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Hall pass Three inducted to U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame
EVELETH, Minn. (AP) -- Roseau native and Stanley Cup winner Neal Broten is among three inductees to the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame announced Monday. The other two honorees, who will be inducted formally November 1, are St. Louis Blues general manager Larry Pleau and USA Hockey executive director Doug Palazzari. Broten led the University of Minnesota to an NCAA championship in 1979 and won the Hobey Baker Award in 1981. He was a member of the gold medal-winning 1980 U.S. Olympic team. He played 17 years in the NHL, 16 of them with the Minnesota North Stars and Dallas Stars, and he won the 1995 Stanley Cup championship with the New Jersey Devils. Pleau led the St. Louis Blues to this past season's NHL's best regular-season record in his third year as the Blues' general manager. Pleau joined the Blues after spending eight seasons with the New York Rangers and 17 seasons as a player, coach and general manager of the Hartford Whalers. Pleau played three seasons with the Montreal Canadiens, including the Stanley Cup winning team of 1971. Palazzari, executive director of USA Hockey since June 1999, had a stellar youth career in Eveleth before playing for Colorado College from 1970-74. He earned NCAA All America, First Team All-Western Collegiate Hockey Association and WCHA Most Valuable Player honors during the 1972 and 1974 seasons. Palazzari spent eight seasons in the St. Louis Blues system. He spent six seasons as an assistant coach at Colorado College and held several coaching positions with USA Hockey in the 1980s and 1990s. Mr. and Mrs. Hockey, Gordie and Colleen Howe, and their sons Mark and Marty also will be enshrined into the Hall of Fame at the ceremony at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, home of the Minnesota Wild. The family will receive the Hall of Fame's Wayne Gretzky Award, given to international individuals deemed to have made a major contribution to the growth of American hockey. The Howes will be the first family to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame, and Colleen will be the first woman enshrined there.
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