1.   Many Canadian hockey greats grew up with such rinks.

2.   Mike Barnett, once the agent for Wayne Gretzky, was reunited with the hockey great when he was hired Tuesday as general manager of the Phoenix Coyotes.

3.   Other former hockey greats said they would relinquish their places in the hockey hall if Eagleson remains a member.

4.   The event this year honored Vyacheslav Fetisov, the Russian hockey great who announced his retirement from the Stanley Cup-champion Detroit Red Wings several weeks ago.

5.   The hockey great was hospitalized with a recurrence of the cancer that was first diagnosed more than two years ago.