found: Firebrand on ice: Stan Mikita. [MP] 1964.
found: Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1940; hockey player)
found: New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 8, 2018(in obituary published Aug. 7: Stan Mikita; b. Stanislav Gvoth, May 20, 1940, Sokolice [i.e. Sokolče], Czechoslovakia (now in Slovakia); adopted by his uncle and aunt, Joe and Anna Mikita, who had immigrated to St. Catharines, Ont.; d. Tuesday [Aug. 7, 2018], aged 78; the Chicago Blackhawks' undersized but smooth-skating and feisty center who teamed with his fellow Hall of Famer Bobby Hull in the 1960s in reviving a long-floundering franchise while popularizing the curved hockey sticks that changed the game)
found: Chicago tribune WWW site, viewed Aug. 8, 2018(in obituary published Aug. 7: Stan Mikita; b. Stanislav Gvoth, May 20, 1940, Sokolce; d. Tuesday [Aug. 7, 2018], aged 78)