Dušan Pašek

Dušan Pašek (7 September 1960 – 15 March 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.

Pašek was president of the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation when he committed suicide by gunshot on 15 March 1998.

His son, Dušan Pašek, also committed suicide (by hanging) in November 2021.