Hockey Trivia

[The Panther]

I think it was Pronger. First year in the 2000. His Hart year.

Pronger was +52 in 1999-2000... if you count that as "since the millenium".

But there is another player (actually two, same team, same season) who also achieved +52 after year 2000....

 

[alko]

Ziggy Palffy had a very spectacular last game for New York Islanders (3+2).
But what was so special, not often to see?

 

[Plural]

Pronger was +52 in 1999-2000... if you count that as "since the millenium".

But there is another player (actually two, same team, same season) who also achieved +52 after year 2000....

Drawing a blank.

Nieds and Pronger in Ducks?

Edit: No, it can't be them. Scratch that.

Forsberg in Avs?

 

[JaymzB]

Lidstrom and Rafalski?

 

[KMart27]

Pronger was +52 in 1999-2000... if you count that as "since the millenium".

But there is another player (actually two, same team, same season) who also achieved +52 after year 2000....

Jeff Schultz had a high + one year so I will guess him and Ovechkin.

 

[geofff]

(Don't cheat by looking this up):


What player had the best plus/minus in a single season since the millenium?

I'll put in a guess if it's not Pronger...

Peter Forsberg? I know his line (w/ Hejduk, Tanguay) had a ridiculously high +/-, like 50-some, in I think 2003.

 

[The Pale King]

Ziggy Palffy had a very spectacular last game for New York Islanders (3+2).
But what was so special, not often to see?

hmm... two short-handed goals on the same penalty kill?

 

[Caps Circle]

Pronger was +52 in 1999-2000... if you count that as "since the millenium".

But there is another player (actually two, same team, same season) who also achieved +52 after year 2000....

I know for sure Schultz did, because he's the player we Caps fans reference when talking about how misleading plus/minus is

 

[billybudd]

I was going to guess Marek Malik. I remember that the plus minus stat really loved him for a year or two.

 

[The Panther]

(Sorry, I forgot to give the answer.)

The answer to the question of who had the best plus/minus since 2000 is -- as two people guessed -- Peter Forsberg, and also Milan Hedjuk, in 2002-03 (Forsberg gets the nod since he played fewer games, slightly). They were each +52.

That's the highest plus/minus for any forward since Mario in '93 (+55).

 

[alko]

hmm... two short-handed goals on the same penalty kill?

Exactly. And another one. After this season, he was traded to ... ?

 

[Voight]

Most GP by a player drafted in 1993?
Its an easy one to figure out, so I'm just going to say it - Todd Marchment. Caught me by surprise tbh.

 

[Sprague Cleghorn]

Did you guys know that the Habs have only had two Lady Byng winners in history (Blake in 46 and Naslund in 86)? Comparing it to the other O6 teams, the Rangers and Red Wings both have 14 each, the Leafs have 9 and the Bruins and Hawks both have 8 each. So much for the divers and finesse stereotypes.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

Pronger was +52 in 1999-2000... if you count that as "since the millenium".

But there is another player (actually two, same team, same season) who also achieved +52 after year 2000....

I don't care what era, Bobby Orr's +124 or whatever is just crazy.

/doncherry

 

[The Panther]

I don't care what era, Bobby Orr's +124 or whatever is just crazy.

/doncherry

Yes, it was, but I have news for Don:

On a team that scored 12 fewer goals (1977 Habs), Larry Robinson was +120.

 

[Iain Fyffe]

Yes, it was, but I have news for Don:

On a team that scored 12 fewer goals (1977 Habs), Larry Robinson was +120.

But the 1977 Habs scored nine more goals that counted for a plus than the 1971 Bruins did. You can't get a plus on a power-play goal. They also allowed 11 fewer goals that counted for a minus.

 

[The Panther]

But the 1977 Habs scored nine more goals that counted for a plus than the 1971 Bruins did. You can't get a plus on a power-play goal. They also allowed 11 fewer goals that counted for a minus.

You're right -- Robinson was a bum!

 

[Nathaniel Skywalker]

Who is the highest combined scoring sibling duo in league history?

 

[Ralph Spoilsport]

Highest scoring duo would be the Gretzky brothers, Wayne and Brent.

The Sutters are the highest scoring brothers, but not by much.

Can anyone name two players who played against each other in back to back Stanley Cup Finals, each with different teams both times?

I can think of one, maybe two pairs...but there may be others going way way back.

 

[reckoning]

Can anyone name two players who played against each other in back to back Stanley Cup Finals, each with different teams both times?

I can think of one, maybe two pairs...but there may be others going way way back.

Claude Lemieux and Ray Sheppard (95 & 96)

 

[Ralph Spoilsport]

Have a cigar!

(btw the "maybe" was Marian Hossa and Ty Conklin...Conklin dressed but didn't play in '09...they would have met in the handshake line though.)

 

[Jumptheshark]

Most GP by a player drafted in 1993?
Its an easy one to figure out, so I'm just going to say it - Todd Marchment. Caught me by surprise tbh.

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Thought it was Arnott--as an oiler fan we point at that as saying we can actually draft

 

[nutbar]

Something I just came across: Jim Riley is the only person to play in the NHL and the MLB. He played for Detroit and Chicago in the 1920s and the St. Louis Browns and the Washington Senators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Riley_(ice_hockey)

 

[Sprague Cleghorn]

I have another one. Babe Dye and Nels Stewart are the only two players to win the goal scoring title while playing for two different teams during the season (Stewart actually shared the title with Larry Aurie). Dye in 1920-21 played one game with the Tigers before joining the St. Pats. Stewart in 1936-37 started the season with the Bruins, and played 10 games with them before being traded to the Americans.

 

[Iain Fyffe]

Something I just came across: Jim Riley is the only person to play in the NHL and the MLB.

Can you name the only person to play in both the NHA and MLB?