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Old foes go in together asHockey Hall of Fame’s latest classTORONTO (AP) — Vyacheslav Fetisov shudders when he recalls trying to stop the scoring of Mike Gartner, Dale Hawerchuk and Jari Kurri.“They scored so many goals that there are not many good memories for me playing against these guys,” Fetisov said Monday as he sat on a stool surrounded by those three old foes, who scored a total of 1,827 goals in their NHL careers.As a defenseman, Fetisov always was trying to find a way to break up their rushes toward the net. But now, they are on the same side, as members of the Class of 2001 in theIn Brief[ciated Presslt;*NIS)k Andre Agassi a little while to adjustfirst match since his son Jaden Gil was af.) get his mind back on tennis in a 6-2, le opening night of the season-endingSebastien Grosjean 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 as he ip on No. 1 Gustavo Kuerten in a tour-he 2001 ATP Champions race.BALLBuffalo Bills quarterback Rob John-Hockey Hall of Fame.The four received their Hall of Fame blazers and rings Monday, and were to formally enter the shrine in ceremonies that night.Besides the NHL, the four new inductees also often met on international ice, when Gartner and Hawerchuk played for Canada, Kurri for Finland and Fetisov for the Soviet Union.“I considered (Fetisov) the general of that hockev club,” Hawer-•»chuk said.“When I played for Finland, we went into games against the Russians worried we might lose 10-0 or 8-0,” Kurri said. “They were scary.”Joining the four players induction was Craig Patrick, the general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins, who was voted into the hall in the builders category, the fourth member of his family to be honored.Gartner scored 708 NHL goals — second only to Gordie Howeamong right-wingers. Gartnershakes his head in amazement at being spoken of in the same breath as Mr. Hockey.“Boy, I’ll take that, to be second to Gordie Howe,” he said.Gartner. 42, manages the NHL Players* Association program, GoalsnnH DrMiiK thaf nrrwid^c ^nnin-breeding farm north of Toronto. The No. 1 NHL draft pick in 1981 by the Winnipeg Jets, he won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year by becoming the youngest player (18) in league history to amass 100 points in a season. He’d go on to score 518 goals, and his 1,409 points put him 13th on the all-time list.Fetisov, 43, the assistant coach of the New Jersey Devils, will be head coach of Russia’s team at the 2002 Winter Olympics. He helped the Soviet Union to two Olympic titles and six world championships, and earned two Stanley Cup rings with the Detroit Red Wings.Patrick, 55, was preceded in the hall by grandfather Lester; his father, Lynn: and great uncle Frank.“It was great to be born into a family so interested in hockey,” he said “I grew up in the game and once it's in your blood it’s in your blood. This is beyond my wildest dreams.”At a Monday luncheon, Eric Duhatschek of Calgary was presented with the Elmer Ferguson award for distinguished hockey journalism, and Mike Lange, the voice of the Penguins, received the Foster Hewitt Award for outstanding workas an NHI hrnaHracfpr
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