Trivia Competition Archives (April 1998)

FINAL APRIL 1998 TOP TEN

GOALTENDER TRIVIA YEAR FOUR WEEK TWENTY-FIVE (Answers due 10pm MDT 4/12/98):
TWO-POINT QUESTION: Through yesterday (April 5), name the active leader in career National Hockey League victories.
CORRECT ANSWER: St. Louis' Grant Fuhr had 380 entering last week's N.H.L. action, leading Colorado's Patrick Roy by a single victory.

THREE-POINT QUESTION: With his team down 2-0, this goaltender made his N.H.L. debut this past January 3, earning a 3-2 victory after stopping all sixteen shots he faced. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: Dan Cloutier was the Blueshirts' netminder who made his N.H.L. debut this past January.

FIVE-POINT QUESTION: Name the goaltender who recorded the first shutout in Los Angeles Kings' history.
CORRECT ANSWER: Wayne Rutledge led the Kings to a 4-0 victory over the St. Louis Blues on December 23, 1967.

BONUS QUESTION: In 1982, the New York Islanders recorded a (at the time) NHL-record fifteen game winning streak. Name the goaltender who defeated the Islanders to break the streak.
CORRECT ANSWER: Michel Dion and the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Isles 4-3 on February 22, 1982. New York held a 3-2 lead entering the final frame, but despite outshooting the Pens 16-4 in the third period, lost the game. Rollie Melanson was the New York man in the nets.

GOALTENDER TRIVIA YEAR FOUR WEEK TWENTY-SIX (Answers due 10pm MDT 4/19/98):
TWO-POINT QUESTION: This season, both Kirk McLean and Sean Burke have been traded two times, and have played regular season games for three teams. Before this year, name the last National Hockey League goaltender to do this.
CORRECT ANSWER: In 1989-90, Greg Millen began the year with the St. Louis Blues, before being traded to Quebec on December 13. Millen did not report to the Nords until December 26th, which is not the way to endear yourself to your new club. On March 5, Millen was traded again, this time to the Chicago Blackhawks. Before this season, the only other netminder to play for three N.H.L. teams in one season is Jim Rutherford, who played for the Wings, Leafs, and Kings during the 1980-81 season.

THREE-POINT QUESTION: With thirty-two shutouts, Dominik Hasek holds the Buffalo Sabres' team record for career blanking. Interestingly enough, with one more shutout this season, he will equal the career total of the man whose record he supplanted. Name the man who held the Sabres' shutout record before Hasek.
CORRECT ANSWER: Don Edwards recorded a total of fourteen shutouts over his Sabres career. Tom Barrasso was second with thirteen. Of course, the leader is now Hasek, who has recorded thirty-two of his thirty-three N.H.L. shutouts with the Sabres.
FIVE-POINT QUESTION: When Wayne Gretzky scored his 500th N.H.L. goal, it was into an empty net. Name the goaltender of record that night.
CORRECT ANSWER: Troy Gamble, making his National Hockey League debut with the Vancouver Canucks, allowed two goals by Gretzky before the Great One sealed the victory with an empty net, his 500th in the league.

BONUS QUESTION: On the very same night that the Islanders' fifteen-game streak ended, this goaltender earned the only shutout of his N.H.L. career in a 1-0 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: Boston's Marco Baron earned his first (and only) league shutout on this day, in a 1-0 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers. At 3:49 of the second period, Boston's Barry Pederson flipped a pass across the crease to Normand Leveille, who scored the only goal of the game; his fourteenth of the season.

GOALTENDER TRIVIA YEAR FOUR WEEK TWENTY-SEVEN (Answers due 10pm MDT 4/26/98):
TWO-POINT QUESTION: Name the goaltender who yielded the final goal of the 1997-98 National Hockey League regular season.
CORRECT ANSWER: Depending on who you ask, it was either Grant Fuhr (on a goal by Anaheim's Jeff Neilsen), Glenn Healy (on a goal by Vancouver's Pavel Bure), or a Brett Hull empty-netter. I took all three as correct, since my question wasn't really as well thought-out as I'd hoped.

THREE-POINT QUESTION: Among "regular" goaltenders in 1996-97, the three with the lowest N.H.L. save percentage in 1996-97 all played games for one team. Name the organization.
CORRECT ANSWER: Using Stats, Incorporated's definition of "regular goaltender" (minimum 27 games played), the lowest three save percentages of 1996-97 belonged to Rob Tallas (0.882), Jim Carey (0.886), and Bill Ranford (0.887). All played at least some of their season with the Boston Bruins.

FIVE-POINT QUESTION: Place the following events, all occuring in the past season, in chronological order:

        a) Ken Wregget records 200th N.H.L. victory
        b) John Vanbiesbrouck records 300th N.H.L. victory
        c) Dominik Hasek and the Czech Republic capture Olympic gold medal
        d) Patrick Roy records 40th N.H.L. shutout

CORRECT ANSWER: The correct ordering was B-C-D-A. On December 27, John Vanbiesbrouck's Panthers defeated the Islanders 6-2, giving John his 300th win. On February 22, Dominik Hasek and the Czech Republic won the gold medal at the Nagano Olympics. On February 26, Patrick Roy blanked the Phoenix Coyotes 3-0 for his 40th career shutout. On March 7, Ken Wregget's Penguins beat Philadelphia 6-4, giving Wregget his second win of the season, and 200th of his career.

BONUS QUESTION: On November 9, 1996, Craig MacTavish scored the last (barring a rules change) goal in N.H.L. history by a helmetless player. Name the goaltender who surrendered this tally.
CORRECT ANSWER: Calgary's Rick Tabaracci gave up MacTavish's goal (assists went to Pearson and Zabransky).

GOALTENDER TRIVIA YEAR FOUR WEEK TWENTY-EIGHT (Answers due 10pm MDT 5/2/98):
TWO-POINT QUESTION: These two goaltenders waged one-month's mortgage the first time they faced each other in an N.H.L. contest, but the game ended up in a draw. Name the goaltenders, both of whom are active in this year's postseason.
CORRECT ANSWER: The goaltenders in question were Washington's Olaf Kolzig and Boston's Byron Dafoe, who just completed their exciting first-round postseason duel.

THREE-POINT QUESTION: In the decade of the nineties (from 1990-91 through the current season), name the goaltender who has recorded the most regular-season National Hockey League victories.
CORRECT ANSWER: Colorado's Patrick Roy has the greatest number of victories in the nineties, with 247.

FIVE-POINT QUESTION: Name the goaltender who holds the Edmonton Oilers' franchise mark for career shutouts.
CORRECT ANSWER: With eight this season, Curtis Joseph now holds the Edmonton Oilers' team record with fourteen shutouts.

BONUS QUESTION: In this two-goaltender era, it's not unusual for two goaltenders to share a shutout, but it used to occur with far less regularity. Name the first two goaltenders to share a regular-season National Hockey League shutout.
CORRECT ANSWER: On December 2, 1950, Al Rollins and Turk Broda combined to shut out the Chicago Blackhawks. Unfortunately for the Leafs, Harry Lumley also recorded a shutout that night in a 0-0 tie, described by the AP wire report as "probably the dullest game of the season in Maple Leaf Gardens."