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Jaroslav Jirik
RW 1969-70 St Louis Blues,first Czech player in NHL history
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Jaroslav Ji?�k was a Czech former professional ice hockey right winger. He became the first player that an Eastern Bloc country released to play in the National Hockey League when he appeared in three games with the St. Louis Blues in the 1969?70 season. Ji?�k played seventeen seasons in the Czechoslovak Extraliga, scoring 300 goals in 450 games. Ji?�k was named an all-star at the 1965 World Ice Hockey Championships, and he was a member of the Czechoslovak national team that won the bronze medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics and the silver medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics. He scored 83 goals in 134 international games for Czechoslovakia. Ji?�k was first noticed by St. Louis Blues assistant general manager Cliff Fletcher in 1969. Fletcher actually signed three Czechoslovak players: Ji?�k, Jan Havel, and Josef Hore?ovsk�, all of whom were given permission to transfer to North America by the Czechoslovak government. However, the government changed its mind about Havel and Horesovsk�, because they were still in their twenties. Ji?�k, 30 at the time, was the only player allowed to go. Ji?�k spent most of the 1969?70 season with St. 
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December 10th, 1939 in Vojn?v M?stec  /  Died:   Jul 11th, 2011
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