Speaking of Conacher and lacrosse, the sport of Box Lacrosse was invented in the 1930s by NHL owners looking for a summer sport to fill their arenas. Several NHL players, including the Conacher brothers, played in the 1930s NLL.
Michel Plasse is the first pro goalie credited with scoring a goal. He did it on February 21, 1971 in a 3-1 win for the Kansas City Blues over the Oklahoma City Blazers.
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Having seen so much cool and obscure stuff in the Guess the Goalie thread and in the various jersey threads, I figure that there's a place for a thread like this. to start, I don't know if these were ever intended to be used as official logos/jerseys or were just "rough drafts", but it's interesting to see what could've been for the following teams:
I have this jersey in my collection too
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I’m always amazed these sportscasters and announcers can call the game with McDavid’s **** in their mouths all the time.
The Montreal Forum was not built for the Canadiens. It was actually built to serve as the home of the Montreal Maroons. However, the Canadiens hosted the first game in the arena's history, in 1924, because the natural ice surface at Mount Royal Arena was not yet suitable for hockey.
The New York Americans were the first hockey team in Madison Square Garden. Their success led to the founding of the New York Rangers.
In 1930, Conn Smythe bought King Clancy from the Ottawa Senators for $35,000 cash and two players worth $15,000. He raised a large part of the cash for the transaction by entering his race horse, Rare Jewel, into a high-end race at 106-1 odds. It was the only race the horse ever won.
The Montreal Canadiens were predicted to be a failure upon their creation in 1909, as it was believed francophone players were inferior to anglophones.
well i suppose if you get technical.
Slovak Rebublic was the nation during WW2 and that was the Czechoslovakia from 45 to the early 90's.
During WW2 the Czech's were flying their flag but hey whatever.
When Makita's family left that region it was claimed by the communist Czechoslovakia which why they left the country was lost.
He considered himself as Canadian since he was like around 8 when his family fled here.
Now that same region is Slovakia.
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The WHA was going to be revived in 2004-05 with 8 teams - Toronto, Halifax, Quebec City, Detroit, Dallas, Hamilton, Miami, Vancouver. It died a quick death, but not before five of the teams revealed logos:
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This ain't a fact or anything, but I have to share this:
Several years ago we played a boardgame called: "Hockey night game" or something like that, and this question was asked: " Which other player plays with number 99 in the NHL?" - Well, of course we said: " None other than Gretzky", little did we know, the answer was: " Mario Lemieux, if you flip the numbers over." (This game came like 1995 or so)
Just to add something:
Jarmo Kekalainen is the first European GM in the NHL.
Alpo Suhonen is the first European Coach in the NHL.
