The United States Hockey Hall of Fame has announced the Class of 2025, which will include four players (Zach Parise, Joe Pavelski, Scott Gomez & Tara Mounsey) and one builder (Bruce Bennett).

This group will be the 53rd Class for the Eveleth, Minnesota-based institution, and the induction will take place in St. Paul on December 10.

The Class of 2025 is:

Zach Parise:  From Minneapolis, Parise played 19 years in the NHL with extended stays in New Jersey and Minnesota.  An All-Star in 2009 when he was fifth in Hart Trophy voting, the Left Wing scored 889 Points in 1,254 Games and represented the United States in nine tournaments, earning Gold in the 2004 World Juniors and Silver in the 2010 Olympics.

Joe Pavelski:  An NCAA Champion at the University of Wisconsin, Pavelski played 18 years in the NHL; 13 with San Jose and five with Dallas, and accumulated 1,068 Points over his career.  A four-time All-Star and one-time Second Team All-Star, Pavelski received Frank J. Selke votes in 14 of his NHL campaigns.  Pavelski was part of the 2010 Olympic Team that won the Silver Medal.  How can a man nicknamed “Captain America” not be in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame!

Scott Gomez:  From Alaska, Gomez won the 2000 Calder Trophy and also helped the New Jersey Devils win two Stanley Cups.   Accruing 756 Points and two All-Star Games, Gomez also played for the New York Rangers, Montreal, San Jose, Florida, St. Louis, and Ottawa.  For the United States, Gomez played in four tournaments.

Tara Mounsey:  Playing collegiately at Brown, where she was the ECAC Rookie of the Year, Mounsey represented the U.S. multiple times and was a member of the 1998 Olympic Gold Medal Team. 

Bruce Bennett: Bennett is a renowned sports photographer who has captured more than 2.5 million images of NHL action.

We at Notinhalloffame would like to congratulate the United States Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2025.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  We have a new one to unveil today, that of the New Jersey Devils. 

An expansion team in 1974, the Devils were originally the Kansas City Scouts, but they only stayed there for two years before relocating to Denver and becoming the Colorado Rockies.  That only lasted six years before they relocated to New Jersey to become the Devils. After a few more years of mediocrity, they adopted a defensive strategy and won three Stanley Cups, 1995, 2000 & 2003.

As for all of our top 50 players in hockey we look at the following: 

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in the NHL.

3. Playoff accomplishments.

4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Remember, this is ONLY based on what a player does on that particular team and not what he accomplished elsewhere and also note that we have placed an increased importance on the first two categories.

This list is updated up until the end of the 2019-20 Season.

The complete list can be found here, but as always, we announce our top five in this article.  They are:

1. Martin Brodeur

2. Scott Stevens

3. Scott Niedermayer

4. Patrik Elias

5. Ken Daneyko

We will continue our adjustments on our existing lists and will continue developing our new lists.  

Look for our more material coming soon!

As always we thank you for your support.

Arguably, Scott Gomez is one of the greatest players from the state of Alaska, and in his rookie year with the New Jersey Devils, he won the Calder Trophy and the Stanley Cup.  The Alaskan would win another Stanley Cup in 2003 and would have four 70 Point seasons in the NHL.  He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2025.