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Winnipeg-born Mosienko, who had been a pretty good but not exceptional forward with Max and Doug Bentley on the Pony Line in the 1940s, played another couple of seasons and retired in 1954–55 with a record that may well be his for many more decades to come.

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that Bill Clinton was the first U.S. president still in office to attend an NHL game? On May 25, 1998, Clinton showed up at the second game of the Eastern Conference finals between the Washington Capitals and the Buffalo Sabres at the American capital’s MCI Center. The president took in the game from Capitals owner Abe Poulin’s personal suite and said at the time that he was impressed with the game’s speed and intensity.

How did the Detroit Red Wings and the New York Rangers get their names?

In 1932 James Norris purchased the Detroit Falcons hockey team and renamed them the Red Wings. Norris had played for a Montreal team named the Winged Wheelers, which inspired the name and the winged wheel logo on the NHL’s motor city franchise. After Madison Square Garden president “Tex” Rickard bought the New York team in 1926, people began calling them after their owner — Tex’s Rangers.