Dušan Pašek

Dušan Pašek (1960 – 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. Pašek was president of the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation when he died.

Death Pašek killed himself on 15 March 1998. He was 37 years old at the time of his suicide. Twenty-three years later, his son, also named Dušan Pašek, killed himself at the age of 36.