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The IIHF Hall of Fame is a hall of fame operated by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). It was founded in 1997, and has resided at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto since 1998. Prior to 1997, the IIHF housed exhibits at the International Hockey Hall of Fame in Kingston, Ontario .
The IIHF delivered more than 4,000 items to the International Hockey Hall of Fame. [11] Kingston City Council provided a CA$100,000 line of credit towards building a true international ice hockey museum. [12] The partnership ended in 1997, when the IIHF withdrew. [13]
The Original Hockey Hall of Fame, formerly the International Hockey Hall of Fame, was founded on September 10, 1943, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. On April 25, 1941, a report in the Montreal Gazette stated that the movement to establish the Hall of Fame was "started by Fred Corcoran to have something similar for hockey now that baseball and ...
The new Hockey Hall of Fame officially opened on June 18, 1993. [19] The new location has 4,700 m 2 (50,600 sq ft) of exhibition space, seven times larger than that of the old facility. [20] The Hockey Hall of Fame averaged an annual attendance of 292,000 between 1994 and 2019. [1]
The IIHF maintains its own hall of fame for international ice hockey. The IIHF Hall of Fame was founded in 1997, and has been located within the Hockey Hall of Fame since 1998. Previously, the IIHF also managed the development of inline hockey ; however, in June 2019, the IIHF announced that they would no longer govern inline hockey or organize ...
Society for International Hockey Research, International Hockey Hall of Fame John Walter " Bill " Fitsell (July 25, 1923 – December 3, 2020) was a Canadian journalist, writer and historian. He was a columnist for The Kingston Whig-Standard from 1961 to 1993, and was the founding president of the Society for International Hockey Research in 1991.
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He is in his tenth year as President of the International Hockey Hall of Fame in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and has been on the Board of Directors since the early 1980s. In 2003, he co-authored a book with Bill Fitsell "Hockey's Hub-Three Centuries of Hockey in Kingston," (published by Quarry Press) that chronicles Kingston's rich hockey heritage.