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2008 Hockey Inductees

The Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2008 may very well be a bit of a lunch pail type.   With Igor Larionov and Glenn Anderson, the Hall added solid players, though not superstars.   We can’t say that this is exactly a Class that would have had high ratings on any television broadcast.

Ed Chynoweth worked his way up the administrative ranks in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey programs and would become the first President of the Western Hockey League. He did not just grow the sport in Western Canada, but forged a partnership with the OHL and QMJHL which led to the formation of the Canadian Hockey League. His role in growing Junior Hockey in Canada cannot be…
A career point per game player in his lengthy NHL career, Glenn Anderson had the fortune of playing for some excellent Edmonton Oilers teams and won five Stanley Cups as a result. Anderson may not have been as heralded as Messier, Coffey, Kurri and Gretzky, but he was a solid contributor in his own right, topping the 100 point mark three times and finishing two…
Igor Larionov was one of the top players for the Soviet Union in the 1980’s and was the Centre for their top line; the famed “KLM Line”, alongside Vladimir Krutov and Sergei Makarov. They were the dominant force in International Hockey that decade, but Larionov longed to test his skills in the National Hockey League. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet hockey regime…