Dmytro "Metro" Prystai (November 7, 1927 – October 8, 2013) was a Canadian ice hockey forward. Prystai began his National Hockey League career with the Chicago Black Hawks in 1947. He also played for the Detroit Red Wings. He left the NHL following the 1958 season, playing part of one season in the minors before retiring. He won two Stanley Cups with Detroit in 1952, 1954, and made three All-Star Game appearances in his 12-year NHL career. After his hockey career Prystai operated an insurance company in Wynyard, Sask. Prystai was a widower with both spouses Evelyne and Mavis predeceasing him. He died on October 8, 2013, in a nursing home in Wynyard, Saskatchewan. He was 85.

Early life

Prystai's parents Harold and Annie Prystai were from Ternopil, Ukraine.