- Martin Brodeur
Martin Pierre Brodeur (born May 6, 1972, in Montreal, Quebec) is a professional ice hockey goaltender who has played his entire National Hockey League career with the New Jersey Devils. In his 13-year tenure, he has led the team to three Stanley Cup championships and has taken them to the playoffs all but once. In addition to holding over thirty Devils franchise records, he is on pace to surpass Patrick Roy's career records for wins, games played and minutes played, …
- Jaromír Jágr
Jaromír Jágr is an National Hockey League player and the current captain for the New York Rangers. Jagr wears the number 68 in honor of the Prague Spring rebellion that occurred in Czechoslovakia in 1968, also the year in which his grandfather died while in prison. While Jagr was one of the NHL's elite players during the 1990s, his performance slipped for much of the 2000s.
- Chris Chelios
Chris Chelios (born Christos Kostas Tselios January 25, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Greek American defenceman for the Detroit Red Wings of the NHL, earning many awards during his long career. Chelios is currently the oldest active player in the NHL, has played the most games by an active player in the NHL, and is the active leader in penalty minutes. On November 24, 2006, he played in his 1,496th NHL game, more than any American-born player, …
- Doug Weight
Douglas Weight (Born January 21, 1971 in Warren, Michigan) is professional ice hockey player currently playing for the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League. He previously played for the New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers and Carolina Hurricanes.
- Paul Kariya
Paul Tetsuhiko Kariya (born October 16, 1974 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), is a professional ice hockey player who plays for the St. Louis Blues.
- Brendan Shanahan
Brendan Frederick Shanahan (born 23 January 1969, in Mimico, Ontario, Canada), is a Canadian ice hockey right wing and alternate captain for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. With his physical play and goal scoring ability, Shanahan has scored 600 goals in his career, and is the leader among active players for goals scored. He helped the Detroit Red Wings win three Stanley Cups. The son of Irish parents, Rosaleen and Donal, …
- Mario Lemieux
Mario Lemieux (born October 5, 1965, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a retired professional ice hockey centre who played 17 seasons for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League between 1984 and 2006. He is also the Penguins' principal owner and chairman of the board, having bought the team out of bankruptcy in 1999. Lemieux is generally regarded as one of the greatest players to ever play in the NHL.
- Joe Sakic
Joseph Steve Sakic (born July 7, 1969 in Burnaby, British Columbia) is a professional ice hockey center who has played his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche franchise. In his 18-year tenure, Sakic has won two Stanley Cups, various NHL trophies and has been voted into 13 NHL All-Star Games. He is regarded as one of the strongest team leaders to ever play in the league, …
- Mike Modano
Michael Thomas Modano, Jr. (born June 7 1970, in Livonia, Michigan) is a professional hockey player for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League. He is the all-time goal scoring leader amongst American-born players
- Chris Drury
Christopher "Chris" Drury (born August 20, 1976 in Trumbull, Connecticut) is a professional ice hockey player who currently plays for the New York Rangers of the NHL. He is the younger brother of former player Ted Drury.
- Julie Chu
Julie Chu is an American Olympic ice hockey player who plays the position of forward on the Women's Ice Hockey team. She stands at a height of 5’8”. Chu's hometown is Fairfield, Connecticut, although she resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Julie graduated in 2001 from Choate Rosemary Hall. Chu is the first Asian American woman and first Chinese American woman to play for the U.S. Olympic ice hockey team, and played in the 2002 and 2006 games.
- Hayley Wickenheiser
Hayley Wickenheiser (born August 12, 1978, in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a player for the female Canadian ice hockey team. She is a cousin of the late National Hockey League player, Doug Wickenheiser. Wickenheiser has been a member of the Canadian National team since 1995, winning the silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games, the gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, and another gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games (in which, …
- Alexei Yashin
Alexei Valeryevich Yashin is a professional hockey player who is currently a free agent, born in Sverdlovsk, USSR, now Yekaterinburg, Russia, on November 5, 1973. He gained his initial fame after being the first ever draft pick of the expansion Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (2nd overall in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft).
- Maxim Afinogenov
Maxim Sergeyevich Afinogenov ("Maksim Sergejevič Afinogenov", ; born September 4, 1979 in Moscow, USSR; now Russia) is a professional ice hockey player.
- Vicky Sunohara
Vicky Sunohara (born on May 18 1970, in Scarborough, Ontario) is a female ice hockey player, playing for Canada's national team. She is of Japanese - Ukrainian ethnicity. Once considered the best female ice hockey player in the world, she won an Olympic silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and was idolized by Japanese seeking a hero in ice hockey. She continued with an Olympic gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, …
- Bill Guerin
William Robert Guerin (born November 9 1970, in Worcester, Massachusetts) is a professional ice hockey right wing in the NHL. He is under contract to start his first season with the New York Islanders in the upcoming 2007-08 NHL season.
- Darius Kasparaitis
Darius Kasparaitis is an ethnic Lithuanian-Russian professional ice hockey defenceman, also known by the nickname "Kaspar". He has Russian citizenship and plays for the Russian national hockey team.
- Brian Rafalski
Brian Rafalski (born September 28, 1973, in Dearborn, Michigan) is an American professional ice hockey player who will play defense for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League in the upcoming season, having been signed as an unrestricted free agent from the New Jersey Devils. After enduring a long struggle to enter the NHL, Rafalski has won 2 Stanley Cups and become an effective defenseman in the league.
- Rob Blake
Robert Bowlby "Rob" Blake (born December 10 1969, in Simcoe, Ontario) is a professional ice hockey defenceman in the NHL, playing for the Los Angeles Kings.
- Kim Martin
Kim Martin is a Swedish national ice hockey goaltender. She plays her club hockey with AIK's women's team and has also played with Hammarby IF's junior men's team. As of the 2005-06 season she belongs to Malmö Redhawks of the men's second tier league, and she was scheduled to make her debut at that level on March 8, 2006, as the first woman ever in Sweden.
- Kelly Bechard
Kelly Bechard (born January 28, 1978 in Sedley, Saskatchewan) is a women's ice hockey player. Bechard competed for Canada at the World Championships in 2000 and 2001. In 2002, she competed for Canada at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. She was also a provincial doubles badminton champion in High School. In the gold medal game, Bechard was called for a tripping penalty late in the third period, and this led to Karen Bye of the United States scoring a goal.
- Cassie Campbell
Cassie Campbell draws on her accomplishments as the former captain of the gold-medal winning Canadian Women's Olympic Hockey Team to explore the themes of leadership, teamwork, motivation, and determination. A lively, passionate, and engaging speaker, she knows firsthand about the key roles that teamwork, determination, and great leadership play at the most challenging times. CASSIE CAMPBELL Former Captain of the Canadian Women's Hockey Team
- Eric Brewer
Eric Charles Brewer (born April 17, 1979 in Vernon, British Columbia) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League. Drafted in the 1st round, 5th overall by the New York Islanders in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft, Brewer has spent portions of his 8-year NHL career with the Islanders, the Edmonton Oilers, and the Blues.
- Al MacInnis
Allan "Al" MacInnis (born July 11, 1963 in Port Hood, Nova Scotia, Canada) is a Hall of Fame Hockey defenceman who played 23 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Calgary Flames and St. Louis Blues. MacInnis spent his teen years in Kitchener, Ontario and attended Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School. In November 2006, he was appointed Vice President of Hockey Operations by Blues President John Davidson.
- Danielle Goyette
Danielle Goyette (born January 30, 1966 in St-Nazaire, Quebec) is a women's ice hockey player, and has been on the Canadian national team. She has achieved an amazing amount of success with the women's national team, and in December 2005 in an exhibition game against Sweden, scored her 200th career point with Team Canada. In 2006, she was selected to carry the Canadian flag during the Opening Ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
- Krissy Wendell
Krissy Wendell (born September 12, 1981 in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota) is an American women's ice hockey player. While attending Park Center Senior High School, she led the Girls Hockey Team to a State Championship. She went on to be one of the stars on the American national women's hockey team and serves as their team captain. She was also a co-captain of the University of Minnesota Gophers women's hockey team.
- Tommy Salo
Thomas "Tommy" Mikael Salo (born February 1, 1971 in Surahammar) is a former professional ice hockey goaltender from Sweden. His parents are both Finnish, which explains his non-Swedish last name.
- Ryan Smyth
Ryan Alexander Gordon Smyth (b. February 21, 1976 in Banff, Alberta) is a professional ice hockey player who currently plays left wing for the Colorado Avalanche. Smyth was selected 6th overall in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft by the Edmonton Oilers, and he went on to play 12 seasons for the club he idolized as a child.
- Jennifer Botterill
Jennifer Botterill (born on May 1, 1979 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a member of the Canadian national women's hockey team. She won the silver medal in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano in 1998 as the youngest player on the Canadian team. Later, she won the gold medal in the 2002 games in Salt Lake City, Utah. She won her second gold medal in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin; playing forward. Botterill played college hockey for Harvard University from 1998-2003.
- Martin Havlát
Martin Havlát (born April 19 1981 in Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic) is a professional ice hockey player with the Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL.
- Caroline Ouellette
Caroline Ouellette (born on May 25, 1979 in Montreal) is a Canadian ice hockey player. She is a member of the Canadian national women's ice hockey team. Ouellette attended and played for the University of Minnesota Duluth. She joined the national team in 1999 and has won four world championships (1999, 2000, 2001 and 2004) and two Olympic gold medals with the team (2002, 2006).
- Brian Rolston
Brian Rolston (Born February 21 1973 in Flint, Michigan) is a professional hockey player currently playing for the Minnesota Wild.
- Jayna Hefford
Jayna Hefford (born May 14, 1977 in Kingston, Ontario) is a women's ice hockey player. Hefford played forward for the Canadian women's team at the Winter Olympics in 1998, 2002 and 2006. Her goal in the gold medal game at the 2002 Winter Olympics was the gold medal winning goal. In the 2006 tournament, Hefford scored three goals and added four assists to finish third on the team in scoring and Canada again won the gold medal.
- Pavel Datsyuk
Pavel Datsyuk (born July 20 1978, in Sverdlovsk, USSR (now Yekaterinburg, Russia) is a Russian-born professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Detroit Red Wings. He is known for silent, but humble demeanor.
- Maria Rooth
Maria Rooth is a Swedish female ice hockey player. Rooth is alternate captain and one of the most experienced players on the Swedish national team, which she has been a part of since 1996.
- Jan Hrdina
Jan Hrdina (born, in Hradec Kralove, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech professional ice hockey player currently with HV71 in the Swedish elite league Elitserien.
- Kim St-Pierre
Kim St-Pierre is a women's ice hockey player. She was the first woman in Canadian Interuniversity Sports history to win a men’s regular season game when McGill University defeated Ryerson University in 2003. She is one of two goaltenders playing for the Canadian women's team in Turin. She normally plays for the Quebec Avalanche of the National Women's Hockey League.
- Tricia Dunn-Luoma
Tricia Dunn-Luoma (born April 25, 1975 in Derry, New Hampshire) is an American ice hockey player. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She graduated from Pinkerton Academy in Derry.
- Becky Kellar
Becky Kellar (born January 1, 1975 in Hagersville, Ontario) is a women's ice hockey player. Kellar plays defense for the Canadian women's team in Turin though she normally plays for the Oakville Ice of the National Women's Hockey League. Becky Kellar played ringette as a child, before switching over to hockey.
- Richard Lintner
Richard Lintner is a Slovak Professional Hockey Defenceman who currently plays for Skellefteå AIK in the Elitserien. He previously played in the National Hockey League for the Nashville Predators, New York Rangers and the Pittsburgh Penguins. He represented Slovakia at the World Championships every year from 2001 until 2005.