The 2001-02 Detroit Red Wings team will add another Hockey Hall of Famer on Monday when Pavel Datsyuk is officially added to the HOF.
That team finished with a 51-17-10-4 record, totaling 116 points. They beat the Vancouver Canucks, St. Louis Blues, Colorado Avalanche and then the Carolina Hurricanes to win the Stanley Cup.
In all, that team had 10 future Hockey Hall of Famers on the team, as well as Scotty Bowman as the coach. Bowman was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1991.
The players who are in the hall of fame from the 2001-02 team are:
- Igor Larionov - Class of 2008
- Brett Hull - Class of 2009
- Luc Robitaille - Class of 2009
- Steve Yzerman - Class of 2009
- Chris Chelios - Class of 2013
- Brendan Shanahan - Class of 2013
- Dominik Hasek - Class of 2014
- Sergei Fedorov - Class of 2015
- Nicklas Lidstrom - Class of 2015
- Pavel Datsyuk - Class of 2024
Shanahan led the team in points at the end of the season, racking up 75 points with 37 goals and 38 assists. Fedorov was just behind him with 68 points, followed by Hull with 63 points, Lidstrom with 59 and Robitaille with 50.
In the playoffs, Yzerman had 23 points – six goals and 17 assists – followed by Shanahan and Fedorov with 19 points each.
This season was also Datsyuk's rookie year with the Red Wings. he had 35 points that season – 11 goals and 24 assists – and added three goals and three assists in the playoffs.
Two former Detroit Red Wings stars are still waiting to be elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame – Henrik Zetterberg and Chris Osgood.
Osgood became eligible in 2014 and Zetterberg just became eligible this year.
