Alfredsson, Luongo, Sedin twins headline HOF inductees

There shall be six new members of the Hockey Corridor of Fame. The 2022 inductees are Daniel Alfredsson, Roberto Luongo, Riikka Sallinen, Daniel Sedin and Henrik Sedin. Herb Carnegie may also be inducted within the builder class.

Alfredsson, who retired in 2014, performed 1,246 video games within the NHL, together with greater than, 1,100 for the Ottawa Senators. The best participant within the historical past of that franchise, he holds practically each offensive report possible, together with objectives (426), assists (682), factors, (1,108), power-play objectives (131), shorthanded objectives (25) and game-winning objectives (69).

The winner of the 1996 Calder Trophy, Alfredsson burst onto the scene with 61 factors in 82 video games after being a sixth-round decide two years earlier. Even then, he had gone undrafted a number of occasions, usually deemed too small to compete on the highest stage. In 2006, he reached a career-high of 43 objectives and 103 factors, ending fifth in Hart Trophy voting, fourth in Girl Byng voting and fourth in Selke Trophy voting all in the identical 12 months. The next season he helped carry the Senators to the Stanley Cup Last, main the playoffs in scoring with 14 objectives and 22 factors, together with 4 game-winners. His 1,157 profession factors rank solely behind Mats Sundin amongst Swedish-born gamers.

Two of the names simply behind him on that checklist have been additionally inducted, because the Sedin twins go into the Corridor collectively of their first 12 months of eligibility. The dynamic duo mixed for two,111 factors collectively over 17 years with the Vancouver Canucks, hardly ever ever seeing the ice with out one another. Tough to separate, every gained particular person awards – Henrik took residence the Hart Trophy and Artwork Ross in 2010, whereas Daniel gained the Ted Lindsay (then Lester B. Pearson) and Artwork Ross in 2011 – and got here inside a single recreation of the Stanley Cup. There are few gamers who’ve ever had such an affect on the Canucks group, and it’s lasting; the twins are a part of the entrance workplace and can tackle an elevated function within the upcoming season.

The goaltender in that 2011 Stanley Cup run was Luongo, who shall be inducted in his first 12 months of eligibility as properly, after some of the spectacular careers by an NHL netminder. Over components of 19 seasons, beginning with the New York Islanders however largely spent with the Canucks and Florida Panthers, Luongo confronted 30,924 photographs throughout 1,044 appearances. Each of these numbers put him behind solely Martin Brodeur all time, and whereas he was actually not at all times taking part in behind the strongest defensive items, Luongo sits ninth in profession save share at .919. A Vezina Trophy finalist on three events, he did not ever win the award, as an alternative settling for the Jennings Trophy in 2011.

Whereas he failed to lift the Stanley Cup, Luongo’s worldwide report is sort of unmatched. With two Olympic golds, two World Championship golds and one World Cup gold, he routinely helped Canada topple the remainder of the world in match play, together with a memorable flip on the 2010 Video games held in Vancouver whereas he was a member – and actually captain, regardless of not being allowed to put on the “C” throughout video games – of the Canucks.

Sallinen too shall be identified to hockey followers extra for her worldwide play than the rest, as she turns into the primary Finnish girls’s hockey participant to be inducted. A 3-time European champion, two-time Olympic medalist and seven-time World Championship medalist, the dynamic ahead was an enormous purpose why Finland turned the consensus third-ranked nation on the planet, in a position to compete at occasions with the powerhouse squads from Canada and the U.S.