On Friday, the IIHF announced its list of six players and one builder who will be inducted into its Hall of Fame this year. As usual, induction ceremony will take place on the morning of the final day of the World Championship – this year, that will be May 25 in Stockholm, Sweden.

The fans in Sweden will get a chance to see their country’s top male and female goalies of the early 21st Century inducted on home soil in Henrik Lundqvist and Kim Martin-Hasson. Lundqvist backstopped Sweden to Olympic gold in 2006 and World Championship gold in 2017. He also had a distinguished career with hometown Frölunda HC and with the New York Rangers. Martin-Hasson was simply known as Kim Martin when she almost single-handedly upset the USA in the semifinals in Turin in 2006 – still the only time that a women’s Olympic final has not been a Canada-USA matchup.

Imposing defenseman Zdeno Chára represented Slovakia at three Olympics and seven World Championships, earning two silver medals. His long NHL career was highlighted by a 14-year tenure as captain of the Boston Bruins, who he led to the Stanley Cup in 2011, and a Norris Trophy in 2009. He also played for the New York Islanders (twice), Ottawa Senators and Washington Capitals.

Great Dane Frans Nielsen was a shootout specialist, which he managed to show off when he played his first Olympic hockey game at the age of 37, scoring on a penalty shot against Czechia in a 2-1 victory. He was also a trailblazer for Danes in the NHL, where he played nearly 1000 games for the Islanders and Detroit Red Wings.

David Výborný is the most decorated Czech international player of all time, winning an amazing five World Championship gold medals between 1996 and 2005. He also won a silver, a couple of bronzes, and an Olympic bronze in 2006. His domestic career included long stretches for Sparta Prague and BK Mladá Boleslav in the Czech Extraliga and the Columbus Blue Jackets in the NHL.

Vicky Sunohara is one of those names from the early days of women’s international hockey, being a member of the Canadian team that won the first Women’s World Championship in 1990 and won a silver at the first women’s Olympic tournament in 1998 in Nagano. Overall, she was a member of seven World Championship and two Olympic championship teams.

The lone builder in the class is Kai Hietarinta, who was president of the Finnish Ice Hockey Association from 1984 to 1997, during which time Finland grew enormously as an international hockey power.