CORRECT ANSWER: Roberto Luongo, the Vancouver Canucks star whose separate equipment can be seen in these photos:
1. Gary Balentine 60
Roger Maynard 60
3. Mark Calandra 58
4. Tom Mascioli 55
5. Bryan McCready 53
6. Ryan Angus 50
David Zetterman 50
8. Jonathan Braniff 40
9. Kevin Belobala 37
10. Pete Hibbard 35
TWO-POINT QUESTION: On February 6, this goaltender will have his
sweater number retired by the Calgary Flames hockey club. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: Mike Vernon, whose number thirty will join Lanny
McDonald's number nine in the Saddledome rafters. Mike started
and finished his career in Calgary, capturing the 1989 Stanley Cup
in a six-game win over Montreal.
THREE-POINT QUESTION: This current goaltender is the first netminder
in National Hockey League history to have two masks and two sets of
pads, one for his team's regular sweaters and one for his team's
third sweaters. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: Roberto Luongo, the Vancouver Canucks star whose
separate equipment can be seen in these photos:
FIVE-POINT QUESTION: This goaltender liked to have his club's
trainers deliver a fresh-popped box of popcorn to him just before
the warmups, earning him his nickname. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: Mike Palmateer, "The Popcorn Kid". Palmateer's
career started full speed with the Maple Leafs in the mid-1970s
and enjoyed a respectable - if short - National Hockey League career.
PICTORAL QUESTION: Name the following goaltender:
CORRECT ANSWER: Wayne Stephenson, who won nearly seventy percent
of his games as Bernie Parent's backup with the Philadephia Flyers.
When Parent missed the vast majority of the 1975-76 season following
surgery, Stephenson won forty games for the two-time defending Cup
champions.
TWO-POINT QUESTION: Mere days after being told by Montreal
vice-president Ken Reardon not to worry about trade rumours, this
Hall-of-Fame goaltender was traded to the New York Rangers.
Moreover, he learned of the trade on the radio while en route to
represent the Canadiens at a pension fund meeting. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: In one of the biggest trades of the era, Jacques
Plante was dealt to the New York Rangers on June 4, 1963. Although
he was the netminder for all five of Montreal's consecutive Cup wins,
Plante was never a favourite of Canadiens management due to his
many idiosyncracies.
THREE-POINT QUESTION: When Teemu Selanne broke the record for goals
in one season by a National Hockey League rookie, name the goaltender
who allowed the record-breaking tally.
CORRECT ANSWER: Selanne scored his 54th goal of the season against
the Quebec Nordiques on March 2, 1993, breaking the mark held by
Mike Bossy. In goal for the Nords was Stephane Fiset, who emerged
as the victor in a 7-4 barnburner.
FIVE-POINT QUESTION: This long-time National leaguer, and current
television commentator, described his time in the minors this way:
"One road trip we were stuck on the runway for seven hours. The
plane kept driving and driving until we arrived at the rink, and
then I realized we were on a bus." Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: Glenn Healy went into broadcasting upon his 2001
retirement, and has been with TSN since 2002.
PICTORAL QUESTION: Name the following goaltender:
CORRECT ANSWER: Peter Ing only played three games with the Detroit
Red Wings in what would be his National Hockey League swan song.
TWO-POINT QUESTION: On December 14, this goaltender played against
his twin brother for the first time in their National Hockey League
careers. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers stopped
43 of 45 shots as his club defeated the Dallas Stars by a 5-2
margin. Twin brother Joel, an injury recall for the Stars, had
nine shifts without registering a shot on Henrik.
THREE-POINT QUESTION: This goaltender, called up to the National
Hockey League this past Friday, is the odds-on favourite to become
the first player from his country to appear in a League game. Name
him.
CORRECT ANSWER: Yutaka Fukufuji, who is currently with the AHL's
Manchester Monarchs, has a decent chance to be the first Japanese
native in the NHL if the Los Angeles Kings continue to struggle
with their goaltenders.
FIVE-POINT QUESTION: This Hall-of-Fame goaltender was a pioneer in
the use of video games as a hand/eye coordination training device
for goaltenders, also swearing by the use of a device developed by
a local optometrist. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: Billy Smith worked out heavily on a machine
created by Dr. Leon Revien designed to "strengthen vision and
reflexes". Smith says that if he had his way, Revien's name would
be on the Stanley Cup for his contributions to the team. Here's
a link to a New York Times article on the subject:
THE LINK.
PICTORAL QUESTION: Name the following goaltender:
CORRECT ANSWER: You certainly know this gentleman if you've listened
to Don Cherry for more than, say, fifteen minutes, as Hardy Astrom
was Cherry's goaltender in his year as head coach of the Colorado
Rockies. The Swede had the last laugh, staying in Denver one year
longer than Cherry.
TWO-POINT QUESTION: Identify the most recent time when two future
Hall of Fame goaltenders were on the same National Hockey League
roster.
CORRECT ANSWER: During the 1971-72 National Hockey League season,
the Toronto Maple Leafs boasted the formidable pair of Jacques
Plante and Bernie Parent between the pipes.
THREE-POINT QUESTION: Name the first goaltender to win the Stanley
Cup.
CORRECT ANSWER: Tom Paton backstopped the 1893 Montreal Amateur
Athletic Associaton to the inaugural awarding of the Cup.
FIVE-POINT QUESTION: In a 1983-84 game, this goaltender was suspended
for swinging his stick at a referee - the first time in American
Hockey League history that a player was suspended for endangering
a referee. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: In a November 20 game between the Sherbrooke Jets
and New Haven Nighthawks, Sherbrooke netminder Warren Skorodenski
earned a twenty-game vacation for attacking referee Dave Lynch.
A short New York Times synopsis of the event:
LINK
PICTORAL QUESTION: Name the following goaltender:
CORRECT ANSWER: Wearing his less-familiar clown mask, this is
Chicago's Warren Skorodenski.