Goaltender Trivia Year Thirteen Week Six

Sixty-five degrees on a Denver Sunday in mid-November, so I'm going
to keep this short. There's hiking to be done before my hockey game
tonight!

Some fun questions this past week - more behind the scenes kind of
things, human interest stuff. One of the reasons I started the page
was to collect this sort of thing to give a better picture of the
goalies as athletes and people. So I'm always excited to uncover
things like this.

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CORRECT ANSWERS TO GOALTENDER TRIVIA #13.5:

TWO-POINT QUESTION: If general manager Eddie Johnston had not been
overruled by team ownership in March of 1988, this top goaltender
would have been a Pittsburgh Penguin. Name him.
CORRECT ANSWER: Eddie DeBartolo, Jr. vetoed the trade which would have
sent Steve Guenette and the Penguins' 1988 first-rounder to the
Edmonton Oilers. Coming the other way would have been Andy Moog,
who was holding out from the Oilers at the time. Moog would be
traded to the Boston Bruins later in the month, helping his new club
get to the Stanley Cup Finals against...the Oilers.

THREE-POINT QUESTION: Name the current National Hockey League
goaltender coach who spent parts of fifteen seasons in the big leagues
before finally deciding to retire when his teammates were asking for
permission to date his daughter.
CORRECT ANSWER: Current Philadelphia coach Reggie Lemelin, whose
comment was largely in jest (he retired in order to avoid a demotion
to the minor leagues). Daughter Stephanie is now an actress of some
note, and may be best known for her role in the commercial-spinoff
sitcom "Cavemen". Her IMDB biography lists her as a Flyers fan.

FIVE-POINT QUESTION: Name the only current National Hockey League
goaltender whose goaltender father was selected in the league's
amateur/entry draft.
CORRECT ANSWER: Brent Johnson is the obvious answer to this question;
however, father Bob entered the league as a free agent signing. So
who
was it? Portland Winter Hawks' netminder Jerry Price was an
eighth-round pick of the Philadephia Flyers in 1978, twenty-seven
years
before his son Carey was chosen as the fifth overall pick by the
Canadiens. The elder Price played professionally until 1982-83.

PICTORAL QUESTION: Name the following goaltender, who looks like
he's about to devour Calgary forward Chris Clark:
http://hockeygoalies.org/trivia/pictures/year13week05.jpg
CORRECT ANSWER: Alex Auld may not have been drafted by the Vancouver
Canucks, but he did spend his first five professional seasons with
the club before being dealt to Florida in the Roberto Luongo deal.
This photo is from January 3, 2004, when Auld had 31 saves in a 3-1
victory at the Saddledome.

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The undefeated list is reduced to five! There's still plenty of
time left - and plenty of tricky questions to go.

NOVEMBER 2008 TOP FOURTEEN:
1. Scott Hitchcox 30
Tom Mascioli 30
Roger Maynard 30
Bryan McCready 30
Mike Pieters 30
6. Kevin Belobaba 25
Mark Calandra 25
Kevin Cameron 25
9. Jason Kurylo 23
10. Bob Hillis 18

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GOALTENDER TRIVIA YEAR THIRTEEN WEEK SIX (Answers due 10pm MST
11/22/0:

TWO-POINT QUESTION: Name the only player in National Hockey League
history to face penalty shots from the same player in the same game.

THREE-POINT QUESTION: Which goaltender holds the dubious distinction
of having the highest regular-season goals-against average in National
Hockey League history?

FIVE-POINT QUESTION: The 1954 Soviet Union hockey team stunned the
competition by rolling to its first-ever gold medal at the IIHF World
Championships in Sweden with a 7-2 victory over Canada's
representative
in the title game. The following year, Canada would regain its gold
medal form with a 5-0 win over the Soviets. Who was the goaltender
of
the 1955 world champion Canadian squad?

PICTORAL QUESTION: Name the following goaltender:
http://hockeygoalies.org/trivia/pictures/year13week06.jpg

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Good luck!
Doug
http://hockeygoalies.org