Author: Pucks and Rec Staff
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While the Cup Was Won: 1924-25 Victoria Cougars
From the NHL’s inception onward, only the 1924-25 Victoria Cougars delivered a Stanley Cup championship to another league. The WCHL champions fed off their home crowd on their second attempt to eliminate the Montreal Canadiens in the best-of-five final. With a 6-1 romp, they denied the future sovereigns of North American professional hockey a repeat…
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While the Cup Was Won: 1921-22 Toronto St. Pats
The Vancouver Millionaires were one win away from bringing home their first Stanley Cup in seven years. But upon facing elimination in the best-of-five championship round, the Toronto St. Patricks erupted. With a 6-0 rout in Game 4, Toronto forced the rubber match for March 28, 1922. On that evening, the hosts romped again, 5-1,…
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While the Cup Was Won: 1922-23 Ottawa Senators
The original Ottawa Senators were the NHL’s original model franchise. They made that evident no later than March 31, 1923, becoming the fledgling league’s first tenant to win three Stanley Cups. For the latter half of the month, Vancouver’s Denman Arena emboldened its image as the Sens’ home away from home. As the host site…
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Greatest NHL playoff series of the ’20s
To say the NHL came into its own in the 1920s is to bid for the No. 1 understatement on the league’s century-long chronicle. The soon-to-be singular circuit of major-league hockey in North America had toddled through December 1917 and the last two full years of the 1910s. Fast-forward a full decade, and it stood…
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While the Cup Was Won: 1919-20 Ottawa Senators
Hockey in April? How radical! At least, that’s how it was when the 1919-20 Ottawa Senators faced the Seattle Metropolitans in the rubber match of their best-of-five Stanley Cup Final. Ottawa’s eventual 6-1 victory was the first game ever played after March with hockey’s hallowed chalice at stake. As it happened, that milestone also coincided…
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The greatest WJC moment for every country: Part II
Editor’s note: This the second installment of a two-part series in which the Pucks and Rec staff will select the best moment in World Junior Championship history for each existing program that has played in the 20-and-under tournament’s top division. Latvia: 2009 While the Latvians consistently qualify for the top tier of the WJC, they have…
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The greatest WJC moment for every country: Part I
Editor’s note: This the first installment of a two-part series in which the Pucks and Rec staff will select the best moment in World Junior Championship history for each existing program that has played in the 20-and-under tournament’s top division. Belarus: 2005 Belarus pulled off one of the most dramatic upsets in WJC history with…
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The greatest year in hockey in every U.S. state: Part V
Editor’s note: Throughout November, the Pucks and Recreation staff will alphabetically recount every state’s most memorable all-round hockey calendar year. The final installment of the five-part series covers South Dakota through Wyoming. In descending priority, we will take into account achievements by major professional, college, minor professional and junior teams plus players born or raised…
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The greatest year in hockey in every U.S. state: Part IV
Editor’s note: Throughout November, the Pucks and Recreation staff will alphabetically recount every state’s most memorable all-round hockey calendar year. The fourth installment of the five-part series covers New Mexico through South Carolina. In descending priority, we will take into account achievements by major professional, college, minor professional and junior teams plus players born or…
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The greatest year in hockey in every U.S. state: Part III
Editor’s note: Throughout November, the Pucks and Recreation staff will alphabetically recount every state’s most memorable all-round hockey calendar year. The third installment of the five-part series covers Massachusetts through New Jersey. In descending priority, we will take into account achievements by major professional, college, minor professional and junior teams plus players born or raised…