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NHL: Selanne, Kariya among seven voted into Hall of Fame

Former NHL player Teemu Selanne is among seven people voted into the Hockey Hall of Fame

Retired NHL stars Teemu Selanne, Paul Kariya, Dave Andreychuk and Mark Recchi were among seven people voted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday by a selection committee. Canadian women's star Danielle Goyette, long-time Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs and Canadian college coach Clark Drake are also set to be inducted on November 13 at the Hall of Fame in Toronto. Selanne, nicknamed "The Finnish Flash," spent 21 seasons in the NHL for Winnipeg, Anaheim, San Jose and Colorado before retiring in 2014 with 684 goals. He helped the Anaheim Ducks win a Stanley Cup in 2007 and is the all-time Olympic top scorer with three bronze medals and one silver medal. "I'm lucky to have played with great people wherever I went in hockey," Selanne said. "The game is a team effort and I have a long list of those who helped me." Kariya, whose father was of Japanese heritage and born in a World War II internment camp and whose mother was a teacher of Scottish heritage, helped Canada win 2002 Olympic gold. He spent nine seasons with Anaheim starting in 1993, scoring 50 goals in the 1995-96 campaign, and remains a close friend of Selanne. "My parents sacrificed so that I could play the game and I wouldn't be receiving this honour if it wasn't for them," Kariya said. Kariya's career was cut short by concussions and he retired in 2011 after doctors advised him it was too risky to continue playing. Andreychuk scored 640 goals in more than 1,600 NHL regular season games over 23 seasons starting in 1982 with Buffalo, Toronto, New Jersey, Boston, Colorado and Tampa Bay. He won the Stanley Cup with Tampa Bay in 2004. "When I look back, I always think of hockey as a team game and it was never about me." said Andreychuk. "As a player, it's how we are taught and that makes this individual award even more unique." Recchi joined the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1989 and began the fourth longest regular season NHL career in history, playing in 1,652 games. He won his first Stanley Cup in Pittsburgh in 1991 and added titles with Carolina in 2006 and Boston in 2011, becoming only the 10th player in NHL history to win Stanley Cups on three different teams. "It's an incredible feeling and the icing on the cake after 22 years of playing the game," Recchi said. Goyette won seven women's world titles, as well as two gold and one silver medals at the Winter Olympics before retiring in 2008. "The Hockey Hall of Fame is where the people I've looked up to all my life are enshrined," said Goyette. "It will be an amazing honour for me to be with them." Drake guided the University of Alberta to six Canadian national collegiate crowns in 28 years coaching the Golden Bears. Jacobs has owned the Bruins since 1975 and has been chairman of the NHL Board of Governors since 2007.