| | CNNSI.com - SI Online - This Week's Issue of Sports Illustrated - SI Flashback: Ease of Entry - Monday November 06, 2000 11:58 AM |
 | | While the Baseball Hall of Fame has inducted 202 players, the hockey hall in Toronto has waved 218 through its door, even though the NHL has historically had fewer teams -- six between 1942 and '67 -- and smaller rosters. |
 | | The fact that Mullen is an American and that only five previous Hall of Famers hailed from the U.S. might have carried more weight than even his exemplary work on the Calgary power play in the Flames' championship season of 1988-89. |
 | | Hockey is awfully bighearted by nature -- the NHL hands out more feel-good, end-of-the-year awards than a grammar school -- but if its Hall of Fame is to continue to have any prestige, the selection committee, which includes former players, current and former hockey executives and five media members, will have to turn ornery. |
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