Ice hockey sport mourns the greatest legends: Ken Dryden, the former goalkeeper of the Montreal Canadiens, died at the age of 78 after a long cancer.
Dryden was one of that glamorous generation of the Canadiens that dominated the NHL in the 1970s. Although he was only active in the season, he shaped the game like no other. With Montreal he won the Stanley Cup six times and received the Vezina Trophy five times as the best goalkeeper in the league. In 1983 he was included in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
But Dryden was much more than just an outstanding athlete. He looked for tasks beyond the ice early on. In the 1973/74 season he paused a year to work in a law firm. After his active career, he devoted himself to the letter, wrote a lot of noted books on sports and society and was politically involved. From 2004 to 2006 he was a Canadian minister of social development.
With Ken Dryden, the sports world loses one of the most successful goalkeepers in NHL history.
