height_ft played_for weight_lb birth_place career_end position height_in birth_date article_title ntl_team career_start
5 hc košice hc sparta praha 163 prague occupied czechoslovakia -rrb- , bohemia and moravia , nazi germany -lrb- 1981 goaltender 11 18 march 1944 jiří holeček
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jiří holeček

jiří holeček -lrb- born march 18 , 1944 -rrb- is a czech professional ice hockey coach and former player .
holeček played in the czechoslovak elite league from 1964 to 1979 , and on the czechoslovak national team for many years .
after beginning his career on the košice team in 1964 -- 65 , holecek played for sparta prague from 1965 to 1976 -lrb- except 1969 -- 71 , when he played for jihlava -rrb- .
from 1976 to 1979 he played for České budějovice .
holecek played 488 league games and won six championships , as well as the czechoslovak golden hockey stick award for the best player in 1974 .
he played 164 games for the national team , including ten world championships -lrb- leading the team to gold in 1972 , 1976 , and 1977 -rrb- , being named the best goaltender five times .
he played at the 1972 and 1976 olympics and the 1976 canada cup .
holecek finished his playing career in 1981 in germany .
in 1980s he worked as a coach of the czechoslovak national ice hockey team goaltenders .
he was inducted into the iihf hall of fame in 1998 .
currently , he is working as goalie coach for one of the prague junior hockey teams called hc hvězda praha .
