Triple Gold Club to be honoured

Check these stats out:

• More than 15,000 players have tried to win Worlds gold since 1930.
• More than 9,000 players have tried to win the Stanley Cup since 1893.
• More than 4,000 players have tried to win Olympic gold since 1920.
• Only 22 players have won all three.

This very exclusive group has been dubbed the Triple Gold Club. On February 22nd, 2010 the IIHF will officially commemorate their achievement with a special induction ceremony in Vancouver.

The 22 players to be honoured come from 4 different countries: Sweden (9), Russia (6), Canada (5) and the Czech Republic (2). Here are the Triple Gold Club members, by country:

Sweden

• Tomas Jonsson
• Mats Naslund
• Hakan Loob
• Peter Forsberg
• Nicklas Lidstrom
• Fredrik Modin
• Niklas Kronwall
• Henrik Zetterberg
• Mikael Samuelsson

Russia

• Valeri Kamensky
• Alexei Gusarov
• Vyacheslav Fetisov
• Igor Larionov
• Alexander Mogilny
• Vladimir Malakhov

Canada

• Rob Blake
• Joe Sakic
• Scott Niedermayer
• Brendan Shanahan
• Chris Pronger
  

Czech Republic

• Jaromir Jagr
• Jiri Slegr