Played For: | LTC Prague HC Davos HC Lausanne |
Position: | Defenceman[1] |
Birth Date: | 28 February 1926 |
Birth Place: | Prague, Czechoslovakia |
Death Place: | Belgium |
Career Start: | 1945 |
Career End: | 1950 |
Oldřich Zábrodský (February 28, 1926 - September 22, 2015) was a Czech ice hockey player for the Czechoslovak national team. He won a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics.
Zábrodský was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia.[2] His mother was Russian and his brother, Vladimír, was also a hockey player.
Zábrodský played for LTC Praha. After the Spengler Cup in late-1948, he remained in Switzerland, where he finished the season playing for HC Davos. During the next two seasons, Zábrodský played for HC Lausanne before ending his professional career.
In 1951, he emigrated to the United States through Italy. In 1960, he moved to Belgium, where he lived until his death in 2015.[3] [4]