Márton Vas (born March 2, 1980) is a
Hungarian former professional
ice hockey
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defenceman
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. He was a member of the
Hungarian national team. His brother,
János Vas, is also a professional ice hockey player and member of the Hungarian national team.
Career
Vas, who is Jewish,
made his senior debut at the age of 15 for his hometown club
Dunaferr SE and a year later already celebrated his first Hungarian championship success. The forward got a chance to try himself in the overseas in 1997. First he moved to the United States to play for Flagstaff Mountaineers in the
Western States Hockey League
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, where he won the title right in his first year. Vas started the next season by Canadian club
Hawkesbury Hawks, with them he again went triumphant, winning the
Central Canada Hockey League, however, failed to progress to the national final after finishing only second in the
Fred Page Cup.
Vas spent another year in Canada before moved back to his native Hungary to play for his former club Dunaferr. He spent six years in Hungary, interrupted by two short spells in Swedish lower league clubs Vänersborgs HC and Grums IK.
In 2006 he moved abroad again and joined previous year's
French Cup winners
Diables Rouges de Briançon, where he played together with fellow Hungarians
Balázs Ladányi and
Viktor Szélig. While in France, Vas did not manage to win any trophy, however, he finished runner-up two times in the
Ligue Magnus
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and the
Coupe de la Ligue
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. Briancon, to cut their expenditures, let the forward go in the summer of 2009, and Vas joined
Alba Volán Székesfehérvár
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.
Career statistics
Austrian Hockey League
See also
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List of select Jewish ice hockey players
References
External links
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1980 births
Fehérvár AV19 players
Diables Rouges de Briançon players
Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák players
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Canada
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in France
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Hungarian ice hockey defencemen
Jewish Hungarian sportspeople
Living people
Löwen Frankfurt players
EHC Freiburg players
SHC Fassa players
Ice hockey people from Dunaújváros
Hungarian expatriate ice hockey people
Expatriate ice hockey players in Canada
Expatriate ice hockey players in France
Expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Expatriate ice hockey players in Germany
Expatriate ice hockey players in Italy