Puck Drop Daily

Fighting is illegal in hockey… so why does it happen?

The NHL Star Who Was Better at Other Sports. Before Lionel Conacher ever played an NHL game, he’d already won a Grey Cup, a Canadian boxing championship — and he didn’t even learn to skate until sixteen. (1920s)

The First Outdoor Game in NHL History Was Against Prisoners (1954).

Only one player in NHL history has ever died directly from an injury during a game. Bill Masterton (1968)

He annoyed a goalie so badly, the NHL changed the rules. (2008).

Albertine Lapensée became Canada’s first women’s hockey superstar — and then vanished so completely that her life became a century-long mystery (1916).

A hockey team once forfeited an ENTIRE playoff series before the puck even dropped — because three brothers scared them off the ice (1976).

Red Berenson became the only player in NHL history to score six goals in a road game (1968).