About Nazem Kadri
Nazem Kadri (Arabic: ناظم كادري; born October 6, 1990) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a centre for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). Kadri was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs seventh overall in the 2009 NHL entry draft. He played his junior career in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), first with the Kitchener Rangers and then the London Knights. He won the J. Ross Robertson Cup with Kitchener and was part of the Rangers team that lost to the Spokane Chiefs in the final of the 2008 Memorial Cup. Kadri won the Stanley Cup with the Avalanche in 2022, becoming the first Muslim player to hoist the trophy. Kadri has represented Canada internationally. He won a silver medal with Canada junior team in the 2010 World Junior Championships, where they lost in the final to the United States 6–5. == Early life == Kadri was born on October 6, 1990, in London, Ontario, the second of five children and the only son born to Samir and Suhayla Kadri. His grandparents were born in Kfar Danis, a mixed Muslim–Christian village in Lebanon, and moved to Ontario when Samir was four years old. Samir wanted to play hockey during his adolescence, but his family could not afford for their son to play.
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