The British Columbia Hockey Hall of Fame (BCHHoF) has announced that Shawn Horcoff will be inducted into the Hall of Fame this summer.
Dan Hamhuis, Mike Penny, Larry Kwong and Ted Hargreaves as well as the 1987 Centennial Cup champion Richmond Sockeyes and the 1978 Allan Cup champion Kimberley Dynamiters will also be welcomed into the Hall of Fame.
“All of these great hockey people honoured the game in our province and now it's time to honour them,” said Jim Hughson, chair of the B.C. HHoF.
Horcoff was born in Trail, but grew up in Castlegar. He played 1,008 regular season NHL games with the Edmonton Oilers, Dallas Stars and Anaheim Ducks after being selected in the fourth round, 99th overall, of the 1999 NHL Draft.
Horcoff helped the Oilers reach the Stanley Cup Final in 2005-06 and represented Canada three times at the World Junior Championships, winning gold in Helsinki in 2003 and Prague in 2004 and earned a silver medal in Bern in 2009.
“First off, it’s a humongous honour. I grew up in British Columbia, playing all my minor hockey there, and played three years of junior hockey (Trail Smoke Eaters/Chilliwack Chiefs) before leaving for college,” said Horcoff.
Dan Hamhuis, a Smithers native, played 1148 career regular season NHL games with the Nashville Predators, Vancouver Canucks, and Dallas Stars after being the No.12 pick by the Predators in the 2001 NHL Draft. He helped the Canucks reach the Stanley Cup Final during the 2010-11 season. He won gold with Canada at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, as well as the 2007 and 2015 IIHF World Championships and silver at the 2008 and 2009 World Championships.
Montreal’s Mike Penny has been an NHL scout for 55 years. He played a pivotal role in drafting Hockey Hall of Famers Pavel Bure, Cam Neely, Daniel and Henrik Sedin, as well as BC Hockey Hall of Fame inductees Trevor Linden and Gino Odjick.
Born and raised in Vernon, B.C., the late Larry Kwong made history as the first player of Asian descent to compete in the NHL, suiting up in one game for the New York Rangers in 1948.
Born in Saskatchewan, Ted Hargreaves was a player, coach, and educator whose influence on hockey has spanned decades. He won bronze with Team Canada at the 1968 Olympics and played for the Winnipeg Jets (WHA) and Nelson Maple Leafs (Western International Hockey League).
Off the ice, Hargreaves was a development pioneer. He was involved in the first motion picture (16mm film) instruction series on skills (became the foundation of Hockey Canada’s National Coaches Certification Program). He later contributed over 400 illustrations to early coaching manuals and spent 20 years leading B.C. Hockey’s coaching programs, eventually serving as Provincial Coach.
The induction ceremony will be on July 12 at the South Okanagan Events Centre.
