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

Václav Nedomanský (left) preparing lobster in the first half of the 1980s

Václav Nedomanský (right) at a picnic in the second half of the 1970s. Richard Farda, the national team striker with whom he emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1974, is sitting on the left

Václav Nedomanský riding a horse, turn of the 1970s and 1980s

Václav Nedomanský (right) with famous Canadian hockey player, defenseman Bobby Orr (left)

Václav Nedomanský (right) with his wife Vera and Canadian hockey star Bobby Orr

Václav Nedomanský as a tennis player. First half of the 1980s

Václav Nedomanský on winter holiday, second half of the 1970s

Václav Nedomanský on holiday in Paris in the first half of the 1980s

Václav Nedomanský as a coach in West Germany in the 1980s

Václav Nedomanský (left) around 2000 with his former teammate Ivan Hlinka (first from right)

Vaclav Nedomansky (right) with Slovak hockey player Peter Stastny

Václav Nedomanský during the 1972 World Championship in Prague, when the actor Martin Štěpánek (left) visited the players. Sitting on the right is Václav Nedomanský's teammate Jiří Holík