More Hockey Trivia for Kids

More Hockey Trivia for Kids is Zweig’s fourth book of hockey miscellanea, the previous three being Hockey Trivia for Kids, Hockey Trivia for Kids 2 and Hockey Trivia for Kids 3: Stanley Cup Edition. In 2015, Scholastic compiled and reissued the first three books in a single volume, The Ultimate Book of Hockey Trivia for Kids.

Though most of the contents of More Hockey Trivia for Kids are focused on the National Hockey League’s teams and players, Zweig does include trivia about junior hockey, other professional leagues and international hockey. Women’s hockey is not entirely overlooked, with Zweig including 11 entries about that aspect of the sport.

More Hockey Trivia for Kids lacks a discernible organizing structure, but five labelled sections do reoccur amongst other “stuff”: “Mascot Mayhem”, “Name Game”, “Did You Know?”, “By the Numbers” and “Trophy Tales”.

Each of the “Mascot Mayhem” sections features one of the mascots of an NHL team.

Hunter is the lynx mascot of the Edmonton Oilers. He’s named after “Wild” Bill Hunter, who was the original Oilers owner. The team started in 1972 as part of the WHA, which is why Hunter wears number 72. Hunter is said to enjoy high-fives and hugs from fans brave enough to approach him.

The “Name Game” portions explain how a player got a nickname or team got its name.

Hayley Wickenheiser played in her first IIHF Women’s World Hockey Championship for Team Canada in 1994 when she was fifteen years old. She went on to have a 23 year career, in which she earned four Olympic gold medals – and several nicknames. Wickenheiser was often called “Wick” for short, but the name that really stuck was “Chicken” – short for Chickenheiser.

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The Regina Pats of the WHL trace their roots back to 1917. They are the oldest major junior hockey franchise in the world to have continuously operated in the same city with the same name. Originally, the team was called the Regina Patricia Hockey Club, after Princess Patricia, the granddaughter of Queen Victoria. The team’s name was shortened to the Pats in 1923.

Brief bits of trivia make up “Did You Know?”

A Zamboni machine has headlights in case it needs to leave the arena and travel on roads to dump the contents of its snow-collection tank.

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The Bell Centre, home of the Montreal Canadiens, is the largest arena for hockey in the world, with seating for 21,273 fans.

Tables are the stuff of “By the Numbers”, and so readers can peruse the stats related to such things as the “Most points in a single NHL game”, “Most goals by a player in his first NHL game” and “Most NHL goals by a teenager”.

Of course, “Trophy Tales” refers to the Stanley Cup. Most of the entries bearing this label consist of a chart of one of the NHL’s four divisions. In it, the number of times each team in that division has won the Stanley Cup is identified along with the season(s) in which the Cup was won. An example would be:

Boston Bruins
First season: 1924-25
Stanley Cup wins: 6
Years: 1928-29; 1938-39; 1940-41; 1969-70; 1971-72; 2010-11

More Hockey Trivia for Kids is illustrated with 11 black and white photographs as well as Dickson’s cartoon-style art.

Easy reading, More Hockey Trivia for Kids is sure to be popular with hockey fans of all ages and reading abilities and would make a good library and personal purchase.