Tomáš Hričina (born May 31, 1990) is a Slovak professional

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who currently plays for

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in the Tipsport Liga.

Career

Hričina began his career with

HC Košice Hockey Club Košice is a Slovak professional ice hockey club based in Košice that competes in the Slovak Extraliga, the top tier of Slovak ice hockey. It is the most successful hockey club in Slovakia and the former Czechoslovakia, having won th ...

's junior teams before moving to North America's

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where he was drafted 27th overall by the

Western Hockey League The Western Hockey League (WHL) is a major junior ice hockey league based in Western Canada and the Northwestern United States. The WHL is one of three leagues that constitutes the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) as the highest level of junior h ...

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in the 2008

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. He played two seasons with the Pats before returning to Košice in 2010. He divided the 2010-11 season with Košice and HC 46 Bardejov of the Slovak 1. Liga before playing for

HC '05 Banská Bystrica Hockey Club '05 Banská Bystrica is a professional Slovak ice hockey club based in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. They won 3 times Slovakian hockey league and 4 times Slovak 1. Liga, second–level ice hockey league in Slovakia. The team is nickna ...

in the 2011-12 season. After spending most of the next three season with Bardejov, Hričina became a full-fledged member of Košice's roster in 2015. On May 30, 2019, Hričina joined newly-promoted

for the

2019–20 Slovak Extraliga season The 2019–20 Slovak Extraliga season was the 27th season of the Slovak Extraliga, the highest ice hockey league in Slovakia. Since the 2018–19 season, the league also includes two teams from Hungary. The season was ended prematurely due to the ...

.We have five reinforcements!
(in Slovak)

References

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* 1990 births Living people HC '05 Banská Bystrica players HK Dukla Michalovce players HC Košice players Regina Pats players Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in Canada Slovak ice hockey forwards Ice hockey people from Košice {{slovakia-icehockey-bio-stub