Born in South Africa but raised in Canada, Olaf Kolzig had a pretty good career in the National Hockey League where he played all but his final season with the Washington Capitals.  “Olie the Goalie” would get into a grove in his seventh season where he finished fifth in Vezina voting and two years (1999-00) later he would have the best season of his career where he would win the Vezina while also finishing fourth in voting for the Hart Trophy and second in Point Shares.  He would later win the King Clancy Memorial Trophy in 2006 and he would win 301 Games in the National Hockey League.

Darryl Sydor was never going to be considered the top blueliner for your team, but for years, he was an upper-echelon player for multiple National Hockey League teams.  Sydor was a two-time All-Star and assisted two teams (Dallas & Tampa Bay) to win the Stanley Cup.  Over a career that spanned 1,291 Games and twenty seasons, he had 507 Points, a more than respectable number.

While Dennis Hull is thought of by some as Bobby’s brother or Brett’s uncle, we choose to remember him as a pretty good two-way hockey player who represented the Chicago Blackhawks five times in the All-Star Game.  Hull was a Second Team All-Star in 1973, a year after he represented Canada in the Summit Series against the Soviet Union.  He scored 654 Points overall in his career.

From the Soviet Union, Vladimir Krutov was one of the superstars of the Red Army team that terrorized International Hockey throughout the 1980s.  The Left Wing was a superstar for the Soviets as he helped his country win two Olympic Golds, a Canada Dup Gold, and five World Hockey Championships.  Krutov would later play for the Vancouver Canucks for one season in the NHL.