Marián Šťastný

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Marián Šťastný
Date of birth January 8, 1953
place of birth Bratislava , Czechoslovakia
size 179 cm
Weight 88 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1970-1980 Slovan CHZJD Bratislava
1980 HC Dukla Jihlava
1981-1985 Nordiques de Québec
1985-1986 Toronto Maple Leafs
1986-1987 HC Sierre

Marián Šťastný (born January 8, 1953 in Bratislava , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Slovak ice hockey player who spent five seasons in the National Hockey League between 1981 and 1986 and won several medals at ice hockey world championships.

Career

Marián Šťastný began his career at Slovan CHZJD Bratislava , for whom he played in the Czechoslovak 1st division from 1970 . He stayed with his club until 1980 when he played 14 games for HC Dukla Jihlava . During his time in Bratislava, he was elected to the league's all-star team twice .

Marian played his first international title fight in 1972 at the U18 European Championships. From 1975 he regularly took part in world championships and won the gold medal in 1976 and 1977 and the silver medal in 1975 , 1978 and 1979 .

In 1980 he took part in the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid with his younger brothers Peter and Anton . During a tournament in Austria, his brothers separated from the team and did not return to Czechoslovakia, but moved to Canada. Marian returned, but was suspended for the entire 1980/81 season due to his brothers' flight. In the summer of 1981 he fled to Canada with his wife and three children and joined the Quebec Nordiques as a free agent , where his brothers were already under contract. In 1983 he took part in the NHL All-Star Game with his brother Peter .

Marian stayed with the Nordiques until 1985, who gave him to the Toronto Maple Leafs before the 1985/86 season . But he played only one season for the Leafs and ended his career after one season when HC Sierre in the Swiss National League A . At first he worked as a trainer for HC Sierre. He later moved to the vicinity of Québec and worked, among other things, as a youth coach. Today he owns a golf club and a hotel in St. Nicolas on the Saint Lawrence River .

In addition to his two younger brothers, other members of his family are or were ice hockey players: His older brother Vladimír was the assistant coach of the Slovak national ice hockey team . His two nephews, Yan Stastny and Paul Stastny , are active NHL players.

Achievements and Awards

International

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season 5 322 121 173 294 110
NHL playoffs 5 32 5 17th 22nd 7th
ČSSR main round 10 336 214 159 * 373 * 206 *
ČSSR playoffs 2 33 22nd 19th 41 6th

* Incomplete statistics

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ quebecnordiques.blogspot.com, Marian Stastny
  2. ↑ golfhotelstastny.com, Hotel Stastny ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.golfhotelstastny.com
personal data
SURNAME Šťastný, Marián
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stastny, Marian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava , Czechoslovakia