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Anže Kopitar ( ) (born 24 August 1987), nicknamed Kopi, is a Slovenian professional ice hockey centre and alternate captain for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). The 11th overall pick in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, Kopitar became the first Slovenian to play in the NHL upon making his debut in 2006. Kopitar has spent his entire career with the Kings, and has led the team in scoring for seven consecutive seasons. Kopitar played junior hockey for his hometown team HK Acroni Jesenice before moving to Sweden at age 16 to play in a more competitive league. He spent one season with the junior teams of the Södertälje SK organization, and then with the senior team of the top-level Elitserien. He moved to North America to join the Kings in 2006, one year after he was drafted, and he finished fourth in the Calder Trophy voting his rookie year. Kopitar's dynamic offensive talent allowed him to immediately become Los Angeles' best offensive weapon, though in recent seasons, he has improved his defensive game and has also emerged as one of the NHL's premier two-way forwards. Praised as one of the best players in the League, Kopitar won the Stanley Cup championship with the Kings in 2012 and 2014, leading the League in post-season points on both occasions with 20 (tied with teammate Dustin Brown) and 26 points, respectively.〔 Internationally, Kopitar has represented the Slovenian national team in several junior and senior tournaments, as well as at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. ==Personal life== Kopitar was born in Jesenice, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia) to Matjaž and Mateja Kopitar. Matjaž played hockey for HK Acroni Jesenice in the Yugoslav and later Slovenian championship in the 1980s and 1990s, and competed in three World Championships (in the B and C pools; lower levels) for both Yugoslavia and Slovenia in the early 1990s. He also coached HK Acroni Jesenice of the Austrian Hockey League in the 2006–07 season and has been the head coach of the Slovenia national ice hockey team since 2010. Mateja worked at the family restaurant, Gostišče Kopitar, in Hrušica, a village about five kilometres from Jesenice. When Kopitar was four, his father first taught him how to skate; Matjaž built an ice rink in their backyard in Hrušica, and Kopitar would go out there whenever he could. Kopitar has a brother, Gašper, who is five years younger. Gašper also plays hockey; when the Kopitar family moved to Los Angeles, Gašper joined a junior team sponsored by the Kings. He then played for the Portland Winterhawks of the major junior Western Hockey League (WHL) and the Des Moines Buccaneers of the United States Hockey League (USHL), before turning professional with Mora IK in Sweden. His favorite player growing up was Sergei Fedorov.〔http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=712038〕 Kopitar's grandmother taught English at a local high school, and both Kopitar and his brother learned to speak English from her.〔 Kopitar speaks five languages: Slovene, Serbian, German, Swedish, and English.〔 He enjoys playing soccer and is a declared supporter of Slovenian football club NK Maribor. Until he moved to Sweden, Kopitar lived with his parents. While in Sweden he lived alone in an apartment.〔 After his first season in the NHL, the rest of Kopitar's family joined him in Los Angeles. First living in a house in Hermosa Beach, then moving to Manhattan Beach.〔 In 2005, while in his late teens, Kopitar met his future wife Ines Dominc at the IIHF World U18 World Championship Division I held in Maribor, Slovenia. They later married in July 2013. On March 14, 2015, Kopitar and his wife Ines welcomed their first child, a daughter, Neža. She was born at 12:38 AM and weighed 7 lbs., 2 ounces. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anže Kopitar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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