Below the video are the show notes with deeper detail into the answers.
Notes from the first episode of Hockey Trivia TV.
1. Darryl Sittler spent three years with the London Nationals /Knights from 1967-68 to 1969-70 before becoming the most recognizable name in Toronto Maple Leafs history. Although known in the NHL for wearing number 27, he wore number 9 for the Knights and that is the number that is honoured at the Budweiser Gardens in London.
2. A bit confusing is the fact that their were two versions of the Niagara Falls Flyers and neither of them stayed. The Flyers that became the Sudbury Wolves originally started in the league as the Barrie Flyers for the 1945-46 OHA season. The team played in Niagara Falls from 1960-61 to 1971-72.
The second version of the Niagara Falls Flyers started in the OHA as the St. Catherines Falcons in 1943-44. The franchise moved to Niagara for the 1976-77 season and was shipped north to North Bay to become the Centennials for the 1982-83 season. The well-travelled franchise is currently the Saginaw Spirit.
3. The Peterborough Petes moved from Kitchener for the 1956-57 OHA season and were dubbed the TPT’s in the beginning. As a franchise in Kitchener, the team was known as the Greenshirts before they were called the Canucks.
4. Mike Ricci of the Peterborough Petes was named CHL Player of the Year in 1989-90. He finished the season with 116 points on 52 goals and 64 assists in just 60 games. This resulted in the Philadelphia Flyers taking Mike fourth overall at the 1990 NHL Entry Draft. Ricci played just one game shy of 1,100 regular season games in the NHL between 1990-91 and 2006-07 with the Flyers, Quebec Nordiques / Colorado Avalanche, San Jose Sharks and Phoenix Coyotes.
5. The Plymouth Whalers entered the Ontario Hockey League as the Detroit Compuware Ambassadors for the 1990-91 season. Along the way, the franchise was also called the Detroit Junior Red Wings and Detroit Junior Whalers but were never known as the Plymouth Rock.
6. The present day Kingston Frontenacs started out as the Kingston Canadians for the 1973-74 season. For just the 1988-89 OHL season, the franchise changed its name to the Raiders before changing it again to the Frontenacs the following year.
7. The legendary Scotty Bowman coached the Peterborough TPT’s for three seasons from 1958-59 to 1960-61 and wasn’t overly successful. Seven years later, he was coaching in the NHL with the St. Louis Blues. When he left St. Louis Blues for the Montreal Canadiens in 1971-72, his Stanley Cup ring collection began. Bowman has coached the Canadiens, Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings to Stanley Cup championships. Not to mention taking the Blues to the finals in their first three years of existence.
8. John Tavares and Eric Lindros both won the Eddie Powers Trophy as the OHL’s leading scoring (Tavares split his season between Oshawa and London) but Marc Savard is the only Oshawa Generals player to lead the entire CHL in scoring.
Savard led the OHL twice, 1994-95 and 1996-97. In 1994-95, his 139 points were the most in the CHL. Marc was picked up relatively late in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft, going in the fourth round to the New York Rangers. He has played just over 800 NHL games to date with the Rangers, Calgary Flames, Atlanta Thrashers and Boston Bruins.
9. Mike Foligno led the OHL in 1978-79 with 150 points, a Sudbury Wolves record to this day. It was his fourth of four years with Sudbury and the numbers helped him get drafted third overall by the Detroit Red Wings at the 1979 NHL Entry Draft. Foligno played over 1,000 NHL games between 1979-80 and 1993-94 with the Red Wings, Buffalo Sabres, Toronto Maple Leafs and Florida Panthers.
The other names given as possible answers were not duds with the Wolves. Ron Duguay had a 134 points season with Sudbury in 1975-76, Dale Hunter totalled 110 points in 1978-79 and Fedor Federov had a 78 points season in 2000-01 in a much less offensively motivated OHL.
10. Corey Perry played 253 regular season games with the London Knights and contributed 280 points. Probably the closest competitor to Perry, but not given as a possible answer, was Dylan Hunter. Patrick Kane went offensively wild in London but played their only one year. Rick Nash was limited to two seasons and really didn’t put up that great numbers. If Dave Bolland had put in one more year, he would have taken the prize. In four years, he played 254 games and totalled 299 points.