A little Hockey History- Day 2

   If you thought that Hockey has the tendency to get wild on January 23, you haven't seen nothing yet. So hold on to your hats as we have some 13 games to look at, with a climax of 4 games on one day.

    We start on January 24, 1909 in a game played at Chamonix, France, the team from Great Britain defeated Bohemia by a score of 11-0.


    Two years later in a National Hockey Association game at the Arena at Ottawa, Ontario; the Ottawa HC whipped the famous Renfrew Creamery Kings by a score of 19-5. Exactly a year later, the Ottawa club traveled to the Montreal Arena and took on the Montreal Wanderers. The visitors won the game by a score of 10-6, hardly the same as the whipping placed on the Kings the year before.

    On January 24, 1928 the National Hockey League joined the group, when it was the Chicago Blackhawks traveling to the Montreal Forum to receive a 10-0 beating at the hands of the Canadians.

   On January 24, 1930, the team from Czechoslovakia won a 12-0 game against the Japanese team in a game at Davos, Switzerland. Eighteen years later, the American Hockey League joined in when the New Haven Ramblers went to the Philadelphia Arena to take out the Philadelphia Rockets by a score of 11-2.       
   On January 24, 1973 At the Cincinnati Gardens in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Cincinnati Swords of the American Hockey League beat the Springfield Kings by a score of 10-4.  On January 24, 1997 at Peoria, Illinois the Peoria Rivermen of the East Coast Hockey League jumped the Wheeling Nailers by a score of 10-3. 

   Ten years later the National Hockey League All-Star Game was played at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. The Western Conference won the goalfest by a score of 12-9. over the Eastern Conference. Two years later, all hell seemed to break loose. The NHL All-Star game was played at Bell Centre in Montreal, where the Eastern Conference got their revenge with a 12-11 shootout win. 


    Meanwhile in the minor leagues, three games reached the team goal level. The first at the McCann Ice Arena in Poughkeepsie, New York, the visiting Jersey Rockhoppers of the Eastern Professional Hockey League took a 10-2 game from the Hudson Valley Bears. Then at the L.C. Walker Arena in Muskegon, Michigan, the visiting Fort Wayne Komets of the International Hockey League helped themselves to 10-3 win over the Muskegon Lumberjacks. Finally, at the Swonder Ice Arena in Evansville, Indiana the home team won!! The Evansville Icemen of the All-American Hockey Association beat the Chicago Blaze by a score of 11-3.



   All this will seem pale next year when we take a look at the recent Federal Hockey League game where the 1000 Islands Privateers beat the Delaware Federals by a score of 21-0.

   Todays trivia question is on October 29, 2002 Pat Burke of the Orlando Magic made NBA history by becoming the first NBA player to have been born in Ireland. What city was Burke born in? The answer in tomorrows blog as we take a third look at Hockey History of the day.


  The Answer to yesterdays trivia question is John Miszuk of the Detroit Red Wings became the first NHL player who was born in Poland.