Vladimír Martinec

Czech ice hockey player and coach

Vladimír Martinec (born 22 December 1949) is a Czech former ice hockey player. He played as a right winger during the 1970s and early 1980s, and won the Golden Hockey Stick award as top player in Czechoslovakia four times, in 1973, 1975, 1976, and 1979. Internationally, he played for the Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team, and was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2001.

Martinec played for Pardubice in the Czechoslovak Elite League from 1967 to 1981 with the exception of the 1978–79 season, when he played for Jihlava. Nicknamed "the Fox" due to the unpredictability of his offensive manoeuvres, he scored 343 goals in 539 games in the elite league. Martinec was a key player on the Czechoslovak national teams in the 1970s. Known for his technical skills, he scored 155 goals in 289 international games. He played in the World Championships every year in the 1970s and in 1981 (on the winning side in 1972, 1976, and 1977, and making the all star team in 1974, 1975, 1976, and 1977); he is the 7th all time leading scorer in World Championships with 110 points (52 goals and 58 assists) in 102 games (top scorer in 1976 with 20 points in 10 games). He also played for Czechoslovakia in the 1972, 1976, and 1980 Winter Olympics, and in the 1976 Canada Cup where he scored 7 points (3+4) in 7 games. He coached ESV Kaufbeuren in Germany (also coming back to play for this team in 1985), and then coached his old team Tesla Pardubice between 1986 and 1989.

Regular season   Playoffs Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM 1967–68 TJ Tesla Pardubice TCH 1968–69 TJ Tesla Pardubice TCH 23 1969–70 TJ Tesla Pardubice TCH 34 22 14 36 — — — — — — 1970–71 TJ Tesla Pardubice TCH 34 20 19 39 — — — — — — 1971–72 TJ Tesla Pardubice TCH 36 23 19 42 21 — — — — — 1972–73 TJ Tesla Pardubice TCH 34 26 23 49 — — — — — — 1973–74 TJ Tesla Pardubice TCH 40 31 22 53 — — — — — — 1974–75 TJ Tesla Pardubice TCH 42 27 18 45 — — — — — — 1975–76 TJ Tesla Pardubice TCH 32 23 28 51 — — — — — — 1976–77 TJ Tesla Pardubice TCH 42 28 21 49 — — — — — — 1977–78 TJ Tesla Pardubice TCH 44 19 18 37 19 — — — — — 1978–79 ASD Dukla Jihlava TCH 21 21 8 29 — — — — — — 1978–79 TJ Tesla Pardubice TCH 24 21 12 33 — — — — — — 1979–80 TJ Tesla Pardubice TCH 35 27 20 47 19 — — — — — 1980–81 TJ Tesla Pardubice TCH 39 21 22 43 28 — — — — — 1981–82 ESV Kaufbeuren 1. GBun 44 38 29 67 10 3 1 2 3 0 1982–83 ESV Kaufbeuren 1. GBun 35 28 28 56 22 — — — — — 1983–84 ESV Kaufbeuren 1. GBun 48 30 30 60 12 — — — — — 1984–85 ESV Kaufbeuren 1. GBun 36 25 33 58 19 9 5 3 8 4 TCH totals 457 309 244 553 — — — — — — 1. GBun totals 163 121 120 241 63 12 6 5 11 4

TCH totals do not include numbers from the 1967–68 to 1968–69 seasons.