Rangers Recall Week Four Winner
Congratulations to Jeff Diamond of Kitchener, winner of last week’s Rangers Recall trivia contest! Jeff correctly answered the Week 4 trivia question correctly, and won a Rangers jersey!
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WEEK 3:
Q. From 1980-83, Wendell Young manned the crease for the Kitchener Rangers. Today, he holds a place in history as the only goaltender in hockey history to do what?
A. According to the Hockey Hall of Fame, Young is the only player in history to win the Stanley Cup, Turner Cup, Calder Cup, and Memorial Cup.
The Halifax, Nova Scotia native was a workhorse for the Rangers, appearing in 163 games between 1980 and 1983. He backstopped the team to their first Memorial Cup title in 1982, and OHL Championships in 1981 and 1982.
In 1987-88, he posted 33 wins in the regular season for the American Hockey League’s Hershey Bears, leading the team to the playoffs and a Calder Cup trophy. Two decades later, he earned another Calder Cup title as a coach with the Chicago Wolves.
Young was selected by the Vancouver Canucks in the fourth round of the 1981 NHL Entry Draft, but found his greatest success in Pittsburgh, where he won 1991 and 1992 Stanley Cups with the Penguins.
His trophy case grew again in 1998, when he took home his first Turner Cup with the International Hockey League champion Chicago Wolves. The Wolves were crowned champions again in 2000, and Young would play one more season before retiring. He is the club’s all-time leading goaltender in games played(322), wins (169), saves (8,467), minutes (17,912), and shutouts (16). In December of 2001, the Wolves retired his jersey number, making him the first player in franchise history to receive the honour.
The Chicago Wolves are now the American Hockey League affiliate of the Vancouver Canucks, and Young is entering his fourth season as the team’s General Manager. He was inducted into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame in 2007.
