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[edit] July 30 to August 24, 2006
- ...that, between the 1987-88 and 2000-01 National Hockey League seasons, players representing the Pittsburgh Penguins won the Art Ross Trophy, awarded to the player to have scored the most points over a given regular season, eleven times—six by center Mario Lemieux and five by right wing Jaromir Jagr, with Los Angeles Kings forward Wayne Gretzky [three] the only interloper) but that no other Penguin has ever won the league's scoring title despite Pittsburgh's having joined the league in 1967?
- ...that, during the team's four years of existence, the Calgary Oval X-Treme, a women's professional team affiliated, in 2002-03 and 2003-04 with the National Women's Hockey League and in 2004-05 and 2005-06 with the Western Women's Hockey League—later merged with the former to produce the top North American women's hockey league—won its league championship every season, defeating consecutively, led by captain left wing Cassie Campbell and fellow Canadian national team members Hayley Wickenheiser and Danielle Goyette, who combined have won six gold and three silver Olympic medals, the Beatrice Aeros–then the three-time NWHL defending champions–the Brampton Thunder, the Saskatchewan Prairie Ice, and the Minnesota Whitecaps?
- ...that, beginning in 1960, the Alberta-based Edmonton Oil Kings advanced in seven consecutive seasons to the best-of-three-game finals of the Memorial Cup, the championship of the Canadian Hockey League, the top amateur major junior North American league, contested until 1972 between the winners of the George Richardson Memorial Trophy and the Abbott Memorial Cup but contemporarily as a round robin event with playoff final from amongst the winners of the Western Hockey League, the Ontario Hockey League, and the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, and a host CHL team, losing two of three series at home and winning just two overall titles, the first in Edmonton against the Niagara Falls Flyers and the second in Toronto over the Oshawa Generals?
- ...that only five players not born in one of the traditional Big Six hockey nations (Canada, the United States of America, Russia, Sweden, Finland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia—the latter two comprised by Czechoslovakia until 1993)–right wing Steve Thomas (Great Britain, 933 points), right wing Peter Bondra (Ukraine, 878 points), center Ivan Boldirev (Yugoslavia [now Serbia], 866 points), right wing Ken Hodge (Great Britain, 800 points), forward Owen Nolan (United Kingdom, viz., in the constituent country of Northern Ireland; 735 points)–have registered, over their National Hockey League careers, 700 combined goals and assists?
- ...that, between 1929 and 1950, Hockey Club Davos won 19 of the 21 championships contested in the Nationalliga A (or Ligue Nationael A), the top tier of the professional Swiss Nationalliga (or Ligue Nationale), and, having been relegated for just two seasons during its 85-year existence, has won 27 league championships and 13 Spengler Cup titles, more of each than any other club?
- ...that Dominik Hašek, though six times a recipient of the Vezina Trophy as the National Hockey League's best goaltender, twice a recipient of the Hart Memorial Trophy as the League's regular season most valuable player, six times–more than any other goaltender save Glenn Hall–an all-NHL first-team selection, twice a recipient of the Lester B. Pearson Award as the player adjudged by his peers as the league's best, and twice a recipient of the William M. Jennings Trophy as a goaltender to have played at least 25 regular season games for the team to have surrendered the fewest goals, and though having the eighth-most postseason shutouts, ranks only eighteenth in league history in regular season goaltender wins?
[edit] July 14 to July 30, 2006
- ...that Canada and Sweden have, respectively, held the first and second positions in the world rankings of the International Ice Hockey Federation in the season-ending iterations of 2003, when first the rankings were released, 2004, and 2005?
- ...that, having been permitted entry into the tournament in view of their host nation status, Japan lost each group round game in the women's tournament contested at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games, held in Nagano in 1998, conceding 45 goals whilst scoring just two?
- ...that right wing Teemu Selänne is the only player ever to have finished a regular season in each of the North American National Hockey League and the Finnish SM-liiga as the league leader in goals scored, having won the 1992 Aarne Honkavaara Trophy with Jokerit, whom he led to the Kanada-malja, and the 1993 (jointly with Buffalo Sabres right wing Alexander Mogilny), 1998 (jointly with Washington Capitals right wing Peter Bondra), and 1999 Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophies, pictured, the first for the Winnipeg Jets and the latter two for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim?
- ...that, having in 1991, broken the 13-year Winning strea of the Soviet HC CSKA Moscow, Stockholm-based Djurgårdens IF Hockey of the Swedish Elitserien claimed its second consecutive European Cup as the top European club team in 1992, despite having finished behind Malmö IF in the Elitserien, and that Malmö won the Cup after having finished behind Gävle-based Brynäs IF in the league in 1993?
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- ...that Russia finished in third place in their group in play to qualify for the playoffs at the 2002 World Junior Championships, played in Pardubice and Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, having lost to Canada, 5-2, and to Finland, 2-1, but beat each in the knockout tournament, overcoming Finland in overtime in a semifinal match, 2-1, before defeating Canada, 5-4, in the championship match, winning the title despite having had, by fifteen goals, a goal differential inferior to that of the Canadians over the course of the tournament?
[edit] June 17 to July 14, 2006
- ...that the Middlebury College Panthers, who compete in the New England Small College Athletic Conference in Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, have won five women's ice hockey national championships, including three consecutively between 2004 and 2006?
- ...that the Boston Bruins Kraut line, so-called because the players it comprised hailed from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, known as Berlin prior to the Second World War, featured left wing Woody Dumart, center Milt Schmidt, and right wing Bobby Bauer, who were the top three point-scorers in the National Hockey League's 1939-40 season, combining to score 61 goals and to record 77 assists, and with whom the Bruins won the 1939 and 1941 Stanley Cups?
- ...that of the top twenty career National Hockey League regular season point leaders, only four (Slovak center Stan Mikita, Czech right wing Jaromír Jágr, Finnish right wing Jari Kurri, and American right wing Brett Hull), do not hail from Canada?
- ...that French Canadian goaltender Manon Rhéaume, who started for the silver medallist Canadian team at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games, the first at which women's hockey was contested, became the first woman to play in a National Hockey League exhibition game (with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 1992) and to sign a professional hockey contract (with the Atlanta Knights of the International Hockey League, also in 1992)?
[edit] June 2 to June 17, 2006
- ...that defenseman Al Iafrate holds the record for fastest slapshot struck in the National Hockey League All-Star skills competition, having propelled a puck 105.2 miles per hour (169.3 kilometers per hour) in 1993?
- ...that Peter Pocklington, owner of the Edmonton Oilers, had his father's name, Basil, engraved on the Stanley Cup after the Oilers won the 1984 championship but that, because the elder Pocklington had no formal connection to the team, the name was later stricken?
- ...that the Russian club HC CSKA Moscow, known as the Red Army for its affiliation with the army of the Soviet Union, won the championship of what is now the Russian Hockey Super League 32 times in the 42 seasons played between 1948 and 1989, and that each of the other 10 titles was also won by a Moscovite team?
- ...that, for scoring a gold medal-winning, shootout goal against Canadian goaltender Corey Hirsch in the 1994 Winter Olympic Games, forward Peter Forsberg was featured on a Swedish postage stamp?
- ...that goaltenders are not sent to the penalty box and have their penalties served by proxy by any other player on the ice at the time of the penalty (except in the case of major penalties, when a penalty shot is assessed, or ejections)?
- ...that the term Gordie Howe hat trick, so called in honor of the eponymous right-wing, is ascribed to a player who, in the course of a single match, scores a goal, provides an assist, and wins a fight?