1. Tom Mascioli 60 John Santore 60 3. Ryan Angus 52 4. Gary Burrows 50 Gilles Carmel 50 Pete Hibbard 50 Roger Maynard 50 8. Wisent 48 9. Gary Balentine 45 Bryan McCready 45 David Zetterman 45
TWO-POINT QUESTION: This goaltender currently holds the National Hockey
League record for the longest contract (in years), breaking the mark
held by his teammate. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: On September 12 of this year, the New York Islanders
resigned Rick DiPietro to a fifteen year,
$67.5 million contract (If
DiPietro completes the contract, he will be forty years old). Selected
first overall in the 2000 entry draft, DiPietro has struggled on a
middling-to-poor Islanders team, but the team obviously hopes he will
be their backstop as they return to prominence.
THREE-POINT QUESTION: On October 5, Mike Dunham
became the most recent
goaltender to have played for all three current New York area teams
(the Rangers, the Devils, and the Islanders). Name the other.
CORRECT ANSWER: On March 12, 2001, the New York Islanders and New
Jersey Devils swapped backup netminders, sending John Vanbiesbrouck
to the Devils in hopes of winning his first Stanley Cup. The Beezer's
quest ultimately came one win short, but his long career was peppered
with accolades, including the 1986 Vezina Trophy and a surprise trip
to the 1996 Cup Finals.
FIVE-POINT QUESTION: For a very brief time in 2006-07, this goaltender
was tied for the National Hockey League scoring lead. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: Nearly fifteen minutes into the opening night game
between Buffalo and Carolina on October 4, Cam Ward
second assist on Eric Staal's game-tying marker. Ward was tied with
five other players for nearly a full period, until Ray Whitney
registered his second assist of the evening.
PICTORAL QUESTION: Name the following goaltender:
CORRECT ANSWER: I figured this would be as good of a way as any to
welcome Evgeni Malkin to the National Hockey League. This is from
the 2006 World Championships, and features Czech netminder
Milan
Hnilicka stopping Malkin from in close. You'll probably remember
Hnilicka as the goaltender who stepped up to post a solid season with
the 2001-02 Atlanta Thrashers.
TWO-POINT QUESTION: This past spring, this one-time National Hockey
League netminder captured the 2006 Memorial Cup in his first season as
a head coach. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: On May 28, the Quebec Remparts, coached by soon-to-be
Hall-of-Famer Patrick Roy, defeated the Moncton Wildcats by a 6-2
margin. The Remparts had lost to Moncton in the QMJHL finals, but
qualified for the tournament because of Moncton's automatic bid as
host. Roy has been an owner of the Remparts for some time, but did
not become coach until September 29, 2005.
THREE-POINT QUESTION: During a team visit to the White House, this
goaltender presented then-President Ronald Reagan with a goal stick
inscribed with the words "The Puck Stops Here". Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: The goaltender of the only American team to win the
Stanley Cup during Reagan's tenure as president, Billy Smith presented
the stick to the president. Tom Mascioli found
this excellent
transcript. Thanks, Tom! It's an excellent read.
FIVE-POINT QUESTION: Since the implementation of the National Hockey
League tiebreaking shootout, who holds the league record for the
greatest number of shootout saves in a single game without allowing
a shootout goal?
CORRECT ANSWER: On October 7 of this year, Henrik Lundqvist and
the New York Rangers defeated Philadelphia, 1-0, in a shootout lasting
thirteen shooters. Lundqvist was also the winning goaltender in the
longest shootout in league history, so this sophomore is already
exhibiting proficiency in the NHL's new tiebreaking system.
PICTORAL QUESTION: Name the following goaltender:
CORRECT ANSWER: Bill Ranford only played eight games for the Detroit
Red Wings, but his performance in games one and two of the team's
conference semifinal series against Colorado were remarkable. This
is from the May 7 game one, in Denver, in which Ranford outdueled
Patrick Roy in a 3-2 overtime victory. Ranford stopped 37 of 39
Avalanche shots on this day.
TWO-POINT QUESTION: Chronologically, name the goaltender who allowed
to the first goal of the 2006-07 National Hockey League regular season.
CORRECT ANSWER: Just over nine minutes into the start of the season,
Buffalo's Dmitri Kalinin scored from the blueline to beat Carolina
netminder Cam Ward (the recap at the time claimed that Jason Pominville
redirected the shot, but I'm going with the official NHL boxscore) and
put the Sabres up, 1-0. Buffalo ended up beating the Hurricanes, 3-2
in a shootout.
THREE-POINT QUESTION: On October 21 of this season, the Dallas Stars'
Mike Smith recorded a shutout in his National Hockey League debut.
Prior to Smith, name the last goaltender to accomplish this.
CORRECT ANSWER: On October 12, 2005, Montreal's Yann Danis picked up a
32-save shutout at Philips Arena in Atlanta, defeating the Thrashers,
2-0. Only with the Canadiens due to a Cristobal Huet injury, Danis
definitely made the most of his opportunity.
FIVE-POINT QUESTION: Name the most recent National Hockey League
netminder to allow ten (or more) goals in a regular-season game.
PICTORAL QUESTION: Name the following goaltender:
TWO-POINT QUESTION: This goaltender's current mask is a tribute to
legendary "Slapshot" netminder Denis Lemieux. Name him.
THREE-POINT QUESTION: Now that the "tie" is officially no longer part
of the National Hockey League nomenclature, name the league's all-time
career leader in ties by a goaltender.
FIVE-POINT QUESTION: Name the first netminder in the history of the
Toronto Maple Leafs to wear sweater number twenty in a league game.
For what it's worth, I really liked this question because I was always
working under the assumption that all twenty-wearing goaltenders did
so due to Vladislav Tretiak's influence. Live and learn!
PICTORAL QUESTION: Name the following goaltender:
CORRECT ANSWER: Bill Ranford, languishing with the moribund Tampa Bay
Lightning, was in net on November 10, 1998 when the New York Rangers
scored ten times on thirty shots.
CORRECT ANSWER: Carey Price, the fifth-overall section in the 2005
National Hockey League entry draft, whom the Montreal Canadiens hope
will be their next great goaltender.
GOALTENDER TRIVIA YEAR ELEVEN WEEK FOUR (Answers due 10pm MST 11/04/06):
CORRECT ANSWER: The Boston Bruins' Hannu Toivonen, who has since
changed his mask yet again (thanks to Gary Balentine for letting me
know). For those of you who haven't seen the masks, John Santore sent
me these links:
Toivonen
Lemieux.
CORRECT ANSWER: Terry Sawchuk totalled 172 ties over his National
Hockey League career. Of course, Sawchuk had the benefit of playing
for a very long time.
CORRECT ANSWER: "Leaf it to me" to come up with a question for which
we may never know the answer. I believe that Ed Chadwick is the correct
answer, as he wore number twenty in the late 1950s for Toronto. (For
what it's worth, Chadwick also believes that he is the first). However,
due to discrepancies in various Toronto media guides, I cannot fully
discount Gilles Mayer as a possibility.
CORRECT ANSWER: This is the 2001 first-round draft selection of the
Chicago Blackhawks, young Adam Munro.
