NHL All-Star Game History Trivia Quiz

Answer: 1947

The Toronto Maple Leafs lost to the NHL All-Stars 4-3. Back then the NHL champion hosted the All-Star game.

Answer: False

The format was changed briefly in 1951. The players from teams based in Canada, faced the players from teams based in the United States. After the two games ended in ties, the format was quickly dropped and went back to the NHL champion hosting the all-star game until 1968.

Answer: True

In 1967, the format was changed and the All-Star game was moved to the midpoint of the season.

Answer: 1975

The Wales Conference won the first time the format was adopted 7-1, and continued until 1994 when the NHL changed conferences to the West vs East format. The Wales conference won 12 of the 17 times the two conferences faced each other.

Answer: 23

Gordie Howe played his first All-Star game in 1948 as a member of the Detroit Red Wings, and his last one was in 1980 when he returned to Detroit for the first time as a member of the Hartford Whalers.

Answer: Wayne Gretzky

Gretzky in the Campbell's 9-3 win over the Wales, and did it all in one period in 1983. Lemieux did it in 1990 to help the Wales win 12-7, and Damphousse in 1991 when the Campbell's beat the Wales 11-5. Gartner did it in 1993 when the Wales destroyed the Campbell's conference 16-6.

Answer: Gordie Howe

All of Gretzky's four points were in the 3rd period, and were goals in 1983 when the Campbell's Conference beat the Wales 9-3. Gartner's four points came in 1993 with 3 goals in an assist in the 1st period of the Wales 16-6 win over the Campbell's. Oates's four points also were in 1993 and in the 1st period, but all them were assists. Gordie Howe had the most points he ever achieved in one period, three in 1965 in the 2nd period he had one goal and an assist as he helped the NHL all-Stars beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-2.

Answer: True

The West beat the East 6-5 as the Western Conference scored three times during the shootout, while the East could only get one goal which was scored by Danny Heatley, who already had four goals in the game by the time the shootout happened.

Answer: Mario Lemieux

Lemieux was in on all six goals the Wales scored as he had 3 goals and 3 assists for the Wales Conference in their 6-5 victory over the Campbell's Conference in the 1988 All-Star game. Mats Naslund in that same game had 5 points(all assists) for the Wales conference. Mike Gartner had 5 points (4 goals, 1 assist) in the 1993 All-Stargame for the Wales conference he had 4 of those points in 1 period in the Wales 16-6 win over the Campbell's conference, and Oates had 5 points(1 goal, 4 assist) for the Campbell Conference in their 11-5 win over the Wales Conference the 1991 All-Star game.

Answer: False

It was the 1967 All-Star game when the Montreal Canadiens defeated the NHL All-Stars 3-0. In 1948, was one of many times one team had scored one goal in a game. It happened in 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1971, 1975, and 1981.