Miroslav Satan

Miroslav Šatan (born October 22, 1974 in Jacovce, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak professional ice hockey right winger who is currently an unrestricted free agent in the National Hockey League. He and wife Ingrid have a son, Miroslav Jr., born in March 2006 and a daughter Viktoria born July 2009 Šatan was drafted 111th overall in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft by the Edmonton Oilers. Prior to his entry into the NHL, he played in the Czechoslovak and Slovak... more

Miroslav Šatan (born October 22, 1974 in Jacovce, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak professional ice hockey right winger who is currently an unrestricted free agent in the National Hockey League. He and wife Ingrid have a son, Miroslav Jr., born in March 2006 and a daughter Viktoria born July 2009 Šatan was drafted 111th overall in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft by the Edmonton Oilers. Prior to his entry into the NHL, he played in the Czechoslovak and Slovak leagues and he had scored 9 goals in 8 games representing Slovakia at the 1994 Winter Olympic Games. In 1994–95, Šatan played a season in the minor leagues, split between four teams including the Oilers' farm club in Cape Breton and the IHL's Detroit Vipers. While with the Vipers, he scored the winning goal in an exhibition game against Wayne Gretzky's Ninety-Niners, an all-star team put together by Gretzky during the 1994 NHL lockout. After two seasons with the Oilers, the highly skilled winger was traded to the Buffalo Sabres for Craig... less