Dušan_Pašek

Dušan Pašek

Dušan Pašek

Czechoslovak ice hockey player

Dušan Pašek (7 September 1960 – 15 March 1998) was a Czechoslovak and Slovak professional ice hockey forward who played 48 games in the National Hockey League with the Minnesota North Stars. 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 1984 Winter Olympics and represented Czechoslovakia at three Canada Cups. He also won a gold medal at the 1985 World Ice Hockey Championships.

For his son, Slovak ice hockey player, see Dušan Pašek (ice hockey, born 1985).
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Pašek was president of the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation when he committed suicide by gunshot on 15 March 1998.[1] Reasons for his death are unknown. His son, Dušan Pašek, also committed suicide (by hanging) in November 2021.[2]

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References

  1. [1]
    "Lubbock Advance-Journal". Archived from the original on 17 January 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
  2. [2]
    Hockey Draft Central
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