Miloš Holaň

Miloš Holaň (born April 22, 1971) is a retired Czech professional ice hockey 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 National Hockey League between 1993 and 1996 with the Philadelphia Flyers and Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, as well as several seasons in the Czechoslovak and Czech Extraliga. Internationally Holaň played for the Czechoslovak national junior team at two World Junior Championships, and with the Czech Republic at two World Championships. 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 unprecedented 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 Philadelphia Flyers in the 1993 NHL entry draft. Along with the Flyers he played in the National Hockey League for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim 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 chronic myelogenous leukemia, 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.

Career statistics Regular season and playoffs Regular seasonPlayoffs Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM 1985–86 TJ Vítkovice TCH U18 30 10 3 13 — — — — — — 1986–87 HC Vítkovice U18 TCH U18 34 36 11 47 — — — — — — 1988–89 TJ Vítkovice TCH 7 0 0 0 0 — — — — — 1989–90 TJ Vítkovice TCH 50 8 8 16 — — — — — — 1990–91 ASVŠ Dukla Trenčín TCH 24 2 12 14 — — — — — — 1991–92 ASVŠ Dukla Trenčín TCH 51 13 22 35 — — — — — — 1992–93 TJ Vítkovice TCH 53 35 33 68 60 — — — — — 1993–94 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 8 1 1 2 4 — — — — — 1993–94 Hershey Bears AHL 27 7 22 29 16 — — — — — 1993–94 HC Vítkovice CZE — — — — — 5 2 1 3 6 1994–95 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 25 2 8 10 14 — — — — — 1994–95 Hershey Bears AHL 55 22 27 49 75 — — — — — 1995–96 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 16 2 2 4 24 — — — — — 1998–99 HC Vítkovice CZE 30 9 13 22 26 4 0 2 2 12 1999–00 HC Oceláři Třinec CZE 11 1 5 6 6 — — — — — 1999–00 EHC Freiburg GER-2 5 1 3 4 16 — — — — — TCH/CZE totals 207 65 85 150 92 — — — — — NHL totals 49 5 11 16 42 — — — — —

International

Year Team Event GP G A Pts PIM 1989 Czechoslovakia EJC 6 4 4 8 6 1990 Czechoslovakia WJC 4 2 0 2 2 1991 Czechoslovakia WJC 6 0 2 2 0 1993 Czech Republic WC 8 1 3 4 10 1994 Czech Republic WC 6 0 3 3 8 Junior totals 16 6 6 12 8 Senior totals 14 1 6 7 18