Welcome to Part Five of the Quiz! Every week this summer, find new hockey trivia—and answers—here, up to three times a week. Test yourself and your friends, and take credit as the King or Queen of hockey knowledge.
Covering various topics (and miscellany) chapter to chapter, it’s a fun and easy way to get into the game over the hot summer months. Take a journey with your fellow Bleacher Creatures and discover the stories which make up over a hundred years of ice time.
Think you can handle it? Want to prove your hockey-smarts? Grab a pen and paper, or simply type your solutions on your own Bleacher Report profile and play along.
Answers for today’s questions will be listed in the subsequent edition, and links to other chapters are at the bottom of the page.
Although we’ve already had a batch of Stanley Cup oriented questions and I don’t want to be repetitive, these items are slightly different. This edition focuses on the trophies and awards themselves, and tests your knowledge of hockey hardware.
I’ve just dusted the surface of the NHL silverware drawer for a few of the stories, facts, and quirks associated with the numerous awards and accolades presented to our favourite players. There are many more still to come.
The people who earn these prizes have embarked on an incredible journey, and very often, the trophies themselves have been heroes in their own adventures. Hockey's bowls and cups may be highly coveted, but their winners have never wrapped them in cotton wool!
Next year, when you are watching the NHL Awards on television, remember historic hands which have made their mark on the gilded metal and the game, and stun your friends with strange and random tales about hockey’s highest honours.
1. In 2007, a Stanley Cup ring was found in Florida waters and returned to its original owner. Which Cup year and team was the ring from, and who was the player it was returned to?
2. Over the years, the Stanley Cup has been engraved with the names of the teams and players which have won it. Various errors have been noticed, but no corrections were made to the Cup until the late 1990‘s. What word/name was the first correction on the holy grail of hockey?
3. When Mark Messier was awarded the Hart Memorial Trophy in 1990, he [obviously] came first in the balloting in order to affect the win. Which player was edged out (came second in voting) that year, and by what margin of votes?
4. Believe it or not, a mother-son combination have had their names engraved (separately) on the Stanley Cup. Who and how?
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6 months ago
btw, i did post these answers on my profile
6 months ago
Another great one M... I'm curious where you found out about the 1936 Great Britain team though. I always thought that Bunny Ahearn used a bunch of Canadians... where did you find out that he didn't?
from 6 months ago
I should probably clarify, and I will do so in more detail later on. It depends on perspective (doesn't it always). Everyone on the team was born in Britain save for two (one Canadian), but eleven of those Brits (I can give you names, dates and places of birth later on if you like) either came to Canada to play and train, or indeed grew up in some part of Canada from a young age. So they were Canadian, but they were also British.
It took a lot of cross referencing, but it helps that I have some Brit blood myself and have dug in the UK hockey holes as well as the Canadian ones.
6 months ago
btw, his name might not have been Bunny Ahearn, that's just how I remember it.
6 months ago
Ah, that makes sense then.
I guess the controversy stemmed from the fact that the players weren't British-trained, and thus, Britain couldn't really claim to have the best players in the world.
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