1. Gilles Carmel 84
2. Tom Mascioli 78
Daryl Turner 78
4. Bryan McCready 70
5. Donny Daubanton 51
6. Chris Polehoykie 48
7. Gary Balentine 42
8. Bill Clare 25
9. Steve May 22
10. Mike Taylor 16
TWO-POINT QUESTION: New Jersey's Martin Brodeur won forty
regular-season
games for the third time in his career, joining two Hall-of-Famers in
that exclusive "three-time" club. Name them.
CORRECT ANSWER: Terry Sawchuk
(1950-51, 1951-52 and 1954-55) and Jacques
Plante (1955-56, 1959-60 and 1961-62) welcome Brodeur to the list;
barring injury, Brodeur's likely to create his own "four-time" club in
the next few seasons.
THREE-POINT QUESTION: Now that Colorado's Patrick Roy has his first forty-win regular
season under his belt, name the all-time leader in National Hockey League
victories who doesn't have a forty-win regular season to his
name?
CORRECT ANSWER: Although he led the league with thirty-eight
victories in his rookie season of 1969-70, Tony Esposito never broke the 40-win
plateau en route to 423 career National Hockey League wins.
FIVE-POINT QUESTION: Columbus' Ron
Tugnutt set a record for single-season victories by a goaltender
on an expansion team when his Blue Jackets defeated the Chicago Black
Hawks on Sunday. Who held the record at the time Tugnutt eclipsed
it?
CORRECT ANSWER: First, I should say that Ron set the modern
NHL record for wins by an expansion goaltender; he tied Lorne Chabot's all-time record of 22 (set
with the NY Rangers in 1926-27. The modern mark of 21 wins was shared by
Cesare Maniago (1967-68 Minnesota) and
John Vanbiesbrouck (1993-94
Florida).
BONUS QUESTION: Michigan State (and Buffalo prospect) goaltender
Ryan Miller became just the second goaltender to win the Hobey
Baker Award, given to the top collegiate player in United States Division
I hockey. The other winner also spent some time with the Buffalo
organization - name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: With a 34-10-0 record and five shutouts, the
University of Minnesota's Robb Stauber
became the first netminder to win the Baker. He bounced around the
National Hockey League for a few seasons, finally ending his career with
the IHL Manitoba Moose in 1999.
TWO-POINT QUESTION: With just seven regular-season victories to his
name, Pittsburgh's Johan Hedberg has a chance to lead his club to a
Stanley Cup. However, that would not be a record. Name the Hall-of-Fame
netminder who, with six regular-season wins, would lead his team to the
Stanley Cup title later in the same season.
CORRECT ANSWER: Ken Dryden, who
would finish with 258 regular-season victories and an armload of Stanley
Cups, en route to enshrinement in Toronto.
THREE-POINT QUESTION: In Games One and Two of the Toronto Maple
Leafs' first-round series against Ottawa, goaltender Curtis Joseph recorded consecutive shutouts.
Prior to Cujo, name the last netminder to achieve back-to-back blankings
in Stanley Cup play.
CORRECT ANSWER: On April 28 of the 2000 postseason, Dallas
netminder Ed Belfour blanked the San
Jose Sharks, 4-0, stopping eighteen shots. Two nights later, he turned
aside all nineteen shots he faced, earning a 1-0 shutout, his second
consecutive (and third of the playoffs).
FIVE-POINT QUESTION: This goaltender, who later played for over a
decade in the National Hockey League, competed in an amazing four Memorial
Cups (three consecutive) during his junior hockey career. Name
him.
CORRECT ANSWER: Phil Myre, who
played fourteen National Hockey League seasons, went to the Memorial Cup
with the Victoriaville Bruins (1964, 1965), the Shawinigan Bruins (1966)
and the Niagara Falls Flyers (1968) before turning pro with the Houston
Apollos of the Central league.
BONUS QUESTION: Last week, we covered the fact that only two
goaltenders have ever won the Hobey Baker Award. With the exception of
Ryan Miller in 2001, name the last netminder to be named a *finalist* for
the Baker.
CORRECT ANSWER: Well, of course New Hampshire netminder Ty
Conklin was also a finalist this (2001) season. Other than that, last
season there were two finalists: Conklin and RPI goaltender Joel Laing.
TWO-POINT QUESTION: With an impressive four overtimes, the
2001 Edmonton-Dallas first-round series was certainly an exciting one.
However, the 1951 Stanley Cup Finals featured five overtime games, as each
contest required extra time to complete. Name the winning netminder in
that series.
CORRECT ANSWER: Based on how I asked the question, there are two
correct answers to this one, and I gave an "extra" bonus point to those
who named both. Toronto's
Turk Broda and
Al Rollins each won game(s)
during the 1951 Stanley Cup Finals, as the Leafs won four of the five
overtime games against Montreal.
THREE-POINT QUESTION: There's been a lot of talk about how Mario
Lemieux is currently a player/owner with the Pittsburgh Penguins.
However, he's not the first player/owner in major league hockey, nor is he
the first of the "modern" era. In this World Hockey Association team's
final season, their top goaltender was also a part-owner of the franchise.
Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: When the team was on its last legs, the WHA Chicago
Cougars were sold to three players: Pat Stapleton, Ralph Backstrom, and
(the answer to the question)
Dave Dryden. The team lasted one more
season in the Windy City, and Dryden was eventually claimed by the Edmonton
Oilers after the Cougars were dispersed.
FIVE-POINT QUESTION: It's been established that Dallas'
Ed Belfour was the last NHL goaltender
to record back-to-back postseason shutouts (prior to Cujo, naturally). Before I jinxed him,
Joseph almost strung together three consecutive playoff blankings -
who was the last NHL goaltender to perform this momentous feat?
CORRECT ANSWER: In 1945, Toronto's Frank McCool recorded three
consecutive shutouts. He would quit the sport midway through the next
season, however. The other two goaltenders with three straight postseason
blankings are the Montreal Maroons'
Clint Benedict (1926) and the Rangers'
John Ross Roach (1929)
[Thanks to Bryan and Tom!]
BONUS QUESTION: Name the World Hockey Association's all-time leader
in regular-season victories.
CORRECT ANSWER: "The Holy Goalie",
Thomas Joseph (Joe) Daley, recorded a total
of 167 regular-season (and 30 postseason) victories in seven season with
the Winnipeg Jets, leading the league in 1976-77 (with 39). Finishing a
close second and third were Quebec's
Richard Brodeur (165 wins) and
five-team goaltender Ernie Wakely (164 wins).
TWO-POINT QUESTION: Four Vancouver Canuck goaltenders, all who were on the roster for one season or longer, had the following nicknames. Identify the goalies:
THREE-POINT QUESTION: On November 20, 1992,
Tom Barrasso became the
all-time leader in regular-season victories for the Pittsburgh Penguins
franchise. Who held this record at the time Barrasso eclipsed him?
CORRECT ANSWER: Denis Herron, who tended for the Penguins during
three stints between 1972 and 1986, had eighty-eight victories for
Pittsburgh. He now stands third all-time, behind Barrasso and Ken Wregget (104 wins).
FIVE-POINT QUESTION: When "The Ottawa Fireman", Hall-of-Famer
Alex Connell, recorded his 460 minute,
49 second National Hockey League shutout streak, it was at the centre of
an unbeaten streak by the Senators that stretched to twelve games. Of
those twelve games, in how many did Connell record a shutout?
CORRECT ANSWER: A lot of guesses on this one, and I must admit
that I didn't know until I did the research. Nine of the twelve Ottawa
non-losses were Alex Connell shutouts.
BONUS QUESTION: A prominent author described this well-known
goaltender as "the type of goaltender who could turn back the Johnstown
Flood for sixty minutes." Name the goaltender in question.
CORRECT ANSWER: Chris Goyens, author of "Lions in Winter", one
of the definitive Montreal Canadiens historical texts, gave this
description to "Mr. Goalie", Glenn Hall.
(SECOND) BONUS QUESTION: Separate from "The Cat" in the two-point
question, another goaltender played exactly one season for the Vancouver
Canucks, leading the league in victories - his nickname was also "The
Cat". Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: Oh mais oui, this one was tricky. The year
following his final National Hockey League season, Emile Francis signed on with the Western
League's Vancouver Canucks. In seventy games, Francis recorded a
league-record 32 victories.
TWO-POINT QUESTION: Who holds the National Hockey League record
(amongst goaltenders) for consecutive losses in Stanley Cup playoff
seventh games?
CORRECT ANSWER: Before his victory over the Kings, Colorado's
Patrick Roy had lost four consecutive
seventh-game decisions, dating back to Montreal's 5-3 defeat at the hands
of the Bruins on April 29, 1994.
THREE-POINT QUESTION: (Not counting a potential win 5/9/01), name
the last goaltender in the history of the Colorado Avalanche franchise to
win a seventh game in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
CORRECT ANSWER: Well, of course Roy did win on May 9, but
before that, you had to go all the way back to May 2, 1985, when Quebec's
Mario Gosselin defeated the Canadiens,
3-2.
FIVE-POINT QUESTION: This goaltender, who would wear a full-length
lynx coat in-season, appeared on the "Hockey Night in Canada" introduction
during the 1970s, stickhandling down the ice (in full pads) in an attempt
to score. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: Gary Smith, who
played for some back teams in the 1970s, and always tried to do his best to
liven things up.
BONUS QUESTION: The names Osler, Hoskins, and Harcourt mean
something very important to one Hall-of-Fame goaltender. Who was the
goaltender, and what was the relevance of the names?
CORRECT ANSWER: In 1973, goaltender Ken
Dryden, who was upset at the progression of his contract talks, decided
to take a year off and clerk at a Toronto law firm for $7,000. The name
of that law firm was Osler, Hoskins and Harcourt.