Honouring Hockey’s Newest Legends 2008 INDUCTEES GLENN ANDERSON Player Category • Recorded 30+ goals in nine of 16 NHL seasons, including career high 54-goal seasons in 1983-84 and 1985-86 • Captured five of his six Stanley Cup championships with Edmonton, scoring overtime winners and game-clinching goals in each of the Oilers’ championships (1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990) • Ranks 3rd all-time amongst NHLers in overtime playoff goals (5), 5th in playoff goals (93) and 4th in playoff points (214) • Represented Canada at the 1980 Winter Olympics, the 1984 and 1987 Canada Cups, and the 1989 and 1992 World Championships
ED CHYNOWETH Builder Category (honoured posthumously) • First full-time president of the Western Canada Hockey League (now WHL), presiding from 1972-1979 and 1980-1996 • Became the first Canadian Major Junior Hockey League (now CHL) president in 1975-76, a position held until 1995 • WHL Chairman of the Board from 1996-98 and 2004-07 • Awarded the CAHA Order of Merit in 1986 for outstanding service to Canadian Amateur Hockey • Honoured with the renaming of the WHL Championship Trophy to the Ed Chynoweth Cup in May 2007
IGOR LARIONOV Player Category • Captured eight consecutive Russian League Championships with CSKA Moscow (1982-89) • A 1st Team Russian All-Star on four occasions (1983, 1986, 1987, 1988) and named USSR's Player-of-the-Year in 1988 • Eight-time gold medalist including twice at the World Junior Championships (1979, 1980), four times at the World Championships (1982, 1983, 1986, 1989) and twice at the Winter Olympics (1984, 1988) • Member of three Stanley Cup championships with the Detroit Red Wings in 1997, 1998 and 2002
RAY SCAPINELLO Referee/Linesman Category • Officiated his 2,500th and final NHL regular season game on April 2, 2004 in Buffalo • NHL resume includes officiating 426 Stanley Cup playoff games, 20 Stanley Cup finals, and three All-Star games • Never missed a game in 33 years as an NHL Official • Named the NHL’s "best in the business" a record 20 times • One of the first professional officials to referee at the Winter Olympics (Nagano, 1998) • Officiating Supervisor for the Central Hockey League since 2005
MEDIA HONOUREES MIKE EMRICK NEIL STEVENS Versus/NBC play-by-play announcer Canadian Press Foster Hewitt Memorial Award Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in recognition of excellence in hockey in recognition of excellence in hockey broadcasting, as selected by the journalism, as selected by the NHL Broadcasters’ Association Professional Hockey Writers’ Association MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2008 HOCKEY HALL of FAME BROOKFIELD PLACE, TORONTO, ONTARIO
6:00 PM
Enter via Brookfield Place concourse level and experience our renowned hospitality. 7:30 PM
Broadcast live from the Allen Lambert Galleria on TSN’s alternate feed and throughout the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Place your bids in the Panasonic TOUGHBOOK ™ Silent Auction. Rub shoulders with the legends and the who’s who of hockey. ~ autographs respectfully declined ~
Dress: Business Attire
Access to all public areas of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Access to all public areas of the Hockey Hall of Fame, plus reserved seating in the Allen Lambert Galleria to view the live Induction Ceremony.
Proceeds to Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum "A Registered Charity under the Income Tax Act (Canada)"
Due to limited availability, Hockey Hall of Fame may not fulfill all ticket requests. Approved ticket orders will be confirmed on or before September 15, 2008. No refunds. GET YOUR INDUCTION SUNDAY TICKET! A fanfest prelude to Monday night’s formal proceedings
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Witness hockey history as the 2008 Inductees receive their Honoured Member Blazers designed by Hugo Boss.
Anderson, Larionov and other All-Stars take on a team of Habs Legends, celebrating the Centennial Season of “Les Canadiens”.
Live performances by Canadian rock icon, KIM MITCHELL – in concert retrospective.
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