Karel Rachůnek

Karel Rachůnek 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). Rachůnek was drafted in the ninth round, 229th overall, by the Ottawa Senators in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. Rachunek was the brother of Ivan Rachůnek and Tomáš Rachůnek who also played professional ice hockey.

27 August 1979

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Born on the same birth day (27 August): Alessandro Gamberini • Blake Adams • David Bentley • Ed Gein • Ernest Faber • Fernest Arceneaux • George, Duke of Saxony • Glen Matlock • Hugh Orde • Jaswant Singh Neki • Jeanette Winterson • Joanna McGilchrist • Joe Cunningham (baseball) • Johann Georg Hamann • Juhan Parts • Kevin Huerter • Ogie Alcasid • Yolanda Adams

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