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Welcome to the Hockey Hall of Fame’s six newest members

news7h 11/14/2021

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Lance Hornby

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Nov 13, 2021 • 40 minutes in the past • 6 minute learn • Be part of the dialog

This yr’s six Hockey Corridor of Fame inductees acquired their rings at a ceremony on the Hockey Corridor Grand Corridor and in Toronto (From left) Gamers Doug Wilson, Kim St-Pierre, Kevin Lowe, Jarome Iginla, Marian Hossa and Ken Holland for the Builders Class on Friday November 12, 2021 Picture by Jack Boland /Toronto Solar

Kevin Lowe and Doug Wilson needed to wait years for the required help to make the Hockey Corridor Of Fame, then 17 extra months for the COVID-19 to ebb sufficient for a ceremony.

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However the wait is over Monday evening for the 2 gamers, who be a part of Jarome Iginla, Marian Hossa, Kim St. Pierre and builder Ken Holland within the class of 2020’s postponed celebration.

A have a look at the latest members, who carry the Corridor’s residents to 289 gamers (together with eight girls), 112 builders and 16 on-ice officers.

RW Jarome Iginla

Born: Edmonton, Alta., age 44

NHL seasons: 21 (16 with Calgary, plus Pittsburgh, Boston, Colorado, Los Angeles).

Numbers: 1,554 video games, 625-675-1,300 factors. Playoffs, 68 factors in 81 video games.

Corridor Move: Not simply an excellent participant, however energetic in making hockey extra inclusive and being a part of the NHL’s competitors committee … The fourth Black participant within the Corridor … eleventh general decide within the ‘95 draft by Dallas, he performed extra video games than anybody in that yr’s first spherical … After being traded to Clgary for Joe Nieuwendyk, captained the Flames for a decade.

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Awards: Lester B. Pearson Trophy 2002, Artwork Ross Trophy 2002, Rocket Richard Trophy 2002, ‘04, two Memorial Cups with WHL Kamloops.

Worldwide: Gold in world junior, world championship and two Olympics with Canada.

Do you know: A 2002 Workforce Canada coaching camp damage to Simon Gagne in Calgary gave Iginla his Olympic break, which he parlayed into two gold-medal sport targets and an help on Sidney Crosby’s winner in 2010 in Vancouver.

Quote: “This actually makes you look again. I went from being a real fan to getting referred to as up for my first sport, going through Jeremy Roenick and taking pictures on Ed Belfour.

RW Marian Hossa

Born: Stara Lubovna, Slovakia, age 42

NHL seasons: 18 (Seven with Chicago, six with Ottawa, plus Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Detroit).

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Numbers: 1,309 video games, 525-609-1,134 factors, In playoffs, 205 video games.

Corridor Move: After enjoying on an elite junior group with Dukla Trencin, turned a WHL star with Memorial Cup champion Portland … Solely Patrick Marleau has extra targets than Hossa from these drafted in he first spherical in 1997 … As a Senator, was runner-up to Chris Drury for the 1999 Calder Trophy … Gained three Stanley Cups with Chicago – after shedding within the remaining the primary two years with Pittsburgh and Detroit … First NHLer to look in three straight finals with three completely different groups.

Worldwide; Performed for Slovakia on the world juniors, world championships and Olympics, performed for Workforce Europe on the 2016 World Cup.

Awards: WHL rookie of the yr in 1997-98. Along with the three Cups, NHL all-rookie group, second group all-star.

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Quote: “Belief me (shedding two finals) wasn’t straightforward. However I can be taught from myself what I’m manufactured from.”

Did You Know: Compelled to give up hockey in 2018 after a protracted battle with eczema, worsened by sweat making contact along with his hockey tools.

D Doug Wilson

Born: Ottawa, Ont., age 64

NHL seasons: 16 (14 with Chicago, two with San Jose)

Numbers: 1,024 video games, 237-590-827. In playoffs, 80 factors in 95 video games.

Corridor Move: Coached by Corridor Of Famer Brian Kilrea with the Ottawa 67s the place he recorded 254 factors in 156 OHL video games … A high 10 choice in each the World Hockey Affiliation and NHL drafts, he selected the Blackhawks, the place he led Chicago defencemen in scoring for 10 consecutive seasons … Was in seven all-star video games and president of the NHL Gamers Affiliation … Traded to San Jose late in his profession, first captain of the Sharks, turned their GM and vice-president from 2003 to current.

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Worldwide: 1984 Canada Cup championship, menber of the NHL’s Rendez-Vous ‘97 event in opposition to Russia.

Awards: Norris Trophy, first and second group all-star.

Quote: “This place is the historical past of the gam. I performed within the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. Lots of these (Corridor) photos round me I’ve watched.”

Do you know: Whereas Doug has been near the Cup with Chicago and San Jose, brother Murray received 4 Cups within the ‘70s with the Canadiens’ dynasty.

D Kevin Lowe

Born: Hawksbury, Ont. age 62

NHL seasons: 19 (15 with Edmonton, 4 with New York Rangers)

Numbers: 1,254 video games, 84-348-432. In playoffs, 58 factors in 214 video games.

Corridor Move: Raised in Lachute, Que., first English-speaking captain of the junior Quebec Remparts … Was within the well-known first-round draft class of 1979, Edmonton’s first NHL decide and scored the Oilers’ first NHL aim that season … Oilers profession chief in common season video games with 1,072 … Ranks fifteenth in NHL playoff appearances, tied with Ray Bourque … GM of the Oilers for seven years, now a group governor.

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Worldwide: 1984 Canada Cup, 1982 world championships, assistant GM with Workforce Canada in three gold medal Olympics.

Awards: Six Stanley Cups, one with the New York Rangers … King Clancy Memorial Trophy.

Quote: “Sure, the Oilers, had Gretzky, Kurri, Messier, Anderson, Fuhr. However all of us knew Kevin was the chief of the pack.” – HHOF chairman and former Calgary Flame rival Lanny McDonald.

Do you know: Lowe hardly heard of the newly-admitted Oilers after they drafted him. “Minnesota, Boston and Chicago had curiosity in me, however I by no means spoke to Edmonton. I knew somewhat bit about Wayne; he requested me to be his roommate and issues fell into place.”

G Kim St-Pierre

Born: Chateauguay, Que., Age 42

Numbers: On the Canadian girls’s nationwide group, she had a profession 1.17 goals-against common and .939 save share … Canadian Ladies’s Hockey League high goalie 3 times from 2007-11.

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Corridor Move: Started as a minor hockey ahead, switched to aim at age eight, misplaced her first sport 8-0 … Performed in a boys league as much as age 18 … Gained gold with Workforce Quebec in 1999 Canadian girls’s championships … Performed 13 years on the Canadian nationwide girls’s group, incomes 64 wins, 29 of them by shutouts.

Awards: Excellent participant in Canadian College hockey in 2003 … In 2009, turned one in every of solely three gamers with all three main titles in girls’s ice hockey, the Clarkson Cup, Olympic gold and the IIHF world championships … 4-time Canadian College all-star with McGill College.

Worldwide: Three Olympic gold medals, with eight wins in eight video games, 4 shutouts. Gained the 3-2 gold medal sport over the U.S. on the ‘02 Olympics in Salt Lake Metropolis. … 5 world girls’s championships.

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Quote: “Thirty years in the past, my mother and father didn’t see another ladies enjoying in my metropolis. They’d the braveness to say ‘sure, my little woman could be a hockey participant’. It was straightforward for me on the ice, however within the stands, they heard so many (damaging) issues.”

Do you know: In 2003, St. Pierre turned the primary feminine goalie to win a males’s common season CIAU sport when McGill beat Ryerson, 5-2. She as soon as subbed for Carey Value at a Canadiens’ follow.

GM Ken Holland

Born: Vernon, B.C., age 66

Numbers: Three Stanley Cups as GM, one as assistant. The Wings received 907 common season and playoff video games underneath his management (789/118), probably the most of any group in that span. Detroit received 4 Presidents Trophiess.

Corridor go: After a minor league goaltending profession and 4 NHL video games, started as a Western scout for Detroit … Grew to become director of novice scouting in 1989 because the Wings laid basis for achievement … Went from assistant GM to the highest job, throughout which Wings received 4 Staley Cups and made the playoffs 25 straight springs.

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Awards: Sports activities Illustrated journal’s ‘GM of The Decade’ for 2000-09 … Member of the B.C. Sports activities Corridor Of Fame.

Worldwide: Member of Workforce Canada administration committee for 2010, 2014 and 2022 Olympics and the world championships in ‘05, ‘06 and ‘13.

Quote: “It’s exhausting to grow to be a GM and more durable to be GM of group. So I really feel lucky, proud we may get plenty of gamers who went to Detroit and by no means left; Steve Yzerman, Niklas Kronwall, Nick Lidstrom, Tomas Holmstrom, Henrik Zetterberg, Pavel Datsyuk.”

Did You Know: Holland was a twelfth spherical decide of the Maple Leafs in 1975, attended a camp however by no means performed in Toronto. One other goalie chosen in that late spherical by L.A., Mario Viens, did play for the WHA Toros.

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