Dušan Pašek senior

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SlovakiaSlovakia  Dušan Pašek senior Ice hockey player
Date of birth September 7, 1960
place of birth Bratislava , Czechoslovakia
date of death March 15, 1998
Place of death Bratislava , Slovakia
size 185 cm
Weight 91 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1982 , 4th round, 81st position
Minnesota North Stars
Career stations
1977-1985 Slovan ChZJD Bratislava
1985-1986 HC Dukla Jihlava
1986-1988 Slovan ChZJD Bratislava
1988-1989 Minnesota North Stars
1989-1990 Kalamazoo Wings
HC Lugano
1990-1991 Slovan ChZJD Bratislava
Asiago Hockey
HC Ambrì-Piotta
1991-1992 SHC Fassa
1992-1993 KalPa Kuopio

Dušan Pašek senior (born September 7, 1960 in Bratislava , Czechoslovakia ; † March 15, 1998 ibid) was a Slovak ice hockey player who played for the Minnesota North Stars in the National Hockey League from 1977 to 1993 . His son Dušan Pašek junior is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Club career

Dušan Pašek began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of Slovan ChZJD Bratislava , for which he was active from 1977 to 1985 in the first division , the highest Czechoslovak league. He then spent the 1985/86 season at the army sports club HC Dukla Jihlava before returning to Bratislava for another two years. In the 1986/87 season , the center was elected to the first all-star team in the first division. In the 1988/89 season he ran for the Minnesota North Stars in the National Hockey League , which had selected him in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft in the fourth round as a total of 81 players. For Minnesota he scored five goals and ten assists in a total of 50 games in his only NHL season. In the 1989/90 season , the Czechoslovak national team came first for Minnesota's farm team Kalamazoo Wings in the International Hockey League used, after which he returned to Europe and a contract with HC Lugano of the National League A signed. With Lugano he became Swiss champion straight away at the end of the season . The 1990/91 season he began with his hometown club Slovan ChZJD Bratislava in the top Czechoslovak league before he spent most of the season at Asiago Hockey from the Italian A1 series . Most recently he competed for HC Ambrì-Piotta in the Swiss NLA. The 1991/92 season he spent again in Italy at SHC Fassa . Following the 1992/93 season , in which he was on the ice with KalPa Kuopio in the Finnish SM-liiga , he ended his career at the age of 33.

In the mid-1990s, Pašek was appointed club president of Slovan Bratislava. In December 1997, he was also appointed President of the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation . He worked in both offices until his suicide in March 1998, the exact background of which has not yet been clarified. He was buried in the Slávičie údolie cemetery in his hometown of Bratislava. In 2007 he was posthumously inducted into the Slovak Hockey Hall of Fame .

International

For Czechoslovakia Pašek took part in the junior division at the U18 European Junior Championships in 1978 and the U20 Junior World Championships in 1979 and 1980 . In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the 1982 , 1983 , 1985 , 1986 and 1987 World Championships as well as at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and in Calgary in 1988 . He also represented Czechoslovakia at the Canada Cup in 1981 , 1984 and 1987 . In 196 international matches he scored 69 goals for Czechoslovakia.

Achievements and Awards

Club career

International

Career statistics

Club career

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1977/78 Slovan ChZJD Bratislava 1st League 5 0 1 1 0
1978/79 Slovan ChZJD Bratislava 1st League 36 9 12 21st 18th
1979/80 Slovan ChZJD Bratislava 1st League 40 18th 1 19th 22nd
1980/81 Slovan ChZJD Bratislava 1st League 34 22nd 10 32 12
1981/82 Slovan ChZJD Bratislava 1. SNHL
1982/83 Slovan ChZJD Bratislava 1st League 43 23 23 46 62
1983/84 Slovan ChZJD Bratislava 1st League 40 28 19th 47 62
1984/85 Slovan ChZJD Bratislava 1st League 40 23 14th 37 60
1985/86 Dukla Jihlava 1st League 45 13 11 24 44
1986/87 Slovan ChZJD Bratislava 1st League 38 21st 29 50 81
1987/88 Slovan ChZJD Bratislava 1st League 40 19th 18th 37 81
1988/89 Minnesota North Stars NHL 48 4th 10 14th 30th 2 1 0 1 0
1989/90 Kalamazoo Wings IHL 20th 10 14th 24 6th
1989/90 HC Lugano NLA 9 10 11 21st 24 4th 2 2 4th 18th
1990/91 Slovan ChZJD Bratislava 1st League 11 11 5 16 20th
1990/91 Asiago Hockey Series A1 34 35 41 76 22nd 3 5 1 6th 0
1990/91 HC Ambrì-Piotta NLA 1 2 1 3 2 5 1 1 2 6th
1991/92 SHC Fassa Alpine League 18th 19th 22nd 41 45
1991/92 SHC Fassa Series A1 17th 15th 25th 40 12 8th 7th 8th 15th 10
1992/93 KalPa Kuopio SM-liiga 10 2 4th 6th 16
NHL overall 48 4th 10 14th 30th 2 1 0 1 0
1st league overall 372 187 143 330 462

International

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
1978 Czechoslovakia U18 European Championship 5 6th 4th 10 4th
1979 Czechoslovakia U20 World Cup 6th 2 0 2 2
1980 Czechoslovakia U20 World Cup 5 6th 1 7th 4th
1981 Czechoslovakia Canada Cup 6th 0 2 2 2
1982 Czechoslovakia WM 10 1 2 3 4th
1983 Czechoslovakia WM 10 3 2 5 6th
1984 Czechoslovakia Olympia 7th 0 4th 4th 2
1984 Czechoslovakia Canada Cup 5 0 0 0 4th
1985 Czechoslovakia WM 10 3 3 6th 6th
1986 Czechoslovakia WM 10 4th 3 7th 16
1987 Czechoslovakia WM 10 6th 2 8th 2
1987 Czechoslovakia Canada Cup 6th 4th 1 5 12
1988 Czechoslovakia Olympia 8th 6th 5 11 8th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hockeydraftcentral.com, The Death of Dusan Pasek
  2. ↑ bratislavskenoviny.sk, Na cintorínoch je pochovaných mnoho osobností
personal data
SURNAME Pašek, Dušan senior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pasek, Dusan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak ice hockey player and official
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1998
Place of death Bratislava , Slovakia