Who's Britain's Best Hockey Export?
Alena Casper
2025-04-29 01:16:55
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An exceptional set of skills – soft hands, vision, easy skating stride, strength – enabled the Edinburgh born forward to achieve more than any other player in this country. From being the first Brit to be drafted by the NHL to receiving the accolade of his fellow players, who voted him the Player of the Century, he set sky-high standards which may never be beaten. Great Britain’s all-time highest points scorer; league, cup and play-off trophies galore; and the only ice hockey player ever to be awarded the prestigious Member of the British Empire (MBE) medal by HM The Queen for his services to his sport, Tony’s haul of honours is unsurpassed. The Hockey News of Toronto devoted a couple of pages to the news with the unblushing headline ‘The Scottish Wayne Gretzky finally hangs up his skates’.
Erica West
2025-04-16 00:44:55
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Tony Hand was born in Edinburgh in 1967 and was the first British Player to be inducted by an NHL team. He is considered a prodigy of British ice hockey with achievements that have made annals in English history. Amongst his achievements, he has earned 11 leagues and 13 club-scoring titles. He has won six Player of the Year awards and three for Coach of the year. He would play for the national Great Britain team until the last appearance in 2007 in Division I, although he would continue playing until 2015. He would further contribute to Great Britain’s hockey, coaching Great Britain in three World championships and two Olympic tournaments.
He is considered Great Britain’s all-time highest scorer and winner of countless trophies, cups and leagues; he even received the Member of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to Sports in 2004 and was inducted into the IIHF Hall of fame.
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