Ladd is a 35-year-old, 15-year veteran left winger who won a Stanley Cup in 2004 with the Carolina Hurricanes and again in 2010 with the Chicago Blackhawks. Last season, he did not play for the Islanders and only appeared in one game with the AHL's Bridgeport Sound Tigers. He had four goals and five assists during that short span.
In 472 career NHL games over eight seasons, Ladd has 78 goals and 203 points. He won't be going anywhere anytime soon.
Ladd was drafted by the Islanders in 1997, when they were still in the Island City area of New York. He played three seasons there before moving to Carolina where he finished his career.
During that time, the Hurricanes have never won a Stanley Cup so obviously Ladd didn't help out with that. But he does have two rings so he's done pretty well for himself. After retiring from playing, Ladd joined the Islanders organization as a coach but was replaced after one season by Geoff Plitt. Currently, Ladd is part of the Islanders' management team.
He's been involved in the hockey world for a long time now, having made it to the top level, and he's still going strong. In 2004, he was named the Most Valuable Player of the playoffs that year when the Hurricanes defeated the Dallas Stars in seven games to win their first ring ever.
After undergoing surgery to repair a torn ACL last March, the 34-year-old forward is expected to remain in the NHL for the remainder of the season. Ladd will play in the bottom six; in two NHL games this season, he has zero points and 11 hits. On Sunday, the Islanders demoted Ladd to the AHL Bridgeport. He will be replaced on the roster by rookie Calen Addison.
Ladd has one goal and five assists in 42 games this season. He won the Stanley Cup with the Winnipeg Jets in 2008 after posting 22 goals and 49 points.
He originally signed with the Atlanta Thrashers as a free agent on July 1, 2007. The 6'1", 205-pound center has also played for the Minnesota Wild and the Islanders.
Before turning pro, Ladd played four seasons at Boston College where he was an All-American and Hobey Baker Award finalist in 2003-04. He currently ranks second all-time at BC with 148 points in just 132 games.
Ladd's wife, Sara, died in a car accident in August 2009. He then joined the New York Rangers, with whom he had been traded from the Thrashers, and helped them win the Stanley Cup in seven games. After the season, Ladd was named an alternate captain for the Rangers.
Alex Delvecchio is 89 years old. An NHL Hall of Fame center who played his whole 22-year career for the Detroit Red Wings. With the Wings, he won the Stanley Cup in 1952, 1954, and 1955. Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, is where the 89-year-old hockey player was born. He's one of the oldest people to win the Stanley Cup.
He made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in the fall of 1945 against the Chicago Black Hawks. In 46 games that season, he scored 14 goals and added 30 assists for 44 points. The next year, he increased his point total to 51 while playing all 82 games for the first time in his career.
In 1949-50, he set a new high with 112 points, which still stands as a team record. The following season, he had another great campaign with 117 points, finishing second in voting for the Hart Trophy, which goes to the league's most valuable player. The guy was awesome!
Delvecchio retired after the 1953-54 season. He came back in 1957 for one more season before hanging up his skates for good. In 901 games over 22 seasons, he scored 468 goals and provided 791 assists for 1349 points. He won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy in 1952 for best sportsmanship in the NHL. And he also won the Red Wing's Most Valuable Player Award in both 1950 and 1951.
Brian Wesley Campbell (born May 23, 1979) is a former professional ice hockey defenseman from Canada. He was a member of the National Hockey League's Buffalo Sabres, San Jose Sharks, Chicago Blackhawks, and Florida Panthers (NHL). He helped the Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup in 2010, assisting on the game-winning goal.
He played major junior hockey for the Brandon Wheat Kings of the Western Hockey League (WHL). After an outstanding career with the Wheat Kings, where he won a Memorial Cup in 1997, Campbell was drafted first overall by the Sabres in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. He has since become one of the league's top defensive players.
After four seasons with the Sabres, during which time they never finished lower than second place in the Eastern Conference, Campbell was traded to the San Jose Sharks in 2001. He spent three seasons with the Sharks before being traded to the Chicago Blackhawks in 2004. In 2009, he was acquired by the Florida Panthers. During his time with all six teams, he never missed a game due to injury.
Campbell has been selected to play in the All-Star Game five times, most recently in 2013. The last two years have seen him serve as captain of the Pacific Division.
He has also won the Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship & civility in hockey. The award is given annually to the player who shows the most skill while exhibiting a high standard of sportsmanship.
Four Stanley Cup wins On April 21, 1951, Toronto Maple Leaf "Bashing Bill Barilko" is carried onto his teammates' shoulders after scoring the Stanley Cup-winning goal. The 24-year-old defenseman has emerged as the Leafs' golden kid, having won four Stanley Cups in four and a half years in the NHL.
He was born in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia (then part of the Russian Empire), but grew up in Toronto. His family moved to Canada when he was six years old. He began playing hockey at age five with boys three years older than him. In the winter, they played on a frozen pond in front of their house; in the summer, on a field near where they lived. He learned how to play defense by watching his father coach his younger brother's team.
Barilko first attracted attention while playing for the University of Minnesota Duluth in the 1948 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. He helped the university win its first national title by blocking 26 shots in one game. After graduating from UMD in 1949, he joined the New York Rangers as a rookie player. However, he only stayed with the team for two seasons before being traded to the Maple Leafs. He spent the next four seasons with them, winning four more Stanley Cups. In 1953, he was chosen as the best defensive player in the league by the writers of the sport magazine Hockey News.
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