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...that former Boston Bruins defenceman Zdeno Chára holds the record for the fastest slapshot struck in an All-Star skills competition, having propelled a puck 108.8 miles per hour?
...that for scoring a gold medal-winning, shootout goal against Canadian goaltender Corey Hirsch in the 1994 Winter Olympic Games, forward Peter Forsberg was featured on a Swedish postage stamp?
...that goaltenders are not sent to the penalty box and have their penalties served by proxy by any other player on the ice at the time of the penalty? (The exception being match penalty, where the goalkeeper actually has to leave the ice.)
...that Peter Pocklington, owner of the Edmonton Oilers, had his father's name, Basil, engraved on the Stanley Cup after the Oilers won the 1984 championship? Basil had absolutely nothing to do with the team beyond the family connection. The NHL decreed this to be unacceptable, and had the name X'd out.
...that Canada and the Soviet Union were disqualified from the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships following the Punch-up in Piestany?

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...that Jason Spezza (pictured), a centre for the Dallas Stars, was a child model?
...that a pest is a player who attempts to distract, annoy, or anger an opponent in order to reduce the latter's effectiveness or to induce him to commit a penalty?
...that Frank Finnigan's jersey number 8 was retired by the Ottawa Senators when they entered the league in 1992, as he was the last surviving member of the original Senators when the team was granted a franchise by the NHL?
...that defenceman Wade Belak almost set a Toronto Maple Leafs record by going 143 games without scoring a goal?
...that New Jersey Devils head coach Claude Julien was fired with only three games left in the 2006–07 season?

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... that Roberto Luongo (pictured) made 72 saves in a 5–4 quadruple overtime win against the Dallas Stars in his first playoff game in the NHL?
...that John LeClair had three consecutive 50 goal seasons?
...that while Thomas Vanek is the highest drafted Austrian-born player in the NHL, he is of mixed Czech and Slovak descent, moved to the United States in 1998, but represent the Austrian national ice hockey team?
...that throwing octopuses during the Detroit Red Wings' playoff runs is a symbol of good luck, which is known as the Legend of the Octopus?

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...that HC Dynamo Moscow were the sole club from the Russian Hockey Super League (RHSL) to reach the 1998 European Hockey League final?
...that the Saint Mary's University (pictured) (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Huskies reached the final of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) ice hockey championship in four consecutive seasons between 1970 and 1973?
...that the Middlebury College Panthers, have won five women's ice hockey national championships?
...that Jim O'Brien played defense before switching in university to "play as a power-forward centre-ice man"?

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... that Pete Muldoon (pictured), after he was fired after only one season in 1927 by the Chicago Blackhawks, supposedly placed an Irish curse that would prevent the Blackhawks from being first for the next 41 years?
...that the Los Angeles Kings have appeared three times in the Stanley Cup Finals during their 50-year existence, and won it in 2012 and 2014?
...that the Edmonton Oilers have appeared in the Stanley Cup Finals seven times since they joined the NHL in 1979, winning five times?
...that the Avco World Trophy, the championship trophy of the now-defunct World Hockey Association, was not completed when the New England Whalers won the WHA championship in 1973?
...that the Scotiabank Saddledome is the home of the Calgary Flames?

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