Yan Pavol Stastny (born September 30, 1982) is a
Canadian
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-born
American
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former professional
ice hockey
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centre
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. He comes from the
Slovak Stastny ice hockey family, and is the son of
Hockey Hall of Fame
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Peter Šťastný
Peter Šťastný (; born 18 September 1956), also known colloquially as "Peter the Great" and "Stosh", is a Slovak-Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1980 to 1995. Šťastný is the ...
(one of the first star
Eastern Bloc
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players to defect to the West). His uncles
Anton
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and
Marián Šťastný also played in the NHL, and his brother
Paul Stastny
Paul Stastny (born December 27, 1985) is a Canadian-born American professional ice hockey center for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has previously played for the Colorado Avalanche, St. Louis Blues, Winnipeg Jets ...
plays for the
Carolina Hurricanes
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.
Early life
Yan Stastny was born in
Quebec City
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, but he moved to
New Jersey
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and then to
St. Louis
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at the age of 7 when his father joined the
St. Louis Blues
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, and where he and his siblings were raised.
As a youth, he played in the 1996
Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament
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with the St. Louis Blues
minor ice hockey
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team.
He played
high school ice hockey for
Chaminade College Preparatory School for two years, and then transferred to
Parkway Central High School
Parkway Central High School is a public high school in Chesterfield, Missouri that is part of the Parkway School District.
History
Five elementary school districts merged to form the Parkway Consolidated School District. The name for the distric ...
, because Chaminade would not let him miss classes to play junior ice hockey.
During his final years of high school, he played for the Junior B
St. Louis Jr. Blues and then the Junior A
St. Louis Sting.
Yan's number 26 was retired by
Chaminade College Preparatory School in honor of Yan and his brother Paul in August 2018.
Playing career
Amateur
Stastny played for the Omaha Lancers, a Junior A team in the United States Hockey League (USHL) during the 2000–01 season. He helped them win the Clark Cup playoff trophy and the Gold Cup National Championship over the Texas Tornado. After high school, he attended the
University of Notre Dame
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for two years where he played for the
Fighting Irish
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before being drafted into the NHL.
Professional
Stastny was drafted in the eighth round (259th overall) in the 2002 NHL entry draft. He played for Team USA in the
2005 IIHF World Championship, making the Stastnys the first ice hockey family known to have represented four different countries in international play (his father played for
Czechoslovakia
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and
Canada
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in the
Canada Cup
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series in
1976
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
and
1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
, and for
Slovakia
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after the
dissolution of Czechoslovakia
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).
After playing 51 games of the 2005–06 season with the
American Hockey League
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(AHL)'s
Iowa Stars
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History
The Stars were founded by Howard Baldwin, of Hockey Holdi ...
, Stastny made his NHL debut on March 1, 2006, with the
Edmonton Oilers
The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton. The Oilers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference. They play their home games at Rogers Place, which ...
against the
St. Louis Blues
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, the last team for which his father played. Eight days later, he was traded by the Oilers back to the
Boston Bruins
The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston. The Bruins compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference. The team has been in existence since 1924, making t ...
along with
Marty Reasoner
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and a 2006 second round pick (
Milan Lucic
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) for
Sergei Samsonov
Sergei Viktorovich Samsonov (russian: Серге́й Ви́кторович Самсо́нов, ''Sergej Viktorovič Samsonov''; born October 27, 1978) is a Russian former professional ice hockey forward (hockey), forward who is now a scout for th ...
as part of an NHL trade deadline deal. He scored his first NHL goal for Boston in a 4-3 home loss against the Montreal Canadiens on April 13, 2006. On January 16, 2007, the
Boston Bruins
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traded him to the St. Louis Blues for a 2007 fifth round draft pick.
On March 3, 2010, the Blues traded him to the
Vancouver Canucks
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for
Pierre-Cédric Labrie. He never appeared with the Canucks, instead playing with AHL affiliate, the
Manitoba Moose
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, to conclude the
2009–10 season. On June 29, 2010, Stastny joined
CSKA Moscow
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of the
Kontinental Hockey League
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(KHL).
After a season with
Mora IK
Mora IK (or Mora Ishockeyklubb) is a Swedish professional ice hockey club from Mora in northern Dalarna. After failing the 2019 SHL qualifiers, Mora has been relegated for play in the second-tier league, HockeyAllsvenskan. Mora has previously pla ...
in the
HockeyAllsvenskan
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, Stastny returned to the German
Deutsche Eishockey Liga
The Deutsche Eishockey Liga (for sponsorship reasons called "PENNY Deutsche Eishockey Liga") (; English: ''German Ice Hockey League'') or DEL, is a German professional ice hockey league and the highest division in German ice hockey. Founded in ...
(DEL), signing an initial try-out contract with the
Schwenninger Wild Wings
The Schwenninger Wild Wings are a professional German ice hockey team from Schwenningen am Neckar in Baden-Wuerttemberg that was founded on 31 July 1904 and currently plays in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). The greatest success of the associ ...
on August 2, 2015. He later secured a one-year deal on August 31.
As a free agent the following off-season, Stastny returned to North America after six European seasons, agreeing to a professional try-out contract to attend the training camp with his former club, the St. Louis Blues, joining his brother Paul, on September 10, 2016.
After Stastny failed to make the Blues he signed with
HC Vítkovice Ridera
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of the
Czech Extraliga
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(ELH) in October 2016. For the 2017–18 season, Stastny signed with
EHC Lustenau of the
Alps Hockey League
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and set a career high in goals with 25. He has not signed with a team since.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
See also
*
Notable families in the NHL
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References
External links
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1982 births
Living people
American men's ice hockey centers
American people of Canadian descent
American people of Slovak descent
Boston Bruins draft picks
Boston Bruins players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Germany
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Russia
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden
Canadian ice hockey centres
Canadian people of Slovak descent
Chaminade College Preparatory School (Missouri) alumni
Edmonton Oilers players
HC CSKA Moscow players
HC Vítkovice players
Ice hockey people from St. Louis
Ice hockey people from Quebec City
Iowa Stars players
EHC Lustenau players
Manitoba Moose players
Mora IK players
Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's ice hockey players
Nürnberg Ice Tigers players
Omaha Lancers players
Peoria Rivermen (AHL) players
Providence Bruins players
Schwenninger Wild Wings players
St. Louis Blues players
Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Austria
American expatriate ice hockey players in Austria
American expatriate ice hockey players in Russia
American expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden
American expatriate ice hockey players in Germany
American expatriate ice hockey players in the Czech Republic
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the Czech Republic