Hockey Trivia 67 – Peterborough Petes
The Peterborough Petes celebrated their 50th year in the Ontario Hockey League with a Memorial Cup appearance in 2005-06. The team’s history has included a long list of achievements.
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The Peterborough Petes have been in the Ontario Hockey League since the 1956-57 season. The team has enjoyed great success through the years and is the oldest continuously operating club in the OHL.
Test and expand your knowledge of the Peterborough Petes with the following four hockey trivia questions.
Q. The Peterborough Petes were not a new franchise when they began play in the OHA for the 1956-57 season. What team was moved to Peterborough after the 1955-56 season to become the Petes?
A. The Kitchener Canucks existed as an OHA team for two seasons prior to moving to Peterborough. Before that, they were known as the Kitchener Greenshirts from 1951-52. Major junior hockey returned to Kitchener for the 1963-64 season in the form of the current Kitchener Rangers.
Q. What Peterborough Petes coach from the late 1950’s moved on to coach nine Stanley Cup winners in the National Hockey League?
A. Scotty Bowman coached the Petes from 1958-59 to 1960-61. Bowman entered the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1991 as a builder and has won Stanley Cups behind the bench of the Montreal Canadiens, Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings.
Q. What NHL Hall of Fame defenseman played for the Peterborough Petes for two seasons, starting in 1978-79?
A. Larry Murphy was a fourth overall pick of the Los Angeles Kings in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft. Murphy played in the NHL from 1980-81 to 2000-01 with the Kings, Washington Capitals, Minnesota North Stars, Pittsburgh Penguins, Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2004.
Q. Who is the only Peterborough Petes player to be named the CHL Player of the Year?
A. Mike Ricci was honoured in 1989-90 as the top junior player in Canada. His 116 points were good enough for third in the OHL. Ricci was also awarded the William Hanley Trophy as the OHL’s most sportsmanlike player.
Need more hockey trivia? Check out these previous articles in the hockey trivia series:
Hockey Trivia Sixty-six – Sudbury Wolves
Hockey Trivia Sixty-five – Triple Crown Line
Hockey Trivia Sixty-four – 1972 Boston Bruins
Hockey Trivia Sixty-three – Denis Potvin
Hockey Trivia Sixty-two – Bernie Parent
Hockey Trivia Sixty-one – The Ottawa 67’s of the Ontario Hockey League
Hockey Trivia Sixty – Guy Lafleur
Hockey Trivia Fifty-nine – 1979 NHL Entry Draft
