HC Slavia Praha (eng: HC Slavia Prague) is a Czech

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team located in

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playing the Czech 1st National Hockey League, the second-highest league in the country. Slavia played in the Extraliga from 1994 until 2015, winning the national championship in 2003 and 2008. The club plays its home games at Zimní stadion Eden in

. From 2004 until 2015, it played at

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. The team played in the 2008–09 season of the Champions Hockey League. The team was relegated to the 1. Liga in the 2014–15 Czech Extraliga season.

Players

World champions and Olympic champions

Jan Fleischmann Jan Maria Fleischmann (July 6, 1885 – September 23, 1939) was a Czechoslovak ice hockey player who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games (french: Iers Jeux olympiqu ...

(ME 1911, 1914) * Miloslav Fleischmann (ME 1911, 1922) * J. Jarkovský (ME 1911) * Jaroslav Jirkovský (ME 1911, 1914, 1922, 1925) * Tomáš Kucharčík (MS 1999) * Josef Loos (ME 1914) * Vilém Loos (ME 1922, 1925) * Jan Palouš (ME 1911, 1914) * František Rublič (ME 1914) *

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(WOG 1998; MS 2005, 2010 as Head coach) * Bohumil Steingenhöfer (ME 1929) *

Jaroslav Špaček Jaroslav Spacek (; born February 11, 1974) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for over 13 seasons with the Florida Panthers, Chicago Blackhawks, Columbus Blue Jackets, Edmonton Oile ...

(MS 2005) *

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(ME 1925, 1929) * Viktor Ujčík (MS 1996, 2001) * Josef Vašíček (MS 2005) * Otakar Vindyš (ME 1911, 1922, 1925) * Tomáš Vlasák (MS 1999, 2000, 2001)

Honours

:Czech Extraliga championships: 2 (2003, 2008)

References

External links

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HC Slavia Praha official homepage
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HC Slavia Praha FanClub homepage
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