Taylor Hall is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who is currently an alternative captain for the New Jersey Devils in the NHL. He started his career playing Minor Midget hockey for the Greater Kingston Predators of the ODMHA league. From there, Hall was drafted second overall in the OHL Priority Selection by the Windsor Spitfires. During his time... read full bio
Wayne Simmonds is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and an alternate captain for the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL. Growing up, Simmonds played in the Minor Midget Toronto Aces of the GTHL. From there, he played with the Brockville Braves of the Central Junior A Hockey League before playing in the OHL. After playing with the Owen Sound Attack... read full bio
Patrice Bergeron is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and alternate captain for the Boston Bruins of the NHL. Bergeron was born in L’Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec, Canada, and he began his career playing as an A and AA player before going on to play for the Acadie-Bathurst Titan of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. From there, Bergeron was drafted by... read full bio
Milan Lucic is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who currently plays left winger in the NHL for the Calgary Flames. Lucic was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and he began his career playing minor hockey in Vancouver before going on to play with the Coquitlam Express of the Junior A British Columbia Hockey League before going on to play... read full bio
Rejean “Reggie” Lemelin is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender and hockey coach. Lemelin was born in Quebec City, Quebec, and he began his career playing in the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments before going on to play with the Sherbrooke Castors in the QMJHL. Around the same time, Lemelin began playing with the Philadelphia Firebirds in the North... read full bio
Gilles Gilbert is a Canadian retired ice hockey goaltender who played in the NHL. Gilbert was born in Saint-Esprit, Quebec, and he began his career playing in the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Quebec Aces. From there, he went on to play in the QJHL for the Trois-Rivieres Reds before going on to be selected by the Minnesota... read full bio
Tuukka Rask is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for the Boston Bruins of the NHL. Rask was born in Savonlinna, Finland, and he began his career playing in local youth teams in Finland as well as for Ilves in the Finnish Junior League before going on to be selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs of the... read full bio
Zdeno Chara is a Slovakian professional ice hockey defenseman and current captain for the Boston Bruins of the NHL. Chara was born in Trencin, Czechoslovakia, and he began his career playing for teams in Czechoslovakia which include Dukla Trencin, and HC Sparta Praha before being drafted in the NHL Entry Draft by the New York Islanders and then playing with... read full bio
Johnny Bucyk, also known as “Chief,” is a retired Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played as left winger and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Bucyk was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and he began his career playing with the Edmonton Maple Leafs of the AJHL. From there, he went on to play with the Edmonton... read full bio
P.J. Stock is a Canadian sports broadcaster and former professional ice hockey player who played left wing in the NHL. Stock was born in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec, and he began his career playing with the Victoriaville Tigres of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League before playing at St. Francis Xavier University. He went on to go undrafted in the NHL draft... read full bio
Brad Park is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player who played as defenseman. Park was born in Toronto, Ontario, and he began his career playing for the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament playing with the Scarboro Lions as well as the Toronto Westclairs and Toronto Marlboros. From there, Park went on to be drafted by the New York Rangers... read full bio
Rick Middleton is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who has played right wing in the NHL. Middleton was born in Toronto, Ontario, and he began his career playing in the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament before going on to later be drafted in the first round of the NHL Amateur Draft by the New York Rangers. He spent... read full bio
Steve Leach is an American ice hockey former professional player and ice hockey coach from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Leach began his career in his youth playing hockey for the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Boston Braves minor ice hockey team. From there, he went on to play ice hockey in high school before playing at the University of New... read full bio
Tim Thomas is an American retired professional ice hockey player who played goaltender in the NHL. Thomas was born in Flint, Michigan, and he began his career playing college hockey at the University of Vermont before going on to be drafted by the Quebec Nordiques in the NHL Entry Draft although he didn’t play with them. During his time playing... read full bio
Mike Sullivan is an American ice hockey coach and former professional player who played as center in the NHL. Sullivan was born in Marshfield, Massachusetts, and he began his career playing hockey in high school before going on to play college hockey at Boston University where he helped his university with the Beanpot Tournament. From there, Sullivan went on to... read full bio
Sergei Samsonov is a Russian former professional ice hockey player who played as left wing forward in the NHL. Samsonov was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, and while growing up, he played in the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament. He also played for CSKA Moscow before going on to be drafted by the Boston Bruins in the NHL... read full bio
Martin Lapointe is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the NHL as right wing. Lapointe was born in Ville St. Pierre, Quebec, and he began his career playing for the Lac St-Louis Lions in the QMAAA before going on to play for the Laval Titan of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Lapointe was then selected... read full bio
Ken Linseman, also known as “The Rat,” is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played centre in the NHL for several years and also played one year in the WHA. Linseman was born in Kingston, Ontario, and he began his career playing junior hockey with the Kingston Canadians of the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League. From there, he... read full bio
Ken Hodge is a retired British hockey player who played in the NHL for several years. Hodge was born in Birmingham, England, and grew up in Toronto, Ontario. He began his career playing with the St. Catharines Black Hawks on the Ontario Hockey Association as a teenager and went on to be called into the Chicago Black Hawks shortly after.... read full bio
Olympic gold medallist, three-time Olympic silver medalist, nine-time world champion, and probably the finest female hockey player in the world is Hilary Knight. She is transforming the scene for women in hockey as an ardent supporter of gender equality. In terms of overall points and goals scored at the Women's World Championships, Hilary retains the record. She hit the ice... read full bio
