Yan Stastny

Yan Stastny
Born (1982-09-30) September 30, 1982
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight 191 lb (87 kg; 13 st 9 lb)
Position Centre
Shoots Left
team
Former teams		 Free Agent
Edmonton Oilers
Boston Bruins
St. Louis Blues
HC CSKA Moscow
Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers
Mora IK
Schwenninger Wild Wings
National team  United States
NHL Draft 259th overall, 2002
Boston Bruins
Playing career 2005–present

Yan Pavol Stastny (born September 30, 1982) is an American-Canadian professional ice hockey centre currently an unrestricted free agent who will attend the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL) training camp on a professional try-out contract. He most recently played for the Schwenninger Wild Wings of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). Yan comes from the Slovak Stastny hockey family, and is the son of Hockey Hall of Famer Peter Šťastný (one of the first star Eastern Bloc players to defect to the West). His uncles Anton and Marián Šťastný also played in the NHL, and his brother Paul Stastny plays for the St. Louis Blues.

Early life

Yan Stastny was born in Quebec City, but he moved to New Jersey and then to St. Louis, Missouri at age 7 when his father joined the St. Louis Blues, and where he and his siblings were raised. He played high school hockey for Chaminade College Preparatory School for two years, and then transferred to Parkway Central High School, because Chaminade would not let him miss classes to play junior 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.

Playing career

Amateur

Stastny played for the Omaha Lancers, a Junior A team in the United States Hockey League (USHL) during the 2000-2001 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 for two years where he played for the Fighting Irish before being drafted into the NHL.[1][2]

Professional

Stastny was drafted in the 8th round (259th overall) in the 2002 NHL entry draft. He played for Team USA in the 2005 IIHF World Championships, making the Stastnys the first hockey family known to have represented four different countries in international play (his father played for Czechoslovakia, for Canada in the 1984 Canada Cup as a naturalized citizen, and for Slovakia after the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia).

After playing 51 games of the 2005–06 season with the American Hockey League (AHL)'s Iowa Stars, Yan made his NHL debut on March 1, 2006 with the Edmonton Oilers against the St. Louis Blues, the last team for which his father played. Eight days later, he was traded by the Oilers back to the Boston Bruins along with Marty Reasoner and a 2006 second round pick (Milan Lucic) for Sergei Samsonov as part of an NHL trade deadline deal. On January 16, 2007, the Boston Bruins traded him to the St. Louis Blues for a 2007 fifth round draft pick.[3]

On March 3, 2010, the St. Louis Blues traded him to the Vancouver Canucks for Pierre-Cédric Labrie. He never appeared with the Canucks, instead playing with AHL affiliate, the Manitoba Moose to conclude the 2009–10 season. On June 29, 2010, Stastny joined CSKA Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League.

After a season with Mora IK in the HockeyAllsvenskan, Stastny returned to the German DEL, signing an initial try-out contract with the Schwenninger Wild Wings on August 2, 2015. He later secured a one-year deal on August 31, 2015.[4]

As a free agent the following off-season, Stastny returned to North America after 6 European seasons, agreeing to a professional try-out contract to attend his former club, the St. Louis Blues training camp, joining current Blue and brother Paul on September 6, 2016.[5]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1999–00St. Louis StingNAHL4512233577—————
2000–01St. Louis StingNAHL602223—————
2000–01Omaha LancersUSHL4417143110111661212
2001–02Notre DameCCHA336111738—————
2002–03Notre DameCCHA391492344—————
2003–04Nuremberg Ice TigersDEL44920298360116
2004–05Nuremberg Ice TigersDEL512430546062138
2005–06Iowa StarsAHL5114173142—————
2005–06Edmonton OilersNHL30000—————
2005–06Boston BruinsNHL1713410—————
2005–06Providence BruinsAHL—————605512
2006–07Boston BruinsNHL2102219—————
2006–07Providence BruinsAHL11391212—————
2006–07Peoria RivermenAHL3911172835—————
2007–08Peoria RivermenAHL4313112469—————
2007–08St. Louis BluesNHL121129—————
2008–09St. Louis BluesNHL3434720—————
2008–09Peoria RivermenAHL30127192162242
2009–10Peoria RivermenAHL4910172751—————
2009–10St. Louis BluesNHL41010—————
2009–10Manitoba MooseAHL162461862248
2010–11HC CSKA MoscowKHL49581352—————
2011–12Thomas Sabo Ice TigersDEL4014213592—————
2012–13Thomas Sabo Ice TigersDEL421617338331452
2013–14Thomas Sabo Ice TigersDEL28913224441018
2014–15Mora IKAllsv2314512—————
2015–16Schwenninger Wild WingsDEL3810102010—————
NHL totals 91 6 10 16 58 — — — — —

International

Year Team Event Result GP G A Pts PIM
2005 United States WC 6th 7 2 0 2 6
2006 United States WC 7th 7 1 0 1 2
2011 United States WC 8th 7 1 1 2 4
Senior totals 21 4 1 5 12

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Yan Stastny player profile". St. Louis Blues. 2014-04-25. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  2. ↑ Profile, na3hl.com; accessed April 25, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Blues trade for Yan Stastny". STLtoday. 2007-01-16. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  4. ↑ "Yan Stastny remains" (in German). Schwenninger Wild Wings. 2015-08-31. Retrieved 2015-08-31.
  5. ↑ Andy Strickland (2016-09-06). "Don't be confused to see two Stastny's". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
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