Sedin twins top list of 2022 Hockey Hall of Fame-eligible players

The Hockey Hall of Fame will enshrine another class of sports elite after a year of absence.

Due to COVID related restrictions, there were no 2021 classes. That’s why Hossa fans haven’t seen the admission ceremony since Jarome Ijinra, Marián Hossa, Doug Wilson, Kim Saint-Pierre, and Kevin Rowe were honored in 2020.

Hockey Hall of Fame Lanny McDonald and Mike Gartner are HHOF Chairs and Selection Committee Chairs, respectively, and will host a live announcement with this year’s members on Monday afternoon.

Up to 4 men and 2 women appear in the HHOF player category each year. With that in mind, let’s take a step-by-step look at the players who are eligible to attend the 2022 HHOF class.

Tia of identical twins

If there were two players who intended to walk side by side in the Hockey Hall of Fame, they would be the brothers of Daniel and Henrik Sedin.

Daniel was drafted to Vancouver Canucks in 2nd place and Henrik to 3rd place in 1999, spending the entire NHL career together.

Henrik scored 1,070 points (240 goals, 830 assists) in 1,330 regular season games. Many won a “C” in Vancouver and won both Heart and Art Ross in 2010.

Daniel finished the 1,306 contest with 1,041 points (393 goals, 648 assists) and won the Art Ross Trophy and Ted Lindsay Awards in 2011.

Henrik won the King Clancy Memorial Trophy alone in 2016. After the final season of 2018, the two were the league’s first King Clancy co-winners as the players who best demonstrated their leadership qualities on ice and on ice and made significant humanitarian contributions. Community / community.

They both considered the same goal 743 times at the NHL level. It ranks second only to the legendary Wayne Gretzky and Yarikuri of the Oilers / Kings, who considered a total of 764 goals throughout their respected HOF career.

“It’s hard to defend because they always have the knack of knowing where the other guys are,” said 2015 HHOF member Niclas Lidostrom, who is Sedin’s unrivaled intuition. He talked about his creativity. “They are throwing the puck behind their backs. They put the puck and the guys skate on it. Sit upstairs and look from above and see the play evolving. You can see how they wait out to make a pass.

“And sometimes you may wonder how he knows to go there, but it’s very difficult to defend because they have that chemistry between the two.”

Born September 26, 1980 in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden, the identical twins were the first set of siblings to reach the 1,000-point plateau in the NHL. The Red Wings icons Gordy Howe and Alex Delvecchio are the only duos in NHL history to play more games together as teammates.

“Their chemistry, they know each other both inside and outside, but the hockey sensation and their perception on the ice really stand out to me. Not only between them, but other on their line. “Between forward and defense pairs,” former Ottawa Senator captain, Sedin’s Olympic teammate, and HHOF companion Daniel Alfredson previously told Sportsnet. “It sometimes looks very easy. Sometimes they throw it back, but there’s always a plan. They’re very smart. It’s fun to watch and frustrating to play.”

Sedin also had a strong international career highlighted by the 2006 Olympic Gold, the 2013 World Championship Gold and the 2014 Olympic Silver.

Eligible player for the first year with a chance tier

Roberto Luongo: If one of the top goalkeepers of his time and a former teammate of Sedin also received a call in the first year of his qualification, it could be a reunion of some kind of Kanax. Luongo split his career with Canax and Panthers after a short stint with Islanders, who drafted him fourth overall in 1997. The 2011 William M. Jennings Trophy winner, despite being a three-time finalist, never won the Vezina Trophy. He didn’t win the Stanley Cup either, but returned Canada to the gold medal at Vancouver 2010 in front of home fans. After that, he won his second Olympic gold medal in 2014 as a backup. His 489 wins are 4th and 77 shutouts are 9th in NHL history.

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Carolyn Wellett: A longtime Team Canada classic has won four Olympic and six World Championship gold medals during her acclaimed career, producing at a better pace than points per game in both tournament formats. .. Hayley Wickenheiser and Jana Heford are the only other players to win at least four gold medals at the Olympics. Owellet also has eight Four Nations Cup titles and four Clarkson Cup championships.

Henrik Zetterberg: Former Detroit Red Wings captain is a member of the Triple Gold Club of Hockey, so to speak, winning all entries within a few years of each other. He won the Olympic and World Championship gold medals in 2006 and at the end of the 2007-08 season he held his first and only Stanley Cup and won the Corn Smyth Trophy. Zetterberg scored 337 goals and 960 points in 1,082 games, runner-up at the Calder Memorial Trophy in 2003, and consistently won Selke and Lady Bing’s votes throughout his career.

Megan Dougan: Prior to joining the New Jersey Devils front office, in Danvers, Massachusetts, the native had a considerable career as a captain of Team USA. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin has won seven world championship gold medals and the 2011 Patika’s Meyer Memorial Award as the NCAA’s top female player. Her international career ended with her winning the Olympic gold medal in the United States in 2018.

Rick Nash: Columbus Blue Jackets’ first overall choice in 2002 is unlikely to be gained by numbers alone if he gets to the hole someday – 437 goals, 368 assists will be 805 points in 1,060 games. Nash was a consistent goal scorer and a solid 200-foot player who shared the Maurice “Rocket” Richard Trophy with Ilya Kowartuk and Jaro Majinra in 2004. Sidney Crosby. He dealt with injuries after finishing the top 10 in the Hart Memorial Trophy vote in 2015, so the last few years of his career were relatively forgotten. Nash was named the best player in the Swiss League during the 2004-05 lockout season in HC Davos and retired to the Blue Jackets in 61st place earlier this year.

Some other notable first year eligible players: Dion Fanuf, Scott Hartnell, Mike Fisher, Brian Gionta, Chris Kunitz, Brooks Orpik, Thomas Vanek

“Is this finally their year?” TIER

Beloved former Senz captain Daniel Alfredson He has a trophy case featuring Calder, who won in 1995, King Clancy in 2012, and Mark Messier Leadership Awards in 2013. He is one of the 64 players who led Sweden in points with over 1,100 career points in the NHL. 2006 Olympic gold medal run.

With many hockey fans Certain modest geniuses claimed in the past What a funny thing Alexander Mogilney Not yet introduced. Not only did he check most of the boxes about what constitutes having a Hall of Fame career, but he was also incredibly influential to his contemporaries from the former Soviet Union. Mogilny fled to North America before the fall of the Berlin Wall and risked joining the Buffalo Sabers in 1989, paving the way for Hall of Fame players such as Sergei Fedorov and Pavel Bure to the NHL. Mogilny has been a HOF qualification since 2009, scoring 473 goals and 1,032 points in 990 games.

Jennifer Botelil After winning the Olympic silver medal in 1998, he won the Olympic gold medal three times in a row in 2002, 2006 and 2010. The longtime Team Canada Forward won five gold medals and two world championship MVP trophies at the IIHF World Women’s Championship before her successful television career.

Rod Brind’Amour Selke won twice, scored 432 goals and scored 773 assists in about 1,400 games. Guy Carboneau, who took office three years ago, can help Brind Amour join him in the future. Carbonneau won three Selkes and three Stanley Cups, but the aggressive numbers of Brind’Amour dwarfed Carbonneau. He captained the Carolina Hurricane in the franchise’s first Stanley Cup Championship in 2006.

In the early 2000s Sergei Goncher It was NHL’s best offensive defense. The fact that Sergei Zubov nodded in 2019 could help Goncher’s chances. He has won the Top 10 seven times in Norris’ vote, won the Stanley Cup with Penguins in 2009, and is one of the 17 defenses in NHL’s history with over 800 points.

Pierre Turgeon Achieving 515 goals in his 1,294 game NHL career, his 812 assists and 1,327 points are the highest total among eligible non-HHOF members. The Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, which scored 58 goals and 132 points in 1993 and finished fifth in the Heart Vote, was the only important hardware he had earned in his career.

If you spawn two of the top young stars in today’s NHL count, Keith Tokachuk Ever since the end of his playing career, he hasn’t stopped contributing to hockey games. His 538 goals are most of the qualified players who are not currently in HHOF.Kachak’s compatriots Jeremy Renick With some HHOF-level stats to brag about (513 goals and 1,216 points in 1,363 games), he maintained his post-play career with popular media figures, but never won a major award or Stanley Cup.

Patrick Elias, Theoren Fleury, Vincent Damphousse, Bernie Nicholls and Alex Kovalev are also one of the few 1,000-point players looking out of HHOF.

Boris Mikhailov For most of the 1970s, he was the captain and frontline winger of the Soviet national team. His former teammate Alexander Yakshev took office in 2018. Can it help Mikhailov’s chances?

Comparing the number of careers and achievements of Curtis Joseph Along with Luongo, Luongo feels he has to wait at least another year before hearing his name called. The same is true for the two cup winners Tom Barasso Someone who has a longer qualification than Joseph. Barasso also has Vegina going with his record of 369-277-86.