Adam Jiříček is a Czech NHL defenceman who scored his first league goal in a game in Ottawa.
Adam Jiříček is a Czech ice hockey defenceman who plays for St. Louis in the NHL. He was picked sixteenth in the 2024 NHL Draft. [2]
He scored his first NHL goal in the 57th minute of a game in Ottawa, which St. Louis won 7:2. He made his NHL debut on 2 October 2026 and scored his first goal eleven days later, on 13 October 2026. [2] The 20-year-old scored with a shot from the top of the right faceoff circle. The puck ended up behind Ottawa goaltender Samuel Ersson. [1] According to the daily Deník.cz, he got on the scoresheet in his sixth NHL game. In his debut, in which St. Louis won and kept a clean sheet, he spent sixteen and a half minutes on the ice and a goal of his was disallowed after a video review. [3]
St. Louis coach Jim Montgomery praised him after the debut, saying he played as if he had been in the league for at least three years. [3]
He spent the previous season mostly in the junior OHL in Brantford, where he scored 19 goals and added 40 assists in 55 games, and in the spring he played six playoff games in the American AHL in Springfield. [3]
His older brother David has played 85 NHL games and plays for the Philadelphia Flyers. [3]
Sources
- ČTK / České noviny — 14 October 2026
- Deník.cz — 16 October 2026
- Deník: Plzeňský kraj — 3 October 2026