Defenseman Niclas Wallin won the game in OT with a bizarre breakaway goal that had the puck go off his skate and in the goal.

Defenseman, Bobby Orr is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the series MVP ( most valuable player ).

Defenseman Brad Park, acquired from the Boston Bruins in the 1983 free-agent market, also helped the Wings reach the postseason and ended up winning the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy the same season.

The personnel changes would continue as Sean Greenhalgh was moved to Buffalo and Ian Llord moved to Calgary in a deal that brought the Wings Jason Crosbie on offense and former Defenseman of the Year Taylor Wray on defense.

Defenseman Darryl Sydor, known to play strong offense as well, was acquired from the Dallas Stars for Mike Sillinger and a draft pick.

Defenseman Philippe Boucher and goaltender Marty Turco would represent the Stars as part of the Western Conference All-Star roster.

* Tommy Albelin ( born 1964 ), former NHL Defenseman for the New Jersey Devils and now current coach of the De Paul High School Hockey team.

* Brian Rafalski ( born 1973 ), former New Jersey Devils Defenseman.

As a junior, Fetisov competed for the Soviet Union at the European Junior Championships, where he won Top Defenseman honors during the 1975 – 76 season, en route to two consecutive gold medals at the tournament.

He then helped the Soviets to three consecutive gold medals at the World Junior Championships from 1976 to 1978, taking back-to-back Top Defenseman honors in 1977 and 1978.

Defenseman Scott Boston finished sixth among top-scoring defensemen in the league with 58 total points in 67 games.

Defenseman Chris Hynnes finished the regular season first in goals ( 19 ) and fourth in total points ( 58 ) among league defensemen.

He won several awards that season ; he was named to the WCHA First All-Star Team, the NCAA West All-Star Team, and the WCHA Defenseman of the Year.

* Named the IHL Defenseman of the Week for the week of December 18 – 24, 2000.

The following season, McSorley would once again ice a very competitive team, posting a regular season record of 36 – 17 – 11 and a second consecutive West Division title for the Storm and defenceman Derek Booth would become the first member of the team to win an ECHL award, as he was named the Defenseman of the Year for the 1992 – 93 season.

* Danny Richmond is a professional ice hockey Defenseman, playing in both the NHL and AHL.

The Americans lost 10 – 3, and Defenseman Jack O ' Callahan pulled a ligament in his knee, though he returned for the medal round.

Defenseman Doug Harvey was Laperriere's favorite player as they both played defense.

The 2000 Flint Generals were coached by former NHLer Doug Shedden and included former Toronto Maple Leaf Bobby Reynolds, former Detroit Red Wing Mark Major, former Edmonton Oiler Nick Stajuhar, two 100 point scorers in Ross Wilson and Don Parsons, UHL Defenseman of the Year Gary Roach, high flying late season additions Cory Cyrenne and Vladmir Serov, and goalie Mark Richards.

Alain Nasreddine ( born July 10, 1975 in Montreal, Quebec ) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey Defenseman who played in the National Hockey League.

Only Grant Ledyard was older ( age 40 ) when he reached that milestone.

* Grant Ledyard ( b. 1961 ), National Hockey League defenseman

* Grant Ledyard

Grant Ledyard led the Winnipeg South Blues to the first of four MJHL Championships in 8 years in 1982.

Three former Stars have scored championship-winning overtime goals: Josh Langfeld ( University of Michigan -- 1998 vs. Boston College ), Grant Potulny ( University of Minnesota -- 2002 vs. University of Maine ) and Colby Cohen ( Boston University -- 2009 vs. Miami University ).

The Minnesota Vikings, led by head coach Bud Grant, entered the game with an NFL best 12-2 regular season record, leading the older league in total points scored ( 379 ) and fewest points allowed ( 133 ).

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Super Bowl IV, the following participants of the game were featured during the coin toss ceremony: Bud Grant, Lamar Hunt, Bobby Bell, Paul Krause, Willie Lanier, Alan Page, and Jan Stenerud.

This was also Kangaroos ' veteran Shannon Grant's last AFL game, and he was given a standing ovation by both Swans and Kangaroos players as he represented both clubs throughout his career ( although it was at North Melbourne where Grant really made his mark in the game ) Their only clash in 2009 ( Round 14, which the Swans won by 15 points to end a four-game losing streak ) was aired into both the Sydney and Brisbane markets rather than the live vs. match which was a high-rating television match around the rest of the country.

Out of their two home games, the Islanders had lost game one with a score of 1 – 0, in what was a goaltending duel between Billy Smith and Grant Fuhr, though they roared back with a 6 – 1 win in game two.

The Heat missed Mourning for 69 games in 2000 – 01, yet found success with Grant, Jones and Mason, the latter of whom was named to his first All-Star game.

Later, the channel attempted a Gong Show remake called Extreme Gong ( hosted by George Gray, in which the viewers could phone in their votes as to whether to " gong " acts off the air ) and Throut And Neck ( hosted by Rebecca Grant ) ( where viewers controlled video game characters with their phones ).

The music for the game was composed by Grant Kirkhope, who was asked to help at the beginning of the project.

* Grant Kirkhope, a video game music composer and musician

According to the OED, the word is first attested in 1926, defined in the Wise-Crack Dictionary by Main and Grant as " a device used for making a fair game crooked ".

Completely depleted of pitchers, Pirates manager Chuck Tanner started relief pitcher Grant Jackson in the second game.

During the final test match at Eden Park, Auckland on 12 September, a low-flying light plane piloted by Marx Jones and Grant Cole disrupted the final game of the tour by dropping flour-bombs on the pitch.

In the episode " Reaction ", she is seen cheering on Midtown High at a football game, sitting next to new friend Glory Grant.

The 1992 game was the final head coaching appearance of College Football Hall of Famer ( and future AFCA Executive Director ) Grant Teaff of Baylor.

In the third period of the seventh and deciding game against the arch-rival Calgary Flames, with the score tied 2 – 2, he attempted a pass from behind his own net that hit goaltender Grant Fuhr and deflected into the net.

Goals from Lewis Killeen and John Grant put Halifax 2 – 1 ahead but Guy Ipoua levelled the score for Hereford in the 80th minute and the game went into extra time.

In that game, Malone elbowed the Blazers ' Brian Grant, something he also did in Game 1 and for which he was fined $ 10, 000.

The next month, on March 1, Bure reached the 50-goal mark for the first time in his career, scoring against Grant Fuhr of the Buffalo Sabres in a neutral-site game in Hamilton, Ontario.

On March 12, 2007, The New York Times reported that The Sensible World of Soccer ( 1994 ) was named to a list of the ten most important video games of all time by Stanford Professor Henry Lowood and the four members of his committee — the game designers Warren Spector and Steve Meretzky ; Matteo Bittanti, an academic researcher ; and Christopher Grant, a game journalist.

Grant joins a pick-up basketball game on the side of the fictional President Josiah Bartlet, whose team appears to be losing to members of the President's staff.

It is later revealed that Grant wins the game for the President.