Rene Robert is best known in hockey for his time with the Buffalo Sabres where he was a member of the famed “French Connection” Line with Gilbert Perreault and Rick Martin.  Robert helped Buffalo reach the 1975 Stanley Cup Finals (they would lose to Philadelphia) and that was the season where he would be chosen to be a Second Team All Star.  A two time All Star, Robert averaged nearly a Point per Game over his career scoring 702 Points over 744 Games.

In a 15-year NHL career Jyrki Lumme enjoyed a lot of blueline success.  Lumme, who played nine of his seasons with the Vancouver Canucks was often regarded as the team’s top defenceman and he would have four 40 Point seasons with the team.  Lumme was never an All Star, though he certainly could have been considered for one or two.

One of the last players to be manufactured from the U.S.S.R., Vyacheslav Kozlov played for the Soviet Union as a Junior and was a two-time Silver Medalist in the World Junior Hockey Championship.  Entering the NHL two months before his 20^th birthday, Kozlov would provide a solid scoring touch for the Detroit Red Wings a team he was comfortable with as they had four other Russians on the team.  With Detroit he would have two 70 Point seasons but more importantly was a cog in the machine that won back-to-back Stanley Cups in 1997 & 1998.

After playing for the New York Islanders, Vancouver Canucks and Chicago Blackhawks, Bryan McCabe arrived in Toronto where his game reached a much higher level.  Already a good defenceman, McCabe took on more offensive facets to his game and he would have three seasons with the Buds where he scored 50 or more Points.  In the 2003-04 season he finished fourth in Norris Trophy voting with a Second Team All Star selection.  McCabe never won a Stanley Cup, but he was a World Hockey Champion with Canada in 1997 and was good enough to be chosen for the Canadian Olympic Team in 2006.