Skip to main content

Featured Post

CALIFORNIA FIRE: 62,000 People Have Fled Blaze

Post a Comment

#1. JAROME IGINLA - Truly a "BIG TREE"



Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla, born on July 1, 1977 is a Canadian professional ice hockey player, born of a Nigerian Lawyer(father), Elvis Iginla and a Canadian mother,Susan who is a music teacher,  currently he is playing for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL), He was a longtime member and former captain of the Calgary Flames and also played for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Boston Bruins before joining the Colorado Avalanche in 2014.
Internationally, Iginla has represented Canada on numerous occasions. He was a member of championship teams at the 1996 World Junior and 1997 World Championships as well as the 2004 World Cup of Hockey. He is a three-time Olympian and two-time gold medal winner, including at the 2002 Winter Olympics where he helped lead Canada to its first Olympic hockey championship in 50 years.

National Hockey League

Award
NHL All-Rookie Team 1997
First team All-Star 2002, 2008
2009
Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy
Leading goal scorer 2002, 2004
Art Ross Trophy
Leading point scorer 2002
Lester B. Pearson Award
Most Valuable Player as voted by the players 2002
Second team All-Star 2004
King Clancy Memorial Trophy
Leadership and humanitarian contributions 2004
NHL Foundation Player Award
commitment, perseverance and teamwork in the community 2004
Mark Messier Leadership Award 2009
International
Award
World Junior First All-Star team 1996
World Junior Best Forward 1996
Junior
Award
Memorial Cup Championship team 1994, 1995
George Parsons Trophy
Most sportsmanlike player of the Memorial Cup 1995
WHL West First All-Star team 1996
Four Broncos Memorial Trophy
WHL player of the year 1996
CHL First All-Star team 1996
Team awards
Award
Molson Cup
CGY – Most three star selections 2001, 2002
2003, 2004
2008, 2011
Ralph T. Scurfield Humanitarian Award
CGY – Humanitarian contributions 2001, 2002
J. R. McCaig Award
CGY – Respect, courtesy and compassion 2008

He is said to be worth up to 60 million U.S dollars.


This is the very inspiration and motivation needed by the youths of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Keep Up the good work Iginla. Nigeria is proud of you and we hope one day you can and will come over to be the Inspiration and Motivation you are to the youths of Nigeria who are hoping to build up a career in sports...
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

your comment is valuable

Popular posts from this blog

CALIFORNIA FIRE: 62,000 People Have Fled Blaze

  The evacuations have come amid a grueling heat wave, the coronavirus pandemic and air thick with smoke. The wildfires have burned through more than 350,000 acres. The wildfires that continued to rip across Northern California on Thursday have forced 62,000 people from their homes and threaten evacuations for 100,000 more. Firefighters have struggled to contain the blazes, and massive smoke clouds have harmed the air quality. A large group of fires burning in wine country west of Sacramento had grown to cover 131,000 acres, according to Cal Fire, the state’s fire authority. The agency said that, in all, nearly 350,000 acres have burned in Northern and Central California, with many fires sparked by lightning strikes in the high heat and then fanned by winds. Those conditions helped new fires sprout across the state on Wednesday and Thursday, and caused other fires to merge, complicating efforts to contain the combined blazes. Almost two dozen major fires were reported on Wednesday,...
Post a Comment
Read more

Reopenings: “New Wide Release Movies Are Unlikely To Be Available”

The National Association of Theatre Owners is continuing its work advocating for cinemas during the COVID-19 pandemic. In their latest statement, the association responds to several states’ plans to open theaters as early as next week. The White House’s plan to open the economy includes theaters under “Phase One,” meaning they would be allowed to open after the area in which they operate in satisfies  three qualifying criteria . In the days since the White House released its plan, Georgia governor Brian Kemp has stated that movie theaters in his state  could be allowed to open as early as next Monday, April 27  if they adhere to “specific social distancing and sanitation mandates.” Governors of Tennessee and South Carolina have also announced plans to allow non-essential businesses to reopen, though what this means for movie theaters specifically has not yet been clarified. As states begin to move towards reopening, NATO issued the following statement: While some states a...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Key Traits of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Meg Whitman

  What makes these leaders stand out from the rest? IBM's Watson did some digging. From Bill Gates to Meg Whitman to Elon Musk, today's most renowned business people  innovate , inspire and create. However, what makes these individuals so different from the rest of us? What  traits  do they possess that make them so successful? With the help of IBM’s supercomputer Watson, online career management website  Paysa  sought to uncover the common characteristics of top business leaders. Using Watson’s Personality Insights program to analyze speeches, essays, books and interview transcripts of today’s most powerful  leaders , the company discovered what puts these people at the top.   Of eight surveyed industries, entertainment, fashion, finance, law, marketing, media, medicine and politics, Watson discovered that “intellect” was the top personality trait for leaders in a majority of these fields. With the help of IBM’s supercomputer Watson, ...
Post a Comment
Read more