FlownTheCoop
May 14th, 2002, 5:03:50 PM
From faceoff.com-
In the euphoria following Slovakia's world championship title, kids at a school at Topolcany that counts Slovak captain Miroslav Satan (Buffalo Sabres) as its alumnus wanted to name the school after their hero.
Unfortunately, Satan is still very much alive and Slovak law permits naming of streets and buildings after people only after they'd passed away. That's a legacy from the then-communist Czechoslovakia, where the law was adopted to prevent the practice of naming public property after dictators who might be disgraced after they died or were removed.
Satan's father, Emil, reacted:" Well, I might as well get myself a gun and shoot him."
In the euphoria following Slovakia's world championship title, kids at a school at Topolcany that counts Slovak captain Miroslav Satan (Buffalo Sabres) as its alumnus wanted to name the school after their hero.
Unfortunately, Satan is still very much alive and Slovak law permits naming of streets and buildings after people only after they'd passed away. That's a legacy from the then-communist Czechoslovakia, where the law was adopted to prevent the practice of naming public property after dictators who might be disgraced after they died or were removed.
Satan's father, Emil, reacted:" Well, I might as well get myself a gun and shoot him."