Answers - MacHall Test Part Three: Stanley Cup Sampler
* Note: These are the solutions to the previous quiz. Try your hand at the questions here.
3.1 ~ Red Kelly - Eight Cups, four with Detroit, four with Toronto
3.2 ~ The Detroit Red Wings. As of end 2008, they are the only team to win the Cup with an overtime marker in Game 7, and they did it twice. In 1950, they won the championship at 8:31 of the second OT period when Pete Babando put the puck past the Rangers netminder. Then, in 1954, another seventh game overtime Final was decided, by Tony Leswick as the Canadiens were victimised. NOTE: Other teams have won the Cup in overtime, such as the 1996 Colorado Avalanche (see more below) - but not in Game 7. On 10 June 1996, Uwe Krupp completed the sweep of the Florida Panthers when he became the 12th player in NHL history to pot the Cup-winning goal in overtime.
3.3 ~ Ken Dryden. The amazing Montreal goaltender came in to play starter for the Habs in the 1971 playoffs, having played just six games in the regular season. The Canadiens won the Cup and Dryden won the Conn Smythe before he had even played an entire season. The next year “the giraffe” played superbly, posting 39 wins, eight wins and fifteen draws in his “rookie year”. Though the Canadiens did not repeat their Stanley Cup victory in 1972, their soon-to-be-legend backstop won the Calder Trophy for best performance by a player in his rookie season.
3.4 ~ Henri Richard. He actually won all eleven of his Stanley Cup championships before his tenth birthday. Born on the leap-year date of 29 February 1936, his actual birthday was only recognised every four years on the nearly-universal Gregorian calendar. As a consequence, he had been playing for twenty years and won eleven championships by the time his tenth birthday came around, in 1976.
3.5 ~ Patrick Roy. He won the Stanley Cup in 1986 and 1993 with Montreal, 1996 with Colorado, and completing the hat-trick, another with the Avs in 2001.
3.6 ~ Ted Lindsay. When the Detroit Red Wings won the Cup in 1950, he was the first in what would become a long line of captains to skate the first victory lap with the Cup held high. It was also the beginning of regular Cup presentations taking place immediately after the game and on the ice.
3.7 ~ For the second time in this quiz, it‘s goaltender Patrick Roy. Having competed in an astounding 247 playoff games, it is impressive that anyone surpassed Roy, considering many players don’t appear in that many regular season games in their whole career. Chelios, a defenseman, would inevitably have far fewer minutes played overall compared to Roy.
3.8 ~ In every series of the 2006 Western Conference Quarter Finals, the lower-seeded team won the round. In fact, the Edmonton Oilers, who had the fewest points of any Western playoff team, went on to play in the Finals for the Stanley Cup. They would eventually lose out to the Carolina Hurricanes.
3.9 ~ Denver, Colorado is 1,996 miles distant from Quebec City. Spooky.
3.10 ~ Tiger Williams as a Canuck, and he knocked out Sabres head coach Scotty Bowman in Game 3 of the first round of the 1980 Playoffs. Bowman recounted to media later that Tiger came at him with both hands on the stick and brought it down on his by-then- balding bean. A Sabres player was down on the ice and attracting attention, so the incident went by unnoticed. Tiger claimed further that Bowman had been slinging slanderous comments towards the Vancouver players, and though there was no defence of causing serious injury, Scotty deserved it!
3.11 ~ (Bonus Question) Charlie Gardiner. The pioneer backstop and captain led the Chicago Black Hawks to their very first Stanley Cup in 1934. Gardiner also won his second Vezina that year. Considered to be the greatest goaltender of his day, his brilliance was cut tragically short when he suffered a brain haemorrhage in Winnipeg just three weeks after the historic championship win. He was 29 years old.
3.12 ~ (Photo Question) Glenn Hall was the goalie and Noel Picard the tripper! What a lasting image those three players (including Orr) gave the hockey world.
Check below for more trivia, plus a link to the answers to these international questions (Part Five).
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