He’ll have to learn the art of patience as Andreychuk, Recchi and Kariya did after the mandatory three-year wait came and went without them getting a Hall pass. Recchi won three Stanley Cups and ranks fourth in games played with 1,652. Andreychuk won a Cup and was 14th in goals at 640. “When I started in the 1980s, women’s hockey wasn’t that popular,” Goyette said. Twice named the country’s university hockey coach of the year back in the late 1960s, he influenced a number of NHL coaches in Western Canada, such as Ken Hitchcock.

Source: National Post June 26, 2017 19:16 UTC