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A glimpse at Alfredsson’s case:

BY THE NUMBERS

In 1,246 NHL games, Alfredsson was close to a point-per-game player with 444 goals and 713 assists for 1,157 points. Alfredsson had two 40-goal seasons (43, 40), one 100-point season (103 in 2005-06) and 13 times he scored 20 or more goals in a season. He added 100 playoff points (51 goals) in 124 post-season games.

OTTAWA LEGACY

Though the Senators did not win a Stanley Cup during the Alfredsson era, they were a consistent threat and reached the Cup final in 2007. Alfredsson scored the winning goal in overtime in the Eastern Conference final to eliminate Buffalo.

Alfredsson is the first legacy player in the modern history of the hockey club and is the franchise leader in goals, assists and points among many other categories.

AWARDS

After the 1995-96 season Alfredsson became the first Senators player to win a major award, the Calder Trophy, as outstanding NHL rookie.

Alfie later won two NHL leadership citations, the King Clancy Award for humanitarian work and the Mark Messier Leadership Award. He played in six NHL all-star games.

EURO ZONE

The HHOF is far from an NHL-only residence. International accomplishments matter. There are players who have been inducted without playing a single game in the NHL (eg. Vladislav Tretiak).

Alfredsson has plenty of international bona fides, including five Olympic Games hockey tournaments with Sweden, beginning with the 1998 Nagano Games and ending with Sochi in 2014. At the 2006 Olympics in Turin where Sweden won gold, Alfredsson was the nation’s top forward on a team boasting two future Hall of Fame forwards in Peter Forsberg and Mats Sundin. With five goals and five assists in eight games, Alfredsson led all Swedes in goals and points. Alfredsson was also part of two silver and two bronze performances at the world hockey championship and participated in seven worlds in all. He was on Sweden’s bronze-winning team at the 1996 World Cup of Hockey.