Antonín Stavjaňa is a retired professional ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 player.

Stavjaňa played in the Czechoslovak Extraliga

Czechoslovak Extraliga

The Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League was the elite ice hockey league in Czechoslovakia from 1930 until 1993, when the country split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Slovak Extraliga and Czech Extraliga formed from the split.-See also:...

 for HC Dukla Trenčín

HC Dukla Trencín

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, TJ Gottwaldov and HC Zlín. He then moved to Finland

Finland

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 for Jokipojat

Jokipojat

Jokipojat is a Finnish semi-professional ice hockey team that plays in the Mestis. Full name of the club is Joensuun Kiekko ry. The club has spent three seasons in top flight of Finnish hockey, season 1971-72 in SM-sarja and seasons 1989-90 and 1991-92 in SM-liiga...

 and in Sweden

Sweden

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 for HV71

HV71

HV71, often referred to as just HV, is a Swedish professional ice hockey club based in Jönköping, playing in the Swedish elite league Elitserien...

 before returning to the Extraliga with HC Vsetín

Vsetínská Hokejová

VHK Vsetín is an ice hockey team in the Czech Second National Hockey League . The team is the most successful in Czech Republic ice hockey history, winning five straight Extraliga championships between 1995 and 1999, and another in 2001 for six titles in seven years. Their home arena is Zimní...

. He was a member of the Czechoslovak 1987 Canada Cup

1987 Canada Cup

The 1987 Canada Cup was a professional international ice hockey tournament held from August 28 to September 15, 1987. The finals took place in Montreal on September 11 and Hamilton, Ontario, on September 13 and September 15, and were won by Team Canada....

 and 1991 Canada Cup

1991 Canada Cup

The 1991 Canada Cup was a professional international ice hockey tournament played in September 1991. The finals took place in Montreal on September 14 and Hamilton, Ontario on September 16, and were won by Canada. The Canadians defeated the USA in a two game sweep, to win the fifth and final Canada...

 teams and was a participant in two Winter Olympics. Stavjaňa was drafted 247th overall by the Calgary Flames

Calgary Flames

The Calgary Flames are a professional ice hockey team based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is the third major-professional ice hockey team to represent the city of Calgary, following the...

 in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft

1986 NHL Entry Draft

The 1986 NHL Entry Draft was held on June 21, 1986 at the Montreal Forum in Montreal, Quebec. The National Hockey League teams selected 252 players eligible for entry into professional ranks, in the reverse order of the 1985–86 NHL season and playoff standings...

 but never signed a contract.

Stavjaňa later worked as a successful coach, coaching several teams, including HC Vsetín.

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