“I just think we all have a different path to get to the top,” St-Pierre said. A few years later, she was backstopping Canada’s women’s team to its first Olympic gold medal at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games. I don’t like women’s hockey,’ because it never worked out.” - she was eventually won over. And though she initially turned up her nose at the school’s offer - “I was like, ‘No thank you. Pierre was recruited by the women’s team at Montreal’s McGill University. As a 16-year-old, with her minor-hockey options coming to an end, St-Pierre said she was ready to retire as a competitive player and happily live out her days in a “garage league.” Shortly thereafter, St. The provincial girls’ team, for which she tried out more than once, didn’t seem to believe in her potential. Her town wasn’t big enough to have one, so she played among the boys. As a teenager in small-town Quebec, mind you, St-Pierre was never given an opportunity to play on a girls’ team. St-Pierre, if she isn’t the greatest goaltender in the history of the women’s game, will forever hold the distinction as the first women’s goaltender, and just the eighth woman, to earn a plaque at the Yonge Street shrine. So does St-Pierre, the three-time Olympic gold medallist for Canada’s women’s national team. Ditto Lowe, a six-time Cup winner who, as the seventh playing member of the 1980s Oilers dynasty to be inducted, knows a little something about waiting one’s turn. Wilson had been eligible for induction for 24 years before he was welcomed into the club. The waiting didn’t seem to perturb Wilson, the Norris Trophy-winning defenceman for the Chicago Blackhawks and general manager of the San Jose Sharks. Alas, plans for a ceremony last fall were scrapped due to COVID-related concerns, and the hall decided to forego a class of 2021 so as not to dim the spotlight on the 2020 inductees. The honorees got the call from chairman Lanny McDonald about 18 months ago. You can make the case that the theme of Monday’s Hall of Fame gala is delayed gratification. “Even though I didn’t win that year, that year gave me so much,” said Hossa, who declined to further address the Blackhawks scandal after releasing a statement earlier this month in which he acknowledged his co-operation with investigators and claimed no knowledge of the sexual assault allegations that have shaken the sport. In peeling back that curtain - in developing, for instance, a new appreciation for the art of stealing pucks by playing copious games of post-practice keep-away with three-time Selke Trophy winner Pavel Datsyuk - Hossa accomplished plenty while coming up short.
“It was like, ‘What are they doing differently?’ ” he said. “It definitely looks like (ring chasing),” Hossa acknowledged.īut along with pursuing hockey’s ultimate victory, the goal in signing with the Red Wings, Hossa said, was to “learn from the best,” to get a firsthand look inside the dressing room populated by Cup-winning future Hall of Famers like Nicklas Lidstrom and Chris Chelios. And by the spring of 2010, he had become the first player to compete in three consecutive finals for three different franchises, winning the first of three Stanley Cups over a six-season span as a backchecking menace with the Blackhawks.
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If Hossa’s team-picking luck didn’t change, it’s a safe bet he wouldn’t have been in Toronto this weekend, being feted as a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s pandemic-waylaid class of 2020 - a group that also includes players Jarome Iginla, Kim St-Pierre, Doug Wilson and Kevin Lowe, along with longtime general manager Ken Holland, who is being inducted as a builder.Ī free agent again in 2009, Hossa signed with an emerging powerhouse in Chicago. “But I told myself, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” “That was devastating, that year, that summer … because I chose the team, and I lost to the team I came from,” Hossa said. Safe to say nobody in Pittsburgh shed a tear for the Slovak when the Penguins beat his Red Wings in the next Cup final. So what did Hossa do? He left Pittsburgh to sign in Detroit. He had been the leading playoff goal scorer for a Pittsburgh Penguins team that lost in the Stanley Cup final to the Detroit Red Wings in 2008. As a free agent in the summers of 20, it would have been easy to accuse Marian Hossa of shamelessly chasing a Stanley Cup ring.
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