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The Honourable Kenneth (Ken) Wayne Dryden, Queen's
Privy Council for Canada|PC, Bachelor of
Arts|B.A., LL.B., Honorary degree|Honorary
doctorate (born August 8, 1947 in Hamilton,
Ontario) is a Canada|Canadian politician, lawyer,
businessman, author and retired National Hockey
League goalie.  He is currently Minister of Social
Development (Canada)|Minister of Social
Development in Paul Martin's Liberal Party of
Canada|Liberal government.

==Hockey career==
Dryden was drafted fourteenth overall by the
Boston Bruins in the 1964 NHL Amateur Draft.
Rather than play in Boston, Dryden pursued a
Bachelor of Arts degree at Cornell University,
where he also played hockey until his graduation
in 1969.

At Cornell, Dryden led his team to the 1967
National Collegiate Athletic Association
championship and three consecutive ECAC Hockey
League|ECAC tournament championships. He is
generally regarded as the greatest college hockey
goaltender of all time.

Having been traded by the Bruins to the Montreal
Canadiens for Guy Allen and Paul Reid, two players
who would never even make the NHL, Dryden made his
NHL debut in 1970 for the Canadiens, and became
the backbone of six Stanley Cup winning teams in
the 1970s. Considered to be one of the greatest
hockey players of all time, Dryden played from
1970 to 1979 (excluding the 1973-74 NHL season,
when he retired to pursue the requirements for his
law degree at McGill University) and was elected
to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983.

Compared to most other goaltending greats,
Dryden's NHL career was extremely short: only
seven full seasons. Therefore, statistically he
did not amass record totals in most categories.
However, although it has been noted that he played
for a dynasty, his statistical percentages are
unparalleled. In the regular season, .650 winning
percentage, a 2.24 goals against average, and,
most incredibly, only 57 losing games and 46 shut
outs in 397 total games. No modern goaltender has
ever been even remotely close to earning nearly as
many shut outs as recording losing games. He won
the Vezina Trophy as NHL's top goaltender five
times and in the same years was selected as a
First Team All-Star.

==Education==
Dryden earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history
at Cornell University and a degree in Law at
McGill. He has received honorary doctoral degrees
from the University of Ottawa, University of
Windsor, York University, McMaster University,
Saint Mary's University, Halifax|Saint
Mary’s University, Niagara University and
University of British Columbia.

==Writing career==
After retiring from hockey Dryden became an
author.  His book The Game (book)|The Game (1983,
ISBN 0470833556) was a commercial and critical
success being nominated for a 1986 Governor
General's Awards|Governor General's Award. His
next book, Home Game: Hockey and Life in Canada
(1990, ISBN 0771028725), written with Roy
MacGregor, was developed into an award-winning
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation six-part
documentary series for television. His third book
was The moved and the shaken: The story of one
man's life (1993, ISBN 0670821705 ). His fourth
book was In School : Our Kids, Our Teachers, Our
Classrooms (1995, ISBN 0771028695), written with
Roy MacGregor, was about Canada’s education
system.

==Business career==
He served as Ontario's first Youth Commissioner
from 1984 to 1986. Dryden worked as a television
hockey commentator at the 1980 Winter
Olympics|1980, 1984 Winter Olympics|1984 and 1988
Winter Olympics. He became president of the
Toronto Maple Leafs hockey club in 1997, remaining
at that post until 2004. 

==Political career==
In the Canadian federal election, 2004|Canadian
federal election of June 2004, Dryden, as a
candidate of the Liberal Party of Canada, was
elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the
Member of Parliament for the Toronto Electoral
district (Canada)|riding of York Centre.  Dryden
had been selected by Prime Minister of
Canada|Prime Minister Paul Martin as a "star
candidate" in what is considered a safe Liberal
riding.  After the election, Dryden was named to
the Cabinet of Canada|Cabinet, despite never
having held elected office before. Dryden made
headlines on February 16, 2005, as the target of a
sexist remark by
Conservative_Party_of_Canada|Conservative Member
of Parliament Rona Ambrose who said, referring to
Dryden, "working women want to make their own
choices, we don't need old white guys telling us
what to do."

==Family==
He and his wife, Lynda, have two children, Sarah
and Michael.

==Trivia==
Ken Dryden served as a color commentator alongside
play-by-play man Al Michaels for the American
Broadcasting Company's coverage of the famous
Miracle on Ice.

==External links==
*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1105047/ IMDb entry
*http://www.howdtheyvote.ca/member.php?id=93 How'd
They Vote?: Ken Dryden's voting history and quotes



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