Stasiuk played junior hockey in his native Lethbridge, Alberta before signing with the Chicago Black Hawks.
In 1954, however, although Stasiuk played 42 regular season games for Detroit because he spent the playoffs in the minors, his name was left off the Stanley Cup after the Wings captured the league crown.
[1] In 1955, Stasiuk was traded to the Boston Bruins and found chemistry with Johnny Bucyk and Bronco Horvath, a grouping dubbed "The Uke line" because of the Ukrainian ancestry of the three players.
He played for the Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, and Boston Bruins, He recorded 183 goals and 254 assists in 745 NHL games.
[4] Stasiuk was fired after the season due to a stylistic conflict with management, and he then spent one year behind the bench of the Vancouver Canucks before settling into a career in junior hockey coaching, both in Taber and Medicine Hat [5] Stasiuk died at a Lethbridge nursing home on May 7, 2023, at the age of 93.