For Jarome Iginla, Kim St-Pierre and the other inductees, reaching the HockeyHallFame brings a rush of emotions and reflections — thoughts about parents, partners, teammates and coaches who offered a helping hand along the way. (via reporterchris)
Growing up in St. Albert, Alta., Jarome Iginla didn’t feel any different than his hockey-loving peers. But as the son of a Nigerian father and an American mother, he was occasionally reminded he was.
“I had phases as a kid,” Iginla said Wednesday, after earning election to the Hall in his first year of eligibility. “Like I wanted to be like Mark Messier and I loved Wayne Gretzky, the same as other kids. But it also really was special to me to see the Black players that were in the NHL. To see Grant Fuhr starring , to be able to say to other people, ‘Well look at Grant Fuhr, he’s an all-star’ and to see Claude Vilgrain and Tony McKegney, to have answers for other kids.
Calls like the six Hall of Fame chairman Lanny McDonald made Wednesday afternoon always bring forth a rush of emotions and reflections. Thoughts about parents and partners and teammates and coaches who offered a helping hand along the way.Marian Hossa spoke of his two childhood idols — Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux — and the thrill that came with playing for Lemieux’s Pittsburgh Penguins in 2008.
Her first hockey hero was Patrick Roy. She later found inspiration from the barriers Manon Rheaume knocked down.
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