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František Musil (b. 17 December 1964), known mostly as Frank Musil, is a former professional ice hockey defenceman and a current scout for the Edmonton Oilers. Jump to: navigation, search December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... Defenceman is an hockey player position on the ice whose responsibility is primarily defence. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Edmonton Oilers are a National Hockey League team based in Edmonton, Alberta. ...

Musil was selected in the second round of the 1983 NHL Entry Draft, 38th overall, by the Minnesota North Stars. In addition to playing in various professional European leagues, Musil played 797 games in the NHL, for Minnesota as well as the Calgary Flames, Ottawa Senators and Edmonton Oilers. Jump to: navigation, search The 1983 NHL Entry Draft was held at the Montreal Forum in Montreal, Quebec. ... The Minnesota North Stars were a team in the National Hockey League between 1967 and 1993. ... NHL can also be an abbreviation for National Historic Landmark or Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Calgary Flames are a National Hockey League (NHL) team based in Calgary, Alberta. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article discusses the current National Hockey League team. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Edmonton Oilers are a National Hockey League team based in Edmonton, Alberta. ...

Musil's draft position fell, but not because of talent, as there was some uncertainty whether he would be able to escape Czechoslovakia, then a Communist country. Musil obtained a holiday visa and travelled to Yugoslavia with his grilfriend. Leaving her at the resort, Musil met with Minnesota General Manager Lou Nanne and player agent Rich Winter, who had arranged for an American work visa. Winter and Nanne used the work visa to fool the border guards, who were unaware that Musil was a defecting hockey star. Thus, in the summer of 1986, Musil arrived in Minnesota, and began his NHL career that fall. Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... Jump to: navigation, search Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages, in Cyrillic ÐˆÑƒÐ³Ð¾ÑÐ»Ð°Ð²Ð¸Ñ˜Ð°) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: North Star State Other U.S. States Capital Saint Paul Largest city Minneapolis Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) Senators Mark Dayton (D) Norm Coleman (R) Official languages None Area 225,365 kmÂ² (12th) - Land 206,375 kmÂ² - Water 18,990 kmÂ² (8. ...

Musil retired from hockey at the end of the 2000/01 season, and was hired by the Oilers as a scout. Musil is married to former professional tennis player Andrea Holikova, who is also the sister of NHL forward Bobby Holik. Jump to: navigation, search Tennis balls This article is about the sport, tennis. ... Robert Holik (born January 1, 1971 in Jihlava, Czechoslovakia) is a professional ice hockey player for the Atlanta Thrashers. ...

Awards

World Junior Championship medals- silver (1982, 1983), bronze (1984)
World Championship medals- silver (1983), gold (1985), and bronze (1992)

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Robert Musil - John Bayley - Death and the Dichter (3225 words)
	Musil's triumph ultimately is to do what all other great novelists do: that is to say, compel us to share the authenticity of his world; but it is a world in which fact, event, and consideration are, as it were, ineradicably interchangeable.
	Intelligence, for Musil, is embodied in the erotic, in its sensations and discoveries, and the most graphic passages in all his books deal with sexual musings and intimations as a part of the "other condition," the state that medieval mystics, in whom Musil was much interested, frequently likened to certain kinds of erotic experience.
	Musil was, like Wordsworth, "a traveller, whose tale is only of myself." And yet like many if not most mystics he was an eminently practical man in daily affairs, by turns a mathematician, engineering student, successful soldier in the first war; and then a prolific reviewer and essayist, and editor of a periodical.

Frank's dilemma (703 words)
	Those who saw it said it wasn't much, but it sent Musil into a terror-filled few hours of paralysis that had a profound impact on how he views the game and life.
	Musil was shocked this week when he was told by the Oilers medical staff he can no longer practise after new MRI results indicated damaged vertebrae in his neck make him susceptible to further injury, and possibly paralysis.
	Musil, who also sustained nerve damage, resulting in a loss of strength and feeling in his right arm and hand, had been practising with the Oilers for weeks after resuming skating in late November.

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