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HOCKEY PLAYER

Karel Rachůnek

1979 - 2011

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Karel Rachůnek (Czech pronunciation: [ˈkarɛl ˈraxuːnɛk], August 27, 1979 – September 7, 2011) was a Czech professional ice hockey player. Rachunek was the captain of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) when the team was decimated in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash. He played eight seasons in North America in the National Hockey League (NHL). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karel Rachůnek has received more than 94,601 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Karel Rachůnek is the 126th most popular hockey player (down from 120th in 2019), the 765th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 715th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Czech Hockey Player.

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Among HOCKEY PLAYERS

Among hockey players, Karel Rachůnek ranks 126 out of 364Before him are Ruslan Salei, Grant Fuhr, Alexei Gusarov, Dunc Munro, Valtteri Filppula, and Jiří Šlégr. After him are Eric Lindros, Henrik Zetterberg, Joe Thornton, Teppo Numminen, Ville Peltonen, and Mike Modano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1979, Karel Rachůnek ranks 416Before him are Emilie Autumn, Ken Chu, Austra Skujytė, Juan Ignacio Chela, Olivia Lufkin, and Samoa Joe. After him are Carmelita Jeter, Luis Amaranto Perea, Derek Trucks, Andrés Nocioni, Joe Thornton, and Ngô Thanh Vân. Among people deceased in 2011, Karel Rachůnek ranks 455Before him are Mike Barrett, Xavier Tondo, Ruslan Salei, Poly Styrene, Wouter Weylandt, and Samuel Wanjiru. After him are Gary Winick, Mălina Olinescu, Sonia Pierre, Shahbaz Bhatti, Josef Vašíček, and Bill Clements.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Rachůnek ranks 765 out of 973Before him are Robert Reichel (1971), Petr Zelenka (1967), Jan Veselý (1990), Kateřina Neumannová (1973), Jiří Šlégr (1971), and Blanka Paulů (1954). After him are Květa Jeriová (1956), Jan Hřebejk (1967), Petr Jiráček (1986), Libor Kozák (1989), Václav Němeček (1967), and Klára Koukalová (1982).

Among HOCKEY PLAYERS In Czechia

Among hockey players born in Czechia, Karel Rachůnek ranks 15Before him are Otakar Vindyš (1889), Josef Černý (1939), Petr Nedvěd (1971), Robert Lang (1970), Patrik Eliáš (1976), and Jiří Šlégr (1971). After him are Josef Vašíček (1980), Martin Straka (1972), Jan Marek (1979), Tomáš Plekanec (1982), Milan Hejduk (1976), and David Krejčí (1986).