CENTENNIAL — Two legendary French-Canadian NHL forwards sat on a locker-room bench at South Suburban Ice Arena last week, preparing to play the game they love.
On this day, and every day when they skate with this cast of local amateurs, Michel Goulet and Pierre Turgeon have no peers, besides each other.
A head-scratching Hockey Hall of Fame omission for Turgeon is about all that separates them.
Goulet, the former Quebec Nordiques star who was the Avalanche’s director of player personnel when they won the Stanley Cup in 1996 and 2001, was a Hockey Hall of Fame inductee at age 38 in 1998 — four years after completing a 15-year NHL career with Chicago.