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1. Unlike baseball or basketball,
the origins of ice hockey are
murky, at best. While some say a
version of the game was played
by the French and Irish as far
back as the 1700s, others claim it
was invented in the mid-1800s
when Canadians with homemade
sticks would skate on frozen
ponds in Ontario.
2. The first organized indoor
hockey game was played March

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3, 1875 at Montreal’s Victoria
Skating Rink, between two teams
of nine players each, many of
whom were McGill University
students.
3. Chicago Blackhawks Hall of
Famer Stan Mikita is most often
credited with the creation of the
curved stick blade in the 1960s —
all blades were previously straight
— though many others, including
fellow Hall of Fame forward Andy
Bathgate, also claim to have
curved their sticks as far back as
the 1930s and ’40s.
4. The National Hockey League
(NHL) was founded on November
22, 1917.

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5. The Montreal Canadiens have
won the most Stanley Cups in
league history, with 23. The most
recent came in 1993.
6. The diameter of a hockey puck
is three inches.
7. The fastest slapshot on record
is Bobby Hull’s, which registered
118 miles per hour.
8. Since 1914, the Stanley Cup
has been awarded in every year
but two. In 1919, it was not
awarded after members of the
Montreal Canadiens were stricken
with sickness during the Spanish
flu pandemic, and in 2005, it was
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was cancelled due to a
lockout/work stoppage.
9. Darryl Sittler holds the NHL
record for most points in a single
game, with 10. He scored five
goals and had five assists on
February 6, 1976, helping his
Toronto Maple Leafs defeat the
Boston Bruins.
10. The standard North American
ice rink is 200 feet long and 85
feet wide.
11. Wayne Gretzky holds 61 NHL
records, the most by far of any
player.

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12. The Stanley Cup has had
many adventures since its
creation in 1893. Through the
years, it has been used as a
cereal bowl, accidentally left by
the side of the road, tossed into a
swimming pool and even lost, like
luggage, on a 2010 flight from
New Jersey to Vancouver. It was
later recovered by an Air Canada
employee.
13. The Hockey Hall of Fame is
located in Toronto, Ontario.
14. Phil Esposito of the Boston
Bruins was the first NHL player to
record 100 points in a season, in
1969.

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15. Before 1914, referees used to
place the puck on the ice between
the players’ sticks for faceoffs.
This led to many cuts, bruises and
even broken hands for the
referees. Starting in 1914, the
referees were allowed to drop the
puck between the players’ sticks.
16. Before games, hockey pucks
are frozen to prevent them from
bouncing during play.

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17. The last player in the NHL to
play without a helmet was Craig
MacTavish, who retired in 1997.
18. Montreal Canadiens
goaltender Jacques Plante is
credited with being the creator of
the modern goalie mask. He wore
a face mask during a game on
November 1, 1959. Clint Benedict
also wore a leather mask for a
few games in 1930.
19. The NHL record for most
goals in a game is owned by Joe
Malone, who scored seven times
for the Quebec Bulldogs against
the Toronto St. Pats on January
31, 1920.

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20. The first hockey puck, used
during outdoor pickup games in
the 1800s, was reportedly made
of frozen cow dung.
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