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When did Foster Hewitt first say “he shoots, he scores”?

On March 22, 1923, Foster Hewitt uttered his signature “he shoots, he scores” in his first radio broadcast, a playoff game between intermediate hockey clubs from Toronto and Kitchener at the former’s Mutual Street Arena. The broadcast was done for CFCA in a glassed-in booth near the penalty box. A month before Hewitt’s CFCA broadcast, on February 18, Norm Albert, an editor at the Toronto Star, made the very first radio broadcast of a hockey game. The senior-league match between clubs from North Toronto and Midland, Ontario, turned out to be a 16–4 blowout in favour of Toronto. On January 7, 1933, Hewitt was heard for the first time coast-to-coast on radio when he welcomed listeners with “Hello Canada and hockey fans in the United States and Newfoundland” for a game between the Maple Leafs and the Detroit Red Wings, which the former won 7–6.

When were the first hockey cards issued?

In 1910–11 Imperial Tobacco released the inaugural set of catalogued hockey cards in a 36-card collection. The cards showcased coloured pictures of the superstars of the era such as Georges Vézina, Cyclone Taylor, and Lester Patrick and were placed in packages of cigarettes. A complete mint set of these cards is now worth thousands of dollars.