The SJHL Hall of Fame - sponsored by Highwood Distillers and this year’s host sponsor Conexus, is proud to announce the induction of Mr. Glenn Hall.

Glenn Hall was given the nickname of "Mr. Goalie" during what was a lengthy and successful career in the NHL. He was the first goalie to develop and use the butterfly techniqu - a technique that goalies across the world still use today.

Hall was born in Humboldt in 1931. He played for the old Humboldt Indians of the SJHL for five games in the 1947 season before coming back to assume the number one goalie spot in 1948. In that 1948 season, Hall went 13-9-2 with a goals against average of 3.63 and one shutout. After stops in Windsor, Edmonton and Indianapolis, Hall wore the uniform of the Detroit Red Wings on a full time basis for the 1955-56 season replacing the legendary Terry Sawchuk. He played in every game that season recording 12 shutouts and winning the Calder Trophy as the league's best rookie. He spent two years in Detroit before moving on to Chicago where he had his best years.

Hall was surprisingly traded by the Wings to Chicago before the start of the 1957 season. He continued his outstanding play by playing in every game until November 8, 1962 when he was forced to sit because of back problems ending what was an amazing streak at 502 games which is a record that will likely never be broken by any goalie.

Hall became a hero to Chicago sports fans in 1961 when he backstopped the team to their first Stanley Cup since 1938.

Hall won the Vezina Trophy in 1967, but he was left unprotected by the Hawks that year and was chosen by the St. Louis Blues in the expansion draft. Hall's first year in St. Louis was an incredible one that ended with the team losing in the Stanley Cup final to the high powered Montreal Canadiens. Despite the fact that the Habs won the Cup, Hall was named the winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy symbolic of playoff MVP.

Hall ended his career with 407 wins, 84 shutouts, and a career goals against average of 2.49. He was voted to eleven All-Star games and was named a first-team all-star a record seven times

In 1975, he was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame, and in 1998, he was ranked number 16 on "The Hockey News" list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players. In 2005, he was honoured by his hometown when Humboldt erected a monument outlining his greatness in a park that bears his name.

The SJHL Hall of Fame - sponsored by Highwood Distillers and this year’s host sponsor Conexus, is proud to announce the induction of Mr. Bill McDougall.

Bill McDougall only spent one season in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, but what a season it was. He had one of the best ever seasons a junior "A" hockey player can have in the 1986-87 season with the Humboldt Broncos. After a season of Junior "B" hockey in which he scored 45 goals and 132 points in 42 games for the Streetsville Derbys, the 20 year old decided to continue his hockey career out west with the Broncos.

McDougall made life miserable for SJHL goaltenders that year. He was the top scorer collecting a record 83 goals and 104 assists for a record 187 points. He did that in 61 games meaning he averaged over three points a game. Of his 83 goals, 27 of them came on the power play while nine were shorthanded.

The Broncos hosted the Centennial Cup that year and thanks to McDougall they got to the finals before being beaten by the Richmond Sockeyes of the BCJHL. He showed everyone at that tournament though that his regular season performance was no fluke as he had 11 points in four games and was named the tournament’s all-star center.

McDougall went to the east coast as a 21 year old and played two seasons of senior hockey in Newfoundland putting up astounding numbers before finally getting a chance to play semi-pro hockey in the ECHL. He went to the Erie Panthers and like he did in Humboldt, he dazzled everyone as he had 80 goals and 148 points. He was named the league’s MVP that season.

In January of 1990, he signed a minor league contract with the Detroit Red Wings. With their farm team in Adirondack, he had 10 goals in 11 games . The next season he played full time for Adirondack and he kept raking in the goals as he had 47 of them. He was called up to play with the Wings for two games that year, but he didn’t see much ice time.

McDougall was traded by the Red Wings to the Edmonton Oilers in February of 1992. In the 1993 playoffs, McDougall exploded again registering 26 goals and 26 assists in 16 games to be named playoff MVP in a record performance that still stands. Despite his offensive talents, McDougall could never seem to break through at the NHL level to show his skill. He signed a free agent contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 1993 and played 22 games for them getting eight points.

He left for Europe and spent time in Italy, Switzerland and Germany before calling it a career.

McDougall is currently working with local hockey players in Cape Breton. His company, Advance Hockey Development, works with elite hockey players to sharpen their skills.

The SJHL Hall of Fame - sponsored by Highwood Distillers and this year’s host sponsor Conexus, is proud to announce the induction of Mr. Mick McGeough.

One of the more controversial referees, the NHL has seen, Mick McGeough got his start working games at the age of 23 following a hockey career that wrapped up in Spokane, Washington in the Western International Hockey League. McGeough called many a game in both the WHL and the SJHL, but he started out as a linesman. He worked only a handful of games as a linesman before WHL officials supervisor Ernie Pawliw suggested he give refereeing a try. McGeough took Pawliw up on his advice and it may have been the smartest thing he has ever done. His personality and hockey smarts helped him move up the ladder in the WHL to the point that he was considered the league's best referee. His WHL career culminated with him officiating the 1986 Memorial Cup final in Portland, Oregon.

He moved into the NHL in 1987 and donned the orange armbands for the first time on January 12, 1989. He reached a milestone on February 3, 2007 when he refereed his 1,000th career game. When he blew the whistle for the final time later that year, he ended a career that saw him reach the two goals he set out when he started. Those goals were lasting 20 years and doing more than one thousand games. He did that as he officiated 1,063 regular season games and 63 playoff games including the 2006 Stanley Cup final. He also was the referee at the 2001 All-Star Game.

In addition to his sound refereeing habits, McGeough took some endless ribbing about his career because of his fictitious nemesis which was the bald, bulbous headed cartoon character with inch thick glasses named "Mr. Magoo". McGeough, like Magoo, always found a way to land on his feet or at least one foot with arms frantically rotating keeping him upright. Fans in many NHL rinks were treated on occasion to seeing "The McGeough Shuffle". He is truly considered to be one of the game’s all-time’s greatest characters.

The SJHL Hall of Fame- presented by Highwood Distillers and this year's host sponsor Conexus, is proud to announce the induction of the 2002-2003 Humboldt Broncos.

The 2002-03 edition of the Humboldt Broncos brought the Royal Bank Cup and another national championship to the people of Humboldt and the Elgar Peterson arena.

After a regular season that saw the team post a record of 39-12-6-3, they won the league championship with a victory over the Melville Millionaires and followed that up with an ANAVET Cup victory over the Manitoba Junior Hockey League champion OCN Blizzard to earn a ticket to the 2003 Royal Bank Cup in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

The team was not only talented, but it was tough. Keith Reade had 36 goals and 46 assists for 82 points to lead the team in scoring. He also had a team leading 295 penalty minutes. Two other players, forward Jeremy Wray and defenceman Craig Olynick, each had 277 penalty minutes.

In their first game at the RBC, the Broncos beat the Wellington, Ontario Dukes by a score of 4-1. Josh Podaima scored a pair of 3rd period goals - one shorthanded, one on the power-play to salt the victory away.

After a 5-4 loss to Lennoxville, Quebec in their 2nd game, the Broncos improved their record to 2-1 with an 8-5 win over the host Charlottetown Abbies. The team scored six power play goals in recording the victory with Podaima scoring two more goals.

The roller-coaster round-robin continued with a 5-3 loss to the Pacific reps –the Camrose Kodiaks—setting up a semi-final game with Wellington. The game was a back and forth affair that wasn’t decided until late in the 3rd period when Reade scored his 2nd goal of the game unassisted at the 17:21 mark. It set up what would be a championship final against the Kodiaks.

Humboldt took a 2-0 lead in the first period on goals from Matt Brown and Kris Kasper, before Camrose answered with a late power play goal from Matt McKnight with only 11 seconds to play in the first frame.

The second period featured close checking and very physical play. Eight power play opportunities were presented to the teams, but no one was able to find a way to beat either of the goaltenders.

The third period continued to showcase great defensive play and superb saves by both goaltenders, Sean Connors (Humboldt) and Mike Brodeur (Camrose). Humboldt added an empty net goal by Brown, with his second marker of the game, in the final moments to ensure the National Championship.

Craig Olynick was named the tournament’s MVP and top defenceman while Podaima was the top scorer.

The SJHL Hall of Fame- presented by Highwood Distillers and this year's host sponsor Conexus, is proud to announce the induction of Dr. Terry Henning.

Dr. Terry Henning had a solid hockey background on his resume already before setting up shop as a general practitioner in Humboldt in 1965. Henning, a Regina native, had played in the Regina Pats organization in the 1950’s alongside players like Terry Harper, Bill Hicke and Red Berenson before going on to play with the University of Saskatchewan Huskies.

When he arrived in Humboldt in the fall of 1965, the juvenile hockey team needed a coach, so Henning volunteered. When asked why he volunteered, Henning answers without hesitating "stupidity". His coaching style worked though as he coached several different Humboldt teams to provincial championships at different levels. He says the reason he got into coaching was he had a lot of people teach him things that he wanted to pass on to young people to make them better athletes and better individuals.

It wasn’t just in hockey where Henning excelled as a coach. He was also the coach of the Humboldt Legion Swim Club that won twelve provincial championships.

Because of his success on the ice, Henning was asked to coach the Humboldt Broncos as they started as a franchise in the SJHL in the 1970 season.

Henning’s team won the league final in 1972 and 1973. In 1973, the Broncos took on the Portage Terriers for the ANAVET Cup and it was a series embroiled in controversy. The Broncos withdrew from the best-of-seven series after five games, fearing injury from what they alleged to be brutal tactics and dirty hockey. It’s something that resulted in Henning and the tea’'s manager and fellow SJHL Hall of Fame inductee Dr. Gerry Rooney being suspended by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. That suspension was later lifted. Henning says it’s a move he doesn’t regret making and that if he had to do it over again, he would have done it sooner.

Henning came back to the Broncos in 1987 as he worked one season for the club as their director of hockey operations. It was a year that saw the team win the league title and host the Centennial Cup. They lost the Centennial Cup final that year to the BC Junior League’s Richmond Sockeyes.

Henning remained in Humboldt until leaving in 1999. He is currently retired and living in Nanaimo, BC.