Winning the Calder Trophy in the 1998-99 Season with the Colorado Avalanche, Chris Drury made history as the first player to win the Calder Trophy and the Hobey Baker Award as the top hockey player in the NHL, which he won with Boston University the year before.  The native of Connecticut would never win another individual award, but he would be a part of Colorado’s Stanley Cup win in 2001 and the United States’ Silver Medal in the 2002 and 2012 Olympics.  Drury would also have five seasons later in his career (2005-06 to 2009-10), when he was with Buffalo and later the New York Rangers, during which he received votes for the Frank J. Selke Award.  It was in that stretch that he had his best season (with Buffalo in 2006-07), scoring a career-high 69 Points and finishing 13^th in Hart Trophy voting.  The Centre would finish with 615 Points over his career.

A member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame, Scott Young quietly scored 756 Points over his 1,181-game career in the National Hockey League.  Young played for six NHL teams, had four 60 Point seasons, and was a role player on two Stanley Cup Championship teams, one with Pittsburgh (1991) and one with Colorado (1996).

We can't say enough about the AFL's Buffalo Bills defense of the 1960s, a unit that doesn't get the credit it should.  This team won the 1964 and 1965 AFL titles, but most people remember four straight Super Bowl failures in the early 90s.

We remember.

A member of the two back-to-back AFL Championships, Butch Byrd was a rookie on that first team, where the cornerback recorded 7 Interceptions and a career-high 179 Interception Return Yards.  Byrd would never have a season with less than four picks as a Bill, which is impressive considering that opposing QBs wanted nothing to do with him.

Byrd would be a Second Team All-AFL Selection and was a five-time AFL All-Star.  Also, the three-time First Team All-Pro is still the all-time leader in Interceptions and Interception Return Yards.

A star for the Chicago Blackhawks and the United States National Team, Tony Amonte enjoyed a solid career. His career zenith was as a Blackhawk, where the consistent American Right Winger enjoyed a five-year stretch without missing a game and was among the best players in the Windy City. A five-time All-Star, Amonte was one of the better American-born hockey players of All Time, but without that magical 1,000 points NHL plateau or a dominant season, he may have to settle for the American Hall of Fame instead.