FINAL OCTOBER 1999 TOP TEN

1. Tom Mascioli            69
2. Bryan McCready          52
3. Mike Taylor             44
   Daryl Turner            44
5. Larry Leung             30
6. Gary Balentine          28
   Cam Krell               28
8. Johan Almen             19
9. Chris Horvath           15
   Steve May               15
GOALTENDER TRIVIA YEAR SIX WEEK ONE (Answers due 10pm MDT 10/8/99):
TWO-POINT QUESTION: Name the first goaltender to record a victory for the NHL's Nashville Predators.
CORRECT ANSWER: On October 13, 1998, Mike Dunham led the Predators to a 3-2 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes. Trevor Kidd started in the Carolina net, only to be replaced by Arturs Irbe.

THREE-POINT QUESTION: This future Hall-of-Fame goaltender was the Western Hockey League's Rookie of the Year in 1980. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: The Calgary Flames' Grant Fuhr won the Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy; also of note is that Fuhr is the *only* goaltender to have won this award.

FIVE-POINT QUESTION: With Patrick Roy narrowing in on Terry Sawchuk's National Hockey League record for most career victories, I thought it might be fun to remember the competition. Who, with 167, holds the all-time record for World Hockey Association (regular-season) victories?
CORRECT ANSWER: Joe "Holy Goalie" Daley, who won all of his WHA games with the same franchise, the Winnipeg Jets. Daley was nearly caught from behind in the league's final season by Birmingham's Ernie Wakely (164). Interesting to note that Daley only led the league in wins once, in 1976-77 (39).

BONUS QUESTION: Name the goaltender in net for the first National Hockey League game in Hartford Whalers history.
CORRECT ANSWER: The Whalers began their NHL life on October 11, 1979, falling to the Minnesota North Stars, 4-1. John Garrett was in net for Hartford, and Gary Edwards tended goal for the North Stars.

GOALTENDER TRIVIA YEAR SIX WEEK TWO (Answers due 10pm MDT 10/15/99):
TWO-POINT QUESTION: Name the only member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, inducted primarily as a goaltender, who never played a regular-season game in the National Hockey League.
CORRECT ANSWER: Okay, there was one easy one, and two "harder" ones that I accepted. Vladislav Tretiak, the great Soviet goaltender is the one I was thinking of when I decided that this was an easy question. Two others I accepted were Percy LeSueur, elected in 1961, who - although he did many things in his half-century of hockey, would have been elected (in my opinion) had he only tended goal. The other was Paddy Moran, who retired the year before the NHL came into existence, winning back-to-back Stanley Cups with the Quebec Bulldogs in 1912 and '13. He was elected in 1958. Anyone who mentioned two or more of these guys earned a bonus point (woo hoo!)

THREE-POINT QUESTION: This National Hockey League goaltender had both the longest undefeated streak (12 games) and winless streak (11 games) of the 1998-99 regular season. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: John Vanbiesbrouck, of the Philadelphia Flyers, went 8-0-4 between December 12 and January 13 of last season. Later in the year (February 18 to March 16), he had a skid of 0-7-4. Tough love for Flyers fans, certainly (right, Scott?)

FIVE-POINT QUESTION: In "three stars of the game" voting last season, two NHL goaltenders were named the game's #1 star an impressive 14 (regular-season) times. Of course, the Sabres' Dominik Hasek was one. Name the other.
CORRECT ANSWER: Mike Richter's antics propelled the New York Rangers to an impressive thirty-three wins last season, earning the #1 star fourteen times in the process. Curtis Joseph (Toronto) was second with twelve.

BONUS QUESTION: On the same night that both John Garrett and the Hartford Whalers made their NHL debuts, this goaltender became the first to have his number retired. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: Bernard Marcel Parent, who was forcibly retired due to an eye injury, watched his #1 raised to the Spectrum rafters on October 11, 1979.

GOALTENDER TRIVIA YEAR SIX WEEK THREE (Answers due 10pm MDT 10/22/99):
TWO-POINT QUESTION: Although he has twenty-seven more wins, this NHL goaltender is the active leader in losses (with 307). Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: The Flyers' John Vanbiesbrouck is the active leader in National Hockey League losses.

THREE-POINT QUESTION: Everyone loves Stan Mikita, except for the goaltenders who surrendered 541 goals to the Hall-of-Maker in his twenty-two season. Name the goaltender who gave up Mikita's first National Hockey League goal.
CORRECT ANSWER: On October 7, 1959, Mikita scored his first goal against the New York Rangers, in a 5-2 Opening Day victory. Gump Worsley manned the net for the Blueshirts.

FIVE-POINT QUESTION: Byron Dafoe garnered a spot on the NHL's Second All-Star Team last season, ending a streak of sixteen years between Boston goalies appearing on an (end-of-season) All-Star squad. Which team has gone the longest without having an (end-of-season) All-Star goaltender? (*)
CORRECT ANSWER: This was sort of a tricky question. In the entire history of the Dallas Stars / Minnesota North Stars / San Jose Sharks / Cleveland Barons / California Seals franchise, there has never been a first- or second-team All-Star goaltender. Quite a feat, really.

BONUS QUESTION: For the answer to the five-pointer, who was the All-Star goaltender in question?
CORRECT ANSWER: In light of the five-point answer, this is "no goaltender".

(*) If a team is an expansion team, their streak stops at their inception. For example, the Atlanta Thrashers have *obviously* never had an All-Star goaltender, but, since they've only been in existence for two weeks, they don't have the longest streak.

GOALTENDER TRIVIA YEAR SIX WEEK FOUR (Answers due 10pm MDT 10/29/99):
TWO-POINT QUESTION: As one of the many early-season violent incidents that have marred NHL play this season, this goaltender was given a match penalty for his attack on Pittsburgh's Matthew Barnaby. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: This was Martin Brodeur, on October 7. Chris Terreri finished the game for the Devils, earning the 7-5 loss.

THREE-POINT QUESTION: Surprisingly (or perhaps, not surprisingly, given the way the team was oriented), the Edmonton Oilers did not record a road shutout until their sixth NHL season. Two Oilers netminders shared the shutout - name them.
CORRECT ANSWER: As Paul Branchaud pointed out, this was the Oilers' first regular season NHL shutout. And it was earned on January 8, 1985, against another WHL transplant, the Quebec Nordiques. Two probable Hall-of-Famers shared the blank, Grant Fuhr and Andy Moog. For more on this, see this week's questions...

FIVE-POINT QUESTION: On October 27, 1993, this National Hockey League goaltender had to leave a game due to dizziness. Less than a week later, he underwent a catheterization procedure to correct his heart abnormality (Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome). Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: Tommy Soderstrom, with the Philadelphia Flyers at the time. Gary Balentine sent me a copy of a Sports Illustrated article (from 10/11/93) that I'll add to the page this week. Impressive goaltender, dealing with what he had to deal with.

BONUS QUESTION: On October 17, 1978, this NHL goaltender began an undefeated streak that would eventually stretch to 23 games. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: This was the Islanders' Glenn "Chico" Resch, who went 15-0-8 over the course of the streak.