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ZURICH (CP) - Russian great Vyacheslav Fetisov and former Montreal Canadiens sniper Mats Naslund were among the six inductees to the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame announced Wednesday.
Russian defenceman Viktor Kuzkin, who played in the 1972 Summit Series, and German Alois Schloder, who spent all 23 of his seasons playing for his hometown club EV Landshut, join Fetisov and Naslund in the players category.
Jorgen Hviid, known as the father of Danish hockey, will be inducted in the builders category while Czech Quido Adamec, a member of the International Committee for Referees for over 25 years, joins in the officials category.
The new class pushes membership in the IIHF Hall of Fame up to 125 from 21 countries. An induction ceremony will be held during the 2005 world championship in Vienna.
Fetisov was the most dominant defenceman in international hockey during the 1980's, collecting seven world championship gold medals plus two Olympic golds with the former Soviet Union.
He later went on to star for the New Jersey Devils and Detroit Red Wings in the NHL, winning three Stanley Cups. Fetisov, today the Russian sports minister, was inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2001.
Naslund became the first Swedish player to join the ''triple gold club'' in 1994, when he crowned his international career by winning gold at the Lillehammer Olympics, to go with a world championship title in 1991 and a Stanley Cup with the Canadiens in 1986, when he led the playoffs in scoring.
Swedish fans named him to the all-time Tre Kronor all-star team in 1987.
[Edited on 2004-12-29 by puck7x]