Miloš Holaň (born April 22, 1971) is a retired Czech professional

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player and currently the head coach of HC Nové Zámky in the Tipos Extraliga, the first tier in Slovakia. He played 49 games in the

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between 1993 and 1996 with the

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and

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, as well as several seasons in the Czechoslovak and Czech Extraliga. Internationally Holaň played for the Czechoslovakian national junior team at two World Junior Championships, and with the

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at two

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. After retiring in 2000 he turned to coaching, and has worked for multiple teams across Europe.

Playing career

Holaň began his career with TJ Vítkovice in the then- Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League. Following two seasons with Dukla Trenčín as part of mandatory army service, Holaň returned to Vítkovice. In the final Czechoslovak Extraliga season before the dissolution of the country, Holaň broke through with an unpredecented season for a defenceman - in 53 games that season (counting both the regular season and the play-offs), he scored 35 goals and tallied 68 points, winning him the Golden Hockey Stick as the league's best player. Holaň was drafted 77th overall by the

in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft. Along with the Flyers he played in the

for the

and in total played 49 regular season games, scoring 5 goals and 11 assists for 16 points and collecting 42 penalty minutes. The end of Holaň's NHL career came prematurely in 1995 following diagnosis of

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, prompting his retirement, but he returned three years later to play in parts of two Czech Extraliga seasons with Vítkovice and HC Oceláři Třinec, as well as five games for EHC Freiburg in Germany's second tier, before retiring again at the age of 29.

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Regular season and playoffs

International

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