Rainy Drinkwater, "the first Native American in the NHL", was actually a French-Canadian named Rene Boileau. The New York Americans gave him the pseudonym and back story as part of a publicity stunt.
Tom Martin was traded from the WHL's Spokane Flyers to the Victoria Cougars in exchange for a used bus. Both teams were pleased with the deal.
Spinner Spencer's dad was so enraged by the fact that the CBC was showing a Vancouver-Oakland game in BC rather than his son's game with the Maple Leafs that he drove 70 miles to the Prince George affiliate and forced the program manager to switch feeds at gun point. Not long after Spinner was interviewed on HNIC and praised his dad for allowing him to make the NHL, dad was shot dead by the RCMP. Spinner himself was later tried and acquitted for murder before being shot to death following a drug deal.
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