Dušan Pašek (1960 – 1998) was a Czechoslovak and Slovak professional

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forward who played 48 games in the

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with the

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. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1977 to 1993, was mainly spent with Slovan Bratislava in the Czechoslovak Extraliga. He won a silver medal at the

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and represented

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at three

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s. He also won a gold medal at the

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. Pašek was president of the

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when he died.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Death

Pašek killed himself on 15 March 1998. He was 37 years old at the time of his suicide.Hockey Draft Central
/ref> Twenty-three years later, his son, also named Dušan Pašek, killed himself at the age of 36.

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