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I'm rather startled you think the players' situations remotely comparable, Yankees76. Mikita emigrated as a boy and never played a lick of organized hockey in Slovakia. Stasny defected as an adult after playing years for Czechslovakia, both domestically and internationally, and played internationally for Canada during a period where he was a wanted criminal in his homeland for defecting. By contrast to Stasny serving as a Slovakian MEP, any assertion by Mikita of his embrace of Slovakian identity's been marked by any public evidence of it. Ravenswing 21:09, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Peter Stastny's name is shown in diacriticals, yet his sons Paul & Yan aren't. Should father & sons names be spelt the same (diacriticals or not) ? GoodDay 18:45, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I am in Slovakia and I got the candidates list for the European Elections posted to me by the government today. He's filled in the form and is standing as Peter Šťastný so there is no debate about what spelling of his name he uses in Slovakia. His kids presumably don't have the diacritics on their birth certificate whereas he does. Whether or not they should be copied over into and English text is a matter for style. The two politics sections need to be merged. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.212.36.188 ( talk) 23:23, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
...score 50 goals in a season? I can't think of anyone else this good who never hit that mark. Dagnabbitt 05:21, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
The article previously said:
2nd player in NHL history to record 1000 or more points in one decade (1119 in the 1980s).
There are a couple of problems here. First, he scored 1119 points from 1980-81 through 1990-91, but the 1980s should certainly exclude the 1990-91 season. So I have changed his decade total to 1059 points, which was his total from 1980-81 through 1989-90. Secondly, strictly speaking, he wasn't the second player to accomplish this feat. The first was Phil Esposito, who scored 1087 points from 1970-71 through 1979-80. Four players topped 1000 points from 1980-81 to 1989-90 - Gretzky (1842), Stastny (1059), Kurri (1043), and Savard (1013). Gretzky had already exceeded 1000 points for the decade by the end of the 1985-86 season, so Gretzky clearly was the second to accomplish this. I reworded things a bit to reflect this. Dsreyn ( talk) 16:14, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
How could his number 26 be retired in Quebec? He played in the 94-95 Playoffs with St. Louis, losing in 6 games to Vancouver in the second round. After being eliminated from the playoffs, Stastny announcend his retirement. Problem is this, Quebec was eliminated in the opening round in 6 games to the defending champion New York Rangers. After being eliminated, Quebec announced on May 25, 1995 that they were sold and would move to Denver. The Nordiques were no more, and Stastny was still playing in the playoffs. So how could they have retired his number? Even if it would have happened, the Avalanche showed a complete lack of class unretiring the retired Nordiques numbers.
The change is minor but the newer version uses less neutral language and also contains a factual error, as Stastny wasn't in anyway a close second to Kukan who got 80244 personal preferences to Stastny's 41847. If the author insists on putting something complimentary there, he could mention that Stastny was comfortably elected in second place as the third (non-elected) guy got 11613 votes.
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I'm rather startled you think the players' situations remotely comparable, Yankees76. Mikita emigrated as a boy and never played a lick of organized hockey in Slovakia. Stasny defected as an adult after playing years for Czechslovakia, both domestically and internationally, and played internationally for Canada during a period where he was a wanted criminal in his homeland for defecting. By contrast to Stasny serving as a Slovakian MEP, any assertion by Mikita of his embrace of Slovakian identity's been marked by any public evidence of it. Ravenswing 21:09, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Peter Stastny's name is shown in diacriticals, yet his sons Paul & Yan aren't. Should father & sons names be spelt the same (diacriticals or not) ? GoodDay 18:45, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I am in Slovakia and I got the candidates list for the European Elections posted to me by the government today. He's filled in the form and is standing as Peter Šťastný so there is no debate about what spelling of his name he uses in Slovakia. His kids presumably don't have the diacritics on their birth certificate whereas he does. Whether or not they should be copied over into and English text is a matter for style. The two politics sections need to be merged. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.212.36.188 ( talk) 23:23, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
...score 50 goals in a season? I can't think of anyone else this good who never hit that mark. Dagnabbitt 05:21, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
The article previously said:
2nd player in NHL history to record 1000 or more points in one decade (1119 in the 1980s).
There are a couple of problems here. First, he scored 1119 points from 1980-81 through 1990-91, but the 1980s should certainly exclude the 1990-91 season. So I have changed his decade total to 1059 points, which was his total from 1980-81 through 1989-90. Secondly, strictly speaking, he wasn't the second player to accomplish this feat. The first was Phil Esposito, who scored 1087 points from 1970-71 through 1979-80. Four players topped 1000 points from 1980-81 to 1989-90 - Gretzky (1842), Stastny (1059), Kurri (1043), and Savard (1013). Gretzky had already exceeded 1000 points for the decade by the end of the 1985-86 season, so Gretzky clearly was the second to accomplish this. I reworded things a bit to reflect this. Dsreyn ( talk) 16:14, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
How could his number 26 be retired in Quebec? He played in the 94-95 Playoffs with St. Louis, losing in 6 games to Vancouver in the second round. After being eliminated from the playoffs, Stastny announcend his retirement. Problem is this, Quebec was eliminated in the opening round in 6 games to the defending champion New York Rangers. After being eliminated, Quebec announced on May 25, 1995 that they were sold and would move to Denver. The Nordiques were no more, and Stastny was still playing in the playoffs. So how could they have retired his number? Even if it would have happened, the Avalanche showed a complete lack of class unretiring the retired Nordiques numbers.
The change is minor but the newer version uses less neutral language and also contains a factual error, as Stastny wasn't in anyway a close second to Kukan who got 80244 personal preferences to Stastny's 41847. If the author insists on putting something complimentary there, he could mention that Stastny was comfortably elected in second place as the third (non-elected) guy got 11613 votes.