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| Position | Centre |
| Shoots | Left |
| Height Weight |
5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) 191 lb (87 kg/13 st 9 lb) |
| NHL Team F. teams |
St. Louis Blues Edmonton Oilers Boston Bruins |
| Nationality |  United States & Canada |
| Born | September 30, 1982 , Quebec City, QC, CAN |
| NHL Draft | 259th overall, 2002 Boston Bruins |
| Pro career | 2005 – present |
Yan Pavol Stastny (born September 30, 1982 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian-born American professional ice hockey player of Slovak descent, who plays for the St. Louis Blues.
Yan comes from a notable hockey family, and 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 Stastny was drafted in the 8th round (259th overall) in the 2002 NHL entry draft. He 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, 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.
On January 16, 2007, the Boston Bruins traded him to the St. Louis Blues for a 2007 fifth round draft pick. [1]
In late 2006, Yan and his then girlfriend Jennifer had their first child, Julien Stastny.
Family
- Son of Hockey Hall of Famer Peter Stastny
- Nephew of retired NHL players Anton Stastny and Marian Stastny
- Older brother of current NHL player Paul Stastny
- Father of Julien Stastny, age 2
