Today we are looking at two Hockey games. The first was played on March 3, 1920 between the Montreal Canadiens and the Quebec Bulldogs. The game was played at the Quebec Arena. In the first period the Canadiens took a commanding 4-0 lead over the home club. The second period they rattled off 7 goals. The Bulldogs could only respond with one goal their own. The third period the Bulldogs did manage to score two goals and increase their total to 3. By then it was way too late as the Canadiens scored five more to set a record 16-3 win, a record that has stood even today. Four Canadiens had hat tricks.
The second game that we are looking at was played on March 3, 1958, this time it was the Canadian national team taking on the team from Finland. The game proved to very lucky for the Canadian team as they scored 7 goals in the first two periods. They then scored 10 goals in the third period to claim a 24-0 victory over the Finns.
The answer to yesterdays trivia about the first commissioner of the North American Soccer League is Dick Walsh. Although Walsh spent a great deal of time in Baseball, he was still knowledgable enough to get the soccer job. He had spent 18 years as an executive with the Los Angeles Dodgers before getting the Soccer job. He resigned the soccer job to take a job as general manager for the California Angels baseball team.
Todays trivia question is in back to back weekends in October of 1950, the Los Angeles Rams averaged 67.5 points. They scored 70 points against the Colts and 65 points agianst the Lions. between the Lions and the Colts, who scored more points against the Rams? The answer in tomorrows daily blog about the Hartford Whalers season of 1982-83.
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