The Newfoundland and Labrador Sports Hall of Fame will increase by five later this month with the addition of five new inductees April 27 at the Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland in St. John’s.
The 2019 Hall of Fame induction is part of Sport Newfoundland and Labrador’s Stars and Legends Awards Gala.
The Hall of Fame inductees for 2019 are Angus Barrett in the athlete/builder category, athlete Ward Gosse, builder Bill Hogan, athlete Terry Ryan and athlete Michael Ryder.
Angus Barrett
A soccer player with Holy Cross from 1965-76, Barrett served in many executive positions with the Newfoundland and Labrador Soccer Association, including coaching director, vice-president and president.
He began work at the national level as a member of the Canadian Soccer Association’s finance committee in 1995, and would continue his involvement with the association until 2009.
Barrett held multiple positions with the CSA, including as a member of the board of directors, a member of the executive committee and chairman of the association’s national competitions committee for nine years.
He also served as CSA’s representative on the board of directors for the Canadian Olympic Committee.
A winner of the CSA’s Aubrey Sanford Meritorious Service Award in recognition of a lifetime of service to soccer, Barrett is a member of both the Canadian and Newfoundland and Labrador Soccer Halls of Fame.
Ward Gosse
Gosse is one of the best fastpitch softball payers this province has produced.
He won nine provincial senior championships, and played on 15 teams that represented Newfoundland and Labrador in national championships. He was named an all-star pitcher three times at nationals in 1999, 2005 and 2009 and in 2012 was inducted into the provincial softball Hall of Fame.
Gosse also played in the International Softball Congress Tournament, where he was named to the second All World team as a pitcher.
On the local front, he played for 25 years in the St. John’s Senior Men’s Softball League as an infielder and pitcher, and was a member of 11 championship teams.
A career .323 hitter, he is the St. John’s league’s all-time home run and RBI record holder.
Gosse was also a fine hockey player, winning five Herder Memorial Trophy championships during a 17-year career on the ice.
Bill Hogan
A basketball player in his younger days, Hogan has been involved with swimming for over 30 years, not only in this province but across the country and the world, serving in leadership positions as an official at local, provincial, national, and international levels, including the Olympic Games.
He has been a master trainer for FINA, the international swimming federation, for 24 years and is a well-respected figure in the world of swimming.
Hogan has served as president and vice-president of Swimming Newfoundland and Labrador, vice-president of Swimming Canada in 2003-2004 and President of the Aquatic Federation of Canada from 2007-2011.
He was official of the year in 2001 with Swimming Canada, president of the year in 2002 with Swimming Canada, and official on the year in 2017 with Aquatics Canada.
Hogan is currently the president of Swimming NL.
Terry Ryan Sr
Ryan enjoyed Hall of Fame career in both hockey and baseball.
In hockey, Ryan played junior with the Hamilton Red Wings of the Ontario Hockey Association, and was drafted by the NHL’s Minnesota North Stars.
He played one season in the old World Hockey Association with the Minnesota Fighting Saints, scoring 13 goals as a rookie. Six of those 13 were shorthanded tallies — four of which were game-winners — which was a league record.
He later played in the International Hockey League for three seasons.
Ryan returned home and played seven seasons in the Newfoundland Senior Hockey League with Memorial University, Gander Flyers, Mike’s Shamrocks, Stephenville Jets and the St. John’s Capitals, collecting 247 points in 164 games.
On the baseball field, Ryan won three provincial junior championships and nine senior crowns.
He was selected a Canadian junior all-star at age 15.
Over the course of his career on the diamond, Ryan won 29 individual league awards in St. John’s and won six city championships before retiring in 1990.
Michael Ryder
Ryder enjoyed an 11-year National Hockey League career that saw him retire with a Stanley Cup ring and the honour of being the highest-scoring Newfoundlander to ever play in the NHL.
A 2011 Stanley Cup champion with the Boston Bruins, Ryder — who last played in 2014-15 — retired with 237 goals and 484 career NHL points, the most of any Newfoundlander ever.
Four times Ryder hit the 30-goal mark, seven times scoring 20 or more goals. He was a key contributor to the Bruins’ Cup run, tying for fourth in team scoring with 17 points in 25 post-season games.
After playing midget hockey in Newfoundland, Ryder was offered a tryout by the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League’s Hull Olympiques. He made the squad, and became a 50-goal scorer.
In 1998, following his rookie season in the QMJHL, the Montreal Canadiens made him the 216th pick of the NHL draft. Two years later, he played for Team Canada in the world junior championship, winning a bronze medal.
After bouncing between the AHL and the East Coast Hockey League for two years after turning pro, Ryder made the Canadiens in 2003-04. He would not play in the minors again.
That first season, the hard-shooting right-winger scored 25 goals and 63 points, and was a finalist for the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year.
In addition to Montreal and Boston, Ryder also played with the Dallas Stars and the New Jersey Devils, the team with which he closed out his career.
