Brodeur heads list of HOF inductees

TORONTO - Martin Brodeur couldn't see the three Stanley Cup titles and jaw-dropping career ahead when he played his first game in goal for the New Jersey Devils in 1992 - 20 years after Russian winger Aleksander Yakushev won Canadian hearts with his effort against NHL stars in the historic Summit Series.

And Willie O'Ree didn't know he had broken the NHL's color barrier when he made his debut in 1958.

All three will go into the Hockey Hall of Fame together as headliners of a trailblazing class of 2018 that also includes current commissioner Gary Bettman, diminutive forward Martin St. Louis and four-time gold-medal-winning Canadian women's national team star Jayna Hefford.