Yan Stastny

Infobox Ice Hockey Player
team = St. Louis Blues
former_teams = Edmonton Oilers
Boston Bruins
league = NHL
position = Centre
shoots = Left
height_ft = 5
height_in = 10
weight_lb = 191
nationality = USA
nationality_2 = CAN
birth_date = Birth date and age|1982|9|30|mf=y
birth_place = Quebec City, QC, CAN
draft = 259th overall
draft_year = 2002
draft_team = Boston Bruins
career_start = 2005

Yan Pavol Stastny (born September 30, 1982 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian-born American professional ice hockey player of Slovak descent, who plays for the St. Louis Blues.

Yan comes from a notable hockey family, and is the son of Hockey Hall of Famer Peter Stastny (one of the first star Eastern Bloc players to defect to the West), his uncles Anton and Marian Stastny also played in the NHL, and his brother Paul Stastny plays for the Colorado Avalanche.

Born in Quebec City but growing up mostly in St. Louis, Missouri, Yan 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 having played for Czechoslovakia, Canada in the 1984 Canada Cup as a naturalized citizen, and Slovakia after the Velvet Revolution and Dissolution of Czechoslovakia).

After playing 51 games of the 2005–2006 season with the AHL 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 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. ^{[http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/blues/story/2E818873DC5FB3A686257265007375FB?OpenDocument]}

Family

*Son of Hockey Hall of Famer Peter Stastny
*Nephew of retired NHL players Anton Stastny and Marian Stastny
*Older brother of current NHL player Paul Stastny

ee also

* Notable families in the NHL

External links

* [http://www.cbs.sportsline.com/nhl/players/playerpage/435283 CBS Sportsline]
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