Stan Mikita

Stanley Mikita, born Stanislav Guoth (May 20, 1940 – August 7, 2018), was a Slovak-born Canadian ice hockey centre who played his entire 22-year National Hockey League career with the Chicago Black Hawks. Born in the Slovak Republic, he was adopted and moved to Canada at the age of eight. After several strong seasons in the OHA, he was promoted to the Black Hawks in 1959.

In the 1961 Stanley Cup playoffs, Mikita led the league in goals with six as Chicago won the Stanley Cup, making him the first Slovak-born player to win the Cup. The following season he was named to his first All-Star Team, beginning a run of fourteen consecutive 20-goal seasons. He won the first of four Art Ross Trophies as the league's leading point scorer in 1963–64, recording the most points four times in a span of five seasons.

In both 1966–67 and 1967–68 he won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, the Hart Memorial Trophy, and the Art Ross Trophy in the same season — the first and so far only player to take all three in a single year. In 1972 he became the sixth player to record 1,000 points, and in 1977 he became the eighth to score 500 goals in NHL history.