Karel Gut

Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Gut eventually began playing in the Czechoslovak Extraliga with HC ATK Praha. He later played for Tatra Smíchov from 1951 to 1953. He would play the rest of his career with Spartak Praha Sokolova. and six World Cup appearances. ==Coaching career==

In 1964 he retired from his playing career in ice hockey and became an ice hockey coach. In the late 1970s, after having observed Roger Neilson of the Toronto Maple Leafs using ringette rings and concepts during a practice in Canada, Gut went back to Czechoslovakia and introduced and modified these ideas and applied them to the training system for the national men's team's practices, which was then also applied as a training aid for Czechoslovakia's university ice hockey teams. ==Management career==

When Czechoslovakia was divided, Gut became chairman of the Czech Ice Hockey Association. The team went on to take the gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Japan and won four VM-Gold in 1996, 1999, 2000 and 2001. ==Later life and honors==

Gut was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 1998, and has also been inducted into the Czechoslovak Ice Hockey Hall of Fame. He died on January 6, 2014, at age 86. ==References==