Hockey Hall of Repute Class of 2023: Speech Highlights and Twitter Response
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Seven iconic figures were inducted into the Hockey Hall of Repute in Toronto on Monday night.
Tom Barrasso, Henrik Lundqvist, Pierre Turgeon, Mike Vernon, and Caroline Ouellette were inducted within the player category while Ken Hitchcock and the behind Pierre Lacroix were inducted within the builder category.
Turgeon modified into as soon as one in all the quit centers all over his 19 seasons within the NHL, as his 1,327 capabilities recorded all over his profession ranks Thirty fourth all-time. The former No. 1 decide of the 1987 NHL Entry Draft had three seasons with in any case 40 targets. This incorporated 58 in his 1992-93 marketing campaign, a year by which Turgeon additionally bought the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy.
He performed for six groups all over his profession, spending in any case four seasons with the Buffalo Sabres, St. Louis Blues, and New York Islanders.
Hockey Hall of Repute @HockeyHallFame
Welcome to the Hockey Hall of Repute Pierre Turgeon!
Pierre receives his Honoured Member plaque from Al MacInnis #HHOF2007.#HHOF2023 | #HHOF |📸 Dave Sandford/HHOF pic.twitter.com/UCWGJUqwe0
Mike Harrington @ByMHarrington
In #HHOF speech in Toronto, Pierre Turgeon thanks the Knox household and GM Gerry Meehan for bringing him to #Sabres. Assorted salutes encompass fellow inductee and ex-teammate Tom Barrasso. pic.twitter.com/DTVI4Vj3UR
New York Islanders @NYIslanders
Congrats, Pierre! 👏 https://t.co/TWhrDdrc5H
DNVR Avalanche @DNVR_Avalanche
Pierre Turgeon pays respect to Pierre Lacroix and Joe Sakic in his Hall of Repute speech. pic.twitter.com/MIKibzrAPv
St. Louis Blues @StLouisBlues
Who higher to show camouflage Pierre Turgeon’s Hall of Repute plaque than Al MacInnis? #stlblues pic.twitter.com/tIGqdgFZGP
Ouellette took the stage subsequent. The legendary Canadian forward received four Olympic gold medals and 6 World Championship gold medals all over her world profession. She modified into as soon as additionally a two-time MVP within the Canadian Females’s Hockey League.
She holds the Olympic document for most targets in a length, scoring three against Italy in 2006. Ouellette grew to develop into the Tenth woman within the historical past of the game to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Repute.
TSN @TSN_Sports
Caroline Ouellette thanks the trailblazers in girls americans’s hockey!❤️ pic.twitter.com/j23KduRKfp
Hockey Hall of Repute @HockeyHallFame
Welcome to the Hockey Hall of Repute Caroline Ouellette!
Caroline receives her Honoured Member plaque from Kim St-Pierre #HHOF2020.#HHOF2023 | #HHOF |📸 Matthew Manor/HHOF pic.twitter.com/rwBBcDn18x
Jared Book @jaredbook
Caroline Ouellette shouting out Noémie Marin because the CWHL’s all-time main goal scorer modified into as soon as nice. Marin and Ouellette were chasing the document and basically went backward and forward with the document that season as teammates.
Ouellette executed one goal within the support of.
Melissa Burgess @_MelissaBurgess
“I coach with my perfect buddy, and basically the most essential human being within the enviornment, Julie Chu.” – Caroline Ouellette #HHOF23
Melissa Burgess @_MelissaBurgess
Caroline Ouellette & Julie Chu at tonight’s #HHOF2023 induction ceremony. Ouellette is inducted following an historical profession. She is additionally a member of the IIHF Hall of Repute! pic.twitter.com/kGinw0Epo9
Next up modified into as soon as Ken Hitchcock, who modified into as soon as the top coach for 5 varied franchise all over his Hall of Repute profession. He has the fourth most wins of any NHL coach within the league’s historical past, ending his profession with 849.
Hitchcock added 47 more wins within the
playoffs, in conjunction with a Stanley Cup victory with the Dallas Stars in 1999. He modified into as soon as
additionally the recipient of the Jack Adams Award following his 2011-12 season main
the St. Louis Blues.
TSN @TSN_Sports
Ken Hitchcock on his fellow Hockey Hall of Repute Inductees in conjunction with Pierre Lacroix!😂 pic.twitter.com/jb2eMYLDkJ
TSN @TSN_Sports
Ken Hitchcock thanks the gamers he coached all over his profession in his Hockey Hall of Repute Induction Speech!❤️ pic.twitter.com/PSyfBSjbGN
Meghan Angley @megangley
Ken Hitchcock playfully called Pierre Lacroix his nemesis in his acceptance speech, “He’s one in all the like minded builders within the enviornment.”
Adam Kimelman @NHLAdamK
Not possible speech from Ken Hitchcock. The first coach I bought to duvet within the NHL assist in 2002 and remains the most practical I have been around.
Pierre modified into as soon as the 2nd member of the builder category inducted, as he modified into as soon as honored posthumously.
He switched from a lengthy-time
agent to the basic manager of the Quebec Nordiques in 1994. The team
in the end moved to Colorado, turning into the Avalanche. Lacroix constructed two
Stanley Cup-worthwhile Avalanche groups, incomes the enduring trophy in both 1996 and
2001. A Colorado hockey fable, Lacroix handed away in Dec. 2020 at 72 years
worn.
His grandson Max approved the dignity on his behalf.
TSN @TSN_Sports
Pierre Lacroix’s grandson, Max shares what his gamers supposed to him.❤️ pic.twitter.com/w8AE0ZmGzq
Dan Colucci @coluccid2
Max Lacroix, Pierre Lacroix’s grandson, is 19 years worn? He’s totally spoken and doing neatly in this speech. Ideal he is doing this in entrance of all these hockey legends at the HHOF. Pierre is smiling down from heaven and snug with Max
Jim Biringer @JimBiringer
Max Lacroix with a enormous speech about Pierre Lacroix. Superior stuff. #hhof @FullPressNHL
Barrasso frolicked with six groups all over his 19-year profession, with 12 of these years coming as a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins. He modified into as soon as a segment of Stanley Cup-worthwhile Penguins groups in 1991 and 1992.
He’s unexcited the youngest player to ever bag the Vezina Trophy because the league’s perfect goaltender, worthwhile it at age 19.
Pittsburgh Penguins @penguins
Tom Barrasso: “I’d wish to thank my teammates thru the years, with whom we shared sizable success, failure, story card games, golf games – now we have faith a bond that can now not be broken. And we shared a time in all of our lives that can now not be replicated. My attributable to all of you.” pic.twitter.com/R2Z9q8Ixfv
Mike Harrington @ByMHarrington
Tom Barrasso is introduced by Scotty Bowman for induction into the #HHOF and then thanks the earlier #Sabres coach/GM for the braveness to draft an 18-year-worn and make him the starter in goal four months later in 1983. pic.twitter.com/WLwgwxeg3q
Mike Vernon modified into as soon as subsequent, because the principal goaltender received the Stanley Cup twice all over his 19-year profession.
He spent most of his time as a talented with the Calgary Flames, ranking 2nd on the franchise’s saves list with 12,186.
He received the William M. Jennings Trophy in 1996, then bought the Conn Smythe Trophy the following year as he recorded 16 wins for the Detroit Red Wings all over the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Vernon’s 385 profession wins are the 16th-most in NHL historical past.
TSN @TSN_Sports
“Mum, you requested me as soon as if I modified into as soon as going to trip into the Hall of Repute, neatly I made it!”
Mike Vernon thanks his behind of us in his Hockey Hall of Repute Induction Speech❤️ pic.twitter.com/VsZ3xTYUFE
TSN @TSN_Sports
Mike Vernon’s kids cherished to gape the highlight of Wayne Gretzky scoring on him!😂 pic.twitter.com/d6DkgtGhcO
NY Rangers Files @nyrgoal99
Mike Vernon joking about having a 22 GAA after his first NHL sport is comparatively comical. #HHOF2023
Henrik Lundqvist wrapped up the festivities, because the 2012 Vezina Trophy-winner spent the entirety of his profession with the New York Rangers.
He’s the like minded goalie in NHL historical past to obtain larger than 20 games in 13 straight seasons. Lundqvist is the winningest goaltender in Rangers historical past, recording a profession-excessive 39 victories all over his award-worthwhile 2011-12 marketing campaign.
His 459 profession wins are the sixth-most of any NHL netminder, and basically the most by any European-born goalie.
TSN @TSN_Sports
Henrik Lundqvist will get emotional while thanking his household❤️ pic.twitter.com/TtjVzj0062
Mollie Walker @MollieeWalkerr
Henrik Lundqvist gave #NYR Director of Goaltending Benoit Allaire a heartfelt thank you in his HHOF induction speech
Dan Colucci @coluccid2
Ideal speech by Henrik, regularly so neatly spoken and he nailed it. Unbiased, emotional, cherished every word. Thanks Henrik, for the total lot!
TSN @TSN_Sports
Henrik Lundqvist’s supporters made themselves identified after his Hockey Hall of Repute Induction speech!🗣️ pic.twitter.com/a94BsfxgEp
Steve Brudzynski @_BigSteve89
Henrik protecting support tears bought me in my emotions dazzling now #NYR
Whereas it would per chance per chance merely be a small bit too early to appear sooner than 2023’s massive title-studded list of inductees, subsequent year’s eligible candidates encompass Ryan Miller, Patrick Marleau, Pekka Rinne, and Shea Weber.
