The Hockey Hall of Fame welcomes class of 2022

Good morning and happy Monday, November 14th. It was a busy weekend in the NHL with thirteen games Saturday night (all 72 goals here) and another six Sunday. Let's get you caught up 👊

The Hockey Hall of Fame welcomes its newest class of inductees today when Daniel Alfredsson, Roberto Luongo, Riikka Sallinen, Daniel and Henrik Sedin enter as players, and Herb Carnegie goes in as a builder.

Daniel Alfredsson overcame being a sixth-round draft pick to become the second-highest Sweden-born scorer in NHL history. Alfredsson played 1,246 NHL games with the Senators and Detroit Red Wings from 1995-2014 and was fifth in the NHL in scoring during that 18-year window.

Roberto Luongo was drafted fourth overall by the New York Islanders in 1997. Upon retirement in 2019, Luongo ranked third in career wins with 489, which has been bettered by Marc Andre-Fleury (525). He remains second in games played (1,044), shots faced (30,942), and saves (28,409).

Despite spending his entire career trying to stop the puck, Luongo elected to play forward in the HHOF Legends Classic where he scored two goals.

Riikka Sallinen is regarded as one of the greatest European players in women’s hockey history, playing a total of 11 seasons in Finland's elite league, and representing Finland in eight IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championships (winning gold three times) and four Olympics games.

Daniel & Henrik Sedin were drafted no. 2 and no. 3 overall in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft by former Canucks GM Brian Burke. In Canucks history, Henrik ranks first in games played (1,330), assists (830), and points (1,070), and seventh in goals (240). Daniel ranks first in goals (393) and second in games played (1,306), assists (648), and points (1,041).

Herb Carnegie is regularly considered the best Black hockey player to never play in the NHL. ‘Swivel Hips’ Carnegie went on to an outstanding career playing Senior hockey. While playing with the Buffalo-Ankerite in Timmins, Ontario, the team won the championship in 1941 and 1942. Carnegie was a fixture at the top of league scoring and won the Quebec Senior Hockey League’s MVP award in three consecutive seasons, 1947, 1948, and 1949.

Congratulations to all of this year's Hockey Hall of Fame inductees!

TRIVIA: How many women are inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame? Bonus: name them.

🔥 The Boston Bruins are one fire, winning 11 of the last 12 games. Patrice Bergeron scored his third goal in two days and the Bruins set a team record with their ninth straight home win to start the season, beating the Vancouver Canucks 5-2 on Sunday. The Bruins bettered the team's 8-0 start at the old Boston Garden in 1983-84.

🚨 Wild goalie prospect, Jesper Wallstedt, scored a long-distance goal Saturday. With 37 seconds to play against the Chicago Wolves, Wallstedt made a routine glove save, dropped the puck in front, and wristed one about 178 feet down the ice and into the dead center of the open net. Wallstedt, a 19-year-old native of Vasteras, Sweden, was selected by the Wild with the 20th pick of the 2021 NHL Draft.

• Sergachev's four-point night helps Lightning beat Caps

• Watch Blake Wheeler score his 300th career goal with 3.9 seconds left to force OT

• Scheifele's OT winner caps Jets' dramatic comeback win over Kraken

• Senators' Chabot out at least a week with concussion

• Watch the Rangers' Dads living their best life cheering on their boys

• Coleman fined maximum for slew-footing Jets forward Dubois

• Caps' Aube-Kubel suspended 3 games for check to the head of Cal Foote

• 🤣Throwback to Sens Sean Hill blocking a shot with his "we-knee" per Blackhawks commentator Dale Tallon

• Cole Eiserman makes it 11-3 USA. Tying Ovechkin for most goals at the U17 (12 goals)

• Great puck control warmup drill from skills coach Max Ivanov demonstrated by Nikita Gusev and Brandon Montour

• What should hockey players eat before games? Answered.

TRIVIA ANSWER:

Nine women are inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame: Cammi Granato, Angela James, Geraldine Heaney, Angela Ruggiero, Danielle Goyette, Jayna Hefford, Hayley Wickenheiser, Kim St-Pierre, and Riikka Sallinen.