Ondřej Kratěna (born 21 April 1977) is a
Czech
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* Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe
** Czech language
** Czechs, the people of the area
** Czech culture
** Czech cuisine
* One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus'
Places
* Czech, ...
former
ice hockey
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forward who last played for
HC Plzeň in the
Czech Extraliga
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.
Kratěna began his career with
HC Olomouc where he played for two seasons. After an impressive second season where he posted eleven goals and eleven assists, he signed with
HC Vsetín. After three championship winning seasons he moved to Sparta Prague and remained at the team for eight seasons, winning four more Czech titles. In 2007, he moved to
Finland
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's
SM-liiga
The SM-liiga (marketed as just Liiga from 2013 on), (Finnish for ''League'') colloquially called the Finnish Elite League in English or FM-ligan in Swedish, is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. It is one of the six founding leagu ...
for
Oulun Kärpät
Oulun Kärpät (Finnish for "Oulu Ermines", sometimes referred to as Kärpät Oulu) is a Finnish professional ice hockey team based in Oulu and playing in the top-tier Finnish Liiga. Kärpät have won the Finnish championship title eight times, ...
and won the regular season championship and the SM-liiga playoffs championship. In 2008, Kratěna returned to Sparta Prague.
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1977 births
Czech ice hockey right wingers
HC Olomouc players
HC Plzeň players
HC Sparta Praha players
VHK Vsetín players
Oulun Kärpät players
Living people
Sportspeople from the Moravian-Silesian Region
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