Vladimír Dravecký (born 3 June 1985) is a Slovak

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

player who is currently playing for the

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in 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 ...

Career

Dravecký is a product of the

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 the ...

youth system. He debuted at the Extraliga in the 2001–02 season. His breakthrough came in the 2003–04 season, playing 43 games in the regular season. On 21 May 2007, he signed a 2-year contract with the

Los Angeles Kings The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles. The Kings compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division (NHL), Pacific Division in the Western Conference (NHL), Western Conference. ...

. Dravecký then played with Kings affiliate the

Manchester Monarchs Manchester Monarchs may refer to: *Manchester Monarchs (AHL) (2001–2015) *Manchester Monarchs (ECHL) The Manchester Monarchs were a professional ice hockey team in the ECHL which began play in the 2015–16 ECHL season, 2015–16 season. Bas ...

for the next two seasons before his return to Europe to play in

Kontinental Hockey League The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; ) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs based in Russia (20), Belarus (1), Kazakhstan (1), and China (1) for a total of 23 clubs. It was considered in ...

with

HC Slovan Bratislava Hockey Club Slovan Bratislava () is a professional ice hockey club based in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2012, it left the Tipsport Liga (hockey), Slovak Extraliga and joined the international Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). In 2019, it returned to ...

International play

Dravecký participated at the

2010 IIHF World Championship The 2010 IIHF World Championship was the 74th IIHF World Championship, an annual international ice hockey tournament. It took place between 7 and 23 May 2010 in Germany. The games were played in the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, SAP Arena in Mannh ...

, playing 6 games for

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without point.

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* 1985 births Living people Espoo Blues players HC Ajoie players HC Košice players HC Oceláři Třinec players HC Slovan Bratislava players HC Prešov players HC Yugra players Manchester Monarchs (AHL) players Molot-Prikamye Perm players Reading Royals players Ice hockey people from Košice Slovak ice hockey right wingers Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in Russia Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in the Czech Republic Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in Switzerland Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in Finland 21st-century Slovak sportsmen {{Slovakia-icehockey-bio-stub