Status in October 2026
The Class of 2026 has been announced and is waiting to be inducted. The Hall's own induction page lists the induction weekend as 7 to 9 November 2026 in Toronto, and a search summary of the Hall's event listing puts the induction ceremony itself on 9 November. The Hockey News notes that the Montreal Canadiens play in Toronto on 7 November 2026, which lets the team attend Carey Price's induction weekend.
The Class of 2026
The class was announced on 22 June 2026, and the Hockey Hall of Fame's page lists the same six names as the news reports. Career notes below are as Yardbarker reported them on the day.
| Name | Category | Career notes |
|---|---|---|
| Patrice Bergeron | Player | Won the 2011 Stanley Cup with Boston and six Selke trophies; 1,040 points in 1,294 games. Elected in his first year of eligibility, according to a Canadian Press summary. |
| Carey Price | Player | Won the Hart, Ted Lindsay, Jennings and Vezina trophies in 2014-15; reached the 2021 Final with Montreal. |
| Pekka Rinne | Player | Won a Vezina and played all 15 of his seasons with Nashville, reaching the 2017 Final. |
| Keith Tkachuk | Player | 538 goals in 1,201 games. |
| Cindy Curley | Player | 11 goals and 23 points in five games at the 1990 IIHF Women's World Championship; already in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. |
| Brian Burke | Builder | Senior hockey-operations roles with six NHL teams from 1987-88; general manager of the 2007 Stanley Cup champion Anaheim Ducks. |
The Class of 2025
The Class of 2025 was announced on Tuesday 24 June 2025 and inducted in Toronto on 10 November 2025. CBS Sports reported that Zdeno Chara, Duncan Keith and Joe Thornton were all elected in their first year of eligibility.
| Name | Category | Career notes |
|---|---|---|
| Zdeno Chara | Player | Won the 2008-09 Norris Trophy and the 2011 Stanley Cup with Boston. |
| Joe Thornton | Player | Won the Hart and Art Ross trophies in 2005-06 with 125 points; finished with 1,539 career points. |
| Duncan Keith | Player | Three Stanley Cups with Chicago, the 2015 Conn Smythe, and the Norris in 2009-10 and 2013-14. |
| Alexander Mogilny | Player | The first Soviet player to defect to play in the NHL; won the 2000 Stanley Cup with New Jersey. |
| Jennifer Botterill | Player | Forward for Canada's women's national team. |
| Brianna Decker | Player | Played for the U.S. women's national team. |
| Jack Parker | Builder | Former Boston University coach. |
| Daniele Sauvageau | Builder | Former coach of Canada's women's national team. |
The career notes for the men come from CBS Sports; the descriptions of Botterill and Decker come from a search summary of 2025 coverage.
How the Hall began
The Hall's own history page tells the story in stages:
- 1943, Kingston. The Hockey Hall of Fame was established in Kingston, Ontario, on 10 September 1943, with Kingston mayor Stuart Crawford as president.
- 1945, the first honoured members. Twelve players, among them Hobey Baker, Howie Morenz and Georges Vezina, and two builders, Sir Montagu Allan and Lord Stanley.
- 1958 to 1961, the move to Toronto. The NHL withdrew its support for Kingston in 1958 and chose Toronto, where a building at the Canadian National Exhibition grounds opened on 26 August 1961.
- 1993, the current home. The Hall moved into the former Bank of Montreal building at Yonge and Front streets, in what is now Brookfield Place, opening on 18 June 1993. A travel site gives 1983 instead; the Hall's own date is the one we use.
- 2025, new leadership. Mike Gartner became chair and Jamie Dinsmore president and chief executive on 1 July 2025.
Women entered the Hall in 2010. A Reuters report carried by Fox News names Angela James of Canada and Cammi Granato of the United States, enshrined on 8 November 2010, as the first women. The IIHF's women's hockey history page also lists Geraldine Heaney as a 2010 inductee, so the sources disagree on whether there were two women or three that year. Hayley Wickenheiser, inducted on 18 November 2019, was the seventh woman in the Hall, according to Fox News.
A separate institution: the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame
The U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame is a different organisation with its own classes. Cindy Curley was already a member before her 2026 selection to the Toronto Hall, and Team USA records that the 1998 U.S. Olympic women's team was inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in 2009. For more on the players behind these honours, see notable players.
Sources
- Hockey Hall of Fame, Induction 2026
- Yardbarker (Pro Hockey Rumors), Hall of Fame announces 2026 class (22 June 2026)
- Castanet Kamloops (Canadian Press), Price and Bergeron headline the 2026 class
- RG, Bergeron and Price in the Hockey Hall of Fame class of 2026
- The Hockey News, Canadiens calendar will allow the team to attend Price's induction
- CBS Sports, Hockey Hall of Fame class of 2025 (24 June 2025)
- AOL, Hockey Hall of Fame class of 2025
- Hockey Hall of Fame, our history
- A View On Cities, Hockey Hall of Fame
- Fox News (Reuters), James and Granato first women welcomed into the Hall (2010)
- IIHF, women's hockey general information
- Fox News, Hayley Wickenheiser headlines the 2019 class
- Team USA, 1998 U.S. Olympic women's ice hockey team