Václav Nedomanský in the national jersey at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s

Václav Nedomanský at the 1965 World Championships in Tampere, Finland with his role model Sven Tumba Johansson

Silver national team from the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble. Václav Nedomanský is standing in the top row, third from the left

Václav Nedomanský (right) with goalie Jiří Holeček with the World Champions Cup , won in Prague 1972

Vaclav Nedomansky (fourth from right above) as World Champion from Prague 1972

Václav Nedomanský (left) on the national team tour in Canada, 1963. On the left is Canadian defender McKenzie and on the right Czechoslovakian back Frantisek Tikal

Václav Nedomanský in Czechoslovakia jersey, turn of the 1960s and 1970s

Václav Nedomanský in Slovan Bratislava jersey, second half of the 1960s

Václav Nedomanský (left) as a player in the WHL North American Professional Hockey League in a Toronto Bulls jersey, 1974/75 season

Václav Nedomanský in 1975 as a Toronto Bulls player

Vaclav Nedomansky in 1977 in the NHL with the Detroit Red Wings

Václav Nedomanský in a Toronto Bulls jersey in the 1974/75 season

Václav Nedomanský in a Detroit Red Wings jersey, second half of the 1980s

Václav Nedomanský accepts the Detroit Red Wings MVP award from Sid Abel, second half of the 1970s

Václav Nedomanský as a player of the New York Rangers, where he transferred in 1982

Václav Nedomanský as a St. Louis Blues player in the first half of the 1980s

Václav Nedomanský with his son Vasek in the first half of the 1970s

Václav Nedomanský with his first wife Vera and children Victoria (on his lap) and Vasik in the second half of the 1970s

Václav Nedomanský with his son Vasek and daughter Victoria (below) in the first half of the 1980s

Václav Nedomanský with his son Vasek (left) and daughter Victoria at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s

Václav Nedomanský clearing snow at his house in Detroit, late 1970s and early 1980s

Václav Nedomanský with his father Václav in 1980, the communist regime let him go to the USA as a terminally ill to say goodbye to his son

Václav Nedomanský with his teammate from Toronto Bulls - legendary Frank Mahovlich

Václav Nedomanský with lawyer Alan Eagleson (left), one of the most powerful men in Canadian hockey in the 1970s and 1980s

Václav Nedomanský (left) with lawyer Alan Eagleson (centre), one of the most powerful men in Canadian hockey in the 1970s and 1980s