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The season was marked by important changes in the NHL, as Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante, like Clint Benedict before him, began to wear a mask in hockey games. Plante, who had asthma -related problems throughout his career, first began wearing a mask in practice shortly after a sinus operation in 1957 .
1960–61 NHL season; League: National Hockey League: Sport: Ice hockey: Duration: October 5, 1960 – April 16, 1961: Number of games: 70: Number of teams: 6: TV partner(s) CBC, SRC (Canada) None (United States) Regular season; Season champion: Montreal Canadiens: Season MVP: Bernie Geoffrion (Canadiens) Top scorer: Bernie Geoffrion (Canadiens ...
The 14th game was the first all-star game that did not have Maurice "Rocket" Richard in the lineup, as he had retired after winning the Stanley Cup a year ago.The pre-game events both honored the all-stars, as was the norm, but was also a celebration of the Rocket's career.
This in return, was the first time ever that a National Hockey League game was played on a Sunday afternoon in Montreal. In the United States, the clinching game of the 1966 Stanley Cup Finals on the evening of Thursday, May 5 aired on RKO General's stations, such as WOR-TV in New York City and WHCT in Hartford, Connecticut.
The 1960 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1959–60 season, and the culmination of the 1960 Stanley Cup playoffs.It was contested between the four-time defending champion Montreal Canadiens, appearing in their tenth consecutive finals, and the Toronto Maple Leafs; it was a rematch of the previous year's finals and the fourth finals meeting in ...
The National Hockey League (NHL) is shown on national television in the United States and Canada. With 25 teams in the U.S. and 7 in Canada, the NHL is the only one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada that maintains separate national broadcasters in each country, each producing separate telecasts of a slate of regular season games, playoff games, and ...
The 1960 Stanley Cup playoffs began on March 23, after the regular season ended. It was the tournament to determine the 1960 Stanley Cup professional ice hockey championship of the National Hockey League (NHL) The regular-season Montreal Canadiens' momentum did not stop as they played eight games, the minimum number to win the Stanley Cup ...
Pages in category "1960 in ice hockey" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. O. Ice hockey at the 1960 Winter Olympics