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Ádám Vay (born 22 March 1994) is a Hungarian professional
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. He currently plays with
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in the
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.


Playing career


Amateur

Vay's career began in the 2009–10 season when he was 15 years old. He played for SHK KSK Bratislava in the Slovakian U18 2 league where he played just six games during the regular season. Vay was also chosen to represent Hungary on the IIHF's U18 World Junior Championships D1 tournament where he was between the pipes during two games. In the 2010–11 season, Vay left the SHK KSK Bratislava and joined SAPA AV19 Székesfehérvár II. Vay was again chosen to represent Hungary on the IIHF's U18 World Junior Championships D1 tournament and also one level up on the U20 World Junior Championships D2 tournament. In the 2011–12 season, Vay moved back to the Slovakian junior leagues to play for HK Trnava in the U18 2 and U20 leagues. He played 24 games in the U18 2 league with 1.56 goals allowed on average per game and a save percentage of .950 before being promoted to the U20 team. Vay was yet again chosen to represent Hungary in the IIHF's World Junior Championships, this time in the U18 D1B tournament. By the 2012–13 season, Vay moved up in the junior leagues to join the Patriot Budapest of the
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-affiliated
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but only played in nine games during the regular season. For 2013–14 season, Vay headed to North America and joined the El Paso Rhinos of the non-USA Hockey junior level
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. In his first season with the Rhinos, they won the WSHL and United Hockey Union championships. He also had the best goals allowed average per game (1.76) and best save-percentage (.936) in the league. He returned to the Rhinos for the 2014–15 season where he continued to have good statistics but would lose the WSHL championship series.


Professional

Having aged out of juniors for the 2015–16 season, Vay moved back to Europe to join the Hungarian Debreceni HK in MOL Liga. He played as the team's top goaltender and after Debreceni HK's season was over Vay was selected to represent
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at the
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. Vay played in just three games at the World Championship where his team would finish 15th of 16 and end up relegated back to Division I but still was able to get noticed by scouts for the
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. On 18 May 2016, after Hungary's tournament was over, the
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announced that they had signed Ádám Vay to a two-year, entry-level contract and was expected to compete for playing time in one of Minnesota's minor league affiliates, such as the
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( AHL) or
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(
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). While he spent some time as the backup goaltender with the Iowa Wild during the 2016–17 season, he never appeared in an AHL game and spent most of the season with the Mallards. In 2017–18, he began the season with the AHL Wild and made his first appearance for the team on 28 October 2017. On 11 November 2017, he was assigned to play for the
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in the
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. On 25 May 2018, Vay signed with
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of the
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(VHL), the second highest league in Russia.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vay, Adam 1994 births Living people Fehérvár AV19 players DVTK Jegesmedvék players Hungarian ice hockey goaltenders Iowa Wild players Quad City Mallards (ECHL) players Rapid City Rush players Ice hockey people from Budapest HC '05 Banská Bystrica players HC Košice players HK Poprad players Hungarian expatriate ice hockey people HK Trnava players Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Västerviks IK players Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden Expatriate ice hockey players in Slovakia Expatriate ice hockey players in Italy