Quick quiz - Brief Article

Hockey Digest, Nov, 2003

1. Before 2003, when was the last season that a team other than the Colorado Avalanche, Detroit Red Wings, or Dallas Stars represented the West in the Stanley Cup Finals?

2. True or false: Every Stanley Cup Finals game ever played in the state of California has gone into overtime?

3. What two teams tied for the league lead for fewest goals-allowed in 2002-03?

4. Which of the following players did not score his 1,000th point last season: Mike Modano, Joe Nieuwendyk, Mats Sundin, or Jeremy Roenick?

5. True or false: Ten members of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks team that went all the way to the 2003 Stanley Cup Finals were making their postseason debuts?

6. Milan Hejduk last season became the second player in the history of the Colorado Avalanche to score 50 goals in a season. Can you name the first player to hit that mark?

7. Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Marc Denis broke which record last season: most goals allowed in a season, most minutes played in a season, most career penalty minutes for a goalie, of most career shutouts for a goalie with a last name that begins with the letter D?

8. Now that Patrick Roy has retired from the NHL who is the NHL's active leader in victories with 401?

9. Before Peter Forsberg won the MVP last season, who was the last Colorado Avalanche player to win the Hart Trophy?

10. Of the six players who scored 40 or more goals in 2002-03 (Milan Hejduk, Markus Naslund, Todd Bertuzzi, Marian Hossa, Glen Murray, and Dany Heafley), how many scored 40 or more in 2001-02?

Quick Quiz Answer

1. 1994, when the the Vancouver Canucks lost to the New York Rangers.

2. False, Game 6 of the 2003 Finals was the first California-based Finals game to be decided in regulation time.

3. The New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia Flyers.

4. Roenick.

5. False, the Ducks featured 15 playoff newcomers.

6. Joe Sakic.

7. Most minutes played in a season.

8. Ed Belfour.

9. Joe Sakic in 2001.

10. Two (Naslund and Murray).

Caption: Dennis Maruk.