Fast Facts: Dec. 2
December 2, 2010
- The Toronto Maple Leafs used to be called the Toronto Arenas, then the St. Patricks and finally the Maple Leafs.
- Bobby Carpenter was the first American player to score 50 goals in a season.
- Abie Goldberry, a Quebec junior hockey player from the 1930s was hit by a puck while playing hockey, which ignited a set of matches that he had in his pocket.
- The name hockey, as the organized game came to be known, has been attributed to the French word “”hoquet”” (shepherd’s crook).
- The Stanley Cup was originally only seven and a half inches high.
- The Montreal Canadians hockey team has won the most Stanley Cups with 24.
- Amazingly, goalies in the National Hockey League played without masks until the year 1959.
