Born in Kenora, Mike Richards had a long and storied NHL career playing nearly 800 games.
Richards won Olympic Gold with Team Canada at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, a Memorial Cup with the Kitchener Rangers, and two Stanley Cups with the Los Angeles Kings.
A street in Kenora, near a recreation centre, is named after Mike Richards – Mike Richards Way.
The Stanley Cup was won by the Kenora Thistles hockey team in 1907.
Kenora is the smallest city to have ever gotten the Stanley Cup.
Photos: s.yume, CC BY 2.0, Hockey Hall of Fame
