Mike Modano, Ed Olczyk and Lou Lamoriello become latest entrants of US Hockey Hall of Fame
On Monday, the 15th October 2012, a ceremony was held at the Plaza of the American Atrium in Dallas, Texas, in which three of the greatest contributors of US hockey were paid tribute for their services and were included into US Hockey Hall of
Fame.
The latest entrants and inductees of Hall of Fame included the great hockey player, Mike Modano, who is the highest scoring U.S born ice hockey player in NHL, the general manager Lou Lamoriello and player turned commentator Eddie Olczyk.
42-year-old Modano was very pleased on his induction as he thinks that his biggest achievement was not scoring those points and becoming highest scoring American but his achievement was to bring the hockey in the city of Dallas, as he said,
"What I'm most proud of is being a part of a group that brought hockey to Texas”.
The Livonia, Michigan native played 16 years of his 21 year hockey career in the team of Dallas Stars and he feels proud of the fact that there were just 100 players registered with ice hockey back when he arrived there first in 1993 but now there are more
than 10000 youngster associated with them, as Modano added,
"Now there are 10,000 kids registered to play hockey and that's great”.
The former Dallas Stars and Detroit Red Wings’ centre also paid tribute to his fellow inductee Lou Lamoriello, the general manager of New Jersey Devils, who was sitting right beside him.
He told that he will never forget how Lamoriello helped them in winning the 1996 Hockey World Cup and made the team united for the win. In his opinion Lamoriello very well deserves to be called the Godfather of Hockey in America, as he said,
"I'll never forget that 1996 World Cup team that Lou Lamoriello put together. That team was the most talented group of players I've ever been around. It's easy to see why Lou is regarded as the Godfather of American hockey."
The 6-foot-3, 210 pounder also revealed the story of him starting hockey as he told that his parents wanted him to be a baseball player first but he did not well in it so they looked for a new sport and made him start ice hockey. Emotional Modano said,
"My parents were looking to find me an outlet, and we found more than that”.
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