Dominik Graňák (born June 11, 1983) is a Slovak professional

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, currently playing for

HC Škoda Plzeň HC Škoda Plzeň is a professional ice hockey team based in Plzeň, Czech Republic and was founded in 1929. They currently play in the Czech Extraliga, with their homes games being held at Logspeed CZ Arena. In 2013, for the first time in histo ...

of the

Czech Extraliga The Czech Extraliga () is the highest-level ice hockey league in the Czech Republic. It was created in 1993 following the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia midway through the 1992–93 Czechoslovak Extraliga season (which all Slovak and ...

(ELH). On November 4, 2014, Graňák signed a one-year contract in returning to the SHL with

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. He joined the club as a free agent after four seasons with Russian club,

HC Dynamo Moscow HC Dynamo Moscow () is a professional ice hockey club based in Moscow, Russia. It is a member of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Dynamo has won the Gagarin Cup twice, in 2011–12 KHL season, 2011–12 and 2012–13 ...

of the

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. He has represented

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in four

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, including 2007.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Achievements

champion: 2002/03 * Elitserien champion: 2008/09 *

Gagarin Cup The Gagarin Cup () is the trophy presented to the winner of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) playoffs, and is named after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space. The Cup was supposedly named after Gagarin because the last po ...

: 2011/12

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* 1983 births Living people Färjestad BK players HC Dynamo Moscow players HC Fribourg-Gottéron players HC Karlovy Vary players HC Slavia Praha players Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics Linköping HC players Olympic ice hockey players for Slovakia Ice hockey people from Havířov Rögle BK players Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in Russia Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden Slovak ice hockey defencemen Stadion Hradec Králové players HC Plzeň players Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in the Czech Republic Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in Switzerland 21st-century Slovak sportsmen {{Slovakia-icehockey-bio-stub