Today we will finish up on our three day look at Hockey History. We will start with a game played on January 25, 1910 in the National Hockey Association. The league was the direct forerunner of todays National Hockey League. The game we are looking out was played at Cobalt, Ontario between the Montreal Wanderers and the Cobalt Silver Kings. The visitors won this game by a score of 11-6. Exactly three years later in the same league, the Wanders beat the Quebec Bulldogs 10-6 in a game played at the Arena in Quebec City.
On January 25, 1942 The New York Rangers hosted the Detroit Red Wings at Madison Square Garden. The Rangers won the game by a score of 11-2. It took another 28 years before the Hockey World would see another January 25 blowout. This one was played at the Rhode Island Auditorium in Providence. The Providence Reds of the American Hockey League took out the Springfield Kings by a score of 10-4.
The fans at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto were not happy on January 25, 1988 when the Calgary Flames went home with an 11-3 win over the Maple Leafs.
Exactly a year ago today a Kontinental Hockey game saw the Barys Astana club take a 10-2 win from the Metallurg Novokuznetsk Club. We have not been able to detemine which club was the home team. If any of our Russian readers or even readers from Kazakhstan that might be fans of the Barys club can tell us which team was the home team, we would be very grateful.
Todays trivia question is how many penalty minutes were handed out in the first four minutes of the January 9, 2010 Kontinental Hockey League game between Vityaz Chekhov and the Avangard Omsk Clubs? The answer in Thursdays blog about the Florida State League.
The answer to yesterdays trivia question is former Orlando Magic center/forward Pat Burke was born in Dublin, Ireland. Burke remains the leagues only Irish born player in its history.
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