Grant Fuhr Grant S . Fuhr ( born September 28 , 1962 ) , is a former goaltender in the National Hockey League and currently the goaltending coach for the Phoenix Coyotes . In 2003 , he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame . Born of biracial parents , Fuhr was adopted as a baby and raised in Spruce Grove , Alberta . Career . In 1979 , at the age of seventeen , Fuhr joined the Victoria Cougars of the WHL . After two stellar seasons in Victoria , which included the league championship and a trip to the Memorial Cup in 1981 , Fuhr was drafted 8th overall by the Edmonton Oilers in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft . He played for the Oilers for ten seasons , where he teamed up with Andy Moog for several of them to form one of the most formidable goaltending tandems in history , and won five Stanley Cup s . He was the team ' s starting goaltender on the first four teams , but was injured and did not play in the 1990 playoffs , when the Oilers won for the fifth time . Fuhr played in the National Hockey League All - Star Game in 1984 , 1985 , 1986 , 1988 , and 1989 . In 1987 , he played in goal for the NHL All - Stars in both games of the Rendez - Vous ' 87 series against the Soviet National Team . In 1987 - 88 , Fuhr backstopped Canada to a victory at the Canada Cup , playing in all nine games , then played in 75 regular season and 19 playoff games . He won his only Vezina Trophy as the NHL ' s top goaltender that year and finished second in voting for the Hart Memorial Trophy as league MVP , behind Mario Lemieux and ahead of teammate Wayne Gretzky . He battled shoulder injuries and substance abuse problems at the tail end of his career with Edmonton , and was suspended by the NHL for the first half of the 1990 – 91 season . In 1991 Fuhr was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in a seven - player deal during the Oilers ' post - Gretzky fire sale . After a season and a half in Toronto , he was again traded , this time to the Buffalo Sabres , during the 1992 - 93 season . In Buffalo , he played a role in the Sabres ' dramatic first - round playoff victory over the Boston Bruins , helped instill a winning attitude in the organization , and mentored a young goalie named Dominik Hasek . Fuhr then had a successful 1993 – 94 season with the Sabres , sharing time in goal with Hasek and winning the William M . Jennings Trophy for the fewest goals scored against in the league with him . However , when Fuhr went down with multiple injuries , Hasek stepped into the starting role , and played well enough to hold onto the job . With Hasek now ensconced in the Sabres ' net , Fuhr was dealt to the Los Angeles Kings , playing briefly with Gretzky again for 14 games . Out of shape and possibly past his prime , his career saw a resurgence when he signed as a free agent with the St . Louis Blues before the 1995 – 96 campaign . He played 79 games that season , 76 consecutively , both St . Louis franchise records . The 1996 playoff run for Fuhr ended prematurely as Maple Leafs forward Nick Kypreos ran him in the crease in the first round , causing him to tear several knee ligaments . Jon Casey had to play the rest of the playoffs . They beat Toronto in the first round but Detroit was their next opponent and they didn ' t even get to the conference finals . Even though over the next three years he became one of the three winningest goaltenders in Blues history ( along with Mike Liut and Curtis Joseph ) , he never quite recovered from the knee injury fully . After the Blues signed Roman Turek as their new number one goaltender in 1999 , Fuhr was traded to the Calgary Flames . He spent one season there being a mentor for Calgary ' s young goalies , including Fred Brathwaite , and on October 22 , 1999 , he earned his 400th career win versus the Florida Panthers . Before the 2000 – 01 season he announced his retirement . In 1990 Fuhr came forward about his drug use after spending two weeks in a counseling center in Florida . A one - year suspension was handed down in September 1990 by NHL president John Ziegler , who called Fuhr ' s conduct " dishonorable and against the welfare of the league . " Once Fuhr was re - instated , fans of opposing teams taunted him at games with bags of sugar . Fuhr was hired to be the Phoenix Coyotes goaltending coach on July 22 , 2004 . Fuhr maintains this position at present . He held a similar post with the Calgary Flames in the 2000 – 2001 and 2001 – 2002 seasons . Hall of Fame induction . Grant Fuhr was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on November 2 , 2003 . In the press at the time , it was frequently noted that Fuhr was the first black person inducted into the hall . Fuhr himself found the insistence on his race surprising for two reasons . Firstly , Fuhr never experienced any racism during his formative years in Spruce Grove , Alberta , or within the NHL . Secondly , Fuhr was adopted and raised by a white Canadian family . Arguably , the focus on race took away from a ceremony remembering one of the greatest goaltenders in the history of hockey . International play . Fuhr was named to the 1984 Canada Cup team but saw limited action during the tournament . Grant was again selected to represent Canada for the 1987 Canada Cup . It was here that he cemented his reputation as one of the best goaltenders in the game . Playing against a tough Soviet Union squad , Fuhr turned away shot after shot during the three - game final . He also played for Canada at the 1989 IIHF World Championships .