Michal Šafařík in the Vsetín jersey.
To a tragic accident occurred on Thursday shortly before half past nine in the morning in the Vsetín part of Horní Jasenka. “The driver in his car drove in the opposite direction when passing a right turn and got off the road into the woods. He stopped at a full-grown tree. The 43-year-old driver suffered serious injuries, which he succumbed to on the spot, “said police spokesman Petr Jaroš.
Šafařík was a Vsetín offspring, and it was in his parent club that he started his career in the 1990s, ie in the golden era of Vsetín hockey. He got his first chance in the A-team in the 1996/97 season, the biggest space on the ice in the extra-league year 2001/2002, when he hit 37 duels for Vsetín.
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Michal Šafařík’s car was demolished after the accident.
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In the highest competition, he also wore jerseys of Zlín and Pilsen. He played a total of 84 matches in the extraleague, in which he scored one goal and added eight assists. He also worked in the second highest competition in Brno, Třebíč, Olomouc, Chrudim, Havířov and Šumperk. One season he also played the highest Slovak competition for Slovan Bratislava.
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For the 2010/2011 season, he returned to the then second-league Vsetín, and ended his career the following year in the second-league Uherské Hradiště.
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