| Grant Fuhr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hockey Hall of Fame, 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
_(cropped).jpg) Fuhr in 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
September 28, 1962 Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 184 lb (83 kg; 13 st 2 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Goaltender | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Caught | Right | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Played for |
Edmonton Oilers Toronto Maple Leafs Buffalo Sabres Los Angeles Kings St. Louis Blues Calgary Flames | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |
 Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NHL draft |
8th overall, 1981 Edmonton Oilers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1981–2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grant Scott Fuhr (born September 28, 1962) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League (NHL) and former goaltending coach for the Arizona Coyotes, who played for the Edmonton Oilers in the 1980s during which he won the Stanley Cup five times.
He was a six-time NHL All-Star and, in 2003, was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
In 2017, Fuhr was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history.[1][2] He set a number of firsts for black ice hockey players in the NHL, including being the first to win the Stanley Cup and being the first inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.[3]
- ^ "100 Greatest NHL Players". NHL.com. January 27, 2017. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
- ^ NHL (March 22, 2017), Grant Fuhr was first half-black player in Hall of Fame, archived from the original on December 12, 2021, retrieved April 25, 2017
- ^ "Soul on Ice: Blacks and Historic Firsts in Hockey". The Black Ice Project. Archived from the original on March 31, 2014. Retrieved March 8, 2014.