Ken Dryden
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| Hockey Hall of Fame, 1983 | |||
Dryden in 2011
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| Born |
August 8, 1947 Hamilton, ON, CAN |
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| Height | 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) | ||
| Weight | 205 lb (93 kg; 14 st 9 lb) | ||
| Position | Goaltender | ||
| Caught | Left | ||
| Played for |
Montréal Voyageurs (AHL) Montréal Canadiens (NHL) |
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| National team |
 Canada
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| NHL Draft | 14th overall, 1964 Boston Bruins |
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| Playing career | 1970–1979 | ||
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The Honourable Ken Dryden PC OC |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for York Centre |
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In office 2004–2011 |
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| Preceded by | Art Eggleton |
| Succeeded by | Mark Adler |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Kenneth Wayne Dryden August 8, 1947 Hamilton, Ontario |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Lynda Dryden |
| Residence | Toronto, Ontario |
| Profession | Executive manager, lawyer, professional hockey player, writer |
Kenneth Wayne "Ken" Dryden, PC OC, (born August 8, 1947) is a Canadian politician, lawyer, businessman, author, and former NHL goaltender. He is an officer of the Order of Canada and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Dryden was a Liberal Member of Parliament from 2004, also serving as a cabinet minister from 2004 to 2006, until losing his seat in the 2011 Canadian federal elections to Conservative Mark Adler. On January 27, 2017, in a ceremony during the All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles, Dryden was part of the second group of players to be named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.
Dryden was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1947. His parents were Murray Dryden (1911-2004) and Margaret Adelia Campbell (1912-1985). He has a sister, Judy, and is brother of Dave Dryden (b. 1941), also an NHL goaltender. Dryden was raised in Islington, Ontario (then just outside Toronto).
Dryden was drafted fourteenth overall by the Boston Bruins in the 1964 NHL Amateur Draft. Days later, June 28, Boston traded Dryden to the Montreal Canadiens, along with Alex Campbell, for Paul Reid and Guy Allen, whom the Bruins highly valued. Dryden was informed by his agent that he had been drafted by the Canadiens, but did not find out until the mid-1970s that he had originally been a Bruin.
Rather than play for the Canadiens in 1964, Dryden pursued a Bachelor of Arts degree in History at Cornell University, where he also played hockey until his graduation in 1969. He backstopped the Cornell Big Red to the 1967 National Collegiate Athletic Association championship and to three consecutive ECAC tournament championships under coach Ned Harkness, winning 76 of his 81 varsity starts. At Cornell, he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He also was a member of the Canadian amateur national team at the 1969 World Ice Hockey Championships tournament in .
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