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Trivia Challenge #3

21 September 1999


#1:   A 1992 first-round draft pick, Syracuse University graduate Tom Marechek never played for the team that drafted him. Name that team.   Tom Marechek. Before suiting up for the Bandits, "Hollywood" was traded to the Philadelphia Wings, where he has played his entire career.
 
#2:   What team has allowed more regular-season goals alltime than any other team?   Baltimore/Pittsburgh. The former Thunder have allowed 1759 goals in team history. The New Jersey / New York Saints are second, with 1559.
 
#3:   During the Fall 1997 Expansion/Supplemental Draft, the Syracuse Smash selected three players, two of whom played for Philadelphia in 1999 -- Fred Jenner and Todd Katanchik. The third was selected from Buffalo, but he returned to the Bandits for the 1999 season. Name this veteran.   Neil Doddridge.
 
#4:   The first-round selection of the New York Saints in the Fall 1989 draft, this Adelphia alumnus is currently tied for the longest time spent with the team.   Gordon Purdie. Purdie is tied for seniority on the Saints with Sal LoCascio, a graduate of the University of Massachusetts.
 
#5:   Tony Resch leads all active coaches in continuous service with his current team, having just finished his fifth straight season at the Wings' helm. If Resch coaches the Wings in 2000, he will set the franchise record for consecutive seasons as head coach, breaking a tie with whom?   Dave Evans. Evans coached the Wings from 1989 through 1993.
 
#6:   The all-time series between which two teams includes more games than any other, thirty (through the 1999 season)?   New York and Philadelphia. Pittsburgh and Philadelphia have met twenty-nine times; New York and Pittsburgh twenty-seven times; and Buffalo and Philadelphia twenty times.
 
#7:   In the Fall 1994 expansion/supplemental draft, which of the following players was not selected by the Rochester Knighthawks?   Regy Thorpe. Thorpe signed as a free agent before the 1995 season.
 
#8:   Behind the Wings' eight, what team has placed a goaltender on the First- or Second-Team All Pro squads most often?   New York Saints. Five All-Pro goaltending awards have been earned by Saints, all by Sal LoCascio. Toronto has had an All-Pro goalie both seasons of its existence; Pittsburgh has never had one.
 
#9:   This former first-overall draft pick served in 1999 as a member of the Baltimore Thunder broadcast team.   Brendan Kelly.
 
#10:   The first-round of the Fall 1998 draft included six position-changing trades, allowing two clubs to draft twice in the round and requiring two to wait until the second round to make a selection. What club was the last to make its initial selection in the draft?   Syracuse Smash. The Smash first drafted at fifteenth overall, after Rochester and Toronto had each drafted three times (twice in round one, once in round two). The only other team without a first-round turn was New York.


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