Montreal – Kane Drudon, Hall of Fame Golkeepers who helped Montreal Canadines Win six Stanley Cup titles in the 1970s, died of cancer at the age of 78.
Canadins announced their death in the early hours of Saturday, saying that Dridon’s family asked for secrecy. A spokesman for the team said that a close friend of the family appointed by the family approached the organization, stating that he died peacefully at his home on Friday.
“Kane Drudon was an extraordinary athlete, but he was also an extraordinary man,” said Jyoff Molson. “He was greater than life behind the mask. We today not only mourn the loss of the foundation stone of one of the greatest dynasties of hockey, but also a family person, a thoughtful citizen and a gentleman who influenced our lives and communities in depths in generations.”
Dreeden supported NHL’s most successful franchise in the championship in six out of six out of six in six of its eight sessions in the league from 1970–71 to 1978-79. She won the Calder Trophy as the Year of the Year, Vagina five times as the best goalkeeper and in 1971 as the playoff MVP, Con Smoting, while the six-time all-star.
Molson said, “Kane took the best avatar of everything about Montreal Canadines.”
Kane Drudon, the legendary Montreal Canadines goalkeeper who backstoped the team’s 1970s in six Stanley Cups, died at the age of 78 after a fight with cancer.
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His blocker and gloves are known to relax hands, which becomes a comfortable above its stick, one of the most recognizable pose of hockey, retired at just 31 in the 6 – – -4 drawden 1979.
In 1983, by joining the Hockey Hall of Fame, he recorded a record of 258–57-74 in only seven sessions with a .922 per cent, 2.24 goal average and 46 shutouts. He was ahead 80-32 in the playoffs.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney posted on social media, he was very sad to know about “Honorable Ken Dreeden, a Canadian Hockey Legend and Hall of Famer, Public Servant and Inspiration.”
Carney said, “Some Canadians have stood more or longer for our country.” “Ken Drudon was a big Canada. And he was the best Canada. Relax comfortably.”
From Hamilton, Ontario, Dridon played three seasons at the University of Cornell from 1966–69, leading Big Red to the 1967 NCAA title. It was also the foundation stone of the 1972 summit series of Canada which defeated the Soviet Union.
Dreeden entered the NHL in 1971 and spent just six games in the crease before starting the NHL Postson. He and Montreal harassed rival Boston in the first round and defeated Chicago in the final.
He also worked in a Toronto firm sitting out of the 1973-74 NHL season-after earning a law degree at McGil University in Montreal.
After retiring as a player, he went into broadcasting and wrote as a writer as part of a skillful career as part of “Summit”, after publishing “The Game,”, one of the most famous books about the game, “The Game,”. He was a color analyst with Al Michaels for the “Miracle on Ice” when the US defeated the Soviet Union and went to win a gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
Dreeden served as the chairman of Toronto Maple Leafs from 1997 to 2004 – pronounced by trips in both 1999 and 2002 by trips – before resigning to enter politics. He ran for federal liberals in 2004 and was named Social Development Minister in Prime Minister Paul Martin’s cabinet.
Dridon, who had also taught in various universities in Canada, was held in 2006 at the York Center in Toronto, when Liberals was excluded, and again lost in 2008, but in 2011.
Dreden is alive by wife Linda and her two children.
His brother Dave Dave Dave was a long time NHL and WHA goalkeeper. He died in 2022 at the age of 81.
