Six new inductees for IIHF Hall of Fame

The IIHF has honoured the former players Peter Forsberg, Mats Sundin (both from Sweden), Danielle Goyette, Paul Henderson (both from Canada), Teppo Numminen (from Finland) along with builder Jan-Åke Edvinsson (also from Sweden) and chose them as the 2012 inductees of the IIHF Hall of Fame. The Paul Loicq Award for for outstanding contributions to international hockey goes to Canadian Play-by-Play announcer Gord Miller for his work at the World Juniors. The 1954 Soviet Union World Championship team receives the Milestone Trophy.

A short presentation of the IIHF Hall of Fame inductees:

Players

Peter Forsberg was born in Örnskoldsvik on 20 July 1973 in Örnskoldsvik, Sweden. He is member of the very prestigeous Tripe Gold Club for players who have won all the three most importan competitions in ice hockey (World Championship, Olympic Winter Games and Stanley Cup). All these competitions he even won twice - the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche (in 1996 and 2001), the World Championship (in 1992 and 1998) and the Olympic Winter Games (in 1994 and 2006). Only two other players have reached this in their careers - the Russians Vyacheslav Fetisov and Igor Larionov. But he wasn't only succesful with his teams but earned himself dozens of personal honours like the Guldpucken (1993 and 1994) for the best player in Sweden.

Danielle Goyette was born in St-Nazaire, Québec, on 30 January 1966. She won 8 gold medals at the World Championships along with two gold medals at the Olympic Winter Games during her long national team career. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin she carried the flag for the Canadian olympics team.

Paul Henderson was born in Kincardine, Ontario, on 28 January 1943. He stays in the memory of the hockey fans worldwide for his superb performance during the 1972 Summit Series in which he scored the decisive goal that game Canada the win.

Teppo Numminen was born in Tampere on 3 July 1968. He not only had a fantastic career in the NHL with 660 points in 1454 games but also a long national team career which let him participate in three Olympic Winter Games (1988, 1998 and 2006) for his home country Finland.

Mats Sundin was born in Bromma (Stockholm) on 13 February 1971. He was the first-ever European to be selected as number one pick in the NHL Entry Draft when he was chosen by the Quebec Nordiques in 1989. His 1431 points in 1437 NHL games show he did more than justify that confidence in him. With Sweden he won the World Championship in 1991, 1992 and 1998 and the Olympic Winter Games in 2006.

Builder 

Jan-Ake Edvinsson was General Secretary of the IIHF from 1986 to 2006, longer than anybody else in the history of the federation.

 

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