HC Pardubice
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HC ČSOB Pojišťovna Pardubice is a professional ice hockey
club that plays in the Czech Extraliga
. It is located in Pardubice
, home venue is ČEZ Arena. The club previously was named HC Eaton Pardubice, but since the 2011–12 season
the club is named HC ČSOB Pojišťovna Pardubice.
, Potůček, Reiberg, Přibík, Komeštík and Kubeška.
Organised hockey was founded in Pardubice by Vilém Weiss in 1923 when also hockey club LTC Pardubice was established. Regular competitions started to be played only in season 1930/1931.
After the end of Second World War was in Pardubice installed ice rink and before the Christmas 1947 new winter sports stadium was opened with artificial ice rink. In season 1949/1950 Pardubice won in its division and managed to get to Extra League. New season 1950/1951 entered the team with new name Slavia Pardubice. Since that time the club has never descended from the top hockey competition.
Slavia
in the name of the team didn’t stay long. At the end of season 1952/1953 the club changed its name to Dynamo Pardubice. In 50s of 20th century began their careers in Pardubice Bronislav Danda and goalkeeper Vladimír Nadrchal.
The first important success of the club came in 1960. Dynamo Pardubice reached the medals for the first time getting on 3rd place. In this season was also the winter sports stadium finished and provided with a roof.
The following season began the club with a new name again. This time it was Tesla Pardubice. This name stayed without a change for long 31 years until July 1991.
In 1960s the team was with their results somewhere about the middle of the table of results. From Pardubice team got into representation on winter Olympic Games offensive players Jiří Dolana and Stanislav Prýl. In 1965 Zdeněk Špaček became the best scorer in the league with 33 goals. The arrival of the new generation of players was marked by the arrival of junior players, who became champions in 1967. The offensive tri consisting of Bohuslav Šťastný
, Jiří Novák
and Vladimír Martinec
became the stars of Extra League. Wings of this offensive action became on a domestic championship in Prague
in 1972 even world champion.
Pardubice team was waiting for its big opportunity until 1973 when they won the basic part and then even play off and so they got the first title in champion league. Vladimír Martinec
became the best pass a ball player with 23 assistances and got his first Golden Hockey Stick
.
Season 1975/1976 was started by the final duel between Tesla Pardubice and CSKA Moscow
. Tesla in match played in Czechoslovakia
showed unbelievable performance when they managed to defeat a professional army team with score 3:2. However, the following match played in Moscow
was won by CSKA
with score 6:1.
After the won champion ship title the team stayed among the top three teams in Extra League for following 3 seasons when they reached silver and bronze medal. Goalkeeper Jiří Crha
at that time was playing on the position of the second goalkeeper on several top competitions but didn’t get any gold medals and so he decided to emigrate. After that he became the first Czech player to play in NHL.
In the following years there were couple of successful players rather than the whole team being successful as the whole. The offensive trio Vladimír Martinec, Jiří Novák and Bohuslav Šťastný reached another world championship title. Besides that Vladimír Martinec became the best player of Extra League with 28 assistances in 1976 and from the mid-1970s he won Golden Hockey Stick
three times. In 1979 Vladimír Martinec
even became the best offensive player in the whole League with 42 goals. However, Tesla as a whole wasn’t that successful as the individual players.
Since 1982 the senior team started to be on the upturn. New team members became goalkeeper Dominik Hašek
, defender František Musil, offensive players Otakar Janecký
and Jiří Šejba
. Musil
and Šejba won the world championship in Prague
in 1985 but at that season they were playing for the army team Dukla Jihlava. After that František Musil emigrated to NHL and Jiří Šejba
returned to Tesla Pardubice to celebrate the title of League Champion in the seasons of 1986/87 and 1988/1989. In both these seasons Dominik Hašek
won the Golden Hockey Stick
and again won this title in 1990. In season 1988/1989 was the best pass a ball player Otakar Janecký
with 41 passes and the acknowledgement for the best coach was given to Valdimír Martinec. Another player Ladislav Lubina
was awarded the best offensive player of the League in 1991.
HC Pardubice entered the first Czech competition (1993/1994) as a strong team with both experienced and young players. This was especially true about the goalkeeper Radovan Biegl who became the best goalkeeper in the league and about the offensive player Richard Král who became the best offensive player of the whole competition with 43 goals. With very good performance presented himself 18years old Milan Hejduk
who was announced to be the best beginner. The second place for Pardubice helped to win coach Marek Sýkora who was afterwards announced to be the best coach of the season even though he wasn’t local in Pardubice which wasn’t typical at all as till that time all the coaches came from Pardubice.
However, after the second place the team went down to the bottom of the result table and as a result the team had to defend their place in Extra League in 1996. HC Pardubice gradually left Král
, Biegl and other players who had to be replaced by juniors. Among the juniors appeared also offensive player Petr Sýkora
. Milan Hejduk
became the Olympic champion at Nagano
in 1998 and after that he left for NHL.
In the following season the team got a new young coach Miloš Říha and Pardubice started to improve their performance. In season 1996/1997 Pardubice reached 4th place. Even though there were no medals the individual players were successful, for example Petr Sýkora
became the best offensive player with 26 goals in 2001.
In 2001 there was a significant reconstruction of the winter sports stadium; it also changed its name to Duhová Aréna. In the following two seasons were successful local juniors who managed to get two championship titles. Nevertheless Pardubice A team couldn’t get over the first round of play off.
Pardubice nearly reached the title in season 2003/2004 when after 9 years the team was playing in the final again. In this final Pardubice fought against HC Slavia Praha which eventually won the final and got its first Extra League Title. And so Pardubice had to wait for its 4th championship title until 2005. They won the championship under the leadership of captain Jiří Dopita
and after the arrival of Slovakian goalkeeper Ján Lašák
. Thanks to the cancelled season in NHL to Pardubice came the offensive tri consisting of Jan Bulis
, Michal Mikeska
and Milan Hejduk
, who were on the top three places in Canadian table of results. The title of the best play off player received Aleš Hemský
. In the final Pardubice team was the front- runner and so after 16 years the title returned to Pardubice the city of gingerbread.
During the existence of hockey club there appeared many famous names that are now in the Hall of Fame in Pardubice. The most famous names are: Josef Paleček
, Vladimír Martinec
, Bohuslav Šťastný
, Otakar Janecký
, Jiří Šejba
, František Musil, Michal Sýkora
, Ladislav Lubina
, Milan Hejduk
and Dominik Hašek
.
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
club that plays in the Czech Extraliga
Czech Extraliga
The Czech Extraliga is the highest-level ice hockey league in the Czech Republic. As of 2009, it is ranked by the IIHF as the third strongest league in Europe....
. It is located in Pardubice
Pardubice
Pardubice is the capital city of the Pardubice Region and lies on the river Elbe, 65 miles east of Prague. Pardubice has an antique centre square and old town, with many restaurants that stay open until late in the evening. There is an old Tower and a recently renovated Castle...
, home venue is ČEZ Arena. The club previously was named HC Eaton Pardubice, but since the 2011–12 season
2011–12 Czech Extraliga season
The 2011–12 Czech Extraliga season will be the 19th season of the Czech Extraliga since its creation after the breakup of Czechoslovakia and the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League in 1993....
the club is named HC ČSOB Pojišťovna Pardubice.
- Czechoslovak Championships won: 3 (1973, 1987, 1989)
- Czech Extraliga Championships won: 2 (2005, 2010)
History
Ice hockey is being played in Pardubice since the beginning of 20th century. Witness of the hockey beginnings in Pardubice was Matiční jezero where so called “bandy hockey” was played. This way of playing hockey was taken from football – there were 11 players, goals, instead of puck there was a ball and even the site of the field was exactly like in football. The first match in Canadian style of hockey was played in 1913 on the very same lake. In this match played for Pardubice: WeissWeiss
Weiss may refer to:* Weiss , including Weiß* Mount Weiss, a mountain located in the Sunwapta River valley of Jasper National Park* USS Weiss , a cancelled John C...
, Potůček, Reiberg, Přibík, Komeštík and Kubeška.
Organised hockey was founded in Pardubice by Vilém Weiss in 1923 when also hockey club LTC Pardubice was established. Regular competitions started to be played only in season 1930/1931.
After the end of Second World War was in Pardubice installed ice rink and before the Christmas 1947 new winter sports stadium was opened with artificial ice rink. In season 1949/1950 Pardubice won in its division and managed to get to Extra League. New season 1950/1951 entered the team with new name Slavia Pardubice. Since that time the club has never descended from the top hockey competition.
Slavia
Slavia
Slavia may refer to:* Medieval toponymy** One of the tribal centers of early East Slavs, see Saqaliba** The medieval name for the Wendish settlement area** The medieval name for the duchy of Pomerania** The medieval name for Mecklenburg...
in the name of the team didn’t stay long. At the end of season 1952/1953 the club changed its name to Dynamo Pardubice. In 50s of 20th century began their careers in Pardubice Bronislav Danda and goalkeeper Vladimír Nadrchal.
The first important success of the club came in 1960. Dynamo Pardubice reached the medals for the first time getting on 3rd place. In this season was also the winter sports stadium finished and provided with a roof.
The following season began the club with a new name again. This time it was Tesla Pardubice. This name stayed without a change for long 31 years until July 1991.
In 1960s the team was with their results somewhere about the middle of the table of results. From Pardubice team got into representation on winter Olympic Games offensive players Jiří Dolana and Stanislav Prýl. In 1965 Zdeněk Špaček became the best scorer in the league with 33 goals. The arrival of the new generation of players was marked by the arrival of junior players, who became champions in 1967. The offensive tri consisting of Bohuslav Šťastný
Bohuslav Štastný
Bohuslav Šťastný is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the Czechoslovak Extraliga. He played for HC Pardubice...
, Jiří Novák
Jiří Novák (ice hockey)
Jiří Novák is a former Czechoslovak ice hockey player. He participated at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, where his team won a silver medal.-References:...
and Vladimír Martinec
Vladimir Martinec
Vladimir Martinec was a Czech ice hockey right wing in the 1970s. He won the Golden Hockey Stick award as top player in Czechoslovakia four times, in 1973, 1975, 1976, and 1979....
became the stars of Extra League. Wings of this offensive action became on a domestic championship in Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
in 1972 even world champion.
Pardubice team was waiting for its big opportunity until 1973 when they won the basic part and then even play off and so they got the first title in champion league. Vladimír Martinec
Vladimir Martinec
Vladimir Martinec was a Czech ice hockey right wing in the 1970s. He won the Golden Hockey Stick award as top player in Czechoslovakia four times, in 1973, 1975, 1976, and 1979....
became the best pass a ball player with 23 assistances and got his first Golden Hockey Stick
Golden Hockey Stick
The Golden Hockey Stick is an award given to the top Czech ice hockey player. It was originally awarded to the top player in the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League, beginning in the 1968–69 season. After the Czech Republic and Slovakia became separate countries in 1993, it was awarded to the top...
.
Season 1975/1976 was started by the final duel between Tesla Pardubice and CSKA Moscow
HC CSKA Moscow
HC CSKA Moscow is a Russian ice hockey club that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League. It is referred to in the West as "Central Red Army" or the "Red Army Team" for its past affiliation with the Soviet Army, popularly known as the Red Army...
. Tesla in match played in Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
showed unbelievable performance when they managed to defeat a professional army team with score 3:2. However, the following match played in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
was won by CSKA
CSKA
CSKA refers to military sports teams in several east European countries:Bulgaria* CSKA Sofia ** PBC CSKA Sofia, a basketball club...
with score 6:1.
After the won champion ship title the team stayed among the top three teams in Extra League for following 3 seasons when they reached silver and bronze medal. Goalkeeper Jiří Crha
Jiri Crha
Jiří Crha is a retired Czech professional ice hockey goaltender who played two seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs....
at that time was playing on the position of the second goalkeeper on several top competitions but didn’t get any gold medals and so he decided to emigrate. After that he became the first Czech player to play in NHL.
In the following years there were couple of successful players rather than the whole team being successful as the whole. The offensive trio Vladimír Martinec, Jiří Novák and Bohuslav Šťastný reached another world championship title. Besides that Vladimír Martinec became the best player of Extra League with 28 assistances in 1976 and from the mid-1970s he won Golden Hockey Stick
Golden Hockey Stick
The Golden Hockey Stick is an award given to the top Czech ice hockey player. It was originally awarded to the top player in the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League, beginning in the 1968–69 season. After the Czech Republic and Slovakia became separate countries in 1993, it was awarded to the top...
three times. In 1979 Vladimír Martinec
Vladimir Martinec
Vladimir Martinec was a Czech ice hockey right wing in the 1970s. He won the Golden Hockey Stick award as top player in Czechoslovakia four times, in 1973, 1975, 1976, and 1979....
even became the best offensive player in the whole League with 42 goals. However, Tesla as a whole wasn’t that successful as the individual players.
Since 1982 the senior team started to be on the upturn. New team members became goalkeeper Dominik Hašek
Dominik Hašek
Dominik Hašek is a Czech ice hockey goaltender who is currently with HC Spartak Moscow of the KHL.In his 16-season National Hockey League career, he played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Red Wings, and the Ottawa Senators. During his years in Buffalo, he became one of the...
, defender František Musil, offensive players Otakar Janecký
Otakar Janecký
Otakar Janecký is a retired Czech ice hockey forward.In his homeland Janecký represented HC Pardubice, his birthcity team for his entire Czechoslovak Extraliga and Czech Extraliga career....
and Jiří Šejba
Jiri Sejba
Jiří Šejba is a retired Professional Hockey forward who played 1 season in the National Hockey League for the Buffalo Sabres.-Playing career:...
. Musil
Musil
Musil is a Czech surname which may refer to:in music:* Bartolo Musil , an Austrian young musician, singer and composer* Erich Musil , German tenor singer...
and Šejba won the world championship in Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
in 1985 but at that season they were playing for the army team Dukla Jihlava. After that František Musil emigrated to NHL and Jiří Šejba
Jiri Sejba
Jiří Šejba is a retired Professional Hockey forward who played 1 season in the National Hockey League for the Buffalo Sabres.-Playing career:...
returned to Tesla Pardubice to celebrate the title of League Champion in the seasons of 1986/87 and 1988/1989. In both these seasons Dominik Hašek
Dominik Hašek
Dominik Hašek is a Czech ice hockey goaltender who is currently with HC Spartak Moscow of the KHL.In his 16-season National Hockey League career, he played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Red Wings, and the Ottawa Senators. During his years in Buffalo, he became one of the...
won the Golden Hockey Stick
Golden Hockey Stick
The Golden Hockey Stick is an award given to the top Czech ice hockey player. It was originally awarded to the top player in the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League, beginning in the 1968–69 season. After the Czech Republic and Slovakia became separate countries in 1993, it was awarded to the top...
and again won this title in 1990. In season 1988/1989 was the best pass a ball player Otakar Janecký
Otakar Janecký
Otakar Janecký is a retired Czech ice hockey forward.In his homeland Janecký represented HC Pardubice, his birthcity team for his entire Czechoslovak Extraliga and Czech Extraliga career....
with 41 passes and the acknowledgement for the best coach was given to Valdimír Martinec. Another player Ladislav Lubina
Ladislav Lubina
Ladislav Lubina is former Czech ice hockey player and currently ice hockey coach. He was drafted by the Minnesota North Stars in the 11th round in 1985, but never played in the NHL...
was awarded the best offensive player of the League in 1991.
Modern history
At the beginning of season 1991/1992 the club changed its name to HC Pardubice.HC Pardubice entered the first Czech competition (1993/1994) as a strong team with both experienced and young players. This was especially true about the goalkeeper Radovan Biegl who became the best goalkeeper in the league and about the offensive player Richard Král who became the best offensive player of the whole competition with 43 goals. With very good performance presented himself 18years old Milan Hejduk
Milan Hejduk
Milan Hejduk is a Czech professional ice hockey forward and the captain for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League .- Playing career :...
who was announced to be the best beginner. The second place for Pardubice helped to win coach Marek Sýkora who was afterwards announced to be the best coach of the season even though he wasn’t local in Pardubice which wasn’t typical at all as till that time all the coaches came from Pardubice.
However, after the second place the team went down to the bottom of the result table and as a result the team had to defend their place in Extra League in 1996. HC Pardubice gradually left Král
Král
Kráľ is a village and municipality in the Rimavská Sobota District of the Banská Bystrica Region of southern Slovakia.-External links:*http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html...
, Biegl and other players who had to be replaced by juniors. Among the juniors appeared also offensive player Petr Sýkora
Petr Sýkora
Petr Sýkora is a Czech professional ice hockey right winger for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League . Sýkora has previously played in the NHL for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Minnesota Wild. He is a two-time Stanley Cup...
. Milan Hejduk
Milan Hejduk
Milan Hejduk is a Czech professional ice hockey forward and the captain for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League .- Playing career :...
became the Olympic champion at Nagano
1998 Winter Olympics
The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially the XVIII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 7 to 22 February 1998 in Nagano, Japan. Seventy-two nations and 2,176 participans contested in seven sports and 72 events at 15 venues. The games saw the introduction of Women's ice...
in 1998 and after that he left for NHL.
In the following season the team got a new young coach Miloš Říha and Pardubice started to improve their performance. In season 1996/1997 Pardubice reached 4th place. Even though there were no medals the individual players were successful, for example Petr Sýkora
Petr Sýkora
Petr Sýkora is a Czech professional ice hockey right winger for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League . Sýkora has previously played in the NHL for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Minnesota Wild. He is a two-time Stanley Cup...
became the best offensive player with 26 goals in 2001.
In 2001 there was a significant reconstruction of the winter sports stadium; it also changed its name to Duhová Aréna. In the following two seasons were successful local juniors who managed to get two championship titles. Nevertheless Pardubice A team couldn’t get over the first round of play off.
Pardubice nearly reached the title in season 2003/2004 when after 9 years the team was playing in the final again. In this final Pardubice fought against HC Slavia Praha which eventually won the final and got its first Extra League Title. And so Pardubice had to wait for its 4th championship title until 2005. They won the championship under the leadership of captain Jiří Dopita
Jirí Dopita
Jiří Dopita is Czech professional ice hockey player who has played in the Czech Elite League most of his career. He briefly played in the National Hockey League. Dopita has primarily played centre throughout his career.-Playing career:...
and after the arrival of Slovakian goalkeeper Ján Lašák
Ján Lašák
Ján Lašák is a Slovak professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Jokerit of the SM-Liiga. Lašák was drafted by the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League in the 2nd round of the 1999 NHL Entry Draft and spent the following four seasons in North America before returning...
. Thanks to the cancelled season in NHL to Pardubice came the offensive tri consisting of Jan Bulis
Jan Bulis
Jan Bulis is a Czech professional hockey winger who is currently playing for Traktor Chelyabinsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.-Playing career:...
, Michal Mikeska
Michal Mikeska
Michal Mikeska is a Czech professional ice hockey player currently playing for HC České Budějovice signed a contract after leaving team Salavat Yulaev Ufa in the Kontinental Hockey League....
and Milan Hejduk
Milan Hejduk
Milan Hejduk is a Czech professional ice hockey forward and the captain for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League .- Playing career :...
, who were on the top three places in Canadian table of results. The title of the best play off player received Aleš Hemský
Ales Hemsky
Aleš Hemský is a Czech professional ice hockey forward and alternate captain currently playing for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League .-HC Pardubice:...
. In the final Pardubice team was the front- runner and so after 16 years the title returned to Pardubice the city of gingerbread.
During the existence of hockey club there appeared many famous names that are now in the Hall of Fame in Pardubice. The most famous names are: Josef Paleček
Josef Palecek
Josef Palecek is a Czech former ice hockey player who is known as a head coach in the Czech Extraliga, and as an assistant coach for the Czech Republic men's national ice hockey teams at the 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2011 IIHF World Championships.- International career :Palecek played with the Czech...
, Vladimír Martinec
Vladimir Martinec
Vladimir Martinec was a Czech ice hockey right wing in the 1970s. He won the Golden Hockey Stick award as top player in Czechoslovakia four times, in 1973, 1975, 1976, and 1979....
, Bohuslav Šťastný
Bohuslav Štastný
Bohuslav Šťastný is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the Czechoslovak Extraliga. He played for HC Pardubice...
, Otakar Janecký
Otakar Janecký
Otakar Janecký is a retired Czech ice hockey forward.In his homeland Janecký represented HC Pardubice, his birthcity team for his entire Czechoslovak Extraliga and Czech Extraliga career....
, Jiří Šejba
Jiri Sejba
Jiří Šejba is a retired Professional Hockey forward who played 1 season in the National Hockey League for the Buffalo Sabres.-Playing career:...
, František Musil, Michal Sýkora
Michal Sýkora
Michal Sýkora is a retired Czech professional ice hockey defenseman who played in the National Hockey League for the San Jose Sharks, Chicago Blackhawks, Tampa Bay Lightning and Philadelphia Flyers.-Playing career:...
, Ladislav Lubina
Ladislav Lubina
Ladislav Lubina is former Czech ice hockey player and currently ice hockey coach. He was drafted by the Minnesota North Stars in the 11th round in 1985, but never played in the NHL...
, Milan Hejduk
Milan Hejduk
Milan Hejduk is a Czech professional ice hockey forward and the captain for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League .- Playing career :...
and Dominik Hašek
Dominik Hašek
Dominik Hašek is a Czech ice hockey goaltender who is currently with HC Spartak Moscow of the KHL.In his 16-season National Hockey League career, he played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Red Wings, and the Ottawa Senators. During his years in Buffalo, he became one of the...
.
History of the team name
- 1923 – LTC Pardubice
- 1949 – Sokol Pardubice (consolidation of LTC and Rapid)
- 1950 – Slavia Pardubice
- 1953 – Dynamo Pardubice
- 1960 – Tesla Pardubice
- 1991 – HC (Hockey club) Pardubice
- 1995 – HC IB (Investiční banka) Pardubice
- 1997 – HC IPB (Investiční a poštovní banka) Pardubice
- 2002 – HC ČSOB (Československá obchodní bankaCeskoslovenská obchodní bankaČeskoslovenská obchodní banka, a.s. is a commercial bank which operates in Czech Republic. It is one of the largest bank domiciled in the Czech Republic. As a universal bank, it offers a full range of banking services to individuals and companies...
) Pojišťovna Pardubice - 2003 – HC Moeller Pardubice
- 2009 – HC Eaton Pardubice
- 2011 - HC ČSOB (Československá obchodní banka) Pojišťovna Pardubice
Team’s successes
- Winner of the highest domestic competition 1972/1973, 1986/1987, 1988/1989, 2004/2005 and 2009/2010
- The Cup of European Championship 2nd place (1974/1975)
Players
- See :Category:HC Pardubice players for a list of HC Pardubice players past and present.
Retired numbers
- 3 Martin ČechMartin CechMartin Čech was a Czech ice hockey defenceman.Čech played in the Czech Extraliga for HC Zlín and HC Lasselsberger Plzeň before moving to Finland's SM-liiga, spending one season with JYP and two seasons with Pelicans...
- 5 Jiří Dolana
- 10 Jiří ŠejbaJiri SejbaJiří Šejba is a retired Professional Hockey forward who played 1 season in the National Hockey League for the Buffalo Sabres.-Playing career:...
- 13 Vladimír MartinecVladimir MartinecVladimir Martinec was a Czech ice hockey right wing in the 1970s. He won the Golden Hockey Stick award as top player in Czechoslovakia four times, in 1973, 1975, 1976, and 1979....
- 16 Karel Mach
- 17 Bohuslav ŠťastnýBohuslav ŠtastnýBohuslav Šťastný is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the Czechoslovak Extraliga. He played for HC Pardubice...
- 20 Vladimír Dvořáček
- 20 Jiří NovákJirí NovákJiří Novák is a former Czech tennis player, who was born in Zlín, Czechoslovakia but resides nowadays in Monte Carlo, Monaco.-Career:Novák turned professional in 1993 and won 7 singles and 18 doubles titles during his career, winning $7,614,063 in prize money. For six years, he was the...
- 21 Milan Koďousek
- 91 Otakar JaneckýOtakar JaneckýOtakar Janecký is a retired Czech ice hockey forward.In his homeland Janecký represented HC Pardubice, his birthcity team for his entire Czechoslovak Extraliga and Czech Extraliga career....