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Bryan Bickell to Be Inducted Into IceHogs Ring of Honor

Originally posted on On Tap Sports Net
By Steve Kwiatkowski | Last updated Feb 14, 2025 7:12 PM ET

June 24, 2013, Boston, MA: It's Game Six of the Stanley Cup Final. The Chicago Blackhawks are down by one goal as the third period nears its end, with the Boston Bruins up 2-1. Blackhawks Head Coach Joel Quenneville pulls Corey Crawford from the net, the extra skater is on the ice for the Hawks. Jonathan Toews wins a puck battle in the left corner in Boston's zone. Toews skates toward the Boston goal and passes to Bryan Bickell. He bangs it home through the five-hole. The game is tied 2-2.

17 seconds later, Dave Bolland scores, and as they say, the rest is history.

On this day in 2013. @NHLBlackhawks score 2 goals 17 seconds apart in the dying minutes of the game to win the Stanley Cup. pic.twitter.com/VbDXuq9V77
— Spittin' Chiclets (@spittinchiclets) June 24, 2021

That's probably the first memory that pops into your mind when you think of Bryan Bickell. With 384 games across nine years with the Chicago Blackhawks, Bickell was one of the few Hawks from the dynasty era to win all three Stanley Cups. He was on the Cup roster in 2010 although he did not actively play in the playoffs.

On Saturday, Feb. 15 at the BMO Center in Rockford, IL, Bickell will be remembered for a different part of his hockey career. The Rockford IceHogs will induct Bryan Bickell into their Ring of Honor.

Drafted in the second round in 2004, Bickell entered the Blackhawks farm system in 2006 with the Norfolk Admirals. When the Rockford IceHogs joined the American Hockey League in 2007, they became the Blackhawks' new AHL affiliate. Bickell was one of the first AHL IceHogs players in franchise history.

Bickell played 227 games in Rockford, tallying 115 points (56 goals, 59 assists).

This article first appeared on On Tap Sports Net and was syndicated with permission.

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