Toews joins Triple Gold Club

After hoisting the Stanley Cup this month, 22 year old Conn Smythe winner Jonathan Toews became the youngest and latest member of the Triple Gold Club. Along with winning the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks, he also won gold at the 2007 IIHF World Championship in Moscow, and Olympic gold medal at the 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver earlier this year in February.

The Triple Gold Club is a special club reserved for the hockey players that have won an Olympic gold medal, a World Championship gold medal, and the Stanley Cup.

“More than 15,000 players have tried to win Worlds gold since 1930, more than 9,000 players have tried to win the Stanley Cup since 1893, more than 4,000 players have tried to win Olympic gold since 1920. But only 24 players have won all three. The Triple Gold Club is Hockey’s most distinguished membership.” – IIHF

The current Triple Gold Club Members basically come from four nations: Sweden (9), Canada (7), Russia (6) and the Czech Republic (2). The players include Tomas Jonsson, Mats Naslund, Hakan Loob, Valeri Kamensky, Alexei Gusarov, Peter Forsberg,Vyacheslav Fetisov, Igor Larionov, Alexander Mogilny, Vladimir Malakhov, Rob Blake, Joe Sakic, Brendan Shanahan, Scott Niedermayer, Jaromir Jagr, Jiri Slegr, Nicklas Lidstrom, Fredrik Modin, Chris Pronger, Niklas Kronwall, Henrik Zetterberg, Mikael Samuelsson, Eric Staal, Jonathan Toews, and Mike Babcock

[source: INTERNATIONAL ICE HOCKEY FEDERATION]

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