Wickenheiser leads Hockey Corridor of Fame class
Canadian ladies’s star Hayley Wickenheiser was elected to the Hockey Corridor of Fame in her first 12 months of eligibility.
Wickenheiser headlines the 2019 class introduced Tuesday that features former NHL gamers Sergei Zubov and Man Carbonneau, Czech hockey star Vaclav Nedomansky and builders Jim Rutherford and Jerry York.
Wickenheiser on Nov. 18 would be the seventh lady to enter the corridor, becoming a member of Canadians Angela James, Geraldine Heaney, Danielle Goyette and Jayna Hefford and Individuals Cammi Granato and Angela Ruggiero.
“It’s hard-earned that she is without doubt one of the latest members of the Hockey Corridor of Fame,” chairman Lanny McDonald stated. “Whenever you win seven world championships as one of many key gamers and captain and if you win 4 Olympic gold medals, have a storied profession each on the ladies’s facet and play on the boys’s facet in Finland, that ought to let you know in itself the place she was appeared upon and revered by the remainder of the hockey world.”
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In 79 worldwide video games over 21 seasons, Wickenheiser recorded 58 targets and 88 assists for 146 factors. She gained 4 Olympic gold medals, seven world championship golds, one Olympic silver and 6 world championship silvers.
Wickenheiser gained three Girls’s World Hockey League titles and a Canadian Girls’s Hockey League title. She was invited by the Philadelphia Flyers to coaching camp in 1998 after the Nagano Olympics, and is at the moment assistant director of participant improvement for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Zubov put up 888 factors in 1,232 NHL regular-season and playoff video games for the Dallas Stars, Pittsburgh Penguins and New York Rangers and gained the Stanley Cup twice. The Russian defenseman additionally gained the 1992 Olympic gold medal and 1989 world junior gold medal.
“Deep down in my coronary heart I’m so glad to obtain this honor,” stated Zubov. “It has been my pleasure to have been concerned in hockey all of my life.”
Carbonneau was a teammate of Zubov’s on the 1999 NHL champion Stars and likewise gained the Stanley Cup with the Montreal Canadiens in 1986 and 1993. He is a three-time Selke Trophy winner because the league’s greatest defensive ahead.
Nedomansky helped Czechoslovakia earn the 1968 Olympic silver medal and win the 1972 world championships. He was the primary participant to defect from the opposite facet of the Iron Curtain, began within the World Hockey Affiliation and went on to file 278 factors in 421 NHL video games with the Detroit Purple Wings, St. Louis Blues and Rangers.
Rutherford, a longtime common supervisor of Hartford Whalers/Carolina Hurricanes and Pittsburgh Penguins, constructed groups that gained the Cup in 2006, 2016 and 2017.
“I began my profession in Beeton, 50 miles north of the Corridor of Fame, by no means dreaming that I might as soon as be in it,” stated Rutherford. “I’ve traveled numerous miles in hockey and met so many nice folks alongside the best way.”
York coached Bowling Inexperienced and Boston School to 5 nationwide titles and has probably the most wins of any lively NCAA Division I males’s hockey coach. He stated he was flabbergasted by his election to the Corridor.