It was an honor and privilege just to put on that jersey.
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Angela Ruggiero, who grew up in Harper Woods after her family moved to Michigan from California, now will be preparing for two induction ceremonies.
It isn’t every day that a former Buffalo Sabres player makes it into the Hockey Hall Of Fame, but today, former captain Chris Drury has done just that.
Even DeGregorio, asked for his favorite Gold Medal moments at the Olympics, brought up the women’s Team USA win at the 1998 Nagano Games – including Ruggiero – before getting to the 1980 Miracle on Ice at Lake Placid, New York. She also won a silver medals at the 2002 and 2010 Olympics, and bronze in 2006.
On top of her global accolades, Ruggiero was named the top women’s college hockey player in the country in 2004.
“But am very cognizant that if I had been born 10 years prior, I may not have had all these wonderful opportunities in life”. “Extremely grateful and hope that more young girls that watched my career sign up, and the growth rate continues to flourish in USA Hockey”. Her brother Bill played for the Plymouth Whalers and Motor City Mechanics, and growing up in Michigan afforded her development opportunities that couldn’t be found in California.
But it was four-time Olympic medalist Angela Ruggiero who stood out as the star attraction during a teleconference with the inductees. “This is before the ’98 team”. “I can’t say enough for USA Hockey and what they have done for my career”. He had that group of players and we’d go to different rinks, like Mount Clemens, wherever we could find ice. He represented the United States at the 1998 and 2006 Winter Olympics.
“It was guaranteed when I came home, I knew there would be somewhere to play”. In 2005, she scored the tournament-winning shoot-out goal to lead the U.S.to its first gold medal at the Women’s World Championship. In his senior year he received the coveted Hobey Baker Award as college hockey’s most outstanding player. There, she contributed 243 points (91-152) in 127 games, was a four-time NCAA All-American, an Academic All-American, helped Harvard win the 1999 national championship and was awarded the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Trophy in 2004 as the top women’s ice hockey player in the NCAA.
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“It’s just such an honor to not only be inducted but to be inducted with the quality of people and friends like Chris and Ron, who I’ve known for so long”, Schneider said Monday. (Coach) Pat Burns had gotten fired the day before I got traded there along with Wendel Clark. You walk into that dressing room.
“I always considered myself in pretty good shape”, Drury said.
“Just putting the jersey on that first time was really one of the most special memories for me”. Coming from the beginning of my career in Montreal my first five and a half years, just a tremendous organization, you feel like you’re playing for something bigger than the jersey you’re putting on when your part of that history in both of those organizations.
Drury won a Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 2001, and is the only player to win the Calder Trophy as National Hockey League Rookie of the Year and the Hobey. He also represented the United States in three Winter Olympics (2002, 2006, 2010). He also participated in two Olympic Winter Games (1998, 2006) as well as the IIHF World Junior Championship (1988).
His 21 goals in 2005-06 make him one of four Red Wings’ defensemen to score at least 20 in one season. The executive also had a huge hand in starting USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program which has churned out such players as Patrick Kane, Phil Kessel and Ryan Suter.
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DeGregorio may have had the most modest college hockey career of the trio at Middlebury in the 1960s, but his achievements after his playing days left his permanent mark on American hockey.
