A star-studded class is heading to the Hockey Corridor of Fame.
Led by a few Norris Trophy-winning defensemen, Zdeno Chara and Duncan Keith, together with former Hart Trophy profitable Joe Thornton, and Jennifer Botterill, a three-time Olympic gold medal winner with Group Canada, the Hockey Corridor of Fame will welcome eight new members in November. A vote on Wednesday by the choice committee in Toronto additionally assured fall enshrinement for Brianna Decker and Alexander Mogilny as gamers and longtime NCAA males’s coach Jack Parker and Daniele Sauvageau, who served Group Canada as a common supervisor, coach and marketing consultant, as builders.
Mogilny made the Corridor of Fame in his seventeenth yr of consideration.
Sauvageau would be the first lady to enter the Hockey Corridor of Fame as a builder.
An induction ceremony shall be held on Nov. 10 in Toronto.
A candidate’s whole hockey profession is taken into account by the Hockey Corridor of Fame choice committee, however Chara, Keith, and Thornton constructed overwhelming resumes primarily based solely on their respective accomplishments within the NHL.
Chara performed essentially the most video games by a defenseman with 1,680. He received the Norris Trophy because the NHL’s prime defenseman in 2009 and captained the Boston Bruins to the Stanley Cup in 2011.
Keith was a key determine on the Chicago Blackhawks’ Cup champions in 2010, 2013, and 2015, profitable the Conn Smythe Trophy as postseason MVP for that third championship run. His Norris wins got here in 2010 and 2014.
Thornton, the No. 1 total decide within the 1997 NHL Draft, is most remembered for his time with the Bruins and San Jose Sharks, and is one among solely 15 gamers to attain 1,500 factors. And although he by no means performed for a Cup champion, he received a gold medal for host Canada on the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Mogilny debuted within the NHL in 1989 with the Buffalo Sabres. A dynamic offensive participant, he lastly received the Cup with the New Jersey Devils in 2000. He’s a member of the IIHF Triple Gold Membership, profitable Olympic gold (1988) and the IIHF World Championships (1989) for the previous Soviet Union along with the Cup.
Botterill was a first-team All-American in every of her 4 seasons at Harvard College. She performed professionally till 2011 and was a mainstay for Canada’s nationwide crew on the Olympics and IIHF World Championships, the place she was named MVP in 2011.
Decker performed collegiately on the College of Wisconsin and earned awards, however her star flip got here for Group USA, with whom she received the gold medal six instances on the IIHF World Championships and gold on the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Parker captained Boston College in his ultimate season as a participant and have become his college’s head coach in 1973. His groups received the NCAA championship thrice and appeared in an NCAA-record 24 tournaments throughout his 40 seasons.
Sauvageau’s contributions to the ladies’s sport are unequalled amongst non-players in Canada. She was a part of seven Winter Olympics in numerous roles with Group Canada. Sauvageau additionally was the primary lady to teach within the QMJHL, as an assistant with the Montreal Rocket.
(Photograph of Duncan Keith: Jonathan Daniel / Getty Photographs)
