Dušan Pašek

Dušan Pašek (7 September 1960 – 15 March 1998) was a Czechoslovak and šanPašSlovak 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.

Pašek was president of the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation when he committed suicide by gunshot on 15 March 1998. Reasons for his death are unknown. His son, Dušan Pašek, also committed suicide (by hanging) in November 2021.

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Regular season and playoffs

International

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1960 births

1998 deaths

1998 suicides

Czechoslovak ice hockey centres

Ice hockey people from Bratislava

Ice hockey players at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Ice hockey players at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Medalists at the 1984 Winter Olympics

HC Slovan Bratislava players

HC Dukla Jihlava players

Minnesota North Stars draft picks

Minnesota North Stars players

Olympic ice hockey players for Czechoslovakia

Olympic medalists in ice hockey

Olympic silver medalists for Czechoslovakia

Slovak ice hockey centres

Suicides by firearm in Slovakia

Czechoslovak expatriate sportspeople in the United States

Czechoslovak expatriate sportspeople in Italy

Czechoslovak expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland

Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Austria

Czechoslovak expatriate ice hockey people

Slovak expatriate ice hockey people

Expatriate ice hockey players in the United States

Expatriate ice hockey players in Italy

Expatriate ice hockey players in Switzerland

Expatriate ice hockey players in Austria