Toronto — Amid a considerable gathering of hockey royalty, former Red Wings Nicklas Lidstrom and Sergei Fedorov, the great Olympian and collegiate player Angela Ruggiero and Compuware hockey founder Peter Karmanos Jr. were inducted Monday into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
They are a class of inductees with substantial connections to Michigan, and they were joined by defensemen Chris Pronger and Phil Housley.
A throng of Lidstrom and Fedorov's former teammates, coaches and managers walked down a long red carpet to a huge stage set up in a shopping mall next to the hall and looked on.