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Grant Fuhr (born September 28, 1962), is a former NHL player who is from Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada. Fuhr is half Black, half White. He was a goalie.
At the age of seventeen, in 1979, Fuhr began his professional hockey career, with the Victoria Cougars of the WHL. He averaged 3.14 goals allowed per game that year. In 1981, he moved on to the Edmonton Oilers of the NHL.
He played for the Oilers for ten seasons, teaming with Wayne Gretzky and winning four Stanley Cups. In 1987, he won 40 games and made the All-Star game. In 1988, he represented Canada at the world Ice Hockey championships. Both in 1989 and 1990, he had short stints with Edmonton's farm team, the Cape Breton Oilers.
The Oilers wanted to rebuild during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and they followed Gretzky's trade to the Los Angeles Kings by sending Fuhr to the Toronto Maple Leafs during 1991. He played there until 1992, when he went to the Buffalo Sabres. In Buffalo he saw action until 1995, when he was dealt to the Kings.
At this point of his career, many in the world of hockey began feeling that Fuhr's best days as a player were gone, and he only played fourteen games for the Kings.
Given another chance by the St. Louis Blues, however, Fuhr went on to have some of the best years of his career, including the 1998-99 season, when he posted an average of 2.53 goals allowed per game in 79 games.
During the 1999-00 season, at that moment playing for the Calgary Flames, Fuhr became only the sixth goalie in NHL history to win 400 or more games. But he only won five games that year, while losing thirteen. Shortly after, he retired.
In 2003, he became the first Black member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
He was an All-Star twice, in 1987 and 1992. In addition, he won the Vezina trophy in 1988 and the William B. Jennings trophy in 1994. He had a record of 403 wins, 295 losses and 114 ties as a goal keeper, with a 2.92 goals allowed per game career average.
