockey team playing in the Czech Extraliga. The club has won four Czech championships (most recently in 2007) and four Czechoslovak championships, as w ...

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 le ...

. On 1 July 2014 Sekáč signed a two-year entry-level contract with the Canadiens worth $1,850,000. In his first North American season in 2014–15 he scored his first NHL goal on 16 October 2014 against

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of the

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. On 13 January 2015 Sekáč was invited to the 2015 Honda NHL All-Star Skills Competition as a replacement for

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' forward Tanner Pearson. Known for his skating speed, he was drafted by Team Foligno, along with Canadiens' teammate

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, and participated in the Bridgestone NHL Fastest Skater race, beating

Aaron Ekblad Aaron Ekblad (born February 7, 1996) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and alternate captain for the Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League (NHL). Ekblad was selected first overall in the 2011 Ontario Hockey League (OHL) e ...

with a time of 13.683s, making him the 6th fastest of the event. After 50 games with the Canadiens on 24 February 2015 he was traded to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for Devante Smith-Pelly. In the following 2015–16 season, Sekáč was unable to secure a regular forward role and appeared in 22 games for 3 points with the Ducks before he was traded to the

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in exchange for Ryan Garbutt on 21 January 2016. Sekáč was used sparingly in 6 games with the Blackhawks registering one assist before being placed on waivers and claimed by the Arizona Coyotes on 27 February 2016. Sekac closed out the season with the Coyotes, appearing 11 games for two assists. On 6 June 2016 Sekáč headed back to Europe and put pen to paper on a one-year deal with

Ak 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 ...

in a return to the Kontinental Hockey League. On 1 May 2019, after three productive seasons with Ak Bars, Sekáč was traded to reigning champions,

HC CSKA Moscow HC CSKA Moscow (1946–present, russian: ЦСКА Москва, Центральный Спортивный Клуб Армии, ''Central Sports Club of the Army, Moscow'') is a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Moscow. The club i ...

, in exchange for Igor Ozhiganov's KHL rights. He registered 25 points in 45 regular season games, before ending his season through injury. As a free agent from CSKA, Sekáč continued his travelled career in the KHL, agreeing to a one-year contract with Avangard Omsk on 16 July 2020. On July 28, 2021, Sekáč joined

of the

(NL) on a three-year deal through the end of the 2023/24 season.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and honours

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sekac, Jiri 1992 births Living people Sportspeople from Kladno Ak Bars Kazan players Anaheim Ducks players Arizona Coyotes players Avangard Omsk players Chicago Blackhawks players HC CSKA Moscow players Czech expatriates in Canada Czech expatriates in Slovakia Czech ice hockey left wingers HC Lev Poprad players HC Lev Praha players Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players of the Czech Republic Montreal Canadiens players Peterborough Petes (ice hockey) players San Diego Gulls (AHL) players HC Sparta Praha players Undrafted National Hockey League players Youngstown Phantoms players