A little sports trivia on a Monday morning

Who was the last NHL player to play without a helmet?

 

Doug Wilson?

 

Craig MacTavish

 

Point Huggy.

 

Given where I work and what I do I should have known that. Spent a lot of team researching helmet use in hockey for the NHL Centennial.

I believe the last goalie to play without a mask was Andy Brown.

One question we had here that took a while to nail down: Which NHL team was the first to ever fly to a game?

 

Really? I always thought it was Gump.

 

Wasn't it the Rangers?

 

No, and that was the popular assumption. We were told the Rangers flew to Toronto in 1929-30 but either did it or cancelled because their travel day was Friday the 13th. I could find no mention of it in the Toronto newspaper archives, and a historian in New York found no mention of it in various newspapers.

We eventually zeroed in on Detroit, which flew from New York to Chicago - with a stop in Cleveland - on Dec. 21, 1938. This was covered extensively in the Chicago Tribune and Detroit Free Press and the 1939-40 NHL Guide had a story - and a picture of the team with the plane - that noted the Wings were the first team to fly.

 

This NHL’er played for a different team in three consecutive seasons, and led them all in scoring. He is the only player to have done this. Who is he?

 

Jeremy Roenick?

 

No. The tough part here is thinking if a guy who played for one of those teams for just one year.

 

It’s either Courtnall or Damphousse

Edit: it was Vincent Damphousse. Not sure why I was thinking Courtnall except they were on some very underachieving leafs teams together