Yan Stastny

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Position	Center/Left Wing
Shoots	Left
Height Weight	5 ft 11 in (1.8 m) 175 lb (80 kg)
NHL Team F. Teams	Boston Bruins Edmonton Oilers
Nationality	Canada & United States
Born	September 30, 1982, Quebec City, CAN
NHL Draft	259th overall, 2002 Boston Bruins
Pro Career	2005 – present

Yan Pavol Stastny (Slovak: Ján Šťastný) (born September 30, 1982 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian-born American ice hockey player of Slovak descent, who plays for the Boston Bruins.

Yan comes from a notable hockey family: he is the son of Hockey Hall of Famer Peter Stastny (one of the first star Eastern Bloc players to defect to the West), his uncles Anton and Marian Stastny also played in the NHL, and his brother Paul Stastny plays for the Colorado Avalanche. Born in Quebec City but growing up mostly in St. Louis, Missouri, Yan played for Team USA in the 2005 IIHF World Championships, making the Stastnys the first hockey family known to have represented four different countries in international play (his father having played for Czechoslovakia at first, Canada in the 1984 Canada Cup as a naturalized citizen, and Slovakia after the Velvet Revolution and Dissolution of Czechoslovakia).

After playing 51 games of the 2005-2006 season with the AHL Iowa Stars, Yan made his NHL debut on March 1, 2006 with the Edmonton Oilers against the St. Louis Blues, the last team for which his father played. Eight days later, he was traded by the Oilers back to the Boston Bruins along with Marty Reasoner and a 2006 second round pick for Sergei Samsonov as part of an NHL trade deadline deal.