Stan Mikita

Stan " Stosh" Mikita - born Stanislav Gvoth (born the May 20th 1940 with Sokolče in Slovakia) is a former player of Hockey Slovak]]. It gained with four recoveries the ultimate trophy of the National league of hockey, the Coupe Stanley.

Biography

In 1948, constrained by the Communist regime to be exiled, the Gvoth family sends their young person wire food in parents to the Canada. He lives with his aunt and his uncle in Ontario and knows a difficult childhood because he must often support the mocking remarks of the other children, him which does not speak by a traitor word about English. He takes the family name of his uncle and lets his aggressiveness be expressed on the skating rinks of hockey. He plays on level junior with his town of adoption Saint Catharines (Teepees de Saint Catharines) and obtains to carry out a test at the professionals in 1958 with the Blackhawks of Chicago. He gains a permanent station in the National league of hockey in 1959.

Its small gauge (5 ' 9 inches with 169 pounds is 1m75 for 76 kg), does not prevent it from being a very physical player and often punished. It helps Blackhawks to put an end to a 23 year shortage by gaining the Coupe Stanley in 1961. Stan Mikita becomes an effective marker, carrying out the LNH in 1963-64. As it progresses on the level of its career, Mikita assagit. It founds its own family, and reduces the number of minutes of penalties from 100 to 12 in 1967-68, after having spoken about its style of play with his daughter. This year, he becomes the first player to gain the Trophée Art Ross, the Trophée Binder and the Trophée Lady Byng, all in the same season. Mikita continues to have success, marking on average a not by match. Its production starts to prick of the nose in the middle of the Seventies whereas Stan starts to test violent one spasms with the back.

He will remain a member of Blackhawks until his retirement in 1980 and will be the leader of this organization with: 1394 parts, 926 assistances and 1467 points. Stan Mikita allowed with the Temple of is re-elected hockey in 1983.

Statistical of career

Achievements

Cut Stanley (1961)
Trophy Art Ross 4 times (1964, 1965, 1967, 1968)
Trophy Binder 2 times (1967, 1968)
Trophy To ballast B. Pearson (1976)
Trophy Lady Byng 2 times (1967, 1968)

Particular fact

Mikita is the founder of American Impaired Hearing Association in 1973
It is Stan Mikita which is at the origin of the stick of hockey to curved blade.
In 2002, it is allowed with the sk [[Hokejová sieň slávy]] (museum which honors the large Slovak players).

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