TORONTO — Henrik Lundqvist will enter the Hockey Hall of Fame with two of his idols.
“Really cool,” Lundqvist said. “There’s so many players that inspire you when you start playing the game.”
A seventh-round draft pick in 2000, he backstopped the Rangers to the 2014 Stanley Cup final, and led New York to the Eastern Conference final in both 2012 and 2015. Eligible since 2006, Barrasso captured both the Calder Trophy as NHL rookie of the year and the Vezina during a magical 1983-84 season coming out of high school.
“You’re competitive and you hold yourself in certain regard as to how you think your career was. This is obviously the ultimate honour.” Turgeon, who retired in 2007, put up 515 goals and 812 assists for 1,327 points over his 19 NHL seasons. The 53-year-old also won the Lady Byng Trophy, awarded for sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of play, in 1993.
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