Roman Cechmanek

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Position Goaltender
Catches Left
Nickname The Christmas Carp
The Tourist
The Chick Magnet
Mr. Bean
The Roman Empire
Checko
The Bipolar Goaler
Roman Candle
Height
Weight		 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
200 lb (91 kg)
SEL Team
F. Teams		 Linkopings HC
Vsetin HC (CZE)
Philadelphia Phantoms (AHL)
Philadelphia Flyers (NHL)
Los Angeles Kings (NHL)
Karlovy Vary HC (CZE)
Hamburg Freezers (DEL)
Nationality Flag of Czech Republic Czech Republic
Born March 2, 1971,
Gottwaldov, CZK
NHL Draft 171st overall, 2000
Philadelphia Flyers
Pro Career 1988 – present

Roman Čechmánek (born March 2, 1971 in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender. He plays for Linkopings HC in the Elitserien.

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[edit] Playing career

He played for HC Vsetín in the Czech Republic from 1996 to 2000. He was drafted in the sixth round of the 2000 NHL Entry Draft by the Philadelphia Flyers. In his first season with the Flyers Cechmanek surprised many by capturing the starting job from Brian Boucher and being one of the best goaltenders in the league. In his first season he played in the NHL All-Star Game and finished second in voting for the Vezina Trophy. He had a disappointing playoffs, however, including an embarrassing 8-0 loss in the final game of the series against Buffalo.

The next season Cechmanek had another good year and played fairly well in the first round of the playoffs. However the Philadelphia offense failed, scoring a record low number of goals (2). Cechmanek was publicly annoyed at his teammates' performance. The next year he had another very good season sharing the William M. Jennings Trophy with Martin Brodeur and teammate Robert Esche. Despite some excellent games he had an equal number of horrible ones. Cechmanek pitched two shutouts in a second round loss to Ottawa but many blamed him for the loss due to the number of soft goals he allowed in the other four games. At the end of the season he was traded to the Los Angeles Kings for a second round draft pick.

Playing behind a mediocre LA team Cechmanek had a disappointing season in 2003-04. In the lock-out cancelled 2004-05 NHL season he returned to the Czech Republic to play with his old team HC Vsetín. After splitting the 2005-06 hockey season between Karlovy Vary HC and the Hamburg Freezers, he now plays in the Swedish Elite League for Linköpings HC.

[edit] Awards

[edit] Records

Stats

Year  Team GP  GS  MIN   W  L   EGA  GA   GAA    SA    SV   SV%    
00-01 PHI  59  57  3432  35 15   2   115  2.01  1464  1349 .921    
01-02 PHI  46  43  2603  24 13   2   89   2.05  1131  1042 .921    
02-03 PHI  58  57  3350  33 15   2   102  1.83  1368  1266 .925    
03-04 LA   49  48  2701  18 21   3   113  2.51  1198  1085 .906    
 Career-  212 205 12088 110 64   2   120  2.01  5156  4742 .917

[edit] International play

Olympic medal record
Men’s Ice Hockey
Gold 1998 Ice Hockey

Played for Czech Republic in:

[edit] International statistics

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Preceded by:
Patrick Roy		 Co-winner of the Jennings Trophy
2003
 Succeeded by:
Martin Brodeur
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