Karyn Bye entra nell'Hall of Fame IIHF

La Hall of Fame dell’IIHF ha inserito sei nuovi volti tra quelli che ogni anno entrano nella “gallery” più prestigiosa dell’hockey internazionale. Tra questi c’è Karyn Bye, tra le prime giocatrici della nazionale americana che negli anni 90 ha aperto la strada dell’hockey femminile tra mondiali e olimpiadi. Nata il 18 maggio 1971 a River Falls (Wisconsin), Bye ha iniziato a giocare con i ragazzi fino all’età di 18 anni e successivamente ha vinto con la nazionale femminile 10 medaglie in altrettante competizioni organizzate dalla IIHF. Con i suoi 5 gol e tre assist in 6 gare gli Stati Uniti vinsero la prima edizione del torneo femminile di hockey alle Olimpiadi, disputatesi a Nagano nel 1998, e con i suoi 6 punti (3+3) in 5 partite le americane conquistarono l’argento a Salt Lake City nel 2002. All’oro olimpico si aggiungono 6 mondiali (1992, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001) e due Pacific Women’s Championships (1995, 1996). Con la maglia stelle-strisce Bye ha segnato ai mondiali 51 punti (27 + 24) in 30 partite in un totale di 84 punti (47 + 37) in 51 partite disputate con gli Stati Uniti.

Bye è la quinta donna ad entrare nella Sala della Gloria dopo Cammi Granato (premiata nel 2008, americana), Geraldine Heaney (2008, canadese), Angela James (2008, canadese) e Riikka Nieminen-Välilä (2010, finlandese).

Gli altri giocatori nominati quest’anno dall’IIHF per entrare nella Hall of Fame sono Tord Lundström (Svezia, n. 1945), Bohumil Modry (Rep. Ceca, n. 1916 m. 1963), Ladislav Trojak (Slovacchia, n. 1914 m. 1948), Doru Tureanu (Romania, n. 1954) e Kalevi Numminen (Finlandia, n. 1940). Il premio “Paul Loicq” (che prende il nome dal belga presidente IIHF per 25 anni) è andato al russo Yuri Korolev che succede cronologicamente all’ex coach del Saima, Luo Vairo.

Di seguito l’elenco completo dei giocatori entrati nell’Hall of Fame (da iihf.com)

	Born	Inducted	Category
AUSTRIA
Hans Dobida	1929	2007	Builder
Josef Puschnig	1947	1999	Player
Walter Wasservogel	1919	1997	Builder

BELGIUM
Paul Loicq	1888	1997	Builder

CANADA
Father David Bauer	1924	1997	Builder
Roger Bourbonnais	1942	1999	Player
Mike Buckna	1913	2004	Builder
Wayne Gretzky	1961	2000	Player
Geraldine Heaney	1967	2008	Player
William Hewitt	1875	1998	Builder
Derek Holmes	1939	1999	Builder
Fran Huck	1945	1999	Player
Angela James	1964	2008	Player
Marshall Johnston	1941	1998	Player
Gordon Juckes	1914	1997	Builder
Dave King	1947	2001	Builder
Bob LeBel	1905	1997	Builder
Mario Lemieux	1965	2008	Player
Vic Lindquist	1908	1997	Player
Barry MacKenzie	1941	1999	Player
Seth Martin	1933	1997	Player
Jackie McLeod	1930	1999	Player
Terry O’Malley	1946	1998	Player
Gordon Renwick	1935	2002	Builder
Harry Sinden	1932	1997	Player
Harry Watson	1898	1998	Player

CZECH REPUBLIC
Quido Adamec	1924	2005	Referee
Vladimir Bouzek	1920	2007	Player
Vlastimil Bubnik	1931	1997	Player
Ludek Bukac	1935	2007	Builder
Josef Cerny	1939	2007	Player
Jaroslav Drobny	1921	1997	Player
Karel Gut	1927	1998	Player
Ivan Hlinka	1950	2002	Player
Jiri Holecek	1944	1998	Player
Jiri Holik	1944	1999	Player
Vladimir Kostka	1922	1997	Builder
Oldrich Machac	1944	1999	Player
Josef Malecek	1903	2003	Player
Vladimir Martinec	1949	2001	Player
Bohumil Modry	1916	2011	Player
Vaclav Nedomansky	1944	1997	Player
Frantisek Pospisil	1944	1999	Player
Miroslav Subrt	1926	2004	Builder
Jan Suchy	1944	2009	Player
Frantisek Tikal	1933	2004	Player
Vladimir Zabrodsky	1923	1997	Player

DENMARK
Jorgen Hviid	1916	2005	Builder

FINLAND
Timo Jutila	1963	2003	Player
Matti Keinonen	1941	2002	Player
Jari Kurri	1960	2000	Player
Harry Lindblad	1912	1999	Builder
Pekka Marjamaki	1947	1998	Player
Riikka Nieminen-Välilä	1973	2010	Player
Kalevi Numminen	1940	2011	Builder
Lasse Oksanen	1942	1999	Player
Esa Peltonen	1947	2007	Player
Goran Stubb	1935	2000	Builder
Jorma Valtonen	1946	1999	Player
Juhani Wahlsten	1938	2006	Player
Unto Wiitala	1925	2003	Referee
Urpo Ylonen	1943	1997	Player

FRANCE
Philippe Bozon	1966	2008	Player
Jacques Lacarriere	1906	1998	Player
Louis Magnus	1881	1997	Builder

GERMANY
Rudi Ball	1910	2004	Player
Dieter Hegen	1962	2010	Player
Heinz Henschel	1920	2003	Builder
Gustav Jaenecke	1908	1998	Player
Udo Kiessling	1955	2000	Player
Josef Kompalla	1936	2003	Referee
Erich Kuhnhackl	1950	1997	Player
Hans Rampf	1931	2001	Player
Dr. Gunther Sabetzki	1915	1997	Builder
Alois Schloder	1947	2005	Player
Xaver Unsinn	1929	1998	Builder
Joachim Ziesche	1939	1999	Player

GREAT BRITAIN
Bunny Ahearne	1900	1997	Builder
Carl Erhardt	1897	1998	Player
Peter Patton	1876	2002	Builder

HUNGARY
Gyorgy Pasztor	1923	2001	Builder
Laszlo Schell	1948	2009	Referee

ITALY
Enrico Calcaterra	1905	1999	Builder

JAPAN
Shoichi Tomita	1936	2006	Builder
Tsutomu Kawabuchi	1925	2004	Builder
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi	1934	1999	Builder

LATVIA
Helmuts Balderis	1952	1998	Player
Arturs Irbe	1967	2010	Player

NORWAY
Tore Johannessen	1922	1999	Builder

POLAND
Henryk Gruth	1957	2006	Player

ROMANIA
Eduard Pana	1944	1998	Player
Doru Tureanu	1954	2011	Player

RUSSIA
Veniamin Alexandrov	1937	2007	Player
Vsevolod Bobrov	1922	1997	Player
Arkady Chernyshev	1914	1999	Builder
Vitaly Davydov	1939	2004	Player
Igor Dimitriev	1941	2007	Builder
Vyacheslav Fetisov	1958	2005	Player
Anatoli Firsov	1941	1998	Player
Yuri Karandin	1937	2004	Referee
Alexei Kasatonov	1959	2009	Player
Valeri Kharlamov	1948	1998	Player
Viktor Konovalenko	1938	2007	Player
Vladimir Krutov	1960	2010	Player
Viktor Kuzkin	1940	2005	Player
Igor Larionov	1960	2008	Player
Konstantin Loktev	1933	2007	Player
Sergei Makarov	1958	2001	Player
Alexander Maltsev	1949	1999	Player
Boris Mayorov	1938	1999	Player
Boris Mikhailov	1944	2000	Player
Vladimir Petrov	1947	2006	Player
Alexander Ragulin	1941	1997	Player
Nikolai Sologubov	1924	2004	Player
Andrei Starovoitov	1915	1997	Builder
Vyacheslav Starshinov	1940	2007	Player
Anatoli Tarasov	1918	1997	Builder
Viktor Tikhonov	1930	1998	Builder
Vladislav Tretyak	1952	1997	Player
Valeri Vasiliev	1949	1998	Player
Alexander Yakushev	1947	2003	Player
Vladimir Yurzinov	1940	2002	Builder

SLOVAKIA
Vladimir Dzurilla	1942	1998	Player
Josef Golonka	1938	1998	Player
Ladislav Horsky	1927	2004	Builder
Jan Starsi	1933	1999	Builder
Peter Stastny	1956	2000	Player
Ladislav Trojak	1914	2011	Player

SLOVENIA
Ernest Aljancic Sr.	1916	2002	Player
Rudi Hiti	1946	2009	Player

SWEDEN
Curt Berglund	1923	2003	Builder
Sven Bergkvist	1914	1999	Player
Lars Bjorn	1931	1998	Player
Ove Dahlberg	1931	2004	Referee
Rudolf Eklow	1904	1999	Builder
Rickard Fagerlund	1937	2010	Builder
Arne Grunander	1918	1997	Builder
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson	1958	2003	Player
Anders Hedberg	1951	1997	Player
Leif Holmqvist	1942	1999	Player
Tomas Jonsson	1960	2000	Player
Hakan Loob	1960	1998	Player
Tord Lundstrom	1945	2011	Player
Mats Naslund	1959	2005	Player
Kent Nilsson	1956	2006	Player
Nisse Nilsson	1936	2002	Player
Ronald Pettersson	1935	2004	Player
Thomas Rundqvist	1960	2007	Player
Borje Salming	1951	1998	Player
Ulf Sterner	1941	2001	Player
Roland Stoltz	1931	1999	Player
Arne Stromberg	1920	1998	Builder
Sven Tumba	1931	1997	Player

SWITZERLAND
Ferdinand Cattini	1916	1998	Player
Hans Cattini	1914	1998	Player
Jakob Kolliker	1953	2007	Player
Cesar Luthi	1930	1998	Builder
Bibi Torriani	1911	1997	Player

UKRAINE
Anatoli Khorozov	1925	2006	Builder

UNITED STATES
Art Berglund	1940	2008	Builder
Herb Brooks	1937	1999	Builder
Walter Brown	1905	1997	Builder
Walter Bush Jr	1929	2009	Builder
Karyn Bye (-Dietz)	1971	2011	Player
Bill Christian	1938	1998	Player
Bill Cleary	1934	1997	Player
Gerry Cosby	1909	1997	Player
Jim Craig	1957	1999	Player
Mike Curran	1944	1999	Player
Cammi Granato	1971	2008	Player
Mark Johnson	1957	1999	Player
Jack McCartan	1935	1998	Player
John Mayasich	1933	1997	Player
Lou Nanne	1941	2004	Player
Bob Ridder	1919	1998	Builder
Jack Riley	1920	1998	Builder
Hal Trumble	1926	1999	Builder
Thayer Tutt	1912	2002	Builder

PAUL LOICQ AWARD WINNERS
Wolf-Dieter Montag	GER	1998
Roman Neumayer	GER	1999
Vsevolod Kukushkin	RUS	2000
Isao Kataoka	JPN	2001
Pat Marsh	GBR	2002
George Nagobads	USA	2003
Aggie Kukulowicz	CAN	2004
Rita Hrbacek	AUT	2005
Bo Tovland	SWE	2006
Bob Nadin	CAN	2007
Juraj Okolicany	SVK	2008
Harald Griebel	GER	2009
Lou Vairo	USA	2010
Yuri Korolev	RUS	2011