CrashingTheGoalie

by Ron Spence
The Chicago Blackhawks have won three Stanley Cups since they entered the NHL during the mid-20s.
The most recent one was in 1961. The first one was in 1934, and the second in 1938.
Which Stanley Cup record – held by the Blackhawks – will never be broken?
The years that Chicago won the Stanley Cup, [...]

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by Ron Spence
Name two Chicago defensemen to win the Norris Trophy three times.

A Chicago forward to win both the Norris and Lady Byng Trophies twice.
A Chicago goalie to win the Vezina Trophy three times.
Name three Blackhawk goalies to win the Vezina twice.
Pierre Pilote won the Norris every year from 1963 until 1965 and Chris Chelios [...]

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by Ron Spence
Roberto Luongo has played in 14 post-season games and has a .946 save percentage and a 1.61 goals against average. 
Who holds the post-season record for save percentage, and who has the best career goals against average?
Which NHL goalies – playing in this post-season – are in the Top Ten in goals against and [...]

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by Ron Spence
Who is the Blues’ all-time leading scorer during the post-season?
Which player tallied the most assists in the post-season for the Blues?
Which St. Louis goalies have the most wins while wearing a Blues’ uniform?
Which current Blues player has a father who scored the overtime game-winner during the 1981 playoffs?

Brett Hull’s 67 goals is the [...]

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by Ron Spence
Who was the NHL’s best goalie to never win a Stanley Cup? He was also the only goalie to record post-season victories with five different NHL teams.
Curtis Joseph is fourth in NHL regular season wins with 454 (Patrick Roy still holds the record with 556, with Martin Brodeur 5 wins behind. Ed Belfour [...]

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by Ron Spence
The Conn Smythe Trophy is usually awarded to the best player from the Stanley Cup champions. 
On five occasions, the best players in the post-season were voted from a team that lost. Who were they?
Name the only player to win both the Conn Smythe and Hart Memorial Trophies during the same season – twice?

Detroit [...]

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by Ron Spence
We mentioned – in our last trivia blog – that Claude Lemieux is tied for the most Stanley Cup wins with three different teams.
Should the Sharks win this June, he will have won Cups with four different teams.
Lemieux has a reasonable chance of surpassing two other NHL records and is a longshot for a third.
What [...]

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by Ron Spence
Six players have won at least three Stanley Cups from three different teams.
Three of them won one of their Cups with the Habs.
Three others played on three other teams besides Montreal.
Who are the three players who won one Cup with the Canadiens?
Who are the three other players?
Claude Lemieux and Mike Keane won three [...]

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by Ron Spence
Name the two goalies who have won the most Stanley Cups.
Name a goalie who was placed on waivers – and cleared – and won six Vezina and two Hart Memorial Trophies.
Both Ken Dryden and Jacques Plante had their names etched on the Stanley Cup six times.
Grant Fuhr won 5 Cups, although he was [...]

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by Ron Spence
Who was the oldest goalie to play for the Stanley Cup?
Who was the oldest goalie to win the Cup?
Who was the youngest to play for the Stanley Cup?
Who was the youngest to win the Cup?
The oldest goalie – to play for the Cup – was Johnny Bower who appeared in his last playoff [...]

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