A Hockey Trivia Question, along with a personal Question?

Question

So Its Fathers day...Happy Fathers day to those who are fathers and to all others.

Which NHL Player made the first million dollars in the league?

and

My dad was the one who introduced me to Hockey....Does your dad have anything to do with your love for the sport? IF so, how did that come about?

Answer 1

Orr. Yeah, already said..

And my dad does somewhat have an impact on why I am obsessed with hockey. He used to play when I was lime one, and then he got paralyzed, so obviously he couldn't play anymore. But he continued watching the sport, and I watched as well. Odd enough, I didn't find my hockey "touch" until this year. I watched a game and than I got hypnotized. No, I'm not a bandwagoner. I always have cared about my Red Wings, but this time it clicked. I really found beauty in it and everything. So we of course watched the whole season together. So he did get me started with hockey, helped me learn the game and all. I just had to find my true love, which I did this year.

Answer 2

idk the answer.

my dad introduced my sis and me to the sport, I also remember when I was 3 and me and him were playing hockey in our basement and he took a shoot and knocked my front teeth out :P. good times

Answer 3

Not sure

My dad had absolutely nothing to do with my introduction to hockey.

Answer 4

My dad DID introduce me to hockey. My dad watches every single game with me.......I can't recall the last non-hockey conversation I had with him, lol.

The first hockey thing I can remember with my dad was in 1999.....My dad took me to a minor league "Oklahoma Blazers" game. It was the second hockey game I had been to. The Stanley Cup was also in the building! So after the game my dad took me down to see in and I was in love with it, lol. I was like 7 or something years old and the man watching the cup had to tell me to be "careful" several time. I have a picture around somewhere....and in the picture I have the biggest dumbest looking smile on my face.

My dad is also the one who brought me up to Toronto this past Feb. for a "hockey vacation". We went to a Sabres/Leafs game on Feb. 21st......then the next day we went to the Hockey Hall of Fame. It was honestly the best time of my life.

So, yes....I'd say my dad has been my biggest influence for the love of the game. We watch every Penguin game together in the season (except the ones he goes to without me...then we call each other in between period).....he watches every Capitals game with me even though he's not a big fan, I am......and I watch every Edmonton game with him even though I'm not a big fan, he is. We also watch every Montreal game together......actually we watch EVERY NHL game together. Thank the Lord for CENTER ICE! Woo! ....(My mother hates us from October-June!)

Answer 5

i dont know

my dad did get me started. He followed hockey as a kid and then stopped, but then a few years ago, he got back into it and got season tickets, and dragged me to a game, and when i say drag, he really did because i really didnt want to go, and then i fell in love with the sport

Answer 6

That was a trick question Queen .. thought you meant who had the first 1 million per SEASON contract. But oh well. At least I got the team right (Cheevers and Bourque were also Bruins at one point of their storied carriers, as was Orr obviously)

Bobby Hull or Gerry Cheevers, i forgot who was lured into the WHA with that $ first .. if NHL i think it was either Patrick Roy or Raymond Bourque

Dad had a lot to do with getting me into hockey as he worked the 1960 Squaw Valley games + met the Christian brothers.

Part of the reason Brooks was so anti-Soviet is that he was the last cut on that team, which came back from a couple goals down to beat the CSSR .. a Czech national reminded them to breathe through their lungs or something? Due to the altitude the Americans were losing their energy fast ..

One of my favorite memories of my dad is watching the 1988 Olympics with him .. you want run and gun hockey, American hockey fans? Get some footage from those games .. 10-6 against Austria for instance .. with guys like Jeremy Roenick, Craig Janney, Brian Leetch, Mike Richter, (regretfully Canada didn't medal) .. silver-winning Finland had a promising 18 year old named .. ever heard of Teemu Selanne? (oh and Teppo Numminen was on Suomi that year too)

Answer 7

At the beginning of the 1971-72 season, Bobby Orr signed a contract with the Boston Bruins worth a reported $200,000 per season over five years. So he made a million dollars, but spread over five years.

I don't know if that is the correct answer, but it sounds good.

I remember my dad taking me to Saginaw Gears (IHL) hockey games a LONG LONG time ago.  But I never really appreciated hockey it until I was 10 or 11.  He was from Pittsburgh originally and I turned him onto the Red Wings.   So bonus points to me for converting someone from the steel city.

Answer 8

I think this questions been answered already.

My dad took me to a Detroit/Calgary game when I was 6 or 7.  According to him, He's been watching it with me since I was 5 or so.  I remember him telling me we had to go to the grocery store (something I regretted every Saturday), and I threw a fit.  He told me to wear my Red Wings sweats to the store, and I refused, b/c I was so pissed.  We ended up driving past the store and straight to the Joe.  My dad told me to open up the glove compartment and look inside.  There were 2 tix to the Wings/Flames.  I was so excited, I got to see Stevie Y for the first time, there were tons of fights, and the Wings won 8 to 6, or 7 to 5, something like that.  Our seats were at center ice, eye level just above the glass.  As I got older, I've always kicked myself for not shutting up, not putting on the Wings sweats, and acting like a brat when my dad was trying to give me a nice surprise.

Answer 9

Looks like the others have got the answer. And no, my dad knows nothing about hockey. He did buy me Sabres socks once. Thats about it.

Answer 10

Yeah it was Orr as others have said.

It was not my dad that got me into hockey it was my dad's dad . My grandpa that got me into hockey. . He and I used to watch Hockey and roller derby together.

Answer 11

Hmm..don't wanna look it up.

Sort of, but not really. It was my brothers and uncle mostly, my dad never played as a kid but he was a fan. For never being a player he's pretty knowledgable about the game. He still gives me tips to this day and he'll tell me stuff that I've never heard from anyone else and then you try it out in games and it works. It actually amazes me sometimes. The one thing about him is that all he wants me to do is score, but me myself, I'd rather get an assist and play an excellent defensive game, but hey I still love him <3

Answer 12

- my dad did not have anything to do with my introduction to hockey, i was abt 5 or 6 and saw it flipping through the channels  and immideatly fell in love! my parents never let me play on a team so i got a job and saved up money and now im 19 but im getting to play ice hockey.

Answer 13

i don't know

My dad knows nothing about hockey. I try to talk hockey with him and he knows nothing. Me and my mom took him to a game and he got up and left in the 1st period. My uncles are the only ones that know anything about hockey. My dad can't even name one player on the Blues.

Answer 14

i dont think anyone would know that (except probly LITY)

my dad did get me into hockey. he's an immigrant (and very legal, you haters) and the first place he stayed was in florida (i think). then he moved to your beloved detroit and started liking hockey. next he went up to your hated toronto and got free tickets from a co-worker about once a week for the leafs games. he got me watching hockey before i could talk right. (but unfortunately, not playing)

Answer 15

I had no idea who the trivia question was...

But my dad basically did get me into hockey, along with my brother. When I was little, I would always remember my dad watching the Red Wings, and I didn't really get it until a little while ago. Well, now we can watch games together and I know it makes him pretty happy =)

Answer 16

Don't feel like looking it up

and

My dad was the one who refused to let me play the sport. He thought that girls shouldn't play hockey. My mom, however, after the divorce, allowed me to play. After my dad saw one of my games and saw I was actually good, he claimed he signed me up and he's the reason I was good. Yeah. But he was the one who got me into hockey, so he gets a little credit, but not a lot.

Answer 17

bobby hull in 1972 from the winnpeg jets

yep, he's the one who got me watching hockey. we were sitting in front of a hockey game one day and he just started telling me about the rules and stuff.

Answer 18

Looks like some one already answered your first question

My dad has nothing to do with my love of hockey. He hasn't played a large role in my life(I haven't seen him in about 10 years, and have no intentions of seeing or talking to him again)

Answer 19

Yeah, my father influenced my decision to play hockey...but in a negative way. He was a basketball coach and kind of pushy about sports in general.

Hockey was the one sport he knew nothing about...so I could play that and be left alone. ;-)

Answer 20

It was all my uncle who got me into it, brought me to my first Leafs game back in '97 I believe...

Not sure about what players made the most dough though

Answer 21

My father was the one that got me hooked he loved it!!! I lost him in January and I wish he could have been here with me when the Wings won the cup!!! But I know he was up there watching it a cheering with me!!!

Answer 22

I really don't want to look it up...

My dad had everything to do with my love of hockey.  Every time I went to visit him, we'd go to at least one game, NHL or otherwise.  If he was working as an off-ice official, I'd sit with my stepmom.  Otherwise Dad and I would watch together, and we'd talk about what was going on on the ice.

Answer 23

At the beginning of the 1971-72 season, Bobby Orr signed a contract with the Boston Bruins worth a reported $200,000 per season over five years. So he made a million dollars, but spread over five years.

Derek Sanderson and Bobby Hull are widely remembered as hockey's first millionaires because of the sensation they caused in 1972, when they left the NHL to sign big contracts with the new World Hockey Association.

""i got it on the internet""

oh and my dad put me on skates 20mnth from birth and i'm still playin and i really think him for driving and food for our road games and for the hotels it;s speical

Answer 24

golden jet?

my stories basically the same as hawkeyfan incase u havent already figured out we are sisters except my dad never had to drag me to games im the one that started going in the first place! I got soooo mad when she got into hockey because now i have to give up my seat every other game!