Dominik Hrachovina

Dominik Hrachovina was born on August 29, 1994 in Brno. He is a Czech ice hockey goaltender currently playing with the Tappara of the Liiga.

Club career
Hrachovina began his junior career with the HC Kometa Brno organisation. In 2009, he moved to the HC Havířov organisation.

In 2010, at the age of 16, Hrachovina moved to Finland to play junior hockey with the TuTo organisation. Since 2011, Hrachovina was playing with the Tappara junior teams.

Hrachovina made his senior debut in the 2012-13 season. He was still playing mostly for the Tappara junior team (he played 11 regular season games and 2 play-off games there) but he was also the second goalie in a few games with the Tappara of the SM-liiga and with the LeKi of the Mestis. Hrachovina played one senior game in this season with the Pyry of the Suomi-sarja.

In the next season, Hrachovina played only with the Tappara junior team where he played 39 regular season games and 2 play-off games and was again the second goalie in a few games with the Tappara of the Liiga (formerly SM-liiga).

In the 2014-15 season, Hrachovina played most of his games with the LeKi of the Mestis, to be more specific, 24 regular season games and 3 play-off games. He also played 14 games with the junior team of the Tappara and 3 games with the Tappara of the Liiga.

The 2015-16 season was his last junior season. Hrachovina played 4 games in the regular season plus 3 games in the play-offs with the junior team of the Tappara. He also played 17 regular season games and 2 play-off games with the Tappara of the Liiga, 2 games on loan with the HPK of the Liiga and 16 games on loan with the LeKi of the Mestis. In this season, Hrachovina became the Liiga champion with the Tappara.

Since 2016, Hrachovina was the first goalie of the Tappara. In the 2016-17 season played Hrachovina 41 games in the regular season and 18 games in the play-offs with the Tappara and became the Finnish champion again. He was named the Liiga Player of the Month for September 2016 and had the best goals against average (1.47) and best saves percentage (.938) in the Liiga play-offs. In this season, he also played one game on loan with the LeKi of the Mestis.

In the 2017-18 season, Tappara fought for its third title in a row, but lost in the final. Hrachovina played 48 regular season games and 16 play-off games in this season.

In 2018, Hrachovina tried his luck in the KHL and signed a one-year contract with the Barys Astana. He played there 22 games in the regular season and 4 games in the play-offs. He also played one game with the Nomad Astana of the Kazakhstan Hockey Championship.

For the 2019-20 season, Hrachovina signed with the HC Ambrì-Piotta of the NL, but after the not so good performance at the beginning of the season, the club ended the contract after 7 games played. Hrachovina then moved to his native Czech Republic and signed with the Bílí Tygři Liberec of the Tipsport Extraliga for the remainder of the season. He became the Tipsport Extraliga's best goalie in the goals against average (1.95).

In 2020, Hrachovina moved back to Finland and signed a two-year contract with his old club Tappara of the Liiga.

International career
Hrachovina was at the roster of the Czech Republic for the 2012 World U18 Championship and for the 2014 World Junior Championship, but he did not play there a single game.

Hrachovina then became the third goalie at the 2018 World Championship, but again, he did not play there any game.