Watch Out: One More (Stanley Cup) Final to Go

Enjoying your finals so far? Psyched for Ec 10 today? Just remembered that the two-week extension on your term paper expires tomorrow? Well, life is tough. And so, hockey junkies, is this specially prepared mass of trivia. Sure, there are a few easy ones, just to give the fringe fans some cheap, undeserved thrills. But we know better. Let those "acquainted" with the sport get lulled into complacency by the pee-wee league questions...and then get crushed when Judgment Day comes and they can't even tell you that Harvey "Busher" Jackson led the league in scoring in 1932. But not us.

We'll take the hard stuff, right between the livers.

So slip into your Jofa helmet and sharpen your Koho stick. Face-off time is nigh approaching. At the Forum, Roget Doucet is singing "Oh, Canada," and we can hear him. Screw the blue books, it's blue line time. The referee is an Islander fan, but any hockey esoterica is fair game.

Sorry, back issues of The Hockey News will not be on file at Lamont. You will have three hours. You may begin now.

1. Clark Gillies set an NHL record when he scored the game-winning goal for the Islanders in four consecutive 1977 playoff contests. Who were the opponents?

2. The most points by one player in an NHL game is ten--six goals and four assists by Maple Leaf Darryl Sittler against the Bruins in February, 1976. Name the four players who are tied for second with eight points in one contest, and their teams.

3. Who holds the NHL record for most assists by a rookie defenseman?

4. Who is the only NHL player to win the Calder Trophy (rookie-of-the-year) after he won the Conn Smythe Trophy (most-valuable-performer-in-the-playoffs)?

5. In one of last season's biggest upsets, the New York Rangers defeated Montreal, 6-3, at the Forum, to end the Canadiens's record 28-game unbeaten skein. Who played goal that night for the Blueshirts?

6. Who was involved in the most recent penalty shot in an NHL playoff game and what was the result?--name the teams, shooter and goaltender.

7. J.P. Parise scored the fastest overtime goal ever (11 seconds). Whose record did he break?

8. Two NHL teams have pulled out a playoff series by winning four games in a row after losing the first three. Name the winners and losers.

9. Who won the first NHL game played at Boston Garden, and by what score?

10. The New York Rangers have not won a Stanley Cup in a long time. How long?

11. Name the first expansion team to defeat a pre-1967 club in a playoff series.

12. True or false: the Bruins have never lost a game to the Washington Capitals. Also, have the Canadiens ever even been tied by Washington?

13. The Flyers became the first expansion team to win the Stanley Cup when they defeated, successively, Atlanta, New York and Boston. Who scored the winning goal of the final game of each series, and who assisted on the Cup-winning goal?

14. The most productive line in Bruins history consisted of Wayne Cashman, Phil Esposito and Ken Hodge. Cashman is still with Boston, and Espo lumbers for the Rangers. Where is Hodge playing?

15. How did sometime Bruin goaltender Jim "Seaweed" Pettie do in his first NHL game? What were the teams and the score?

16. What goaltender did Bobby Orr beat for his last NHL goal?

17. When was the last time the Montreal Canadiens didn't make the playoffs, who beat them out, and why were the circumstances unusual?

18. Who was the youngest player to score 50 goals or more in a single season, and what was his age at the time of the milestone goal?

19. What is the record for most penalties in an NHL playoff game, what teams were involved and who was the referee?

20. A team of WHA all-stars recently defeated Moscow Dynamo in a three-game series in Edmonton. Gordie Howe, at 50, was the oldest player on the squad. Who was the youngest, and how old is he?

21. Only three times has the player selected first in the NHL draft gone on to win the Calder Trophy for rookie-of-the-year. Name the three.

22. Against what team did Gordie Howe score his 1000th career goal?

23. Who was the last player before Bobby Orr to win the Norris Trophy for best defenseman, what year, and who did he play for?

24. In 1976 Team Canada captured the Canada Cup by defeating Czechoslovakia in overtime at the Montreal Forum. Who put in the decisive goal?

25. The Rangers actually managed to win a playoff game against Buffalo last year, a 4-3 OT thriller at Madison Square Garden, when Don Murdoch scored at 1:37 of extra time. But earlier in the sudden-death session, two apparent goals, one by each team, had been disallowed. Who "scored" them?

26. In his 21 seasons as player or coach, how many times has a team that A1 Arbour was on missed the playoffs?

27. How many games did Derek Sanderson (you remember him) play in the World Hockey Association, and for what teams?

28. Mike "Shaky" Walton returned to the Bruins for a few games earlier this season. While playing in the WHA, he led the league in scoring one season. What team was he on at the time?

29. When was the last time a team won the Stanley Cup after not making the playoffs the previous year? Who coached the team?

30. Which Harvard alumnus scored his first two career NHL goals in the third period of a game to lead his team to victory? Name the player, his team, and the opponents that night.

31. Name the four Bruins who scored overtime goals last year, and the opponents in each case.

32. When Gerry Cheevers jumped to the WHA, which team did he jump to?

33. Who scored the fastest goal in an NHL playoff game? Name the teams involved, the final score of the game, and the time of the goal. For a bonus, name the circumstances surrounding the second fastest playoff tally ever, which came less than two weeks later. Hint: both goals were scored in 1977.

34. Believe it or not, George Plimpton once played goalie for the Bruins in an exhibition game against the Flyers. Whose penalty shot did he stop?

35. Only once has every game of an NHL playoff series gone into overtime. When, and between which two teams?

36. Two NHL teams, neither one of them from New York, played a regular season game at Madison Square Garden during the 1967-68 season. Why did they play there, what were the teams, and what was the game's final score?

37. Did Don Cherry ever play an NHL regular season game?

38. After they clashed on the ice, two prominent NHL players once declined a $25,000 offer from a boxing promoter for a bout. Name them, and the teams they played for at the time.

39. Which Bruin played for the NHL Future Stars when the team competed in the Izvestia Tournament in Moscow last December?

40. A Bruin once scored four goals in one game against the Islanders. Who did it, and when?

41. Who is the only professional goaltender to streak in Maple Leaf Gardens?

42. Who was the first Ivy League player to be selected in last year's NHL draft?

43. Which team chose him?

44. Who holds the NHL one-season record for most penalty minutes without a misconduct?

45. Who holds the NHL record for most penalty minutes in one season by a center?

46. There has been only one scoreless and penalty-free game in NHL history. Which two teams were involved?

47. The longest NHL game ever ended at 116:30 of overtime when Mud Bruneteau scored to give Detroit a 1-0 victory over the Montreal Maroons on March 24, 1936. Who got the assist?

48. In 1975-76, two Soviet teams played a total of eight games against NHL teams, and lost only twice. The Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Soviet Army. Who beat the Soviet Wings?

49. Who won the first NHL all-star game, and where?

50. Who was the first expansion team member to lead the NHL in playoff scoring?