Jakub Lauko

Jakub Lauko (born on March 28, 2000 in Praha) is a Czech ice hockey center/winger currently playing on loan with the HC Energie Karlovy Vary of the Tipsport Extraliga while under contract with the Boston Bruins of the NHL. He was selected 77th overall by the Boston Bruins in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft.

Club career
Lauko played junior hockey with the Piráti Chomutov organisation. He made his senior debut in the 2016-17 season playing 28 regular season games and 9 play-off games with the Piráti Chomutov of the Tipsport Extraliga while also playing 14 games with the Piráti Chomutov under-eighteen team and 10 games with the Piráti Chomutov junior team.

As a seventeen-year-old, Lauko played the whole 2017-18 season with the Piráti Chomutov of the Tipsport Extraliga registering 9 points in 42 regular season games and 3 points in 6 relegation games.

In 2018, Lauko moved to North America. He played the 2018-19 season with the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies of the QMJHL and scored 41 points in 44 regular season games and 13 points in 19 play-off games. The team became the QMJHL Champion and won the CHL Memorial Cup and Lauko won the Ed Chynoweth Award for the player with the most points scored in the CHL Memorial Cup.

In the 2019-20 season, Lauko played with the Providence Bruins of the AHL.

At the beginning of the 2020-21 season, Lauko was loaned by the Boston Bruins of the NHL to the HC Energie Karlovy Vary of the Tipsport Extraliga to play there until the 2020-21 season starts in North America. He is signed with the Bruins until the end of the 2022-23 season.

Intenational career
Lauko played with the Czech National Team at the 2016 World U17 Hockey Challenge, at the 2017 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament winning the silver medal, at the 2018 World U18 Championship and at the 2018, 2019 and 2020 World Junior Championship s.