Zdeno Chára, Alexander Mogilny, Joe Thornton among eight inducted into 2025 Hockey Hall of Fame class
The eight-member class of players and coaches was selected by an 18-member selection committee in June after each candidate received at least 75 percent of the votes needed to take office.
At 6-foot-10, Chára remains the tallest player to compete in an NHL game. After being considered a project, he went on to play for 24 seasons, appearing in 1,680 games, a record for a defenseman. Chára won the Norris Trophy as the league’s top defenseman in 2009 and led the Boston Bruins to three Stanley Cup The Finals won the title in 2011.
Speaking about his journey, Chára said that growing up in Slovakia was often challenging due to its size, but moving to North America turned this into an advantage. “I was just a tall kid who couldn’t speak English,” he said, as quoted by Reuters, “but I was lucky to find families who accepted me as their own.”
Keith, who stands 6-foot-4, spent 17 years with the Chicago Blackhawks; He won three Stanley Cups, two Norris Trophies, a Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP and two Olympic gold medals.
Thornton, who was selected first overall in the 1997 NHL Draft, also had a 24-season career. During the 2005-06 season, he led the league in scoring with 125 points and became one of the NHL’s most productive point guards, even after being traded from Boston to San Jose mid-season.
Mogilny played 990 NHL games, scoring 473 goals and collecting 1,032 total points. He led the league in goals with 76 in 1992-93 and won the Stanley Cup with the New Jersey Devils in 2000.
Parker won three NCAA championships and five Hockey East coach of the year awards at Boston University. Sauvageau led Canada’s women’s team to its first Olympic gold medal in 2002. Botterill, a three-time Olympic champion, and Decker, an Olympic gold medalist and six-time world champion, round out the 2025 Hall of Fame class.
