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The Stastny's story is truly inspirational and one of the reasons I am a hockey fan. I saw them play. It's true what they say, you never really know what you had until its gone. Stastny, Goulet, Bergie, Dale… those really were the days.
Great idea. They're so important to the history of the league. Peter was a fantastic player. Anton was very good as well.
Can we finally get the STEVE DURBANO career video?
Fuck the Stastny brothers man….I hate those cockroaches.
So how about a career video of PJ Axelsson?
Sadly, their name is still mangled by commentators. There is a hook over the first S so it should be pronounced "sh".
Peter was the first player to represent 3 international teams: Czechoslovakia, canada and Slovakia.
Unbelievable to have 3 brothers on one team. I get the sense Marian was playing the best with what he had with Toronto in that last season.
Reminder that Peter Stastny was the second most productive player of the 80s behind Wayne Gretzky
I think the consensus was the Soviet Hockey Team was the equivalent of an NHL All Star Team, so Czechoslovakia beating them is a huge deal.
Anyone wondering how the heck many goals the Nordiques scored in the '80s should know that there was a 4th great offensive player — Hall-of-Famer Michel Goulet. He joined the Nordiques one year before Peter Stastny and left at the same time. In his 11 seasons with the Nordiques, Goulet had 456 G, 490 A, and 946 points. He had 4 consecutive 50-goal seasons, and scored 49 and 48 goals in the next 2 seasons.
Enjoyed this video. The players who defected were brave souls. Another player who defected not long after was Miroslav Frycer, who played with the Stastnys in Quebec and for several years in Toronto. He described his experiences in his book "My Wild Hockey Life."
The entire Stastny family are some of my favorite players, Paul Stastny was my favorite Avs player and then i learned the story of Peter, Anton and Marian. Incredible family.
It was interesting when I realized a couple years ago Joe Sakic played with Peter, Anton and Peter's son during his career
Meeting Peter and Anton Stastny in 1981 at a morning skate/practice at the old Met Center when the Nordiques were in Minnesota for a North Stars game, I instantly became a Nords Fan. They were very cool and down to Earth. Still an Avs Fan to this day๐ช๐ป My best friend's dad was Carl Wetzel, a Scout for the North Stars at the time and played some Goalie in the NHL. We had an inside advantage to getting autographs and meeting players.
Absolutely one of your best Shannon, well done.
Love the jersey!!! And also bring back the nordiques!!!
Would be nice to see more of these type of videos with multiple people.. Maybe do like iconic/dominant lines stats videos? Don't need to have their full careers, just stats during the time they played together
I was one of the people said he never did a video of Peter stastny to me one of the most underrated player ever and think you for this video love your videos the hockey guy
As someone who was born in late 83 I of course knew about the communist states of eastern Europe. I didn't know at the time their was such an iron curtain. All I remember is the fall of the USSR and there suddenly being new countries competing in sports. Then of course the breakup of Yugoslavia happened a few years later.
Freaking love that jersey. Joe Sakic fan forever
I'm not sure if you heard my request, but I'm really great full you did the history of a great line and not just a single player, I really really enjoyed the story of their careers more than just the numbers. How great lines come to be and how great lines have to end is pretty much my favorite part of hockey history.
Btw "stastny" means happy in Slovak ๐
I liked those Nordiques teams, back to their WHA days. Tardif, Cloutier, Bouchard, and a resurgent Jacques Richard made them fun to watch.
Being much older than Shannon, and the vast majority of his subscribers, I will always have fond memories of watching my Boston Bruins play the Quebec Nordiques up at Le Colisee. It seemed so far up North, cold, snowy and very French. The Stasny brothers were the most exciting and best players. Back in the 70's the Bruins always played at 7PM every Sunday night. I had good memories of watching the game at my grandfather's house, on a small T.V. w/ rabbit ears, with my uncle who loved the Bruins and especially Terry O'reilly.
Is that the fanatics Nordiques jersey? If it is, I hate it. Canโt stand mine.
Actually, Peter is the middle one (1956). Anton is the elder (1953) and Marian is the youngest (1959)
Great video
I remember Peter was saying that Marian was the better player of the three brothers, but was too old to perform at his best in the NHL, if you consider that adaptation is easier when younger. The brothers, specially Peter and Anton, were very well integrated in the Quebec City community.
46+26+35=107 not 118.
And the son Paul had a decent career too.
Great careers! Great video!
Great topic and video, Shannon.
As far as I know Peter Stastny is the only player to represent 3 different national teams: Czechoslovakia, Canada and Slovakia.
Also when being General Manager of the Slovakian national team at the World Championsship in 2005 he would have gone up against his own son, Yan Stastny, who played for Team USA, if the teams had played each other.
Peter took a young Joe Sakic under his wing, and years later Joe took Peterโs son, Paul, under his.
One of my favourite players of all time too… Peter Stastny; and he wouldn't get the crappy xenophobic "Euro-trashed" by Don Cherry, as he was A BEAST playing the game, too. Great memories, great Nordiques teams overall in the early 80's, but due to our being in Vancouver, we just never saw enough of them on TV, which is the saddest part. ๐ฅฐ
This was a great video, on e of my favorite Career videos. I like that there is a lot of context and a kind of narrative here.
Great video finally,hoped that once i will see our legends on your channel.Thanks from Slovakia.
THANKS!!!
I always loved the Czechs of this era especially goalie Jiri Crha who had a rough time in Toronto and they tried to trade him back behind the iron curtain. Sensibly he moved to (then west) Germany.
Just for the record, i always thouught that Anton was the youngestโฆ.