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.
