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Former Wisconsin standout Joe Pavelski, and former North Dakota star Zach Parise — both of whom recently completed lengthy NHL careers — are among the 2025 U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame class.
Tara Mounsey, who played women’s hockey at Brown and went on to win an Olympic gold medal, was also selected. The others are long-time NHL forward Scott Gomez and photographer Bruce Bennett.
With North Dakota, Parise scored 49 goals and 116 points in 76 games. He was a Hobey Baker Award finalist in each of his two years with the program, 2002-04. The Faribault, Minn., native spent 19 seasons in the NHL with four teams after being selected 17th overall by the New Jersey Devils in the 2003 NHL Draft. Parise played in 1,254 NHL regular season games had 889 points – the most ever by a UND player in the NHL. He and reached the Stanley Cup Final in 2012 with the Devils.
Parise was also a member of the silver medal-winning 2010 Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Team, served as captain of Team USA at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games and represented the U.S. in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey. Parise was part of the 2004 U.S. World Junior team that won gold for the first time.
Like Parise, Pavelski is Wisconsin’s all-time leading NHL scorer with 1,068 points over his 18-year professional career. The Plover, Wis., native skated in 1,332 regular-season games and scored 476 goals with San Jose and Dallas. He was also a member of the 2010 Olympic team, and captained Team USA at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
At Wisconsin, Pavelski was an All-American in helping lead the Badgers to the 2006 national championship. In two seasons with the Badgers, Pavelski had 39 goals and 101 points in 84 games. The all-time leading NHL playoff goal scorer among U.S.-born skaters, Pavelski is a two-time Stanley Cup finalist, one each with San Jose and Dallas, and a four-time NHL All-Star Game participant.
Gomez at one time was committed to play at Colorado College, but wound up going to the Major Junior route instead. He was one of the first Latino players in the NHL, and was the first to come from Alaska. He won two Stanley Cups with the New Jersey Devils.
Bennett has been a photographer for 50 years, and covered nearly 6,000 games in the NHL and internationally.