• Garth Butcher was a member of Canada's first-ever gold medal team at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships before becoming a pest and setting team records for penalty minutes in the National Hockey League?

Facts on topics related to Penalty (ice hockey)

Ice hockey

• Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame member Allan Pickard built and managed amateur ice hockey organizations that produced future NHL stars and became a model for modern organized amateur hockey?
• Canadian-born Jim Koleff spent three decades in Europe as an ice hockey player, coach and manager after telling coach Dave Chambers that he would play in Italy for one year?
• Legend of Hockey Don Roberts was assigned to coach hockey despite having never played the sport and coached his team in boots due to his unsteadiness on skates?
• ice hockey coach Janne Karlsson has won two Swedish Championships, one World Championship, and one Olympic gold medal?
• ice hockey goaltender Hap Holmes won the Stanley Cup four times, with four different teams, in four different leagues?
• ice hockey goaltender Paddy Moran (pictured) aggressively defended the area in front of his net by using his stick to slash opposing players near his net and exhaling at them while chewing tobacco?
• ice hockey referee Marcus Vinnerborg has officiated two Ice Hockey World Championship finals in row?
• ice hockey left winger Brent Peterson scored nine goals in his three seasons with the National Hockey League's Tampa Bay Lightning?
• ice hockey defenceman Johan Fransson won a Swedish Championship in bandy?
• ice hockey player Fred Higginbotham died of a spinal cord injury sustained during an accident when riding a pony?

National Hockey League

• Bobby Hull became the third player in NHL history to score 50 goals in a season during the 1961–62 Chicago Black Hawks season?
• Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame member Allan Pickard built and managed amateur ice hockey organizations that produced future NHL stars and became a model for modern organized amateur hockey?
• Canadian Elmer Lach retired as the National Hockey League's leading scorer in 1954?
• Hall of Fame goaltender Glenn Hall ended his record-setting 502 consecutive-games streak in the National Hockey League as a Chicago Black Hawk during the 1962–63 season?
• Hockey Hall of Fame forward Sweeney Schriner was the first Russian-born player in National Hockey League history?
• Hockey Hall of Famer Bill Mosienko is most famous for scoring three goals in a span of 21 seconds in a 1952 game, a feat that remains a National Hockey League record?
• ice hockey left winger Brent Peterson scored nine goals in his three seasons with the National Hockey League's Tampa Bay Lightning?
• Jaromir Jagr became the first Czechoslovakian to be drafted in the NHL without defecting when he was selected in the first round by the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1990?
• Hall of fame coach Al Arbour coached the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League three different times?
• Mario Lemieux became the only rookie in National Hockey League all-star history to win game MVP honours at the 1985 All-Star Game?

New York Rangers

• Bryan Hextall of the New York Rangers scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal in 1940, their last championship for 54 years?
• even though Denis Potvin retired in 1988, fans of the New York Rangers still practice a tradition aimed at insulting him?