FINAL DECEMBER 1999/JANUARY 2000 TOP TEN

1.  Tom Mascioli            108
2.  Daryl Turner            96
3.  Bryan McCready          85
4.  Mike Taylor             80
5.  Gary Balentine          64
6.  Doug Simmons            57
7.  Greg Weston             49
8.  Irina Zheleznyak        41
9.  Eric Hansen             31
10. Bill Clare              27
GOALTENDER TRIVIA YEAR SIX WEEK TEN (Answers due 10pm MST 12/10/99):
TWO-POINT QUESTION: Among active goaltenders (and through today), name the one who has played game for the greatest number of National Hockey League teams.
CORRECT ANSWER: If you interpret franchise shifts as still being one franchise, then there are three goaltenders tied here, with six apiece. Sean Burke (New Jersey, Hartford-Carolina, Vancouver, Philadelphia, Florida, Phoenix), Grant Fuhr (Edmonton, Toronto, Buffalo, Los Angeles, St. Louis and Calgary) and Rick Tabaracci (Pittsburgh, Winnipeg, Washington, Calgary, Tampa Bay and Atlanta) all rate equally here, depending on whether or not you consider Tabaracci an "active" goaltender (note, I didn't - but probably should have - said "active NHL goaltender"). I gave one bonus point if you named more than one of this trio.

THREE-POINT QUESTION: Among goaltenders named to the National Hockey League's All-Star First Team, name the first not to eventually be elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.
CORRECT ANSWER: The Detroit Red Wings' John Ross Roach, who was named to the First Team in 1932-33.

FIVE-POINT QUESTION: On the 1980's television show "Cheers", name the fictional Boston Bruins' netminder who became Carla Tortelli's second husband.
CORRECT ANSWER: Guy Edward "Eddie" LeBec, played by actor Jay Thomas, was on the show from 1987 through 1989. Thomas later appeared in, among other things, "Murphy Brown" and "Mr. Holland's Opus".

BONUS QUESTION: Joe Malone set a National Hockey League record (still standing, by the way) by scoring seven goals in a single contest. Name the opposing netminder.
CORRECT ANSWER: The Toronto St. Pats' Ivan Mitchell yielded ten goals in the contest, held on January 31, 1920.

GOALTENDER TRIVIA YEAR SIX WEEK ELEVEN (Answers due 10pm MST 12/17/99):

Identify the National Hockey League goaltender associated with each quote below:

TWO-POINT QUOTE: "If you make a mistake, they turn on a red light behind you, a siren goes off and thousands of people scream."
CORRECT ANSWER: Jacques Plante, when describing the unique pressures faced by being a goaltender. A different version of the quote is on the Goaltender Home Page.

THREE-POINT QUOTE: "I can't jump on easy shots and make them look hard."
CORRECT ANSWER: George Hainsworth, the legendary goaltender in the early years of the NHL, answering the criticism that he was "boring".

FIVE-POINT QUOTE: "I've never seen a rabbit's foot or a four-leaf clover stop a puck yet. The only two things a goalkeeper has going for him, other than his teammates, are the goalposts. I don't buy that luck jazz."
CORRECT ANSWER: Gump Worsley, whom you might think would be superstitious, certainly understood the benefits of his teammates more than most, being traded from the lowly Rangers to the powerhouse Canadiens in the prime of his illustrious career. This quote was in answer to Toronto opponents claiming he was lucky in the 1966 Stanley Cup playoffs.

BONUS QUOTE: "It seems to me I've been eating nothing but apples."
CORRECT ANSWER: Walter "Turk" Broda, who was told by Toronto GM Conn Smythe that he was suspended until his weight was down to 190 pounds. Broda's diet became front-page news across Toronto.

TWO-POINT CORRELATION: Name the (obvious) connection between all four quoted goaltenders above.
CORRECT ANSWER: You could probably come up with any number of connections, and I most like would have accepted it, but I was looking for the fact that all four are members of the Hockey Hall-of-Fame.

GOALTENDER TRIVIA YEAR SIX WEEK TWELVE (Answers due 10pm MST 01/07/00):

TWO-POINT QUESTION: Name the goaltenders involved the last time the NHL's Jennings Trophy was shared by two or more netminders.
CORRECT ANSWER: A lot of you tried to make this one harder than it was. In fact, just this past season, the Stars' Ed Belfour and Roman Turek shared the Jennings.

THREE-POINT QUESTION: Name the only goaltender to have the three-year Hockey Hall of Fame waiting period waived.
CORRECT ANSWER: Terry Sawchuk, who died the previous year after a 21-season career, was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1971.

FIVE-POINT QUESTION: Kenric Exner, the 19-year-old rookie goaltender for the Western Hockey League's Kamloops Blazers, set a league record with a 2.31 goals-against average last season. Who held this mark prior to Exner?
CORRECT ANSWER: The Calgary Centennials' John Davidson (yes, *that* John Davidson) posted a 2.37 GAA in the 1971-72 WCHL (as it was then known) season.

BONUS QUESTION: This goaltending coach, considered a big help in Dominik Hasek's rise to excellence with the Buffalo Sabres, is now working his magic with the expansion Nashville Predators. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: Mitch Korn, who is an administrator at the University of Miami in Ohio, and runs an annual goaltending clinic there (recommended!)

GOALTENDER TRIVIA YEAR SIX WEEK THIRTEEN (Answers due 10pm MST 01/14/00):

TWO-POINT QUESTION: This active Stanley Cup-winning netminder began showing his attention to detail in college, where he would routinely spend fifteen minutes, before each game, sharpening his skates. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: The University of North Dakota's own Ed Belfour. The Eagle went 29-4 in one season for the Fighting Sioux, before signing as a free agent with Chicago (Belfour was undrafted).

THREE-POINT QUESTION: Name the most recent National Hockey League team to have two future Hockey Hall-of-Fame goaltenders on the roster at the same time (during the season).
CORRECT ANSWER: The 1971-72 Toronto Maple Leafs featured Hall-of-Famers Bernie Parent (47 games), and Jacques Plante (34 games).

BONUS QUESTION: Towards the end of the 1936-37 NHL season, Chicago owner Major Frederic McLaughlin decided that he was going to make the Black Hawks an all-American (literally) team. Who was the American in net for these Black Hawks?
CORRECT ANSWER: Mike Karakas, who is a member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame.

GOALTENDER TRIVIA YEAR SIX WEEK FOURTEEN (Answers due 10pm MST 01/21/00):

TWO-POINT QUESTION: This NHL goaltender was having a career season this year, when he was injured in his team's Skills Competition. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: The Florida Panthers' Trevor Kidd, who was competing in the "Rapid Fire" event when he tried to grab Peter Worrell's stick. Pete's a rather large individual.

THREE-POINT QUESTION: In National Hockey League games this season (through Sunday, January 16), name the goaltender who has made the most saves in one game.
CORRECT ANSWER: On October 14, San Jose's Steve Shields stopped 51 Nashville shots. Despite being outshot 52-23, the Sharks defeated the Predators on that day, 5-1.

FIVE-POINT QUESTION: Patrick Roy holds the Colorado/Quebec franchise record for career victories, with 123 prior to the season's start. He's also closing on the franchise record for losses; who currently holds this record?
CORRECT ANSWER: Two former Nords share this record - Ron Tugnutt and Mario Gosselin each have 83 losses with the franchise. Although the franchise doesn't recognize WHA records, it is notable that "King" Richard Brodeur recorded 114 losses for the WHA Nords.

BONUS QUESTION: Wayne Gretzky retired with fifty hat tricks, nearly double that of any other active NHLer. Against whom (goaltender(s)) did the Great One record his first hat trick?
CORRECT ANSWER: On February 1, 1980, in the midst of a 9-2 Edmonton drubbing, the Winnipeg Jets' Pierre Hamel (2) and Markus Mattsson (1) surrendered Gretzky's first NHL hat trick. Mattsson would later, as a member of the Los Angeles Kings, have a major hand in ending Gretzky's record-setting point streak.

GOALTENDER TRIVIA YEAR SIX WEEK FIFTEEN (Answers due 10pm MST 01/28/00):

TWO-POINT QUESTION: This rookie goaltender, who was playing for the University of Massachusetts-Lowell less than one year ago, has played in the East Coast league, the International league, and now the National Hockey League this season. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: This is Scott Fankhouser, who is involved in a strange battle (with Norm Maracle) for the Thrashers' starting job. Every time one of them gains an advantage, their next outing returns them to the pack.

THREE-POINT QUESTION: Name the goaltender who holds the NHL record for consecutive seasons appearing in a postseason game.
CORRECT ANSWER: Hall-of-Famer Tony Esposito went to the postseason every year from 1970 to 1983 (inclusive), all with the Chicago Black Hawks. He only missed the Stanley Cup tournament in his first year, when, as a rookie with the Canadiens, his team (under Rogie Vachon) won the Cup, and in his last year, when Murray Bannerman had supplanted him as the Black Hawks' go-to guy. Andy Moog, Billy Smith and Glenn Hall all went to the playoffs in thirteen consecutive seasons.

FIVE-POINT QUESTION: Name the two goaltenders who, in the first midseason NHL All-Star Game, stopped thirty-five shots for a combined shutout.
CORRECT ANSWER: On January 18, 1967, the Montreal Canadiens' Charlie Hodge and Gary Bauman recorded the only shutout in All-Star Game history, as the defending-champion Habitants defeatd the NHL All-Stars, 3-0. Game MVP Henri Richard scored the first-period game-winner on the All-Stars' Glenn Hall.

BONUS QUESTION: This Hall-of-Fame netminder backstopped the Quebec Bulldogs to back-to-back Stanley Cups in the early 1910's. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: Patrick Joseph "Paddy" Moran was in net in 1912, when the Bulldogs defeated Moncton, and the following year, when the Bulldogs defeated Sydney.

GOALTENDER TRIVIA YEAR SIX WEEK SIXTEEN (Answers due 10pm MST 02/04/00):

TWO-POINT QUESTION: This European-born goaltender was a natural at hockey, rugby and baseball when growing up. Later, he was one of the first inductees to the Hockey Hall of Fame. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: Charles "Chuck" Gardiner, who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Gardiner nearly single-handedly won the 1934 Cup for the Black Hawks, then died two months later from a brain hemorrhage. Gardiner was elected in the first HHOF class, in 1945.

THREE-POINT QUESTION: In December of 1998, this goaltender, along with two of his Russian NHL teammates, took on three circus-performing bears in a hockey exhibition. Who was this netminder?
CORRECT ANSWER: This was [then] Oiler Mikhail Shtalenkov. Shtalenkov commented on the goaltending bear, and several GT players gave the exact quote: "I thought I recognized that style - he plays exactly like Dominik Hasek. He puts his stick down and then gets down on all fours." Speaking of the bears in general, the Toronto Globe and Mail's Allan Maki said that they looked "about as mobile as Vancouver Canucks' defenseman Dana Murzyn."

FIVE-POINT QUESTION: Many of you that have followed GT for awhile know the story of Sam LoPresti, the Chicago Black Hawks goaltender who stopped an NHL-record 80 shots in one game. When LoPresti was called up to the Hawks that season, who was he replacing in the Chicago net?
CORRECT ANSWER: LoPresti was filling in for Paul Goodman, who was injured. Goodman was replacing Mike Karakas, who had been suspending by the team for refusing a demotion to AHL Providence.

BONUS QUESTION: Name the two goaltenders acquired by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 1992 NHL Expansion Draft.

CORRECT ANSWER: Wendell Young, from the Penguins, and Frederic Chabot, from the Canadiens. Chabot was returned to les Habitants the following day for netminder Jean-Claude Bergeron.