PUTTIN' ON THE FOIL!
This is my blog for hockey fun. I dont write long articles on hockey things, I just love to share videos, pictures and hockey history. Don't expect a lot of insight, just fun.
Team USA Men's Hockey had the biggest upset in Olympic and maybe sports history when they defeated the USSR to gain a berth in the gold medal game of the 1980 olympic hockey tournament.
Winning the gold medal game against Finland would catapult the entire team to stardom and the entire team would be named Sports Illustrated's Sportsmen of the Year for 1980.
The Quebec Nordiques (in Canadian English, meaning "Northmen" or "Northerners") were a professional ice hockey team based in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The Nordiques played in the World Hockey Association (1972--79) and the National Hockey League (1979--95). The franchise was relocated to Denver, Colorado, in 1995, and renamed the Colorado Avalanche. The Nordiques hold the distinction of being the only major professional sports team to have been based in Quebec City in the modern era, and one of only two ever; the other, the Quebec Bulldogs, played one season in the NHL in 1919--20.
1924 - Frank Nighbor received the first NHL Hart Trophy. The award, that judges the most valuable player to his team, was the first individual award in the NHL. In 1925 he would also be the first player to win the Lady Byng trophy for gentlemanly play. Frank won 4 Stanley cup trophies with the original Ottawa Senators in 1920, 1921, 1923 and 1927.
Frank Nighbor looks at his display at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto in the early 1960s
