Yan Stastny

Yan Pavol Stastny ( born September 30, 1982 in Quebec City, Quebec ) is an American ice hockey player of Slovak origin who stands since October 2011 at the Nuremberg Ice Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga under contract.

Career

Yan Stastny began his career in 1999 in the North American Hockey League for the St. Louis Sting, where he played one year. In 2000 he moved to the United States Hockey League, where he played one season for the Omaha Lancers. Then he went to the University of Notre Dame and played for the team in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. After his first year, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2002 in the eighth round at position 259 of the Boston Bruins.

After another season for Notre Dame, he moved in 2003 to the Nuremberg Ice Tigers in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. In his first year in Germany he could, as in his previous career positions, not yet distinguished as particularly good scorer. His second season was the most successful so far in his career to be when he reached 54 points in 51 games. In total he graduated in DEL 107 games in which he collected 86 scorer points scored (34 Tore/52 assists) and 159 penalty minutes.

In the summer of 2005, the Boston Bruins transferred its rights to him to the Edmonton Oilers, and he returned to North America. He played much of the 2005/06 season with the Iowa Stars, a farm team of Edmonton in the American Hockey League. On 1 March 2006 he came to his first appearance in the National Hockey League for Edmonton. This was followed by two more games before he was transferred on March 9, back to the Boston Bruins. There he played the rest of the regular season in the NHL team. The playoffs he graduated from then on their AHL farm team, the Providence Bruins.

The 2006/07 season, he started in the NHL, but was sent back several times to Providence in the AHL. In January 2007 he was transferred for a draft pick to the St. Louis Blues. He, however, came during the season for St. Louis no longer used and played for the Peoria Rivermen, the AHL farm team of the blues. In September 2007, Stastny had the opportunity to recommend the training camp of the blues for a place in the NHL squad, but could not prevail, and was sent back to the AHL. Only a year later, he managed to fight for a place in the NHL squad the Blues. After spending half of the season 2008/ 09 with the Rivermen and also most of the following season with these, the Blues traded him on 3 March 2010 against Pierre- Cédric Labrie of the Vancouver Canucks.

He played a single game for the Canucks, but came in the AHL with the Manitoba Moose used. In June 2010 he was obliged by HK CSKA Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League. In September 2011, his contract was terminated with the CSKA. Since October 2011, he plays for the Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers of the DEL.

Statistics

(End of season 2008/ 09)

Family

Yan Stastny comes from a Slovak family, the great NHL experience. His father Peter Šťastný went to North America in 1980, where he played for the Quebec Nordiques, New Jersey Devils and St. Louis Blues since 1984 and has the Canadian nationality. In 977 NHL games, he scored 1239 points and was one of the best strikers in the eighties. In 1998, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. In addition, the Quebec Nordiques locked him in honor of the number 26, which he had worn for ten years. In 2004 he was elected to the European Parliament as MP for Slovakia.

Stastny has two uncles Anton and Marian. Anton played 650 times in the NHL for Quebec and came to 636 points, Marián played 322 games for Quebec City and Toronto at 294 points scorer.

Yan's younger brother Paul was founded in 2005 in the second round by the Colorado Avalanche, the franchise that had already played his father when it was still located in Quebec, selected in the NHL Entry Draft and completed in 2006/ 07 his rookie season in the NHL, which was very positive.

After Ján has competed at the World Championship in 2005 for the U.S. team, the Šťastnýs are the only hockey family that has participated for four different countries in international tournaments. Father Peter first played for Czechoslovakia, took in 1984 with Canada at the Canada Cup in part, after he had obtained Canadian citizenship and played in the nineties for Slovakia, among others, at the Olympic Winter Games 1994.