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. Kadri began ice skating at the age of two, joined his first hockey team when he was four years old, and was playing at the elite level within the next two years. Kadri was a successful hockey, basketball, and volleyball player, first at Jack Chambers Public School and later at A.
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