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Every major sport has a hall of fame to marvel at its’ greatest players. Baseball has its’ hall of fame in Cooperstown, NY. The Football Hall Of Fame calls Canton, Ohio home. So what about Professional Hockey you ask? The Professional Hockey Hall of Fame is in downtown Toronto. It’s on 30 Yonge Street just a couple of blocks from the Gardiner Expressway. The NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs play just down the street from the hall at the Air Canada Center.

The Hockey Hall of Fame showcases the best of the best on the rinks. Players such as Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux and Gordie Howe have joined its’ ranks over the years. It was created in 1943 in Kingston, Ontario by a joint agreement between the NHL and the CAHA (Canadian Amateur Hockey Association). The original idea was to build the Hall of Fame in Kingston. But due to escalating building costs and general bureaucracy, it wasn’t opened until 1961 in Toronto. The original building site in Kingston was still pursued and they finally opened the International Hockey Hall of Fame in 1965 on that site.

The original Toronto location was on the Canadian National Exhibition grounds. By the 1980′s it remained clear that the hall of fame needed a bigger building. In 1993 the hall was moved to its current location on Yonge Street.If you like what you see, keep going: Chelios leads U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame group – NHL.com – U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame