Carman’s Belfour heading to Hockey Hall of Fame
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This article was published 28/06/2011 (5587 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Carman native Ed Belfour, an all-star goaltender, along with Doug Gilmour, Mark Howe and Joe Nieuwendyk will enter the Hockey Hall of Fame in November.
“It’s a great honour,” said Belfour via a conference call. “I want to thank all my teammates that I’ve played with over the years. Obviously, without them I couldn’t have success. All the great coaches I had over the years, my mom and dad, all my friends that backed me and helped me be a better player and better person.
“This surprised me. Actually, there’s a lot of mixed emotions. You always have it in your heart that you want to continue to play but it has to come to an end and that’s unfortunate when it does. But this is a great honour to be inducted into the HHOF.”
Belfour, 46, played at the University of North Dakota before joining the Chicago Blackhawks organization in the late 1980s.
He played his first full season in the NHL during the 1990-91 campaign, recording an amazing 43 wins to win the Calder Cup as the rookie of the year and the Vezina Trophy as the league’s top netminder for the Blackhawks.
He went on to play 17 seasons, split between Chicago, Dallas, San Jose, Toronto and Florida.
Belfour had 484 regular-season wins, and won a Stanley Cup with the Dallas Stars in 1999.
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Updated on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 2:46 PM CDT: Added quotes from Belfour