Stanley Cup Playoffs 1993 Trivia Quiz

Answer: 28

Overtime was so frequent that 32.9%(28 out of 85) of the games went into overtime, and only two series in the entire playoffs did not end up in overtime (the 1st round series' between the New Jersey Devils and the Pittsburgh Penguins and Los Angeles Kings and Calgary Flames).

Answer: Brad May

The goal came at 4:48 of the first overtime, as the Buffalo Sabres beat the Boston Bruins 6-5 in game 4 of the Wales Conference quarterfinal series. The series saw the Sabres sweep the Bruins in 4 games, which three of the four wins came in overtime.

Answer: Quebec Nordiques

Quebec won the first game of the Wales Conference quarterfinal series with Montreal in overtime 3-2. Quebec won game two 4-1, and Montreal would win the next four games winning the series 4 games to 2. Montreal went on to win their next seven straight playoff games, including sweeping the Buffalo Sabres in the Wales Confrence semi-finals, and the first three games in the Wales Conference final over the New York Islanders.

The Canadiens went on to win the series in five games. Montreal went on to win the Stanley Cup beating the Los Angeles Kings in five games.

Answer: Felix Potvin

Fuhr was injured during the season which opened the door for rookie Felix Potvin, and once he played well, the Maple Leafs dealt Grant Fuhr to Buffalo for Dave Andrechuk later in the season. Daren Puppa and Rick Wamsley were backups during the season.

Answer: False

Foligno scored the overtime winner in game five. The Red Wings pounded the Leafs 7-3 in game six that set up game seven in Detroit, where the Leafs came back from a 4-1 defecit to tie the game late in the 3rd period. Nikolai Borchevski scored the winning goal 2:35 in the first overtime to eliminate the Detroit Red Wings, and send the Maple Leafs on to the next round.

Answer: False

Out of the six games, the only one that resulted in a road victory was in game two, when the New York Islanders won 5-4 in overtime to tie the series at 1-1. The home team won the final four games with the Islanders taking three of the four games to win the series in six games.

Answer: Pierre Turgeon

Back then it may have been the biggest cheap shot ever when Turgeon scored what ended up being the series clinching goal, Hunter hit Turgeon from behind into the boards. Hunter was given a 21 game suspension for the hit which back then was the longest suspension ever given, until Tampa Bay Lightning forward Gordie Dwyer made physical contact with an on-ice official, which saw him serve 23 games.

Answer: 4-3

Out of the four games, three of them went into overtime with the result all being the same. The Montreal Canadiens won all four games 4-3, with three of those wins in overtime.

Answer: Calgary Flames & Los Angeles Kings

The Flames and the Kings were also the only two teams to score nine goals in a game during the 1993 playoffs which happenned three times. Game two, which Calgary won 9-4, game five which Los Angeles won 9-4, and game six, which Los Angeles also won 9-6 to win the series 4-2.

The two teams combines to score 61 goals total, The Red Wings-Maple Leafs series scored a total of 54 goals, the Islanders-Penguins series and the Canucks-Kings series both scored a total of 51 goals.

Answer: True

After the Penguins easily eliminated the New Jersey Devils in five games, the Penguins were stunned by the surprising Islanders when they lost game seven in overtime 4-3, ending the Penguins chances of returning to the Stanley Cup Championship for the third straight time.