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.

Chris Drury was Quebec's third-round pick in 1994, but rather than join the organization that drafted him, he elected to join Boston University, where he would stay for four years.  As a senior, Drury would win the Hobey Baker Award as the nation's top player, and after that, he was ready to join the team that chose him, though they had now relocated to Colorado.