André Lakos

Ice hockey defence André Lakos was a member of the Austrian squad participating at the 2002 Salt Lake City and the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. In 2002, the team lost to Germany and Latvia and won against Slovakia but was eliminated in the group stage and finally placed 12th losing to Switzerland in the final round. In 2014, Austria lost to Finland and Canada, but won against Norway, also being eliminated in the group stage. In the play-offs, Austria then lost to Slovakia.

Lakos began his club career in Canada playing with Toronto St. Michael’s Majors (1997-98), Barry Colts (1998-99), Albany River Rats (1999-2002), and Utah Grizzlies (2002) before moving to Vienna Capitals of Austria (2002-04), Syracuse Crunch (2004-05), and then back to Austria with EC Red Bulls Salzburg (2005-07).

Lakos had several brief stages all around the World with Houston Aeros (2007), Färjestad BK (2007-08), HK Traktor Tscheljabinsk (2008-10), Red Bull Salzburg (2010-11), Kölner Haie (2011-12), Vienna Capitals (2012-13, 2013-14), Piráti Chomutov (2013), SCL Tigers (2014-15), Orli Znojmo (2015-17, 2018), EC Bad Tölz (2017-18), Graz 99ers (2018), and Rytíři Kladno (2019-20).

In 2007, 2010-11 Lakos helped Salzburg win the Austrian National title. He won 74 international caps and scored 25 points (11 goals + 14 assists).