Hockey HOF class of 2026 receives rings, asked to donate meaningful artifacts from career

All of this year’s Hockey HOF inductees received their rings on Saturday, the first of the signature ceremonies of the Hall’s weekend celebration ahead of their formal enshrinement Monday night. In Hall tradition, all honorees are asked to “hand over a few meaningful artifacts of their careers.” All donations “come with the understanding that the pieces remain permanently in the Hall’s collection.” Visitors who streamed to the Hall on Saturday were “treated to a large display case festooned with the sundry surrendered by” former NHLer Patrice Bergeron and women’s hockey pioneer Cindy Curley (BOSTON GLOBE, 11/7). This year’s inductees include Bergeron, Curley, former NHLers Carey Price, Pekke Rinne and Keith Tkachuk, and former NHL GM and exec Brian Burke (SBJ).