Moorhead’s Matt Cullen Part of US Hockey Hall of Fame class of 2024

Hockey star Brianna Decker, former NHL players Kevin Stevens and Matt Cullen, late Chicago Blackhawks founder Frederic McLaughlin and the 2002 Olympic gold medal-winning paralympic sled hockey team are being inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame.

USA Hockey revealed the class on Thursday for enshrinement at a ceremony Dec. 4 in Pittsburgh.

Cullen is a Moorhead High School graduate.

He played 21 seasons in the NHL with eight teams between 1997 and 2019.

He was with the Carolina Hurricanes in 2006 and Pittsburgh Penguins in 2016 and 2017 when the teams won the Stanley Cup.

Cullen had 731 points (266 goals, 465 assists) in 1,516 NHL games.

His other teams included Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Florida Panthers, New York Rangers, Ottawa Senators, Minnesota Wild, and Nashville Predators.

Decker helped the U.S. win Olympic gold in South Korea in 2018 and was part of silver medal teams in 2014 and 2022 before a broken leg and torn ligaments in her ankle knocked her out of the tournament in Beijing.