What are some funny and mind blowing NHL facts?

[TampaBayLightning]

Satan played for the Devils

 

[libertarian]

While this is not mind blowing but over the last 3 full season Blake Wheeler who wears jersey # 26 has scored 26 goals every season.

Why couldn't he pick jersey # 52 instead of 26?

 

[DickSmehlik]

There have been several 50 goal scorers throughout the NHL history but no one line has produced three 50 goal scorers in a single season.

That almost happened in '92-'93 with the Buffalo Sabres as Alexander Mogilny and Pat Lafontaine each scored over 50 goals and David Andreychuk was trending that way however he was traded mid-season to the Maple Leafs (where he finished with over 50 goals).

 

[Lays]

There are 3 players named Weber (Shea, Yannick, Mike) who all wear the #6. 666. Weber=Satan confirmed. (I don’t know if Mikes still hanging around in the NHL and I don’t know if he or Yannick changed their number)

 

[KingBran]

Satan played for the Devils

St. Louis never played for St. Louis

 

[Dion TheFluff]

The leafs have a perfect record without Auston Matthews in their lineup in the Auston Matthews era. Pretty mind blowing to me.

 

[PepsiMayWest]

Gordie Howe only ever recorded 2 Gordie Howe Hat-Tricks

 

[joe dirte]

To make all the beer leaguers feel better.... the worst minus rating in a single NHL game is held by Doug Wilson and Chris Butler who tied with a -7

incorrect.

Greg joly. washington. March 15, 1975. -9.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

1967

 

[Pookie]

improving your team is not a "shortcut" to success.

So your definition of a true rebuild is to take 4 extra draft picks, 3 of whom are in the 3rd round or later and then stop being sellers?

 

[zeke]

So your definition of a true rebuild is to take 4 extra draft picks, 3 of whom are in the 3rd round or later and then stop being sellers?

nah my definition of a rebuild is gutting and replacing the majority of the roster.

the only "shortcut" was instantly drafting a franchise player which turned them into instant contenders.

 

[habsgirl5000]

Only one comes to mind......Montreal hiring MB as GM

 

[TheTotalPackage]

Mats Sundin is the only other player outside of Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux to have a scoring streak of 30+ games.

 

[pheasant]

Fun fact: The first NHL All-Star game was actually put on as a benefit/tribute-game for Ace Bailey, after his career was ended by a hit from Eddie Shore.

Condensed story: In a Leafs-Bruins game Eddie Shore, of the Bruins, intended to retaliate for a hit from a different Maple Leaf, but instead knocked Bailey to the ice, fracturing his skull and ending his career. He nearly died from the injury. The Benefit game was set up in support of Bailey and his family, with a team of all-stars playing against Toronto. At the event Bailey and Shore famously shook hands, and the All-Star game was born.

 

[GMofOilers]

McDavid has not went more then 2 games without a point still in his young career. Wonder how long he can keep that stat going?

 

[ThirdManIn]

Lionel "The Big Train" Conacher was inducted into the HHOF in 1994.

He won the Stanley Cup twice, with the Blackhawks in '34 and again with the Maroons in '35. He also won the Memorial Cup in '20.

In addition to this, he won the International League Baseball championship in 1926, the Grey Cup with the Argonauts in 1921, Ontario Lightweight Wrestling Championship at 16 years old, Candaian Light-Heavyweights Boxing Championship at 20, and fought (and lost to) Jack Dempsy.

In 1937 he was elected to Ontario Provincial Parliament, and Canadian Parliament in 1949.

In 1954 in the Canadian Parliamentary softball game between MP's and the press, he stretched a 6th inning single into a triple, reached base safely, then collapsed and died within 20 minutes.

Some people say, a lot of people maybe, that the body is like a battery, all right? Think about it. A battery -- if you run a battery, it dies. OK? Think about that. Some of the smartest -- maybe most of the smartest people, the ones who I know anyway, say this.

 

[The Panther]

In 1984-85, the Gretzky-Kurri-Krushelnyshi line combined for 187 goals scored. That's an average of 62.3 per player. They also went a collective +230.

(Gretzky scored 73 goals, and only 8 were on the power-play.)

 

[ChuckLefley]

Jahangir Khan is the most dominant athlete in history. His dominance over the sport of squash throughout the 1980s cannot be matched. From 1981 to 1986 he went unbeaten, which is an incredible achievement given the regularity of squash matches. In that time, he was undefeated in 555 matches, a record which stands in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sport. Kahn won the World Open six times and the British Open ten times. Jahangir Kahn once won the World Championships without dropping a single game, an indication of his sheer dominance.

Winning 555 squash matches in a row does not have an equivalent in any sport period. The closest my mind can get in regards to hockey would be if a player went on a 3 season point streak.

I would say that Edwin Moses’ 400m hurdles streak of 122 races in nine years, nine months and nine days, is as good or better. Moses set two world records, won one world championship gold medal, an Olympic gold medal and three IAAF World Cup titles. He also missed out on the 1980 Olympics, where he was the favorite, due to the boycott. In addition to competing against younger talent every year, he also had to battle weather, bad lan assignments and the hurdles.

 

[Gnashville]

There are 3 players named Weber (Shea, Yannick, Mike) who all wear the #6. 666. Weber=Satan confirmed. (I don’t know if Mikes still hanging around in the NHL and I don’t know if he or Yannick changed their number)

Yannick changed his number to 7 when he signed with Nashville

 

[vipera1960]

Satan played for the Devils

Satan never played for the Devils.

 

[Pookie]

nah my definition of a rebuild is gutting and replacing the majority of the roster.

the only "shortcut" was instantly drafting a franchise player which turned them into instant contenders.

Pretty broad definition.

Shanahan and Lou have kept about 9 - 12 active roster players from the 2015 season on the 2017 roster (Carrick, Hyman, JVR, Bozak, Kadri, Rielly, Komarov, Gardiner, Brown). You could argue 12 in that Gauthier, Kapanen and Soshnikov are around the team.

Burke kept 11 from the 2010 team to 2012 (Schenn, Phaneuf, Komisarek, Gunnarson, Rosehill, Gustavsson, Kessel, Grabovski, Kulemin, Bozak, Kadri)

Samesies?

 

[Kcoyote3]

Scott Hannan once left a Sharks game three separate times after getting hit in the face with different objects/surfaces, requiring stitches all three times and an emergency root canal. He returned after each one, and played 22 minutes that night.

Hannan Standing Em Up, Shuting Em Down

Hannan didn't want to come out of the game midway through the first period when Hannan blocked a shot by Dallas forward Jussi Jokinen that rode up his stick and caught him flush in the mouth. But blood was spurting all over the ice.

Scott had an emergency root canal right there in the medical room at the rink and he returned to the ice shortly after the second period began. Then, in the second period, the stick of Dallas center Jason Arnott struck Hannan in the face, popping open three of the four stitches required to repair the first-period damage.

In the third period, Hannan lost an edge and landed face-first into the boards. Another pool of blood and a third trip to the doctor for stitches. Even with those interruptions, Hannan played nearly 22 minutes in the shootout loss to Dallas.
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Fittingly, in Scott's last NHL game, he scored a goal, then later in the game got hit in the face with a puck, but didn't return.

 

[zeke]

Pretty broad definition.

Shanahan and Lou have kept about 9 - 12 active roster players from the 2015 season on the 2017 roster (Carrick, Hyman, JVR, Bozak, Kadri, Rielly, Komarov, Gardiner, Brown). You could argue 12 in that Gauthier, Kapanen and Soshnikov are around the team.

The team Shanny inherited:

VanRyk - Bozak - Kessel
Raymond - Kadri - Lupul
Kulemin - Bolland - Clarkson
Orr - McClement - Bodie
(Smithson - Smith - McLaren)
(Ashton - Holland - D'Amigo)
(Broll - McKegg - Leivo)
(Devane - Abbott)

Phaneuf - Franson
Gardiner - Gunnarsson
Rielly - Ranger
(Fraser - Gleason)
(Granberg)

Bernier
Reimer
(McIntyre)

and 2 of those guys are probably gonzo next summer, and have moved from 1st liners to 3rd liners.

the team that Lou inherited:

VanRyk - Bozak - Kessel
Winnik - Kadri - Lupul
Komarov - Holland - Santorelli
Booth - Smith - Panik
(Lindstrom - Sill - Kozun)
(Ashton - Carrick - Frattin)
(Bailey - McKegg - Leivo)

Phaneuf - Franson
Gardiner - Polak
Rielly - Robidas
(Brewer - Holzer)
(Erixon - MacWilliam)
(Percy - Brennan)
(Granberg)

Bernier
Reimer

Burke kept 11 from the 2010 team to 2012 (Schenn, Phaneuf, Komisarek, Gunnarson, Rosehill, Gustavsson, Kessel, Grabovski, Kulemin, Bozak, Kadri)

Samesies?

Burke rebuilt too. He just did before he had a Matthews/Nylander/Marner/Rielly type core, and tried to trade for and UFA sign his core.

 

[Frank Drebin]

Craig Simpsons sister, TV personality Christine Simpson, was formerly married to a man also named Craig Simpson.

 

[Absurdity]

Pittsburgh scoring a goal after a whistle was blown.