I noticed that my last post in International & European Hockey Reference thread is missing. Fortunately, I saved it and I figured it would be better way to create a separate thread for this anyway considering its volume. I will post the copy of my previous post two weeks ago with one exception - that is the change in description of TIP´s voting procedure which I think I finally understand. Then I will post some data about the next season (88-89).
I wanted to originally post either full voting record of TIP´s mag. award for best player at each position and of All-star teams of the Czechoslovak domestic league from 1990 down; or save percentages of the league´s goalies of each season from which I would be able to find this stat. However, my research has not finished yet. Yearbooks with any information regarding the CSSR league stopped after 1979. But since then, I started to search in the Gól magazine which is also available to public at National Library in Prague. Information, that are contained there, is really overwhelming (I have taken more than 400 pictures so far). Statistics and interviews with all the big names of hockey of those times are written in almost every issue. Right now I have every major statistic, including save percentages, from 1990 to 1976, but not just stats… I will be looking at remaining years, Gól was created in 1968, I think, and a year later their people created well-known Golden Stick award for the best Czechoslovak player of each season.
I don´t have enough time to sit down for several hours and rewrite one special thing over 15+ seasons. It will be easier for me to just write everything I have for one season at a time. So I´ll start with the 1989-1990 season:
TIP magazine:
Best player of the season at each position:
Determined after end of the season by a) ‘expert’ or a ‘canadian’ scoring of all players in the League. This type of ‘scoring’ is a complex stat composed of certain amount of points for goals, assists and +/- for skaters. For goalies it is even more complicated, but either way this part of award is based on pure statistics, not voting. b) CSSR hockey association´s ‘chiefcoach’, National team´ coaches and all the league´s coaches. Point system appears to be: a) 20-15-10-5-3 points for the best five players in the ‘scoring’. b) for coaches 3-2-1 points for the best three players on the ballot.
Goaltenders:
1. Dominik Hašek (Jihlava) – 64 points
2. Petr Bříza (Sparta) – 46
3. Jaromír Dragan (Košice) – 15
4. Václav Fürbacher (Plzeň) – 5
5. Ladislav Blažek (Zlín) – 5
6. Eduard Hartmann (Trenčín) – 5
7. Pavel Cagaš (Vítkovice) – 2
8. Robert Horyna (Jihlava) – 1
Defensemen:
1. Leo Gudas (Sparta) – 49
2. Jerguš Bača (Košice) – 47
3. Bedřich Ščerban (Jihlava) – 17
4. Milan Jančuška (Košice) – 11
5. František Kučera (Jihlava) – 7
6. Antonín Stavjaňa (Zlín) – 4
7. Miroslav Marcinko (Košice) – 3
8. Mojmír Božík (Košice) – 3
9. Jiří Šlégr (Litvínov) – 1
10. František Procházka (Litvínov) – 1
Forwards:
1. Robert Reichel (Litvínov) – 48
2. Jiří Doležal (Sparta) – 46
3. Jaromír Jágr (Kladno) – 20
4. Martin Hosták (Sparta) – 12
5. Oto Haščák (Trenčín) – 6
6. Vladimír Jeřábek (Litvínov) – 3
7. Zdeno Cíger (Trenčín) – 3
8. Peter Bondra (Košice) – 2
9. Rostislav Vlach (Zlín) – 2
10. Libor Dolana (Jihlava) – 1
All-Star Team:
- also determined by TIP magazine but solely by the coach poll
- it is unclear whether it is just the ‘b)’ part of the previous award (3-2-1 point system), or the point system was different and only players who appeared on the 1st place of the ballot on each position received a vote…
Hašek (13 votes) – Bača (11), Gudas (9) – Jagr (10), Reichel (14), Doležal (14)
Save percentage of every goalie with 10+ games played, reg. season and playoffs combined:
1. Hašek (Jihlava): 40 games / 80 goals allowed / 938 saves / 2.13 GAA / 0.9214 %
2. Bříza (Sparta): 53 games / 137 goals allowed / 1379 saves / 2.64 GAA / 0.9096 %
3. Dragan (Košice): 47 games / 133 goals allowed / 1107 saves / 3.20 GAA / 0.8927 %
4. Hnilička (Kladno): 24 games / 70 goals allowed / 578 saves / 0.8920 %
5. Beňo (Košice): 16 games / 31 goals allowed / 254 saves / 0.8912 %
6. Fürbacher (Plzeň): 31 games / 89 goals allowed / 715 saves / 3.20 GAA / 0.8893 %
7. Tóth (Trenčín): 15 games / 44 goals allowed / 344 saves / 0.8866 %
8. Kameš (Kladno): 39 games / 139 goals allowed / 1075 saves / 4.02 GAA / 0.8855 %
9. Orct (Litvínov): 27 games / 93 goals allowed / 706 saves / 4.08 GAA / 0.8836 %
10. Horyna (Jihlava): 13 games / 41 goals allowed / 305 saves / 0.8815 %
11. Blažek (Zlín): 29 games / 86 goals allowed / 636 saves / 3.41 GAA / 0.8809 %
12. Cagaš (Vítkovice): 48 games / 173 goals allowed / 1204 saves / 3.80 GAA / 0.8744 %
13. Hartmann (Trenčín): 46 games / 155 goals allowed / 1072 saves / 3.84 GAA / 0.8736 %
14. Jelínek (Brno): 35 games / 128 goals allowed / 850 saves / 3.69 GAA / 0.8691 %
15. Gula (Č. Budějovice): 47 games / 191 goals allowed / 1246 saves / 4.26 GAA / 0.8671 %
16. Lang (Brno): 10 games / 41 goals allowed / 259 saves / 0.8633 %
17. Hrazdíra (Zlín): 29 games / 93 goals allowed / 585 saves / 3.88 GAA / 0.8628 %
18. Svoboda (Pardubice): 31 games / 94 goals allowed / 587 saves / 4.47 GAA / 0.8620 %
19. Barta (Pardubice): 23 games / 89 goals allowed / 530 saves / 0.8562 %
20. Lukeš (Litvínov): 34 games / 128 goals allowed / 755 saves / 4.62 GAA / 0.8550 %
21. Pejchar (Plzeň): 18 games / 70 goals allowed / 397 saves / 0.8501 %
Unfortunately there are only three seasons (including this one) where there was a complete statistical presentation of every goalie who played. In other seasons (with the exception of 1981-82 and 1974-75), only information about the league´s contemporary top 10/15 goalies was provided.
WHC All-Star Teams:
1) Dominik Hasek (50 votes) – Michail Tatarinov (102), Vyacheslav Fetisov (96) – Andrei Khomutov (123), Steve Yzerman (112), Robert Reichel (27)
2) Irbe (44) – Eldebrink (21), Coffey (18) – Bure (26), Nilsson (26), Kamensky (23)
WHC Save percentage data is the same as is at quanthockey.com
Other:
The League´s big affair during this season was Hasek´s refusal to play against his former team. Hasek got drafted before the season in order to play for army team Dukla Jihlava in spite of Hasek´s will apparently. Tesla Pardubice, Hasek´s home town and his only team until this point, had won with Hasek in net domestic titles in 1987 and 1989. During this season however, Pardubice without Hasek collapsed and struggled for survival. They finished 11th (of 12 teams) and with the most goals allowed of all teams. Hasek seemingly did not find a pleasure in playing for different team and when Jihlava was arranged to play against struggling Pardubice, Hasek refused to play and sat the game out. Then there was some disciplinary procedures with him, and by the end of the season Hasek also suffered some injuries and missed another games. Having read all of this, I was impressed that despite this affair Hasek´s position as the league´s biggest star and best CSSR player was barely even questioned. He was winning most of those voting rounds of the Golden Stick award anyway…
Robert Reichel was not nearly as good as anyone probably thought. Yes, he won the scoring by considerable margin (had 71 points in 44 games in reg. season, then added 12 points in 8 games in playoffs – overall more than 10 points advantage over the 2nd one, and all this as an 18 years old). But he belonged to the league´s worst +/- players! -46 in reg. season, -3 in playoffs. Hence why Jiri Dolezal almost beated Reichel in best forward voting despite 10+point gap between. Very rarely you see league leading scorer with over 70 or 80 points and almost -50 at the same time… Similarly, Reichel´s all-star nod at WHC was not as valuable given the very tiny lead in votes over the 2nd all-star team forwards.
I wanted to originally post either full voting record of TIP´s mag. award for best player at each position and of All-star teams of the Czechoslovak domestic league from 1990 down; or save percentages of the league´s goalies of each season from which I would be able to find this stat. However, my research has not finished yet. Yearbooks with any information regarding the CSSR league stopped after 1979. But since then, I started to search in the Gól magazine which is also available to public at National Library in Prague. Information, that are contained there, is really overwhelming (I have taken more than 400 pictures so far). Statistics and interviews with all the big names of hockey of those times are written in almost every issue. Right now I have every major statistic, including save percentages, from 1990 to 1976, but not just stats… I will be looking at remaining years, Gól was created in 1968, I think, and a year later their people created well-known Golden Stick award for the best Czechoslovak player of each season.
I don´t have enough time to sit down for several hours and rewrite one special thing over 15+ seasons. It will be easier for me to just write everything I have for one season at a time. So I´ll start with the 1989-1990 season:
TIP magazine:
Best player of the season at each position:
Determined after end of the season by a) ‘expert’ or a ‘canadian’ scoring of all players in the League. This type of ‘scoring’ is a complex stat composed of certain amount of points for goals, assists and +/- for skaters. For goalies it is even more complicated, but either way this part of award is based on pure statistics, not voting. b) CSSR hockey association´s ‘chiefcoach’, National team´ coaches and all the league´s coaches. Point system appears to be: a) 20-15-10-5-3 points for the best five players in the ‘scoring’. b) for coaches 3-2-1 points for the best three players on the ballot.
Goaltenders:
1. Dominik Hašek (Jihlava) – 64 points
2. Petr Bříza (Sparta) – 46
3. Jaromír Dragan (Košice) – 15
4. Václav Fürbacher (Plzeň) – 5
5. Ladislav Blažek (Zlín) – 5
6. Eduard Hartmann (Trenčín) – 5
7. Pavel Cagaš (Vítkovice) – 2
8. Robert Horyna (Jihlava) – 1
Defensemen:
1. Leo Gudas (Sparta) – 49
2. Jerguš Bača (Košice) – 47
3. Bedřich Ščerban (Jihlava) – 17
4. Milan Jančuška (Košice) – 11
5. František Kučera (Jihlava) – 7
6. Antonín Stavjaňa (Zlín) – 4
7. Miroslav Marcinko (Košice) – 3
8. Mojmír Božík (Košice) – 3
9. Jiří Šlégr (Litvínov) – 1
10. František Procházka (Litvínov) – 1
Forwards:
1. Robert Reichel (Litvínov) – 48
2. Jiří Doležal (Sparta) – 46
3. Jaromír Jágr (Kladno) – 20
4. Martin Hosták (Sparta) – 12
5. Oto Haščák (Trenčín) – 6
6. Vladimír Jeřábek (Litvínov) – 3
7. Zdeno Cíger (Trenčín) – 3
8. Peter Bondra (Košice) – 2
9. Rostislav Vlach (Zlín) – 2
10. Libor Dolana (Jihlava) – 1
All-Star Team:
- also determined by TIP magazine but solely by the coach poll
- it is unclear whether it is just the ‘b)’ part of the previous award (3-2-1 point system), or the point system was different and only players who appeared on the 1st place of the ballot on each position received a vote…
Hašek (13 votes) – Bača (11), Gudas (9) – Jagr (10), Reichel (14), Doležal (14)
Save percentage of every goalie with 10+ games played, reg. season and playoffs combined:
1. Hašek (Jihlava): 40 games / 80 goals allowed / 938 saves / 2.13 GAA / 0.9214 %
2. Bříza (Sparta): 53 games / 137 goals allowed / 1379 saves / 2.64 GAA / 0.9096 %
3. Dragan (Košice): 47 games / 133 goals allowed / 1107 saves / 3.20 GAA / 0.8927 %
4. Hnilička (Kladno): 24 games / 70 goals allowed / 578 saves / 0.8920 %
5. Beňo (Košice): 16 games / 31 goals allowed / 254 saves / 0.8912 %
6. Fürbacher (Plzeň): 31 games / 89 goals allowed / 715 saves / 3.20 GAA / 0.8893 %
7. Tóth (Trenčín): 15 games / 44 goals allowed / 344 saves / 0.8866 %
8. Kameš (Kladno): 39 games / 139 goals allowed / 1075 saves / 4.02 GAA / 0.8855 %
9. Orct (Litvínov): 27 games / 93 goals allowed / 706 saves / 4.08 GAA / 0.8836 %
10. Horyna (Jihlava): 13 games / 41 goals allowed / 305 saves / 0.8815 %
11. Blažek (Zlín): 29 games / 86 goals allowed / 636 saves / 3.41 GAA / 0.8809 %
12. Cagaš (Vítkovice): 48 games / 173 goals allowed / 1204 saves / 3.80 GAA / 0.8744 %
13. Hartmann (Trenčín): 46 games / 155 goals allowed / 1072 saves / 3.84 GAA / 0.8736 %
14. Jelínek (Brno): 35 games / 128 goals allowed / 850 saves / 3.69 GAA / 0.8691 %
15. Gula (Č. Budějovice): 47 games / 191 goals allowed / 1246 saves / 4.26 GAA / 0.8671 %
16. Lang (Brno): 10 games / 41 goals allowed / 259 saves / 0.8633 %
17. Hrazdíra (Zlín): 29 games / 93 goals allowed / 585 saves / 3.88 GAA / 0.8628 %
18. Svoboda (Pardubice): 31 games / 94 goals allowed / 587 saves / 4.47 GAA / 0.8620 %
19. Barta (Pardubice): 23 games / 89 goals allowed / 530 saves / 0.8562 %
20. Lukeš (Litvínov): 34 games / 128 goals allowed / 755 saves / 4.62 GAA / 0.8550 %
21. Pejchar (Plzeň): 18 games / 70 goals allowed / 397 saves / 0.8501 %
Unfortunately there are only three seasons (including this one) where there was a complete statistical presentation of every goalie who played. In other seasons (with the exception of 1981-82 and 1974-75), only information about the league´s contemporary top 10/15 goalies was provided.
WHC All-Star Teams:
1) Dominik Hasek (50 votes) – Michail Tatarinov (102), Vyacheslav Fetisov (96) – Andrei Khomutov (123), Steve Yzerman (112), Robert Reichel (27)
2) Irbe (44) – Eldebrink (21), Coffey (18) – Bure (26), Nilsson (26), Kamensky (23)
WHC Save percentage data is the same as is at quanthockey.com
Other:
The League´s big affair during this season was Hasek´s refusal to play against his former team. Hasek got drafted before the season in order to play for army team Dukla Jihlava in spite of Hasek´s will apparently. Tesla Pardubice, Hasek´s home town and his only team until this point, had won with Hasek in net domestic titles in 1987 and 1989. During this season however, Pardubice without Hasek collapsed and struggled for survival. They finished 11th (of 12 teams) and with the most goals allowed of all teams. Hasek seemingly did not find a pleasure in playing for different team and when Jihlava was arranged to play against struggling Pardubice, Hasek refused to play and sat the game out. Then there was some disciplinary procedures with him, and by the end of the season Hasek also suffered some injuries and missed another games. Having read all of this, I was impressed that despite this affair Hasek´s position as the league´s biggest star and best CSSR player was barely even questioned. He was winning most of those voting rounds of the Golden Stick award anyway…
Robert Reichel was not nearly as good as anyone probably thought. Yes, he won the scoring by considerable margin (had 71 points in 44 games in reg. season, then added 12 points in 8 games in playoffs – overall more than 10 points advantage over the 2nd one, and all this as an 18 years old). But he belonged to the league´s worst +/- players! -46 in reg. season, -3 in playoffs. Hence why Jiri Dolezal almost beated Reichel in best forward voting despite 10+point gap between. Very rarely you see league leading scorer with over 70 or 80 points and almost -50 at the same time… Similarly, Reichel´s all-star nod at WHC was not as valuable given the very tiny lead in votes over the 2nd all-star team forwards.
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