Portal:Ice hockey/Did you know/1


 * ...that former Boston Bruins defenceman Zdeno Chára holds the record for the fastest slapshot struck in an All-Star skills competition, having propelled a puck 108.8 miles per hour?
 * ...that for scoring a gold medal-winning, shootout goal against Canadian goaltender Corey Hirsch in the 1994 Winter Olympic Games, forward Peter Forsberg was featured on a Swedish postage stamp?
 * ...that goaltenders are not sent to the penalty box and have their penalties served by proxy by any other player on the ice at the time of the penalty? (The exception being match penalty, where the goalkeeper actually has to leave the ice.)
 * ...that Peter Pocklington, owner of the Edmonton Oilers, had his father's name, Basil, engraved on the Stanley Cup after the Oilers won the 1984 championship? Basil had absolutely nothing to do with the team beyond the family connection. The NHL decreed this to be unacceptable, and had the name X'd out.
 * ...that Canada and the Soviet Union were disqualified from the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships following the Punch-up in Piestany?