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Duffer Trivia
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Magoo was the 3rd Duffer to get the Most Improved Player award. What year was that? What
was his Nickname then? John
"F. Lee" Landry received the award in 1979
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Who were the other winners of that prestigious award?
(That award was
discontinued when we stopped improving) 1973,
Wally Kraft was the first to win the MIP. There were no winners
until 1977, when
Mike "The Painter" Macica was awarded the Most Improved
Player trophy at the 1st Annual Duffer Picnic at Argonne Woods.
Paul The Commander Jankowski received the award in 1978. Gene
"Thor" Miller won it in 1980. Tom "Slime Dog"
Kowalkowski and Jim "Titz" Michalson were awarded the
trophy in 1981. Frank Presecki won it in 1982. In 1983 The
King was presented with the “King’s
Meaningless Trophy” and Bill "Klinger" Giffune was
awarded the Most Improved Player trophy at the 7th Annual Duffer
Picnic at Argonne Woods. Stump
Barczynski is the first commoner to receive the “King’s
Meaningless Trophy” and John "Gomez" Santoro was awarded
the Most Improved Player trophy.
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When did we start giving the least
dis-improved award? Name one of the recipients. In 1984
we stopped improving. so we started giving the Least Dis-improved
award. Dan Mazanec and Klinger were the only Duffers that
admitted getting that award before it was discontinued.
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What
year did Beak and his son Ken take a college course in Hockey? What
grades did they earn? In
the summer of 1980, Beak and his son Grandpa Ken signed up for a
College of DuPage course in Hockey. Beak got an A and his son
got a B even though his slap shot lit up the radar gun at 95
MPH. The radar gun was unable to read Beak's shot, but he had
perfect attendance. (Ken's attendance was less than perfect)
Answers from 2 weeks
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Who had the first Duffer shut out?
Who had the second one? Stump
shut out the Blues 6-0 on January 25, 1990. He Shut them out
again on March 23 the same year with the same score!
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What year did the Duffers have their
first Thanksgiving game? November,
27, 1980, after the 1980 Miracle on Ice, Wally Kraft made up 2 teams
for the 1st
Turkey Skate. He gave
out hand outs with the teams on the Friday before.
It
was a 12-3 blow out, as He stacked his team with young guns.
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When was the King's Meaningless
Trophy missing? Who lost it? Who found it? Bill
“Klinger” Giffune was awarded
the “King’s Meaningless Trophy” at
The 1993 Picnic, He kept it for 3
years. The trophy was so meaningless that no one could remember who
had it. No one was awarded the trophy for 3 years until Klinger found
it in his basement under a pile of Slider boxes. 2 of them still
contained fossilized sliders! Thor, Papa Joe and Harvey were
given the meaningless trophy at the 1996 picnic to make up for the
missing years.
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How many more hits does the Duffer
History page need to get to 10,000? The Duffer
History page has 9,959 hits, you do the
math.
Answers will be given at the Wednesday lunch. If you can't wait,
go to the Duffer History
page.
Answers from The week
Before That
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When and Where did we skate
outdoors? Green Bay, December
1995
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Who broke the youngest Duffer goal
record held by Tweedy since 1981? Frank's
Grandson Bobby Fetting was a few months younger than Tweedy.
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When was Don Granato is named head
coach of the Worcester Ice Cats? August 20,
2000, just a few months after winning the Kelly
Cup in Peoria.
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When were the Duffers described as
“self-deprecating” in the Chicago Tribune?
February 3, 1998,
the Duffers were described as “self-deprecating” in the Chicago
Tribune. A page and a half was devoted to Cammi Granato. Ten
days later on the other side of
the world, Cammi Granato was busy scoring 2 goals and setting up 2
more as Team USA scored 6 goals in the 3rd period to Beat Canada 7-4
in Nagano, Japan.
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