Spotlights are cast onto center ice as six hockey greats get enshrined for life.
The Hockey Hall of Fame officially welcomes a half-dozen new members behind its doors on Monday. Inductees will give speeches and careers will be relived on what should be a rather emotional night.
Read on for details about the TV coverage and the distinguished 2026 class, which spans generations and countries across the sport.
How to watch the 2026 Hockey Hall of Fame induction
Venue: Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum — Toronto
Date: Monday, Nov. 9
Time: 8 p.m. ET
TV (U.S.): NHL Network
Streaming: Fubo (Stream Free Now)
Hall of Fame induction coverage
U.S. viewers can catch the ceremony live on NHL Network. The channel is carried by most pay TV providers, though some require a premium or sports package.
Canadian coverage lands on TSN, which is also a cable channel. Both NHL Network and TSN have IIHF Women’s World Championship matches on earlier in the day.
This year’s Hall of Fame inductees
The 2026 class includes four NHL notables, a U.S. women’s national team fixture and an accomplished executive.
Player category
Patrice Bergeron was a Boston Bruin for all 19 of his NHL seasons. Born in Quebec, he’s a six-time recipient of the Frank J. Selke Trophy, which celebrates the league’s best defensive forward. He’s a rare member of the Triple Gold Club, with World Championship, Olympics and Stanley Cup triumphs.
Cindy Curley ascended from a small town in Massachusetts to the Providence College Friars to the international medal podium. She was the star of the first official Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship in 1990, and her 23 points there is still a single-tournament record.
Carey Price was born in Vancouver and joined the Montreal Canadiens in 2007-08. The goalkeeper played all 15 of his NHL campaigns with the Habs, and he became the franchise’s second player to win four trophies in one season with his stellar 2014-15 performance.
PekkaRinne is the winningest Finnish-born goalie in NHL history. He was a Nashville Predators lifer across 15 seasons, and his No. 35 was the franchise’s first retired number. Rinne was also the tournament MVP of the 2014 World Championship.
Keith Tkachuk spent 18 seasons in the NHL. The Massachusetts native skated for the Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes, St. Louis Blues and Atlanta Thrashers. He became the first American-born player to lead the league in goals with 52 in 1996-97. Tkachuk’s sons, Brady and Matthew, now play for the Florida Panthers and the U.S. national squad.
Builder category
Brian Burke was born in Rhode Island and played professionally in the American Hockey League. Later, he began an impressive executive career with the Vancouver Canucks, Hartford Whalers, Anaheim Ducks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Calgary Flames and Pittsburgh Penguins. Burke also worked for the NHL and the Professional Women’s Hockey League, and he served as general manager of the U.S. Olympic men’s team.
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Patrice Bergeron
Bergeron is an unlikely superstar. The 27-year-old center isn’t a scorer or flashy playmaker. But the 2012 Selke Trophy winner as the top defensive forward excels in the face-off circle and comes up big at key moments. Bergeron scored the tying and winning goals as the Bruins overcame a 4-1 deficit in Game 7 of their quarterfinal series against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Bergeron has also rebounded from a litany of head injuries that could have devastated his career, making his a feel-good story. — Pat Pickens, 2013
Brian Burke
Brian Burke, the general manager of the United States men’s hockey team, stood in front of a large group of reporters after the team’s introductory news conference Sunday and faced the question he knew would come.
“Shoot,” he said. Then it came, the question about how he was coping with the death of his 21-year-old son, Brendan, in an auto accident Feb. 5.
“My family needs me to be strong right now, and my team needs me to be strong,” Burke said. “Part of leadership is dealing with personal adversity. There was never a thought about not coming.
“My son would have wanted me to be here,” Burke said, then his voice broke. — Jeff Z. Klein, 2010
Cindy Curley
As a little-league hockey player in Stow, Mass., Cindy Curley broke ranks with her teammates on the choice of an idol. Instead of Bobby Orr, then breaking records as a defenseman at Boston Garden, Curley chose Bobby Clarke, one of the bare-knuckle players who carried the Philadelphia Flyers to the Stanley Cup.
Now 23 years old, Curley is a star center on the first women’s hockey team selected to represent the United States in international competition. But as she skated and passed her way to acclaim in recent days … there seemed more of Bobby Orr in her play than of the Broad Street Bullies of a decade ago. — John F. Burns, 1987
Carey Price
There is only one Carey Price, and he is theirs. The fans at Bell Centre thunder his name before the national anthem and during play and after games, even losses, paying homage to a goaltender compiling one of the finest seasons in years.
Price’s performance has rendered reality indistinguishable from hyperbole, spoiling this city and its fabled team, blessed at the position by the likes of Jacques Plante, Ken Dryden and Patrick Roy, as almost never before. — Ben Shpigel, 2015
Pekka Rinne
I happened to look down at the Nashville goal as the teams were preparing for the national anthems before Game 6 Monday night in whiteout-crazy Winnipeg.
There was Nashville Predators netminder Pekka Rinne leaning against the crossbar looking calmly around at the crowd. Not sure, but he seemed to have a kind of bemused grin just before the house lights went down. All he needed was a fedora and a cigarette and he could have been a character in a 1950s Humphrey Bogart flick.
Cool? Rinne was the epitome of cool. — Scott Burnside, 2018
Keith Tkachuk
In 1992, Team USA went 4-0-1 in the preliminary rounds, then won its quarterfinal before losing in the semifinals and in the bronze-medal game, finishing fourth. Tkachuk, who was 19 then, remembers not expecting to make the final cut and being delirious just to be an Olympian. In Tkachuk’s next two Olympic appearances, the United States finished tied for fifth in 1998 and won the silver medal four years ago.
“The first time, it was a dream come true,” he said. “But I think it gets better when you’ve been around it.” — Karen Crouse, 2006
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