Gábor Ocskay

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Gábor Ocskay
Profile photo of Gábor Ocskay wearing a Hungrian national ice hockey jersey
Born (1975-09-11)11 September 1975
Budapest, Hungary
Died 24 March 2009(2009-03-24) (aged 33)
Budapest, Hungary
Height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight 185 lb (84 kg; 13 st 3 lb)
Position Center
Shot Right
Played for
Alba Volán Székesfehérvár
National team  Hungary
Playing career 1992–2009

Gábor Ocskay, Jr. (

2009 World Championship. He died of a heart attack weeks before the start of the 2009 Championships. Ocskay was posthumously awarded the Torriani Award by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) in 2016, and was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame
.

Domestic career

Ocskay was born in

Alba Volán Székesfehérvár
. Officially he has been a member of the club since 1983 and that time he has started to develop a famed on-ice relationship with right winger Krisztián Palkovics. Among hockey fans in Hungary the pair was just known as "The Twins".

Started to play regularly in the

EBEL
regular season, he decided to give up this position. However, he has been the real spiritual leader of the team for a long time.

International play

Ocskay played 187 games for the Hungarian national team and since 1993, including each World Championship appearance. Hungary won the Pool C (now Division II) tournament in 1998 and 2000, the 2008 Division I tournament, and gained promotion to the Ice Hockey World Championships for the first time since 1939.[citation needed]

Death

In 2004, he was diagnosed with a

heart disease and sidelined for four months, but later has received a medical permission to continue his career.[1] He died of a heart attack in Budapest late on 24 March 2009, aged 33, three days after helping his side win its tenth Hungarian title.[2]

After the shocking news of his death, both his club and the Hungarian Federation has decided to retire his famous #19 jersey from their teams.[3] On the day of his funeral, the ice hall of Székesfehérvár has been named after him.[4] Ice hockey fans around the country have started to raise money to build a statue for him in front of the entrance of the ice hall.[5]

Awards

  • Hungarian Player of the Year
1994, 1995 and 2006
  • Best Scorer of the
    Hungarian First Division
1994-95, 1997-98, 1998-99
  • Best Forward of the
    Hungarian First Division
1993-94, 2006-07
2016[6][7]

See also

  • List of ice hockey players who died during their playing career

References

  1. ^ "Top Hungarian hockey player Gabor Ocskay dies of heart attack at age 33". NHL.com. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
  2. ^ Gábor Ocskay suddenly passes away
  3. ^ "Nincs többé 19-es mez a válogatottban". Jégkorong. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
  4. ^ "Ocskayról nevezik el a jégcsarnokot". Jégkorong. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
  5. ^ http://jegkorong.blog.hu/2009/03/27/koszoru_es_szobor Koszorú és szobor Ocskay Gábornak
  6. Hajdú-Bihar County
    (in Hungarian). 22 May 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  7. ^ "Fedorov among IIHF Hall of Fame class". The Sports Network. Toronto, Ontario. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2023.

External links

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