Michal Travnicek

Michal Travnicek
Born	March 14, 1980 (1980-03-14) (age 31) Decin, Czech Republic
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	207 lb (94 kg; 14 st 11 lb)
Position	Left Wing
Shoots	Left
Czech Extraliga team Former teams	HC Litvínov St. John's Maple Leafs HC Zlín
NHL Draft	228th overall, 1998 Toronto Maple Leafs
Playing career	1998–present

Michal Travnicek (born March 14, 1980) is a Czech professional ice hockey player. He was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 8th round (228th overall) of the 1998 NHL Entry Draft.^[1]

Travnicek has played with HC Litvínov in the Czech Extraliga since the 1998–99 Czech Extraliga season. He has also played few regular seasons games for HC Zlín in the 2005–06 season. In 2000, two years after his NHL draft year, he went to play for Toronto's AHL affiliate St. John's Maple Leafs. He played there during two seasons, the whole 2000–01 AHL season and part of the 2001–02 season during which he returned to the Czech Extraliga and HC Litvínov.^[1]

Travnicek has played for the Czech Republic men's national ice hockey team in the Euro Hockey Tour.^[1] He has also played for the Czech Republic men's national junior ice hockey team. In November 1999, in a game against Sweden in Helsinki, Travnicek got tangled with Swedish Mattias Weinhandl, whose left eye was injured after being struck with the blade of Travnicek's stick. After the incident, Travnicek was suspended from international hockey for three years by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Less than a year before, in the 1999 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, he was suspended for two games after spitting on a linesman.^[2][3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Michal Travnicek's career stats at Eliteprospects.com
2. ^ "Mattias Weinhandl". NBC Olympics. NBC Universal. http://i.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=12569/bio/index.html. Retrieved 19 June 2011. 
3. ^ Kennedy, Kostya (6 December 1999). "Violence Abroad. The Ugly European". SI Vault. Time Inc., A Time Warner Company. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1017871/index.htm. Retrieved 19 June 2011. 

External links

• Michal Travnicek's career stats at Eliteprospects.com
• Mihail Travnicek's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database

Persondata
Name	Travnicek, Michal
Alternative names
Short description	Czech ice hockey player
Date of birth	March 14, 1980
Place of birth	Decin, Czech Republic
Date of death
Place of death