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Tony Amonte
One of an increasing number of players to reach the NHL via the U.S. collegiate system. Amonte was a standout for the Boston University Terriers from 1989 to 1991. Amonte signed a NHL contract with the New York Rangers. He scored his first NHL goal in his first regular-season game and his 35-goal debut season made him The Sporting News selection as rookie of the year and earned him a berth on the NHL's All-Rookie Team. He is one of a rare group of NHLers who have scored 30 or more goals in five seasons and one of his career playoff highlights was scoring four goals against Toronto in the 1994 playoffs. As of the 2002-2003 season, he had 372 goals and 403 assists.
Dave Andreychuk
He is a member of three rarefied clubs, 500 goals, 1,000 points, and 1,000 games. After a return stint with Buffalo in 2000-01, Andreychuk signed with the Tampa Bay Lightning. He is one of only four players to score 30 or more power-play goals in a season and is the second-highest scoring right-winger in league history, surpassing the 600 goal-mark in 2003.
Internationally, he has won a bronze medal with Canada at the 1983 World Juniors and three years later won another bronze at the World Championships.
Al Arbour
A place among the greatest head coaches in NHL history will always be held by Alger Joseph "Radar" Arbour. His career totals of 1,606 games behind the bench and 781 victories trail only the legendary Scotty Bowman in the record ledger. Arbour's guidance contributed significantly to the New York Islanders' rapid ascent to competitive status in the 1970s and the club's subsequent run of four consecutive Stanley Cup wins from 1980 to 1983.
As a player, he wnt to the Chicago Black Hawks, where he spent 3 seasons including 1961, the year of the franchise's Stanley Cup triumph. Arbour next played five seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs and earned his second Stanley Cup ring in 1962. He retired and tries his hand at coaching. Starting out with the St. Louis blues, he quickly jumped at the greatest challenge of his young coaching career in 1973. Prior to the 1973-74 schedule, the New York Islanders were coming off a difficult expansion season in which they'd accumulated a mere 30 points. The organization felt it had some promise and required a young, ambitious figure to steer the team in the right direction. Arbour's positive impact on the team was immediate. The squad improved its total to 56 points and began building around talented defenseman Denis Potvin. Following the 1978-79 campaign, Arbour was presented the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's top coach. In 1979-80, the Islanders attained their ultimate goal by defeating the Philadelphia Flyers in six games to win the Stanley Cup in their eighth season. They repeated this accomplishment in each of the next three years to become only the second NHL club to win four straight titles (Montreal did it twice). Arbour retired in 1994 as the second-winningest coach of all time, with 781 regular-season victories and 123 post-season triumphs to his credit. One of the major foundations in the history of the New York Islanders, Arbour was an obvious choice to enter the Hockey Hall of Fame Builders category in 1996.
Jason Arnott
He was a top-rated junior out of Oshawa in the OHL, winning gold with Team Canada at the 1994 World Juniors after being drafted 7th overall in 1993 by the Edmonton Oilers. Jason was traded to the New Jersey Devils and slowly but surely Arnott developed that extra level of intensity and consistency, and his play culminated with a trip to the 2000 Stanley Cup finals during which he scored the Cup-winning goal in overtime.
Donald Audette
A big-time success story, Audette was drafted 183rd overall and looked to be filler for the Sabres minor-league teams. He had taken the Laval Titan to the Memorial Cup finals in 1988-89 during a year in which he scored 76 goals and 161 points, despite his small stature. In his first full season he scored 31 goals and was named the team's top rookie, subsequently establishing himself as a solid 20-goal man in the league.
At the end of the 2002-2003 season, Donald had amassed 251 goals and 237 assists and is playing for the Montreal Canadiens.
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