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47-year old Jaromir Jagr has 14 points in 17 games for Kladno in the Czech top league?

 47-year old Jozef Stümpel has 6 points in 7 games for MSK Ziar in the Slovakian third tier league?

If you’ve followed Finnish professional hockey, or more specifically TPS, back in the 1970s & 1980s you may remember a guy named Timo Nummelin. He also played regularly for Kiekko-67 of the I-divisioona until the ripe young age of 46 in 1994. What you may not know is at the age of 70 (yes, you read that correctly), Timo laced them up for a game last season with PKS (IV-divisioona) & registered 2 assists - his first professional points in 23 years!

Similarly, many of you may remember the late Gordie Howe played a single game for the IHL’s Detroit Vipers back in 1997-98 at the age of 69.
 

Ken Doraty’s name may not jump out at you as an NHL record holder, but his record will never be broken. He scored only 15 goals in his career, but 3 of those came in a single game - all in overtime. Before the NHL implemented the sudden-death overtime format, teams played a full 10 minute extra period. Doraty scored a hat-trick in OT for the Leafs in 1934, besting the Ottawa Senators 7-4.

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Sebastian Aho became the first player in NHL history to have multiple hat tricks in one season that consisted of an even-strength, power-play & short-handed goal.
 
Glenn Hall is the iron man of the NHL goal crease. He played an incredible 551 straight games in net (502 regular season, 49 playoff). With the way teams platoon goalie in today’s NHL, this record will surely never be broken.

In 1907 the Montreal Wanderers won the Stanley Cup, defeating the Kenora Thistles. some time that summer the team was being photographed with the Cup, but ended up forgetting it at the photographer’s house. When they realized this & went back to retrieve it, the photographer had planted geraniums in it for his mother! 

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Brendan Shanahan, current President of the Toronto Maple Leafs, grew up in the Greater Toronto Area & was of course a big fan of the team. In 1983, he was practicing at a local rink when he heard that Leafs’ Captain Rick Vaive was also there. Excited, he went to the locker room to ask for an autograph; however, Vaive did not oblige. Four years later, Shanahan was a rookie in the NHL for New Jersey & faced off against - you guessed it - Vaive! The two dropped the gloves & it wasn’t until after the game that Vaive’s teammate, Jim Korn, advised him why Shanahan wanted to scrap - over the autograph denial!
 
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Martin Frk’s 109.2 mph shot in the AHL Skills Competition this weekend made me wonder what some other big slappers were out there. Here is a list of the fastest officially recorded shots we found:
 
110.3 mph - Denis Kulyash, 2011 KHL Skills Competition
109.2 mph - Martin Frk, 2020 AHL Skills Competition
108.8 mph - Zdeno Chara, 2012 NHL Skills Competition
108.5 mph - Shea Weber, 2015 NHL Skills Competition
107.8 mph - Shea Weber, 2016 NHL Skills Competition
 
Bobby Hull is rumored to have shot a puck 118.3 mph back in 1968. No one truly knows how exactly they measured that back then though, so it remains a myth.

No one knows exactly where the term “hockey” came from, though there are a few different suggestions. One comes from the Middle French word ‘hoquet’, which refers to a shepherd’s stave - a curved stick. Another comes from the use of cork bungs that were used in place of wooden balls, which came from barrels containing hock ale - also known as ‘hocky’.

Phil Bourque won the Stanley Cup as a member of the Penguins in 1991. During his day with the Cup that summer, he heard noises coming from inside as he moved it around. Turns out that a couple of repairmen carved their names on the inside of the Cup - so naturally Bourque decided he would do the same. He etched this message - “Enjoy It, Phil Bubba Bourque, ‘91 Penguins”.

Abie Goldberry was a goalie in the Quebec junior league in the 1930s. During a game, his jersey caught fire when the puck ignited a box of matches in his pocket. He sustained some burns, but nothing life-threatening.
 
In 1990, Paul Cavallini lost the tip of his finger when he blocked a shot during a game. He missed the following 13 games as a result

It is NHL All-Star Week in North America, so here are some interesting facts about the
event’s history:

? The first NHL All-Star Game took place in Toronto on October 13, 1947.
? The original format saw the defending Stanley Cup champions take on select
players from the other teams. This format lasted until 1968.
? In 1979 & 1987, the All-Star Game saw select NHL players play the Soviet Union
team.
? In 1998, the game’s format, which previously pitted select players from each
conference against each other, now sees Team North America vs. Team World.
? From 2011 until 2015, the teams were decided by a fantasy draft. Captains would
alternate selections between the 2 teams.
? In 2015, the game was changed to 4 divisional teams playing 3-on-3 in a single
elimination tournament. The first round pits the Atlantic vs. Metropolitan & the
Pacific vs. the Central.

Nr 0 - 1 player
Neil Sheehy 1987-88 after he was traded to Hartford.
It is no longer allowed to be worn in the NHL.
Nr 00 - 2 goaltenders
John Davidson the NY Rangers in 1976-77
Martin Biron in his first callup in 1995-96.
It also has been removed from the available numbers list.
Nr 69 - 2 players
Mel Angeltad with Washington in 2003-04 during his only 2 career NHL games
Andrew Desjardins during his first 2 seasons with San Jose from 2011-2013