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2000 Hockey Inductees

How do you follow the Hockey Hall of Fame Class that had Wayne Gretzky?  You can’t. The first class of the new millennium gave us a pair of deserving (though not spectacular) entries in Denis Savard and Joe Mullen.  Actually, it is this type of class that would be more typical of what Classes would be along the rest of the decade.
A brilliant playmaking Centre, Denis Savard was an over a point per game player throughout his career.  He had his best efforts while playing with the Chicago Blackhawks in the 1980’s and would hit the 100 point mark on five occasions.  The gifted forward would often find unique way to get the puck to his teammates, or put it in the net.  Basically, this was…
No matter how many other Americans hit the 500 goal and/or 1,000 point mark in the NHL, Joe Mullen will always have the honor of being the first.  Mullen was a dependable forward for multiple NHL teams and hit the 40 goal mark six times.  He was a pesky player, whose ability to evade attackers and avoid trouble made him a valuable player and earned…
Walter Bush was one of the great administrators in American Hockey history.  Bush was part of a group that formed the Central Hockey League and was instrumental in helping to bring the NHL (in the form of the Minnesota North Stars) to his home state.  Bush would also become the President of U.S.A. Hockey for nearly two decades and was a key figure in bringing…