Jakub Brabenec

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Jakub Brabenec
Born (2003-09-11) 11 September 2003 (age 20)
Brno, Czech Republic
Height 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Weight 176 lb (80 kg; 12 st 8 lb)
Position Centre / Left wing
Shoots Left
NHL team (P
)
Cur. team
Former teams		 Vegas Golden Knights
Henderson Silver Knights (AHL)
HC Kometa Brno
HC Stadion Litoměřice
SK Horácká Slavia Třebíč
NHL draft 102nd overall, 2021
Vegas Golden Knights
Playing career 2019–present

Jakub Brabenec (born 11 September 2003) is a Czech professional

Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL).[1]

Playing career

Brabenec began his career with the youth teams of

2021 NHL Entry Draft, Brabenec was selected in the fourth round (102nd overall) by the Vegas Golden Knights.[5]

He completed his move to Charlottetown ahead of the

President's Cup finals for the first time, though they lost out to the Shawinigan Cataractes.[6] He was awarded the RDS Cup as the league's Rookie of the Year and the Michel Bergeron Trophy as Best Offensive Rookie.[7] In December of that year he agreed to a three-year entry level contract with Vegas Golden Knights.[8]

Brabanec began the following season at Charlottetown, but in January 2023 they decided to capitalise on his value after a strong showing at the 2023 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and traded him to the Sherbrooke Phoenix in a player-plus-draft-picks trade deal.[1] The Phoenix advanced to the playoffs semi-finals but were eliminated by the Halifax Mooseheads despite winning the first two games of the series on the road.[9] Ahead of the 2023–24 season Brabanec attended the Vegas Golden Knights training camp but was sent to local farm team, the Henderson Silver Knights of the AHL, along with compatriot Jiří Patera, a goaltender who already played two NHL games for Vegas.[10]

International play

Medal record
Representing  Czech Republic
Ice hockey
World Junior Championships
Silver medal – second place 2023 Canada

Brabenec represented the Czech Republic at the 2021 IIHF World U18 Championships where he appeared in five games and made four assists.

He was named in the original Czech Republic squad for the 2022 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships which originally began in December 2021 (he played in two matches with one assist),[11] but those results were annulled due to the COVID-19 cancellation of the tournament,[12][13] and when it was replayed in August 2022 he did not take part. He again represented the Czech Republic at the 2023 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships[14] where he recorded one goal and six assists in seven games and won a silver medal (he was named his team's MVP in the overtime loss to Canada).[1]

Family

His father Kamil Brabenec was a professional ice hockey player who made 15 international appearances for the Czech Republic and played domestically for teams including Kometa Brno, as well as for clubs in Sweden, Slovakia and Italy. He was on the Brno coaching staff (and had not yet officially retired as a player) when his son made his senior debut with the team in 2020.[15]

Jakub's grandfather, also named Kamil, was an international basketball player for Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 80s;[16] his aunt Andrea Brabencová [it] and elder sister Kristýna Brabencová [it] also played that sport at a high level.[17]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular season
 Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
2019–20 HC Kometa Brno ELH 2 1 0 1 0 — — — — —
2019–20 HC Stadion Litoměřice CZE.2 10 0 0 0 0 — — — — —
2020–21 HC Kometa Brno ELH 23 0 1 1 4 — — — — —
2020–21 SK Horácká Slavia Třebíč CZE.2 3 0 0 0 0 — — — — —
2021–22 Charlottetown Islanders
QMJHL
 58 17 47 64 8 15 5 14 19 14
2022–23 Charlottetown Islanders QMJHL 28 8 17 25 16 — — — — —
2022–23 Sherbrooke Phoenix QMJHL 26 10 25 35 10 14 2 7 9 12
2023–24 Henderson Silver Knights AHL 48 6 7 13 16 — — — — —
ELH totals 25 1 1 2 4 — — — — —

International play

Year Team Event Result GP G A Pts PIM
2019 Czech Republic U17 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6 0 0 0 0
2021 Czech Republic
U18
 7th 5 0 4 4 2
2023 Czech Republic
WJC
 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 7 1 6 7 10
Junior totals 18 1 10 11 12

Awards and honours

Award Year
QMJHL
Rookie of the Year (RDS Cup) 2022 [18]
Offensive Rookie of the Year (Michel Bergeron Trophy)
All-Rookie Team

References

  1. ^ a b c Charlottetown Islanders move Jakub Brabenec in QMJHL trade, Jason Simmons, Saltwire, January 6, 2023
  2. ^ Kometa zvládla boj o šestku. Hradci Králové dal gól šestnáctiletý Brabenec [Kometa managed the fight for sixth. Hradec Králové conceded a goal from a sixteen-year-old Brabenec], Česká televize, 18 February 2020 (in Czech)
  3. ^ Kometa získala půdu pod nohama, trefil se i mladíček Brabenec [Kometa gained ground, and youngster Brabenec also scored], iDNES.cz, 19 February 2020 (in Czech)
  4. ^ Jakub Brabenec – 2021 NHL Draft Prospect Profile, Eugene Helfrick, The Hockey Writers, June 19, 2021
  5. ^ VGK Sign Forward Jakub Brabenec to Three-Year, Entry-Level Contract, Vegas Golden Knights / NHL.com, 10 December 2022
  6. ^ Cataractes capture QMJHL title with OT win over Islanders, SportsNet / The Canadian Press, June 11, 2022
  7. QMJHL
    , May 30, 2022
  8. ^ Brabenec inks ELC with Golden Knights, Matt Tidcombe, Canadian Hockey League, December 11, 2022
  9. ^ Mooseheads defeat Sherbrooke to advance to Q league final, Paul Palmeter, CBC News, May 8, 2023
  10. ^ Gólman Patera a útočník Brabenec se přesunuli z Vegas na farmu [Goalman Patera and striker Brabenec move from Vegas to farm], České Noviny, 1 October 2023 (in Czech)
  11. ^ Kimelman, Adam (25 December 2021). "2022 World Junior Championship rosters". NHL.com. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  12. ^ "Team Czechia placed in quarantine, to miss game". IIHF. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  13. ^ "2022 World Juniors to be played in August, was postponed due to COVID-19". NHL.com. February 17, 2022. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  14. ^ Jakub Brabenec před bojem o zlato: Ještě není konec, chceme to urvat [Jakub Brabenec before the fight for gold: It's not over yet, we want to grab it], Tereza Žáková, hokej.cz / HC Kometa Brno, 5 January 2023 (in Czech)
  15. ^ Kamil Brabenec, EliteProspects.com
  16. ^ Brabenec Kamil, Menšíkova jedenáctka (in Czech)
  17. ^ Doma mluvíme moravsky. Holky někdy nevěděly, co říkám, směje se Brabencová [We speak Moravian at home. The girls sometimes didn't know what I was saying, laughs Brabencová], Patrik El-Talabáni, deník.cz, 16 May 2018 (in Czech)
  18. SaltWire
    .com. May 30, 2022. Retrieved November 3, 2023.

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