Hockey Trivia 19 – NHL Longevity
With relative parody in the NHL, longer playing seasons and pampered players, the following four trivia questions will most likely not need to be updated for a long time to come.
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Everyone or every team can have their fifteen minutes in the spotlight. It’s the ones that stretch out the fifteen that are truly great. This is your chance to test and expand your NHL hockey knowledge regarding streaks, both individual and team.
Q. At 35 games, what team has the longest undefeated streak during a regular NHL season?
A. The 1979-80 Philadelphia Flyers not only set the record for the NHL but for all of North American professional sports. The team went 25-0-10 during the streak while going only 13-12-10 for the rest of the season. The Flyers went on the Stanley Cup finals that season before bowing out to the New York Islanders.
Q. What team holds the NHL record for the longest regular season winning streak at 17?
A. The 1992-93 Pittsburgh Penguins set the mark. The Penguins ended up with the best record in the NHL that season but were upset by the New York Islanders in the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Q. Who is the NHL’s Iron Man, having played 964 consecutive regular season games between 1975 and 1985?
A. Doug Jarvis started his streak of 964 games from his first game as a rookie during the 1975-76 NHL season. Jarvis played for the Montreal Canadiens, Washington Capitals and Hartford Whalers before finishing off his NHL career in 1987.
Q. With 502 consecutive regular season games played, which goaltender will most likely hold that NHL record through time?
A. Glenn Hall will undoubtedly forever hold this record. The days of the goaltender playing every game of the season are almost half a century gone. Hall played in the NHL from 1952-53 to 1970-71 with the Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks and St. Louis Blues. Hall entered the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1975.
Need more NHL hockey trivia? Check out these previous articles in the hockey trivia series:
Hockey Trivia Eighteen – NHL Easy Pickins
Hockey Trivia Seventeen – NHL Mixed Bag of Pucks
Hockey Trivia Sixteen – St. Louis Blues Retired Numbers
Hockey Trivia Fifteen – Three NHL Losers and a Winner
Hockey Trivia Fourteen – NHL Single Season Mosts
Hockey Trivia Thirteen – NHL Nicknames
Hockey Trivia Twelve – More Vancouver Canucks
Hockey Trivia Eleven – Vancouver Canucks
