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{{Infobox ice hockey player
| name = Jiří Novotný
| image = Jiří Novotný 2013.JPG
| image_size = 230px
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|8|12|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Pelhřimov]], [[Czechoslovakia|TCH]]
| league = [[Kontinental Hockey League|KHL]]
| team = [[Lokomotiv Yaroslavl]]
| former_teams = [[Buffalo Sabres]]<br>[[Washington Capitals]]<br>[[Columbus Blue Jackets]]<br>[[Atlant Moscow Oblast]]<br>[[Barys Astana]]<br>[[HC Lev Praha|Lev Praha]]
| position = [[Centre (ice hockey)|Centre]]
| shoots = Right
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 2
| weight_lb = 214
| ntl_team = Czech Republic
| draft = 22nd overall
| draft_year = 2001
| draft_team = [[Buffalo Sabres]]
| career_start = 2002
}}
'''Jiří Novotný''' (born August 12, 1983) is a Czech professional [[ice hockey]] [[Centre (ice hockey)|centre]] currently playing for [[Lokomotiv Yaroslavl]] of the [[Kontinental Hockey League]].

==Playing career==
Novotný was drafted 22nd overall by the [[Buffalo Sabres]] in the [[2001 NHL Entry Draft]]. He spent two seasons with [[HC České Budějovice]] in the [[Czech Republic]] before moving on to the Sabres' [[American Hockey League]] (AHL) affiliate, the [[Rochester Americans]]. He made his NHL debut with the Sabres in a January 12, 2006 game against the [[Phoenix Coyotes]].

Novotný's first NHL point came in his second game, when he assisted on a [[Daniel Paille]] goal against the [[Los Angeles Kings]] on January 14, 2006. His first NHL goal came in his sixth game, against the [[Florida Panthers]] on February 11, 2006.

He was traded on February 27, 2007 to the [[Washington Capitals]] with a 1st round pick in the [[2007 NHL Entry Draft]] for [[Dainius Zubrus]] and [[Timo Helbling]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://capitals.nhl.com/team/app?articleid=316485&page=NewsPage&service=page|title=Capitals acquire first-round pick, Novotny from Buffalo | publisher =capitals.nhl.com | date = 2007-02-27 | accessdate = 2009-06-29}}</ref> At the conclusion of the season, he was not extended a qualifying offer by the Capitals, making him an unrestricted free agent. 

On July 3, 2007, Novotný was signed by the Columbus Blue Jackets to a two-year contract.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bluejackets.nhl.com/team/app?articleid=327095&page=NewsPage&service=page |title=Blue Jackets sign center Jiri Novotny to two-year deal |publisher=bluejackets.nhl.com |date=2007-07-03 |accessdate=2009-06-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070910095118/http://bluejackets.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=327095 |archivedate=2007-09-10 |df= }}</ref>

On July 2, 2014, he signed a two-year contract with [[Lokomotiv Yaroslavl]], after [[HC Lev Praha|Lev Praha]] announced not to participate in [[2014–15 KHL season]].<ref>{{citeweb| url = http://hclokomotiv.ru/news/news/irzhi_novotny_v_lokomotive_/ | title = Jiri Novotny with Lokomotiv | publisher = ''[[Lokomotiv Yaroslavl]]'' | date = 2014-07-02 | accessdate = 2014-07-02 | language = Russian}}</ref>

==Career statistics==
===Regular season and playoffs===
{| border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:center; width:60em;"
|- style="background:#e0e0e0;"
! colspan="3"  bgcolor="#ffffff" | &nbsp;
! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | &nbsp;
! colspan="5"                    | [[regular season|Regular&nbsp;season]]
! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | &nbsp;
! colspan="5"                    | [[Playoffs]]
|- style="background:#e0e0e0;"
! [[Season (sports)|Season]]
! Team
! League
! GP
! [[Goal (ice hockey)|G]]
! [[Assist (ice hockey)|A]]
! [[Point (ice hockey)|Pts]]
! [[Penalty (ice hockey)|PIM]]
! GP
! G
! A
! Pts
! PIM
|- ALIGN="center" 
| [[2000-01 Czech Extraliga season|2000–01]]
| [[HC České Budějovice]]
| [[Czech Extraliga|CZE]]
| 19
| 0
| 4
| 4
| 2
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2001-02 Czech Extraliga season|2001–02]]
| HC České Budějovice
| CZE
| 41
| 8
| 6
| 14
| 6
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|- ALIGN="center"
| [[2002–03 AHL season|2002–03]]
| [[Rochester Americans]]
| [[American Hockey League|AHL]]
| 43
| 2
| 9
| 11
| 14
| 3
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 10
|- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2003–04 AHL season|2003–04]]
| Rochester Americans
| AHL
| 48
| 1
| 14
| 15
| 16
| 13
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 10
|- ALIGN="center"
| [[2004–05 AHL season|2004–05]]
| Rochester Americans
| AHL
| 61
| 5
| 20
| 25
| 36
| 9
| 2
| 2
| 4
| 4
|- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2005–06 AHL season|2005–06]]
| Rochester Americans
| AHL
| 66
| 17
| 37
| 54
| 40
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|- ALIGN="center" 
| [[2005–06 NHL season|2005–06]]
| [[Buffalo Sabres]]
| [[National Hockey League|NHL]]
| 14
| 2
| 1
| 3
| 0
| 4
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
|- ALIGN="center"  bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2006–07 NHL season|2006–07]]
| Buffalo Sabres
| NHL
| 50
| 6
| 7
| 13
| 26
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|- ALIGN="center" 
| 2006–07
| [[Washington Capitals]]
| NHL
| 18
| 0
| 6
| 6
| 2
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2007–08 NHL season|2007–08]]
| [[Columbus Blue Jackets]]
| NHL
| 65
| 8
| 14
| 22
| 24
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|- ALIGN="center" 
| [[2008–09 NHL season|2008–09]]
| Columbus Blue Jackets
| NHL
| 42
| 4
| 3
| 7
| 14
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2009-10 KHL season|2009–10]]
| [[Atlant Moscow Oblast]]
| [[KHL]]
| 45
| 12
| 21
| 33
| 8
| 4
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 0
|- ALIGN="center" 
| [[2010-11 KHL season|2010–11]]
| [[Barys Astana]]
| KHL
| 53
| 13
| 28
| 41
| 78
| 4
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 2
|- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2011-12 KHL season|2011–12]]
| Barys Astana
| KHL
| 42
| 9
| 13
| 22
| 22
| 7
| 0
| 3
| 3
| 25
|- ALIGN="center" 
| [[2012-13 KHL season|2012–13]]
| [[HC Lev Praha|Lev Praha]]
| KHL
| 43
| 6
| 9
| 15
| 18
| 4
| 1
| 0
| 1
| 4
|- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2013-14 KHL season|2013–14]]
| Lev Praha
| KHL
| 49
| 11
| 16
| 27
| 22
| 21
| 5
| 4
| 9
| 26
|- ALIGN="center" 
| [[2014–15 KHL season|2014–15]]
| [[Lokomotiv Yaroslavl]]
| KHL
| 59
| 7
| 25
| 32
| 42
| 6
| 1
| 0
| 1
| 4
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="3" | NHL totals
! 189
! 20
! 31
! 51
! 66
! 4
! 0
! 0
! 0
! 0
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="3" | KHL totals
! 291
! 58
! 112
! 170
! 190
! 46
! 7
! 8
! 15
! 61
|}

===International===
{{MedalTableTop|name = no}}
{{MedalCountry|{{flagicon|CZE}} [[Czech Republic men's national ice hockey team|Czech Rep]]}}
{{MedalSport|[[Ice hockey]]}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[Ice Hockey World Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{Medal|Gold | [[2010 IIHF World Championship|2010 Cologne]] | }}
{{Medal|Bronze | [[2011 IIHF World Championship|2011 Bratislava]] | }}
{{Medal|Bronze | [[2012 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships|2012 Helsinki]]|}}
{{MedalBottom}}
{| border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:center; width:40em"
|- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! Year
! Team
! Event
! Result
! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | &nbsp;
! GP
! G
! A
! Pts
! PIM
|- ALIGN="center" 
| [[2000 IIHF World U18 Championships|2000]]
| [[Czech Republic men's national junior ice hockey team|Czech Republic]]
| [[IIHF World U18 Championships|WJC18]]
| 6th
| 6
| 0
| 2
| 2
| 0
|- ALIGN="center"  bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2001 IIHF World U18 Championships|2001]]
| Czech Republic
| WJC18
| 4th
| 6
| 3
| 4
| 7
| 2
|- ALIGN="center"
| [[2002 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships|2002]] 
| Czech Republic
| [[World Junior Ice Hockey Championships|WJC]]
| 7th
| 7 
| 0 
| 2 
| 2 
| 4 
|- ALIGN="center"  bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2003 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships|2003]] 
| Czech Republic
| WJC
| 6th
| 6 
| 0 
| 1 
| 1 
| 2 
|- ALIGN="center"
| [[2007 IIHF World Championship|2007]] 
| [[Czech Republic men's national ice hockey team|Czech Republic]]
| [[IIHF World Championships|WC]]
| 7th 
| 6 
| 0 
| 0 
| 0 
| 0 
|- ALIGN="center"  bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2008 IIHF World Championship|2008]] 
| Czech Republic
| WC
| 5th
| 7 
| 1 
| 1 
| 2 
| 2
|- ALIGN="center"
| [[2010 IIHF World Championship|2010]] 
| Czech Republic
| WC
| {{goca}} 
| 9 
| 1 
| 5 
| 6 
| 12
|- ALIGN="center"  bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2011 IIHF World Championship|2011]] 
| Czech Republic
| WC
| {{brca}}
| 9 
| 0
| 2 
| 2 
| 0  
|- ALIGN="center" 
| [[2012 IIHF World Championship|2012]] 
| Czech Republic
| WC
| {{brca}}
| 10
| 4
| 1 
| 5 
| 0
 |- ALIGN="center"  bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2013 IIHF World Championship|2013]] 
| Czech Republic
| WC
| 7th
| 8 
| 1
| 1 
| 2 
| 4
|- ALIGN="center" 
| [[ice hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics|2014]] 
| Czech Republic
| [[2014 Winter Olympics|Oly]]
| 6th
| 4 
| 0
| 0 
| 0 
| 0
|- ALIGN="center"  bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2014 IIHF World Championship|2014]] 
| Czech Republic
| WC
| 4th
| 10 
| 1
| 2 
| 3 
| 2  
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" 
! colspan="4" | Junior totals 
!  25
!  3
!  9
! 12
! 8
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" 
! colspan="4" | Senior totals 
! 63 
!  8
! 12
! 20
! 20
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Commonscat-inline}}
*{{hockeydb|59881|Jiri Novotny}}

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{{succession box | before = [[Artem Kryukov]] | title = [[List of Buffalo Sabres draft picks|Buffalo Sabres first round draft pick]] | years = [[2001 NHL Entry Draft|2001]] | after = [[Keith Ballard]]}}
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