Hockey Hall of Fame announces class of 2022

Twins Henrik and Daniel Sedin and Daniel Alfredsson have been elected to the Hockey Corridor of Fame, a big day for Swedish hockey as they created up 50 % of the class of 2022.

Goaltender Roberto Luongo, Finnish women’s star Riikka Sallinen and builder Herb Carnegie were also selected Monday for induction in November.

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Daniel Sedin, right, and Henrik Sedin pose with the King Clancy Memorial Trophy just after winning the award at the NHL Awards, Wednesday, June 20, 2018, in Las Vegas. Swedes Henrik and Daniel Sedin and Daniel Alfredsson have been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame. Goaltender Roberto Luongo, Finnish women’s star Riikka Sallinen and builder Herb Carnegie had been also selected Monday, June 27, 2022, to be inducted in November.  (G3 Box News Picture/John Locher, File)

"It’s nothing you feel about when you participate in the activity of hockey," Henrik Sedin mentioned. "But for us, we put our head down and place our function in every working day. We get the most out of our talent. That’s what we’re most very pleased of right now."

The Sedins and Luongo are becoming inducted in their to start with year of eligibility. Alfredsson created it in his sixth 12 months, ending the hold out for the longtime Senators captain who aided them get to the Stanley Cup Final in 2007 and invested 17 seasons of his 18-yr career in Ottawa.

"It’s such a privilege to have been capable to perform this activity for a living," Alfredsson mentioned. "It’s some thing I would have played for enjoyment for my whole existence devoid of a query to be recognized in this way is really humbling."

Alexander Mogilny and Jen Botterill were being handed in excess of for a different year, along with Rod Brind’Amour, now the coach of the Carolina Hurricanes soon after captaining them to the Stanley Cup in 2006.

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Ottawa Senators' Daniel Alfredsson celebrates the Senators' 3-2 additional time earn against the Montreal Canadiens in Match 4 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff sequence in Ottawa, Ontario, on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Alfredsson have been elected to the Hockey Corridor of Fame, picked Monday, June 27, 2022, to be inducted in November. (G3 Box News Photo/The Canadian Press, Fred Chartrand, File)

Alfredsson gained the Calder Trophy as NHL rookie of the 12 months and was the encounter of the Senators franchise for pretty much two decades. His Hall of Fame candidacy was boosted by his gold medal with the Sweden at the 2006 Olympics and Ottawa franchise data for objectives, assists and games performed.

Every single of the Sedins won the Art Ross Trophy for foremost the NHL in scoring, and Henrik received the Hart Trophy as MVP in 2010. The Vancouver Canucks created a go in the 1999 draft to make sure they could get Henrik and Daniel with the next and third picks, and their chemistry was well recognized through occupations that ended in 2018.

"We type of joke that they know what they are heading to do with no ever hunting at each individual other," Alfredsson said.

Former Florida Panthers goalie Roberto Luongo smiles as he speaks all through a news meeting in advance of a jersey retirement ceremony, Saturday, March 7, 2020, in Sunrise, Fla. Luongo was elected to the Hockey Corridor of Fame, Monday, June 27, 2022. (G3 Box News Photograph/Wilfredo Lee, File)

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Luongo is fourth in league heritage in victories and was aspect of the Canucks group that reached the ultimate in 2011 in advance of dropping to the Boston Bruins.

"It feels surreal," Luongo claimed. "I have been seeing and getting a gazillion text messages. It’s a truly, certainly humbling knowledge, and the ideal part of the full thing is that I get to go in with two of my beloved teammates of all time and two of the biggest persons I know in Henrik and Daniel. That makes it so enjoyable for me to be a component of it."

It’s the very first Corridor of Fame class with out a Stanley Cup winner given that 2016.

Sallinen is the initially Finnish women’s participant elected to the Corridor of Fame. She starred for her state by bronze medals at the 1998 and 2008 Olympics and was element of quite a few world championship teams in between.

Order of Canada recipient Herb Carnegie, former star of the Quebec Aces as a result of the 1940s, is demonstrated all through a news convention in Toronto, June 7, 2009. Carnegie was elected to the Hockey Corridor of Fame, Monday, June 27, 2022. (Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Push via G3 Box News, File)

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Carnegie, who was elected posthumously as a builder, was a hockey pioneer as a Black participant in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s — before Willie O’Ree broke the NHL’s coloration barrier.

"I’m just absolutely confused about the full point. For many years, people have been operating so tricky to see that my father was acknowledged," daughter Bernice Carnegie claimed. "We’re both crying or smiling about this."