Sasha Lakovic
| Sasha Lakovic | |||
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| Born |
September 7, 1971 East Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) | ||
| Weight | 198 lb (90 kg; 14 st 2 lb) | ||
| Position | Left Wing | ||
| Shot | Left | ||
| Played for |
Calgary Flames New Jersey Devils |
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| NHL Draft | Undrafted | ||
| Playing career | 1992–2004 | ||
| Website | sashalakovic.com | ||
Sasha "The Basha, Pitbull" Lakovic (Serbian: Саша Лаковић / Saša Laković) (born September 7, 1971) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for 17 different professional teams during his career. Lakovic also played for four roller hockey teams in the mid-1990s.
Lakovic has attempted to start a career in acting, landing a small role as Russian ice hockey player Boris Mikhailov in the 2004 Walt Disney movie Miracle.
On October 12, 2016, Lakovic publicly announced that he was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer and was given only 3 months to live.
Lakovic, nicknamed the "Pit Bull" for his aggressiveness, turned pro in 1992–93, playing for three separate Colonial Hockey League teams, as well as the American Hockey League's Binghamton Rangers. Lakovic bounced around the ECHL, Central Hockey League, International Hockey League and AHL for a few more seasons, including an incident where he got on all fours and barked to the crowd after destroying Barry Potomski in a fight as a Las Vegas Thunder enforcer. Lakovic moved on to National Hockey League's Calgary Flames in 1996–97. and was dealt to the New Jersey Devils a year later. Lakovic would play only 37 NHL games before finishing his career with stops in the West Coast Hockey League, and finally the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey before retiring following the 2004–05 season.
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