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Radek Faksa (born 9 January 1994) is a Czech professional
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for the
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of the
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(NHL). In his rookie season in the
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(OHL), he was the League's leading rookie scorer when he was playing for the
Kitchener Rangers The Kitchener Rangers are a major junior ice hockey team based in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Midwest Division of the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League. The Rangers have won the J. Ross Robertson Cup as OHL ...
. Faksa was drafted 13th overall by the Dallas Stars in the
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.


Playing career


Amateur

Faksa began his ice hockey career in his hometown
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, although at age 11, his single mother was struggling to fund his hockey career. Faksa and his family received an offer from
HC Oceláři Třinec HC Oceláři Třinec (''Třinec Steelers'') is a Czech ice hockey team from Třinec who play in the Czech Extraliga, the top tier of Czech ice hockey. Their home arena is the Werk Arena. The team's main sponsors are the local Třinec Iron and Steel ...
for Faksa to play in Třinec's system, an offer they accepted; Faksa moved alone to
Třinec Třinec (; pl, Trzyniec ; german: Trzynietz) is a city in Frýdek-Místek District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 34,000 inhabitants and is the least populated statutory city in the country. The city is an ...
, where he lived by himself in a hotel paid for by his team until the age of 17. Faksa was drafted 22nd in the
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by the
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of the
Ontario Hockey League The Ontario Hockey League (OHL; french: Ligue de hockey de l'Ontario (LHO)) is one of the three major junior ice hockey leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League. The league is for players aged 16–19. There are exceptions for overag ...
(OHL). In his first season with the Rangers, in the
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, Faksa primarily played on the team's second line, scoring 29 goals and 37 assists for 66 points in 62 games in his first season of North American hockey. He was selected to participate in the 2012
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, where he won the “Showdown Breakaway Challenge” in the Top Prospects Skills Competition. Faksa's draft stock rose throughout the season and he solidified himself as a top prospect, ranking fourth on the
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's midterm ranking of North American skaters. Faksa finished the season as the rookie leading scorer in the OHL, also finishing second in voting for the
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, awarded annually to the OHL's top first-year player; the Award ultimately went to 15-year-old defenceman
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. On 22 June 2012, Faksa was drafted 13th overall by the
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in the
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. He was the first Czech taken in the first round of an
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since
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's selection in
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. In addition, Faksa was drafted seventh overall by the
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(KHL)'s Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk in the
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. On 10 January 2014, Faksa was traded by Kitchener to the
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in exchange for fellow Czech
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and two second-round draft picks.


Professional

On 6 July 2012, Faksa signed an entry-level contract with Dallas. Upon completing his junior career with Sudbury, on 3 April 2014, Faksa was reassigned by the Stars to their
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(AHL) affiliate, the
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. Faksa scored his first NHL goal on 6 November 2015 in a victory over the
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. On 28 November 2017, Faksa tallied a
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in the second period, scoring the only goals in the Stars' shutout of the
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. It was the first hat trick of his NHL career as well as the first scored in
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and the first time the Golden Knights were shut out at home. The following game, on 30 November in Chicago, Faksa was hooked by
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on a shorthanded breakaway and awarded his first career
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, which he scored on to give the Stars a 2–1 lead in the first period. Faksa notched an assist in the second period on a pass to
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, and the Stars went on to beat the Blackhawks 4–3 with an overtime goal by
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. On 11 October 2020, the Stars re-signed Faksa to a five-year, $16.25 million contract.


International play

Faksa competed as part of the
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at the
2011 IIHF World U18 Championships The 2011 IIHF World U18 Championships was held in Crimmitschau and Dresden, Germany. The championships ran from April 14–24, 2011. The United States won the title for the third straight time after beating Sweden 4–3 in the final in overtime. ...
, the
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, the
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, and for the Czech Republic in the
2016 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships The 2016 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships was the 80th such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Teams participated at several levels of competition. The competition also served as qualifications for division placements in ...
.


Career statistics


Regular season and playoffs


International


Awards and achievements


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Faksa, Radek 1994 births People from Vítkov Living people Czech ice hockey centres Dallas Stars draft picks Dallas Stars players Kitchener Rangers players National Hockey League first-round draft picks Sportspeople from Opava Sudbury Wolves players Texas Stars players