Ice Hockey History

Too many to say.

Tedy Bruschi

The Toronto maple leafs

Jari Kuri

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Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals currently wears number 8.

Cam Neely, who played for the Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins mainly in his career, wore number 8 in Boston and has had it retired.

Nikolai Khabibulin was the goalie for the Tampa bay Lightning in 2004.

Lord Stanley became a great fan of the game during his tenure as Governor General of Canada and felt that a trophy was needed to honour the best amateur hockey team in Canada on an annual basis.

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Some where between 1916 and 1923 as the NHA closed in 1916, and the NHL started in the 1920s.

The Canadian five dollar bill has kids playing a pick up game of hockey on a frozen pond, on the back of the bill. The only kid wearing a numbered sweater has number 9 on his back, which was the number of "Mister Hockey" Gordie Howe, who was Wayne Gretzky's idol, when Wayne was a kid.

Hockey is "The Canadian Sport" and we pay tribute to our most famous player on our money.

??? #9 maurice Richard i believe wore it as well if not first

Luca Caputi (also new player Brayden Irwin, and Mitchell is from Oakville and Primeau is from Scarborough)

Montreal Canadiens.

Many white Americans would consider this an insult because it clearly attacks their roots as euros. Even though they won't admit that most of their ancestors belong in the "euro trash" category, that is why the term is so offensive to most people in the US, especially in the Midwest.

This term was used by Mike Milbury, a hockey analyst, live on NBC to describe the style of play by Team Russia during their quarter final match against Team Canada in the 2010 Winter Olympics men's ice hockey game.

Many people felt it was comparable to the term "White Trash", a term commonly used in a derogatory way to describe poverty stricken Caucasians.

Goal?

Brian leetch

The final game of Gretzky's career was a 2-1 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins on April 18, 1999 in Madison Square Garden. The national anthems in that game were adjusted to accommodate Gretzky's departure. In place of "O Canada, we stand on guard for thee", Bryan Adams sang "We're going to miss you, Wayne Gretzky". "The Star Spangled Banner", sung by John Amirante, was changed from "O'er the land of the free" to "O'er the land of Wayne Gretzky". He scored his final point in this game, assisting on the lone New York goal scored by Brian Leetch. At the time of his retirement, Gretzky was the second-to-last WHA player still active in professional hockey, Mark Messier, who himself attended the game along with other representatives of the Edmonton dynasty, being the last. Gretzky recently told Scott Morrison that the final game of his career was his greatest day. He recounted: "My last game in New York was my greatest day in hockey...Everything you enjoy about the sport of hockey as a kid, driving to practice with mom [Phyllis] and dad [Walter], driving to the game with mom and dad, looking in the stands and seeing your mom and dad and your friends, that all came together in that last game in New York."

-Wayne Gretzky

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Gretzky

1927

Simply put...Clark Gillies. Gillies established himself as a fighter during his junior years and carried a reputation with him in to the NHL as a very tough and good fighter. He played from the early 70's through the mid 80's for the New York Islanders and his last year with the Buffalo Sabres. He was strong and tall and many of his fighting victories began to be spoken about throughout the National Hockey League during his first few years in the NHL.

He defeated Flyers tough-guy George Shultz in such an overwhleming manner that he became known as the heavyweight champion of the NHL. His bouts with Terry O'Rielly in the 1979-80 playoffs are also well known. Gillies has been known to say that he never went out looking for a fight, but didn't back away from fighting either. He allowed his reputation to carry the burden, in a similar manner as a father giving the "look" to his son where the fear of punishment was all that was needed.

Also need to mention that he broke Ed Hospadar's face with one punch. You Tube it.

3 games, it was Ryan nugent hopkins

^wrong^

As early as last year, Derek Stepan scored 3 goals in his very first game with an NHL team. Many other players have recorded a hat trick in their first game, as well.

The final game at the Forum was played March 11, 1996 vs the Dallas Stars. The Habs skated to a 4-1 victory. Afterward, a ceremony was held with many legendary Canadiens coming back to pay tribute to the Forum, including Maurice "Rocket" Richard, his brother Henri "Pocket Rocket" Richard, Jean Beliveau, Ken Dryden and many other Habs heroes. The ceremony including a "passing of the torch" from each former captain in attendance (including Guy Carbonneau who was playing for the Stars at the time) to the current captain (at that time) Pierre Turgeon. Andrei Kovalenko scored the last ever goal at the Forum.

50 hat tricks totall

yes

There were only East and West Divisions until 1974.

That year, with expansion and realignment, division names became as follows:

Adams Division

Norris Division

Patrick Division

Smythe Division