General Trivia
Page Contents
- Hockey around the world (links)
- Trivia links
- Hockey quotes
- Kalf
- Top crowds
- Unusual NHL records
- UK born NHL players
- Largest stick
- NHL Trivia
- General trivia
- Fan traditions
- I've played in Britain and the NHL
Hello trivia fans. there are lots of sites already on the net that cater for the anoraks amongst us. We will start this page off with a bunch of links covering the more obscure areas of hockey and a few fun things (Our own fun stuff appears on the 482 days pages). Our own trivia content will follow soon and will be specifically Oxford/UK related.
Hockey around the world (all English language sites)
Statistics/Trophies etc. [top]
| Hockey-Stats | Hockey Info Center | Hockey Almanac |
| Hockey Zone Plus (salaries) | Stanley Cup stuff | The Hockey Project |
| Sports Stats | Epenaltybox | Maxwell's NHL Archive |
| Ice Age - Stats |
Hockey History
Hockey Pics etc.
Quizzes
| Ice hockey quizzes | Nickname Quiz | Funtrivia Hockey Quizzes |
| More Funtrivia Quizzes | Hockey Trivia Challenge | Puck Puzzle |
Books & Music
| Hockey Music | The Zambonis - Hockey Music | Hockey Books etc. |
| Fiction on the Web - Hockey | HockeyMovies | Puck Rock |
Quotes
| Classic quotes | Hockey quotes | Hockey quotes 2003 |
| More hockey quotes | Hardice hockey quotes | Hockeyzoneplus Quotes |
Cartoons
| Small Saves | Skater Alex | Hockey Cartoon Panels |
| Hockey Cartoon Pages | Parisi Hockey Cartoons | Cartoonstock Hockey Cartoons |
Humour
| Hockey Humour | ||
| Comedyzine | Ice 18 Fun Photos | Goalie Humour |
| Toons on Ice | Adoptapuck |
General Trivia
| Hockey questions answered | Hockey Greats | |
| Guinness World Records |
Hockey Games
Gifs, Animation, Logos etc.
| Free Hockey Gifs | Animation Library Hockey Gifs | Hockey on the web animated Gifs |
| Hockey Logoserver | Hockey Logos | NHL wallpapers |
| AlwaysSport NHL wallpapers | Hockey clipart |
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Hockey Quotes! [top]
| Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept - Doug Larson |
| Hockey's the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight - Frank Deford |
| The three important elements of hockey are: forecheck, backcheck and paycheck - Gil Perreault |
| My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars - Bobby Hull |
| To his US Olympic team - Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow - John Mariucci |
| If you've only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs. It'll seem like forever. - Pat Foley |
| On his Vancouver Canucks - Last season we couldn't win at home and we were losing on the road. My failure was that I couldn't think of any place else to play - Harry Neale |
| Goaltending is a normal job, sure. How would you like it in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and 15,000 people stood up and yelled at you? - Jacques Plante |
| I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been - Wayne Gretzky |
| You miss 100% of the shots you never take - Wayne Gretzky |
| If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat - Herschel Walker |
| Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates - Magic Johnson |
| Winners never quit, and quitters never win - anon |
| It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice - Eric Lindros |
| The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary - Vidal Sassoon |
| Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking your potential - Liane Carlos |
| We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor - Bobby Clarke |
| What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems - Duke Snider |
| The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill and spirit, but the greatest of these is spirit - Ken Doherty |
| The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital - Joe Paterno |
| Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but they really great make you feel that you, too, can become great - Mark Twain |
| Spirit has fifty times the strength and staying power of brawn and muscle - anon |
| It's what you learn after you know it all that counts - John Wooden |
| The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime - Babe Ruth |
| The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players - Don Coryell |
| The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top - O J Simpson |
| Winning isn't everything, wanting to is - anon |
| The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will - Vincent T Lombardi |
| I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it - Thomas Jefferson |
| He who stops being better, stops being good - Oliver Cromwell |
| You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free - Denis (SlapShot) |
| People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles. - Wayne Gretzky |
| Until we get an apology we,re not going to win a game. We vow not to win until we get an apology from Bettman - Buffalo winger Dixon Ward |
| I think he knows all my tricks. Or the fact I don't have any tricks - Brendan Shanahan on trying to score against Curtis Joseph. |
| I'm hoping for a bench clearing brawl during the warm up so I can go out and grab his stick - Ron Tugnutt on Gretzky's last game in Canada. |
| It's too easy when you're not winning to look for excuses and point at others for reasons. You ca say "Oh well, it's this guys fault or they don't do this well" or you can say "I've got to play better and contribute more". You've got to find another gear and come up with big games - Sean Burke |
| I guess they respect my shot because they were all ready at the blue line - Colorado goalie Patrick Way after attempting to score an empty net goal against Edmonton. |
| All that means is that I'll be 783 years old when I catch Scotty Bowman - Coach Kevin Constantine on being congratulated on his 100th win. |
| I'd be lying to you if I said guys weren't afraid of him. I'm afraid of him, afraid of him running in to me - Paul Laus on teammate Peter Worrell |
| Yes, and I also like jumping out of tall buildings - John Vanbiesbrouck when asked if he enjoyed facing 51 shots in a game. |
| It would have been worse if we hadn't blocked the kick after Toronto's second touchdown - Detroit's Alex Delvecchio after the Leafs beat the Redwings 13-0 in 1971. |
| Either you give it right back or the next thing you know everyone and his brother will be trying you on for size - Doug Harvey on tough checks. |
| Our system of forechecking is to shoot the puck and leave it there - Harry Neale on a bad Vancouver team |
| Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game - Chico Resch |
| Aw, don't worry about that Doc. If it happens I could always come back as a forward - Harold Snepsts, a defenseman, after being advised by his doctor to wear a helmet to avoid brain damage. |
| A fast body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet - Paul Gallico on hockey. |
| Our first priority was staying alive. Our second was stopping the puck - Glenn Hall on playing net without a mask. |
| I was happy to have an attraction in our building that we didn't have to pay for - Harold Ballard on a streaker in Maple Leaf Gardens |
| I know my players don't like my practises, but that's OK because I don't like their games - Harry Neale |
| It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking - Chris Chelios |
| When I look at the net I don't see a goalie - Pavel Bure When I look at the net I see 2 or 3 goalies - Radek Dvorak |
| I didn't mean to do it - Jaromir Jagr That's what I used to say - Wayne Gretzky Jagr and Gretzky after the last game of Gretzky's career when Jagr scored the winning goal in overtime. |
Kalf [top]
A trip to Holland (or a good art book) will show you that hockey-like games have been around for a long time. If you check out the pictures of people like Hendrick Avercamp (e.g. Winter landscape with games on the ice, c.1608, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) and Jacob Van Ruisdael (a little later - check out the Maritshuis, Den Haag) you will see people skating and practising kalf, an early Dutch version of ice hockey.
Top crowds
7 October 2001: MSU 3 Michigan 3 - 74,554 (Spartan Stadium - temporary outdoor rink)
Previous best: 1957: Soviet Union v Sweden, 55,000 (Lenin Stadium, Moscow - World Championships)
Previous best in North America: 1996: Philadelphia Flyers 4 Tampa Bay Lightning 1 - 28,183 (ThunderDome, St. Petersburg, Florida - Stanley Cup playoffs)
Best in UK: Manchester Storm v Sheffield Steelers - 17245ish (tbc) (Nynex Arena)
Best at Oxford: 1100
A few unusual records. [top]
Here are a few unusual NHL records that might make you pause for thought or even give you some encouragement. Some of these may also make you realise just how good Wayne Gretzky was.
Best single season +/- record
| Bobby Orr | +124 |
| Larry Robinson | +120 |
| Wayne Gretzky | +98 |
Worst single season +/- record
| Bill Mikkelson | -82 |
| Tom Williams | -69 |
| Greg Joly | -68 |
All three of these were in 1974/75 and all played for the Washington Capitals. The Caps had a season record of 8-67-5 and lost 37 games in a row on the road.
Most minutes played in a season (NMs)
| Martin Brodeur | 1995/96 | 4434 |
| Arturs Irbe | 1993/94 | 4412 |
| Arturs Irbe | 2000/01 | 4406 |
Most points in a season by player with most PiMs in league (goons who could play a bit or in one case a Hall of Famer who could dish it out)
| Bob Probert | 1987/88 | 62 |
| Dave Williams | 1980/81 | 62 |
| Maurice Richard | 1952/53 | 61 |
Most points in a decade
| 1990s | 1980s | 1970s |
| Jaromir Jagr - 958 | Wayne Gretzky - 1842 | Phil Esposito - 1087 |
| Adam Oates - 896 | Petr Stastny - 1059 | Guy Lafleur - 941 |
| Joe Sakic - 896 | Jari Kurri - 1043 | Marcel Dionne - 928 |
| Wayne Gretzky - 878 | Denis Savard - 1013 | Bobby Clarke - 891 |
| Steve Yzerman - 870 | Paul Coffey - 952 | Gil Perreault - 869 |
| 1960s | 1950s |
| Stan Mikita - 827 | Gordie Howe - 806 |
| Bobby Hull - 786 | Ted Lindsay - 557 |
| Gordie Howe - 780 | Maurice Richard* - 552 |
| Norm Ullman - 675 | Bernie Geoffrion - 525 |
| Alex Delvecchio - 660 | Jean Beliveau - 510 |
* Richard also finished 4th in the 1940s.
Most goals allowed by a netminder in their career
| Gilles Meloche | 2756 |
| Grant Fuhr | 2756 |
| Tony Esposito | 2563 |
| John Vanbiesbrouck | 2530 |
N.B. Patrick Roy will soon make this list
Most career playoff games without a goal
| Craig Muni | 113 |
| Don Awrey | 71 |
| Luke Richardson | 69 (ongoing) |
Greatest margins NHL scoring championship won by.
| Wayne Gretzky | 1983/84 | 79 |
| Wayne Gretzky | 1986/87 | 75 |
| Wayne Gretzky | 1985/86 | 74 |
| Wayne Gretzky | 1984/85 | 73 |
| Wayne Gretzky | 1982/83 | 72 |
| Wayne Gretzky | 1981/82 | 65 |
| Wayne Gretzky | 1990/91 | 32 |
| Mario Lemieux | 1988/89 | 31 |
| Wayne Gretzky | 1980/81 | 29 |
| Phil Esposito | 1972/73 | 26 |
| Gordie Howe | 1952/53 | 24 |
| Phil Esposito | 1973/74 | 23 |
| Bobby Orr | 1969/70 | 21 |
| Gordie Howe | 1950/51 | 20 |
| Jaromir Jagr | 1998/99 | 20 |
Main source: The hockey abstract
Recent NHL players born in the UK [top]
Kevin Brown - born 11/5/74 in Birmingham, West Midlands. Right Wing. Played for Los Angeles Kings (1994-95), Hartford Whalers (1996-97), Carolina Hurricanes (1997-98) & Edmonton Oilers (1998-2000).
Byron Dafoe - born 25/2/71 in Sussex. Netminder. Played for Washington Capitals (1992-95), Los Angeles Kings (1995-97), Boston Bruins (1997-2002). Made the NHL 2nd All Star team in 1999.
Owen Nolan - born 12/2/72 in Belfast, N Ireland. Right Wing. Played for Quebec Nordiques (1990-95), Colorado Avalanche (1995-96), San Jose Sharks (1995-2002). Member of Canada's Olympic Gold Medal team in 2002.
Steve Smith - born 30/4/63 in Glasgow. Defense. Played for Edmonton Oilers ((1984-91), Chicago Blackhawks (1991-97), Calgary Flames (1998-2001). Won three Stanley Cups with the Oilers (1986/87, 1987/88 & 1989/90).
Steve Thomas - born 15/7/63 in Stockport, Gtr Manchester. Right or Left Wing. Played for Toronto Maple Leafs (1984-87), Chicago Blackhawks (1987-92), New York Islanders (1992-95), New Jersey Devils (1995-98), Toronto Maple Leafs (1998-2001), Chicago Blackhawks (2001-02).
The best known British born prospect is Colin Shields, a right winger born in Glasgow on 27/1/80. He was Philadelphia's 4th round draft pick in 2000 (195th overall).
World's Largest Hockey Stick [top]
Sad communities in North America have vied to have the world's largest hockey stick (and puck).
In Evelith, Minnesota they have the following artifacts built in 1995:-
Stick length: 107 feet
Stick weight: 7,000lbs
Made of: White and yellow aspen
Puck diameter: 5 feet
Puck weight: 700lbs
However, in Cowichan Community Centre, Duncan, British Columbia they already had this (built in 1985):-
Stick length: 205 feet
Stick weight: 61,000lbs
Made of: Douglas fir beams reinforced with steel
This one was originally commissioned by the Government of Canada as part of Expo '86 in Vancouver. It was then donated to British Columbia who held a Canada wide competition for it's final destination.
A few facts on this stick:-
- The "world's largest hockey stick and puck" is 40 times lifesize.
- The shaft and blade are made with steel reinforced Douglas Fir glulam beams 0.9144m X 1.2192m (3 foot by 4 foot) in section and 62.48m (205 foot) long.
- It weighs 28,118kg (61,000 pounds) and was built in Penticton and trucked to Vancouver in two pieces and spliced together on the ground, then lifted into position on August 21, 1985.
- Lowered and transported to Vancouver Island by barge and three flat bed trucks exactly two years later ... August 21, 1987.
- Dedicated at it's current site on May 21, 1988, two years to the day after Expo '86 opened.
NHL Trivia [top]
Longest suspension
The longest suspension for an on ice incident is 23 games given to Marty McSorley in February 2000 after he hit Vancouver Canucks Donald Brashear on the head with his stick in a game in Vancouver. McSorley also received 18 months probation after being found guilty in a court case following the incident.
McSorley has Stanley Cup rings and was Wayne Gretzky's protector in the Oilers Cup winning team, and was even involved in the trade with the LA Kings when Gretky moved there. He has more recently been appointed coach of the AHL Springfield Falcons, a Phoenix Coyotes affiliate.
Best season win percentage
In 1929-30 Boston Bruins had an 87.5% win rate with 38 victories from 44 games. A team on the current 82 game schedule would need 72 wins to beat that record.
Longest unbeaten run
This one is held by the Philadelphia Flyers (Broad Street Bullies) with a 35 game run comprising 25 wins and 10 ties. The run went from October 16, 1979 to January 6, 1980, ending with a loss to Minnesota.
QE2
Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by Wayne Gretzky, ceremonially dropped the puck for the start a match between Vancouver Canucks and San Jose Sharks during her recent Golden Jubilee tour of Canada. The ceremonial face off was taken by team captains Marcus Naslund of the Canucks and (Belfast born) Owen Nolan of the Sharks who gave the puck to the Queen as a souvenir.
This is not the only puck owned by the Queen. She already owned the inscribed golden puck with which the legendary Maurice "Rocket" Richard scored his record 325th goal for Montreal Canadiens. The golden puck was recently displayed in an exhibition at Buckingham Palace having been presented to the Queen in 1955 by the Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club.
Ice hockey marathons.
In January 2002 a group of players from Nova Scotia (36 of them including 6 goalies) faced off at 11.00 a.m. on Friday 4th and played for 30 hours ending with a final score of 213 to 174. The match took place in Brooklyn, N.S. as the players were told it would only count as a record if played on a regulation sized rink - originally they intended to play on nearby Windsor's Long Pond which makes claims to be the birthplace of hockey.
In March a bunch of recreational players from Lorette (nr Winnipeg) managed to play for 36 hours with 39 of 40 completing the marathon. The guy who failed to complete had a separated shoulder but others suffered cuts and one a broken nose but returned to finish after repairs.
Both of the above "games" were charity fundraisers.
Nap hand
In a game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the New Jersey Devils on New Year's Eve 1998 Mario Lemieux did more than just score 8 points. He became the only player to score a goal in every conceivable way in one game; even strength, power play, short handed, penalty shot and empty net.
General Trivia [top]
Bob Baun
After breaking his ankle and being carried off the ice on a stretcher during game 6 of the 1964 Stanley Cup finals, Baun insisted on having his broken bone frozen and taped so he could return to the ice. He went on to score the game winning goal in overtime.
Player coach
Strange goings on in English ice hockey are nothing new. In 1937 Len Burrage, a defenseman from Winnipeg, made history by playing for one club while coaching another - in the same league. The BIHA saw nothing wrong in Burrage holding down a defense position with Haringey while toiling as coach for Manchester Rapids, another member of the 11 team league.
The one date in the schedule that troubled the association was March 2 when Haringey were pitted against Manchester. All sorts of suggestions were made about what he should do that night - play a period for each team and coach in the third, flip a coin to decide which team would have his services, take a neutral position and referee the game, stay at home and read a book - but the BIHA took a hand and decided he should play for Haringey as he had joined them before accepting the coaching position at Manchester.
Ice
In early Stanley Cup matches spring weather made for atrocious ice conditions. Sometimes there would be bits of grass and mud showing, and pools of water on the ice were quite common (sounds familiar). In one playoff game the puck fell through a hole on the ice and couldn't be recovered. In Toronto one spring there was so little ice covering the floor that players were said to be "running back and forth on the board floor". After another playoff game a reporter wrote: "Thanks to the good work of the lifesavers, all the players were saved from drowning". Sometimes too much ice would be the problem. In Edmonton in 1909 the ice was measured and found to be 18 inches thick.
Shortest career
In the 1930s the Toronto Maple Leafs, with several players sidelined by injuries, limped into the play offs one year. Desperate for help they called on a local lad, Shrimp McPherson, to don the blue and white.
Midway through the game Shrimp's big moment came> He was instructed to replace an injured Leaf who was hobbling towards the bench. In his excitement and eagerness to play he jumped onto the ice too soon. His skates no sooner hit the ice when the referee signalled a penalty, pointing at him. The call was too many men on the ice so McPherson had to return to the bench while one of his teammates was sent to the penalty box. The jump over the boards was the extent of Shrimp's NHL career, and he has the dubious distinction of being the only player in NHL history to be the cause of a penalty even though he failed to play a single second in the NHL.
Royalty
Journalist Ian Gordon, writing (before WW2) about hockey in England, reveals that Lord Stanley, donor of the family trophy, actually played the game at least once. He says:-
The (hockey) team spirit in England was encouraged in the 1890s in a very unexpected way. A Royal team was formed at Buckingham Palace in the winter of 1895, and when a hard frost - which gave sufficient ice on the lake behind the Palace - rewarded earnest desire, a challenge was issued to a team skippered by Lord Stanley, the Earl of Derby. Buckingham Palace included in their line-up the Prince of Wales, later to become King Edward VII, and the Duke of York, who afterwards became King George V. In the game Lord Stanley's team scored numerous goals, while the Palace combination could only score once.
Until the end of the century, hockey came in for considerable patronage from the Royal Family, and at most club games there was at least one supporter from Buckingham Palace to follow the play closely.
Hengler's Rink - now the Royal Palladium - was the favourite place, and many members of the European Royal Families, when visiting London, were escorted there to be initiated into the daring game.
Missing officials
On January 15, 1983, a blizzard swept through New England and two officials, referee Ron Fournier and linesman Dan Marouelli, failed to get to a game between Hartford Whalers and the New York Islanders on time. The other linesman, Ron Foyt, consulted the rule book and found that if he took over as referee he was permitted to recruit a player from each club to serve as linesmen. He had no trouble finding volunteers. Gary Howatt of the Islanders and Mickey Vulcan of the Whalers were both nursing minor injuries but could skate and were happy to assist Foyt because "it was a once in a lifetime" opportunity.
The game was played and the first period went by without a hitch. During the intermission Fournier and Marouelli finally arrived and replaced the two players who had created an NHL first. The two volunteers, Howatt and Vulcan, are the only two modern-day players ever to act as game officials in the NHL.
Hockey riot
In 1937 London was the site of the world amateur hockey championships. The British squad, stacked with Canadians born in Great Britain, had gone through the tournament without conceding a single goal with Jimmy Foster chalking up seven shutouts in seven games. A victory over Canada in the semi-finals would all but ensure the world title for Britain.
The big game, played at Harringay Arena, attracted over 10,000 fans who looked on in dismay as Canada won 3-0. The fans decided at the end that the referee was to blame and M Poplemont of Belgium fled for his life at the final buzzer. He was showered with cans, bottles and fruit as he made a hasty exit and sought sanctuary in a nearby restaurant under police protection.
Back in the arena the mob turned on the Canadian players who were protected by 50 sailors from a Canadian naval ship. The fans also roughed up several attendants and arena employees and smashed countless windows in the building. The riot rocked the arena for nearly an hour and was finally stopped by an enterprising band leader. He reassembled his musicians and led them in a rendition of "God Save the King". The rampaging throng stood stock-still for a moment, then slowly began removing their hats. A few even sang the anthem. When the last strains died away everybody was so calm that the arena was cleared in a matter of minutes.
Goalie coach
In April, 1928, as his only goalie lay unconcious, a 45 year old coach who'd never played goal in his career strapped on the pads of his fallen goalie and went on to win Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals in overtime. Lester Patrick of the New York Rangers stopped all but one shot through two periods and the sudden death overtime.
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Octopus
Hockey fans in Detroit have been throwing octopi on the ice for over 50 years now. The tradition started in April, 1952 during the Redwings Stanley Cup run. Two brothers who owned a fish shop in Detroit threw an octopus onto the ice during a game. Each tentacle of the octopus was symbolic of a win in the playoffs, and back then the NHL had just six teams and eight wins - two best of seven series - were needed to take the Stanley Cup. The largest octopus thrown on the ice was a 50 pounder in 1996, and this one was displayed on the Zamboni while the ice at the Joe Louis Arena was being resurfaced between periods.
Rats
Back in 1996 Florida Panthers Scott Mellanby was preparing for a game when a large rat ran through the dressing room. Mellanby jabbed the rat with his stick and killed it before going on to score two goals in the game. after that Panthers' fans started throwing plastic rats on the ice whenever the team scored a big goal. During the team's run to the Stanley Cup finals the ice was covered with rats every time Florida scored - opposition goalies had to hide in the net to prevent themselves being hit with rats. The NHL banned the tradition after the season because games were being delayed for so long.
Hats
Hats have traditionally been thrown on the ice when a player scores three goals in a game (a hat trick). It is said the origin of the term hat trick is from cricket - in 1858 a player took three wickets in three balls and to celebrate the feat was given a brand new hat by his team. The fastest NHL hat trick was scored by Bill Mosienko of the Chicago Blackhawks - he potted three goals in 21 seconds in 1952.
Towels
Back in 1982 the Vancouver Canucks were plaing Chicago in the Western Conference finals. During the second game the referee called nine penalties against Vancouver and disallowed a goal of theirs. As a protest at the refereeing the Canucks coach, Roger Neilson, waved a towel on the end of a stick to signal surrender. When the teams returned to Vancouver for the next game thousands of fans waved white towels in recognition of Neilson's protest. The tradition is now followed by sports fans all over North America.
I've played in Britain and the NHL [top]
I was really bored today. Players in brackets were from the 1973/74 London Lions - set up as a Detroit affiliate to compete in a European League that never happened they played about 70 challenge matches against European teams that season. The bracketed figures are numbers of regular season NHL games the guy played for a team. The team names are the well known NHL teams for a city (Detroit = Detroit Red Wings - Detroit Cougars is named in full). The British teams are only named in full if there was more than one at the time for that place. Where it says pre after the British team name it means they played here before icing in the NHL (this mostly applies to players from the 1930s). The list is possibly incomplete at present and goes up to 2001. Let us know of any omissions you (don't) spot.
(Earl Anderson)
Ossie Aubuchon - Boston (12) New York Rangers (38) Brighton (pre)
Yves Beaudoin - Washington (11) Nottingham
Dick Behling - Detroit (5) Harringay Greyhounds (pre)
Bruce Bell - Quebec (75) St Louis (120) New York Rangers (13) Edmonton (1) Durham, Humberside
Paul Beraldo - Boston (10) Sheffield
Bob Bergloff - Minnesota (2) Dundee
Todd Bidner - Washington (12) Fife, Peterborough, Telford, Nottingham, Bracknell, Humberside, Sheffield, Teeside, Durham, Guildford, Blackburn
Mike Blaisdell - Detroit (192) New York Rangers (48) Pittsburgh (76) Toronto (27) Durham, Nottingham, Sheffield
Laurie Boschman - Toronto (187) Edmonton (73) Winnipeg (526) New Jersey (153) Ottawa (70) Fife
Jason Bowen - Philadelphia (73) Edmonton (4) Belfast
Francois Breault - LA (27) Durham
Travis Brigley - Calgary (19) Cardiff
Gerry Brown - Detroit (23) Earls Court Rangers (pre)
Kevin Brown - LA (30) Hartford (11) Carolina (4) Edmonton (19) Manchester
Mike Buchanan - Chicago (1) Wembley Lions
Shawn Byram - New York Islanders (4) Chicago (1) Bracknell, Manchester, Ayr
Eric Calder - Washington (2) Manchester
Frank Caprice - Vancouver (102) Cardiff, Ayr
John Chad - Chicago (80) Wembley Lions (pre)
Denis Chasse - St Louis (92) Washington (3) Ottawa (22) Winnipeg (15) Bracknell, Cardiff
Tony Cimellaro - Ottawa (2) Blackburn, Durham
(Terry Clancy)
Ed Courtenay - San Jose (44) Sheffield, Ayr
Wayne Cowley - Edmonton (1) Solihull, Blackburn (pre) Sheffield, Newcastle (after)
Dale Craigwell - San Jose (98) Sheffield
Marty Dallman - Toronto (6) Nottingham
Michael Dark - St Louis (43) Peterborough
Tony Demers - Montreal (82) New York Rangers (1) Southampton Vikings (pre)
Philippe DeRouville - Pittsburgh (3) Ayr
Tom Dewar - New York Rangers (9) Earls Court Royals (pre)
Babe Donnelly - Montreal Maroons (34)
Ron Dopson - Pittsburgh (2) Ayr
Dan Dorion - New Jersey (4) Solihull, Nottingham, Humberside, Romford
P C Drouin - Boston (3) Bracknell, Nottingham
Justin Duberman - Pittsburgh (4) Newcastle
Dale Dunbar - Vancouver (1) Boston (1) Solihull
Daryl Evans - LA (105) Washington (6) Toronto (2) Whitley
Gordie Fashoway - Chicago (13) Harringay Racers (pre)
Jack Forsey - Toronto (19) Earls Court Rangers (pre)
Archie Fraser - New York Rangers (3) Wembley Monarchs (pre)
Harvey Fraser - Chicago (21) Wembley Monarchs (pre)
Steve Gatzos - Pittsburgh (89) Fife
Farrand Gillie - Detroit Cougars (1) Brighton
Jere Gillis - Vancouver (309) New York Rangers (65) Quebec (12) Buffalo (3) Philadelphia (1) Solihull, Telford, Peterborough
Robb Gordon - Vancouver (4) Manchester
Dan Gratton - LA (7) Slough
Jim Haggarty - Montreal (5) Wembley Canadians, Wembley Monarchs (pre)
Bob Halkidis - Buffalo (89) LA (54) Toronto (46) Detroit (32) Tampa Bay (30) New York Islanders (5) Newcastle
Ron Handy - New York Islanders (10) St Louis (4) Sheffield
Gerry Heffernan - Montreal (83) Harringay Greyhounds (pre)
Yves Heroux - Quebec (1) Ayr
Dutch Hiller - New York Rangers (198) Detroit (7) Boston (46) Montreal (132) Harringay Greyhounds (pre)
Ken Hodge - Minnesota (5) Boston (112) Tampa Bay (25) Cardiff
Vic Howe - New York Rangers (33) Harringay Racers (younger brother of Gordie)
Jim Hrivnak - Washington (59) Winnipeg (3) St Louis (23) Manchester
Kim Issel - Edmonton (4) Durham
Iiro Jarvi - Quebec (116) Newcastle
Bill Jennings - Detroit (69) Boston (39) Earls Court Rangers (pre)
Buck Jones - Detroit (34) Toronto (16) Harringay Greyhounds (pre)
Trent Kaese - Buffalo (1) Peterborough, Milton Keynes, Blackburn
Jack Keating - Detroit (11) Harringay Racers (pre)
Bob Kirkpatrick - New York Rangers (49) Earls Court Royals (pre)
Martin Kolesar - Toronto (28) Nottingham, London
(Mike Korney)
Larry Kwong - New York Rangers (1) Nottingham (1950s)
Markku Kyllonen - Winnipeg (9) Newcastle
Daniel Lacroix - New York Rangers (30) Boston (23) Philadelphia (130) Edmonton (4) New York Islanders (1) Newcastle
Jason Lafreniere - Quebec (96) New York Rangers (38) Tampa Bay (12) Sheffield
Leo Lamoureux - Montreal (235) Earls Court Rangers (pre)
Jeff Larmer - Colorado (8) New Jersey (105) Chicago (45) Solihull
Tyler Larter - Washington (1) Durham, Whitley
David Latta - Quebec (36) Manchester
James Latos - New York Rangers (1) Lee Valley
Eric Lavigne -LA (1) Nottingham
Derek Laxdal - Toronto (51) New York Islanders (16) Humberside, Nottingham, Sheffield
Jamie Leach - Pittsburgh (60) Hartford (19) Florida (2) Sheffield, Nottingham
Bobby Lee - Montreal (1) Brighton Tigers, Earls Court Rangers, Wembley Lions (pre)
Patrice Lefebvre - Washington (3) Billingham Bombers (6 yrs before!)
Tony Licari - Detroit (9) Harringay Racers
Darcy Loewen - Buffalo (12) Ottawa (123) Nottingham
(Todd Lundstrom)
Shane MacEachern - St Louis (1) Swindon, Peterborough
Mike MacWilliam - New York Islanders (6) Cardiff
John Mahaffy - Montreal (9) New York Rangers (28) Streatham (pre)
Jim Mathieson - Washington (2) Newcastle, Nottingham, Ayr
Hazen McAndrew - Brooklyn Americans (7) Harringay Greyhounds (pre)
Ted McCaskill - Minnesota (4) Edinburgh Royals, Paisley Pirates (pre)
(Rick McCann)
(Brian McCutcheon)
Jim McGeough - Washington (15) Pittsburgh (42) Bracknell
(Bill McKenzie)
Jim McTaggart - Washington (75) Peterborough
(Tom Mellor)
Scott Metcalfe - Edmonton (2) Buffalo (17) Sheffield
Jake Milford - Played for Wembley Canadians. Inducted to the Hall of Fame in 1984 for work as GM at LA and Vancouver.
Roy Mitchell - Minnesota (3) Newcastle, Nottingham
Barrie Moore - Buffalo (34) Edmonton (4) Washington (1) Manchester
Dave Morrison - LA (31) Vancouver (8) Manchester
Mark Morrison - New York Rangers (10) Fife
Johnny Mowers - Detroit (152) Wembley Lions (pre)
Glenn Mulvenna - Pittsburgh (1) Philadelphia (1) Sheffield, Newcastle
Steve Nemeth - New York Rangers (12) Sheffield, Kingston Hawks
(Rick Newell)
Hickey Nicholson - Chicago (2) Harringay Racers, Richmond Hawks
Barry Nieckar - Hartford (2) Calgary (3) Anaheim (3) London, Nottingham
Kraig Nienhaus - Boston (87) Nottingham
Robert Nordmark - St Louis (67) Vancouver (169) Nottingham
Selmar Odelein - Edmonton (18) Nottingham, Sheffield
Darryl Olsen - Calgary (1) Nottingham
Mike O'Neill - Winnipeg (20) Anaheim (1) Sheffield
Jim Paek - Pittsburgh (170) LA (18) Ottawa (29) Nottingham
Mark Pavelich - New York Rangers (341) Minnesota (12) San Jose (2-after) Dundee
Bert Peer - Detroit (1) Harringay Racers
Chad Penney - Ottawa (3) Manchester
Fred Perlini - Toronto (8) Trafford, Blackburn, Telford, Streatham, Lee Valley, Nottingham, Fife, Deeside, Basingstoke, Guildford
Frank Pietrangelo - Pittsburgh (87) Hartford (54) Manchester
Rudy Pilous - Played for Ricmond Hawks. Inducted to the Hall of Fame in 1985 for his times as an NHL coach and GM.
Cam Plante - Toronto (2) Peterborough, Chelmsford, Humberside
Ron Plumb - Hartford (25) Fife
(Dennis Polonich)
Gordie Poirier - Montreal (10) Brighton, Harringay Greyhounds (pre)
Ken Priestlay - Buffalo (117) Pittsburgh (51) Sheffield
(Nelson Pyatt)
(Terry Richardson)
Vincent Riendeau - Montreal (1) St Louis (122) Detroit (32) Boston (29) Ayr
Rob Robinson - St Louis (22) Manchester
Jim Ross - New York Rangers (62) Perth Panthers (pre)
Mike Rowe - Pittsburgh (11) Whitley, Fife, Basingstoke, Murrayfield
Andy Rymsha - Quebec (6) Bracknell
Larry Sacharuk - New York Rangers (75) St Louis (76) Birmingham Eagles
Rocky Saganiuk - Toronto (230) Pittsburgh (29) Ayr, Peterborough, Murrayfield, Durham, Blackburn
Geoff Sarjeant - St Louis (4) San Jose (4) Ayr
Paxton Schulte - Quebec (1) Calgary (1) Bracknell
Jaroslav Sevcik - Quebec (13) Nottingham
Joe Shack - New York Rangers (70) Harringay, Dunfermline (pre)
Glen Sharpley - Minnesota (321) Chicago (71) Dundee
Gordon Sherritt - Detroit (8) Harringay Greyhounds (pre)
Ron Shudra - Edmonton (10) Solihull, Sheffield, Hull
Al Sims - Boston (310) Hartford (156) LA (9) Fife - Later became San Jose Head Coach
Doug Smail - Winnipeg (691) Minnesota (57) Quebec (46) Ottttawa (51) Cardiff, Fife
Des Smith - Montreal Maroons (40) Montreal (16) Chicago (24) Boston (116) Wembley Lions, Wembley Monarchs (pre)
Randy Smith - Minnesota (3) Peterborough, Cardiff, Newcastle
Corey Spring - Tampa Bay (16) Manchester
Martin St.Amour - Ottawa (1) Whitley
(Ulf Sterner)
Shayne Stevenson - Boston (19) Tampa Bay (8) Ayr, Manchester
Ryan Stewart - Winnipeg (3) Swindon
David Struch - Calgary (4) Nottingham
Shane Toporowski - Toronto (3) Belfast
Mike Torchia - Dallas (6) Sheffield
Rene Trudell - New York Rangers (129) Harringay Racers (pre)
Connie Tudin - Montreal (4) Wembley Lions, Harringay Greyhounds (pre)
Brad Turner - New York Islanders (3) Manchester
Garry Unger - Toronto (15) Detroit (216) St Louis (662) Atlanta Flames (79) LA (58) Edmonton (75) Dundee, Peterborough - Was NHL record holder for consecutive appearances (Iron Man)
Randy Velischek - Minnesota (88) New Jersey (304) Quebec (117) Durham
Mike Vellucci - Hartford (2) Whitley
Dennis Vial - New York Rangers (21) Detroit (45) Ottawa (176) Sheffield
Dan Vincelette - Chicago (166) Quebec (27) Durham
Bobby Walton - Montreal (4) Wembley Lions (pre)
Mike Ware - Edmonton (5) Murrayfield, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Sheffield, London
(Brian Watts)
Bob Whitelaw - Detroit (32) Harringay Racers
Derek Wilkinson - Tampa Bay (22) Belfast
John Wilkinson - Boston (9) Wembley Canadians, Wembley Monarchs
Jordan Willis - Dallas (1) Notingham
Don Willson - Montreal (22) Earls Court Rangers (pre)
(Murray Wing)
Gary Yaremchuk - Toronto (34) Durham
Mike Zanier - Edmonton (3) Nottingham
Brad Zavisha - Edmonton (2) Manchester
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Odds & Ends
Abie Goldberry, a Quebec junior hockey player from the 1930's was hit by a puck while playing hockey, which ignited a set of matches that he had in his pocket. His uniform caught on fire and he was burned quite badly before the fire was put out.
Amazingly, goalies in the National Hockey League played without masks until the year 1959.
Bobby Carpenter was the first American player to score 50 goals in an NHL season.
Canada beat Denmark 47-0 at the 1949 world hockey championships.
One of the terms of Wayne Gretzky's final contract with the New York Rangers was two tickets for every event at New York's Madison Square Garden.
The Montreal Canadians hockey team has won the most Stanley Cups with 24.
The name hockey, as the organized game came to be known, has been attributed to the French word "hoquet" (shepherd's crook).
The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
The Toronto Maple Leafs used to be called the Toronto Arenas, then the St. Patricks and finally the Maple Leafs.
Wendel Clark holds the record for the longest span between NHL All-Star appearances, with 13 years (1986-1999).
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