Joseph Steven Sakic (born July 7, 1969) is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player. He played his entire 21-year National Hockey League career with the Quebec Nordiques Colorado Avalanche franchise. Sakic led the Avalanche to Stanley Cup titles in 1996 and 2001, being named the most valuable player of the 1996 playoffs, and honoured as the MVP of the NHL in 2001. He retired from the NHL on July 9, 2009, and had his jersey number retired prior to the Avalanche’s 2009–10 season opener on October 1, 2009. In 2012, Sakic was inducted in the Hockey Hall of Fame, along with Adam Oates, Pavel Bure and Mats Sundin. In 2013, he was named one of the
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Joseph Steven Sakic (born July 7, 1969) is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player. He played his entire 21-year National Hockey League career with the Quebec Nordiques Colorado Avalanche franchise. Sakic led the Avalanche to Stanley Cup titles in 1996 and 2001, being named the most valuable player of the 1996 playoffs, and honoured as the MVP of the NHL in 2001. He retired from the NHL on July 9, 2009, and had his jersey number retired prior to the Avalanche’s 2009–10 season opener on October 1, 2009. In 2012, Sakic was inducted in the Hockey Hall of Fame, along with Adam Oates, Pavel Bure and Mats Sundin. In 2013, he was named one of the ‘100 Greatest NHL Players’ in history. He served as executive advisor and alternate governor for the Avalanche, effective at the end of the 2010–11 season, and promoted to Executive Vice President of hockey operations on May 10, 2013. He was named to play in 13 NHL All-Star Games and selected to the NHL First All-star Team at centre three times. He represented Canada in six international competitions, including the 1998 and 2006 Winter Olympics, and was voted as the tournament’s most valuable players. He is one of six players to participate in both of the team’s Stanley Cup victories. His wrist shot was the source of much of his production as goalies around the league feared his rapid snap-shot release. He scored 83 goals and 156 points in only 80 games for Burnaby, while attending school at Burnaby North Secondary.
In 1987–88 he was the WHL Most Valuable Valuable Player and Canadian Major Junior Player of the Year. He made his NHL debut on October 6, 1988, against the Hartford Whalers. His first goal came two days later against goaltender Sean Burke. He twice scored 50 goals and earned at least 100 points in six different seasons. In 2009, he became the eighth all-time points leader in the NHL, as well as 14th in all- time goals and 11th inall-time assists. He helped lead Team Canada to its first ice hockey gold medal in 50 years in the 2002 Winter Olympics. He has been inducted into the Canada Sports Hall of fame on April 11, 2013, with 11 others. He did not learn to speak English well until kindergarten, having been raised with Croatian as his mother tongue. As a small player, he had to use skill rather than size to excel, and modelled himself after his idol, Wayne Gretzky. In the 1986–87 season, the Lethbridge Broncos relocated to Swift Current, Saskatchewan, becoming the Swift Current Broncos. In his first full season, he notched 60 goals and 73 assists for 133 points. But while Sakic enjoyed success on the ice, he and his team faced a tragedy on the night of December 30, 1986. The next year, his teammates were driving to a game against the Regina Pats, and due to bad weather conditions, the bus crashed.
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