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n Feb. 9, 1964, 10-year-old Bozemanite Tom Kirwan joined the 73 million people tuned into “The Ed Sullivan Show” to watch the Beatles first appearance in America. After the show, he begged his mother for a guitar.

It took some saving, but a nylon-string Kay with a folk song instruction book eventually found its way to Kirwan, purchased

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with S&H Green Stamps collected at the grocery store.

Though he admits it was a terrible guitar, a part of Kirwan wishes he had kept it, if only to hang on the wall — a reminder of where he started.

In high school, Kirwan graduated to a better guitar, a six-string Yamaha that was a Christmas gift from his older brother stationed in Vietnam. Kirwan picked the steel-string acoustic from the base’s PX catalog.

With his budding guitar skills, the Holy Rosary Catholic School student found himself playing for mass.

Outside of church,

his lone gig was with a group of friends at the Friendly Tavern in Belgrade. They played an acoustic rendition of a single Johnny Cash song.

Then life happened. Kirwan grew up, went to work, got married, had four kids and set down his guitar. Occasionally,

he’d pull it out to learn a song from the radio to play for his kids, but mainly it lived in the closet. Music, however, never left him.

Kirwan recalls singing in the truck as he shuttled kids to and from school and various activities. One song, “Sunrise, Sunset,” from the musical “Fiddler on the Roof,” had a lasting impact. When one of his sons got married nearly 20 years ago, he asked if Kirwan would sing the song at his wedding.

The rendition was to be acapella, but Kirwan knew that he needed accompaniment for practice and dug the old Yamaha guitar from the closet. It lit a fire he has yet to extinguish.

“Now I play at

home every night and try to gig as much as I can,” Kirwan said in an interview over coffee on Tuesday.

Kirwan, now a septuagenarian with four grandchildren, often performs at busy breweries or bars, where people gather with friends after work to decompress. He is set to play the Haufbrau on Friday, Dec. 1 at 10 p.m. and Map Brewing from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 6. He doesn’t mind if they don’t listen, though he gets a particular thrill when the room starts paying attention.

“It just makes me feel good,” he said of playing music. “I think it makes other people feel good too.”

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Carson Daly remains one of television’s jacks-of-all-trades.

His “Last Call” late-night talk show is long gone, but the MTV alum still is one of NBC’s most valuable players. A regular on the weekday “Today” – particularly during the “Pop Start” entertainment-news segment – he also continues as the host and a producer of the Primetime Emmy Award-winning singing competition “The Voice,” and he’s bringing a holiday-season edition of a show he does for another NBC Universal-owned network to the mothership.

NBC actually will have a Daly night on Monday, Dec. 4, as “The Voice” is followed by a special “Barmageddon” episode titled “Blake Shelton’s Holiday Bartacular Featuring Ice T.” Normally seen on USA Network, where the weekly show recently began its second season, the special will pit Shelton (an executive producer and cast regular on the series, along with Daly) against “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” regular Ice T in several bar games. The winner will earn a prize for a selected viral sensation on the Internet.

Former pro wrestler Nikki Garcia is the host of “Barmageddon,” and Daly will be on hand to cheer or diss the players – a role he typically shares with Shelton, who was a mentor and judge on “The Voice” for many seasons – at the Shelton-sanctioned Ole Red bar in Nashville. The program also involves music, much of it supplied

by Shelton’s band, and Daly’s involvement is no surprise given his connection to that world as a Southern California disc jockey and a past host of MTV’s “TRL” (or “Total Request Live”). He also showcased singers and bands regularly on “Last Call.”

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“Meet Me Under the Mistletoe” (Dec. 9) In this holiday film from Great American Family, rival real estate agents both make the exact same wish during the first snow of the winter: to win the most coveted listing in town.

As the business competitors begrudgingly work together, they learn this house comes with a special commission: love. Starring Sarah Fisher and Simon Arblaster.

The latter show launched Daly’s association with NBC in 2002, and since then, he has also hosted many New Year’s Eve specials and such events as the Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular for the network. Employment in the media has not been an issue for Daly, and as he continues to be a prominent personality, he’s helping to place “Barmageddon” on more than one network.

Birthdate: June 22, 1973 Birthplace: Santa Monica, Calif.

Current residence: New York Marital status: Married; has three children Other television credits include: “The Voice,” “Today,” “Last Call With Carson Daly,” “New Year’s Eve With Carson Daly,” “TRL” (“Total Request Live”), “MTV Live,” “Doc McStuffins” (voice only), “Daria in ‘Is It Fall Yet?’” (voice only), “My Name Is Earl,” “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” “It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie,” “Miss USA,” “Miss Teen USA,” “2gether: The Series” Movie credits include: “Joe Dirt,” “Josie and the Pussycats,” “Pauly Shore Is Dead” Radio credits include: “The Daly Download With Carson Daly,” “Mornings With Carson Daly,” “Most Requested” Record label he co-founded: 456 Enterprise & Entertainment His regionally famous mother: Pattie Daly Caruso (19442017), who was a TV regular in California”s Coachella Valley Friday–Thursday, December 1–7, 2023

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An Oscar-winning Michael Douglas rules “Wall Street” “Greed is good.”

Certain movie lines stand out in screen history almost immediately, and that credo of financial wizard Gordon Gekko — played by Michael Douglas, in an Oscar-winning performance that immediately broadened others’ perceptions of what he could do — is among the many memorable aspects of “Wall Street,” director Oliver Stone’s glossy and compelling 1987 drama currently streaming on Paramount+.

A morality play in the literal sense, “Wall Street” also is driven by Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, an ambitious young Charlie Sheen in “Wall Street” stockbroker who’s desperate to get into Gekko’s world. He finally gets his shot, but also gets in over his head right away, using a piece of insider information from his airline-laborer father (played by Sheen’s actual dad Martin) to impress Gekko, who makes Fox his legman under highly questionable circumstances.

Excited by his new role and its potential, Fox has no problem enjoying the perks Gekko starts sending his way, including the means for a lavish new apartment and a notably nicer wardrobe.

He also acquires a new girlfriend in an interior designer (Daryl Hannah) who knows she owes her career to Gekko, who’s instrumental in sending clients her way. And she also knows the perils of crossing him, a position that Fox eventually finds himself in.

“Wall Street” is a fast-moving feast of the sights and sounds of big business — and also of New York, and some of the locations the film visits aren’t in operation anymore. Still, almost 40 years later, the movie doesn’t feel dated. That could be because its themes are so universal, particularly when economic matters are of such concern to so many people, as they are these days.

The excellent cast also includes Hal Holbrook and John C. McGinley as colleagues of Fox, James Spader as a friend Fox uses to advance his own agenda, and Terence Stamp as a Gekko rival who plays a pivotal role as the fallout between Fox and Gekko deepens. In their own ways, each of those characters (along with Fox’s father) keeps a moral center in “Wall Street” even when the main figures might seem ruthless.

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David Hyde Pierce OF JULIA ON MAX Q: Why isn’t David Hyde Pierce back as Niles in the new version of “Frasier”?

A: The actor reportedly was approached about rejoining title star Kelsey Grammer in the Paramount+ revival, but he reportedly responded that he felt he had done all he could do with the character. However, that doesn’t mean Pierce isn’t doing any work at all.

He’s been appearing as Paul Child, husband of legendary chef Julia Child, in the second season of Max’s comedy-drama series “Julia”; he also is performing Off-Broadway in the late composer Stephen Sondheim’s “Here We Are.” Pierce already was building a solid career for himself on stage and screen when his memorable portrayal of the persnickety Niles Crane on the original “Frasier” suddenly made him a household name. He had played a bookstore co-worker of Amy Irving’s character in “Crossing Delancey” (1988), and just before “Frasier” premiered in 1993, he was in “Sleepless in Seattle” with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. While “Frasier” was in its original run, Pierce also was in the movies “Wolf” (1994), “Nixon” (1995) and “Down With Love” (2003).

Over the course of “Frasier’s” first run, Pierce earned four Primetime Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Niles. He also has fared well with Broadway’s Tony Awards, winning for his acting in the musical “Curtains” in 2007, then receiving the ceremony’s Isabelle Stevenson Award for his philanthropic work in 2010. He also was nominated for performing in “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” (2013) and a revival of “Hello, Dolly!” (2017).

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“Hollywood Houselift With Jeff Lewis” - Season 2 (Dec. 6)

In this Freevee series, house flipper, interior designer and radio host, Jeff Lewis, is back for a new season of home renovations for some of Hollywood’s brightest stars. With higher stakes, more drama, and even tighter deadlines, Jeff continues to balance his personal life and lean on his team of project managers to bring their all to some of his most demanding transformations yet. Celebrity clients for this season include Anthony Anderson, Cynthia Bailey, Noah Beck, Kate Bosworth, Reggie Bush, Josh Duhamel, Sara Foster, Regina Hall, Christina Ricci and Gina Rodriguez.

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This six-episode docuseries transports fans inside In this festive film sequel, James’s (Asa Butterthe locker room and onto the field of Deion field) family has invited the Taylors to spend “Coach Prime” Sanders’ University of Colorado Christmas in a luxury ski resort in the Austrian Boulder (CU Boulder) football program for Alps, so they can meet his new American girlthe 2023 season. This year, Coach Prime and friend. However, after a mix-up with transport the Buffs have shaken up the college football at the airport, the two families end up at each landscape yet again, placing CU Boulder at the other’s accommodations, on different sides of center of the sports world. Season 2 documents a valley and opposite ends of the TripAdvisor Sanders’ first full season at CU Boulder, as he ratings scale. Can Hayley (Cora Kirk) and embarks on a journey of building success and James’ relationship survive another turbulent works to transform the program in a short family Christmas, or has their future together amount of time. gone off-piste?

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A group of policemen with particular methods track down a dangerous criminal in order to prevent Marseille, France, from a bloodbath in this thrilling French action drama. The cast includes Florence Thomassin, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Olivier Barthelemy, Tewfik Jallab, Samir Boitard, Idir Azougli, Jeanne Goursaud and Lani Sogoyou.

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Following the loss of her family in a tragic accident, 15-year old Manhattanite Jackie Howard (Nikki Rodriguez) has to learn to adapt to a new life in rural Colorado with her guardian — her mom’s best friend, Katherine (Sarah Rafferty) — and 10 other rowdy children. Based on the Novel of the same name by Ali Novak.

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“I Hate Christmas” - Season 2 (Dec. 7)

Pilar Fogliati stars in Netflix’s first Italian Christmas series, a comedy about a young woman looking for love. Who rang at Gianna’s doorbell on Christmas Eve? It’s finally time to find out in Season 2. A year has passed since that fateful evening, and now, we find that our Gianna (Fogliati) is surprisingly no longer single. But Christmas, as always, messes everything up. Will Gianna be able to harness some holiday magic to keep her relationship together?

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Transforming the Eisner-Award nominated graphic novels by Luke Pearson and published by Nobrow into an incredible animated adventure for older kids, the series follows the journey of Hilda (Bella Ramsay), a fearless blue-haired girl, as she travels from her home in a vast magical wilderness full of elves and giants to the bustling city of Trolberg, where she makes new friends and discovers mysterious creatures who are stranger — and sometimes more dangerous — than she ever expected.

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“Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever” (Disney+ — Dec. 7, Season Premiere) The winter holidays are turning out to be especially stressful for Greg Heffley (Wesley Kimmel) this year. After accidentally damaging someone else’s property with his best friend Rowley (Spencer Howell), Greg worries he won’t get the gift he so desperately wants for Christmas. To make matters worse, a snowstorm hits the town and the entire family is trapped indoors for days.

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Snuggle up for a classic Christmas movie “The Santa Clause” - Complete marathon with all six movies in the Home Film Series (Available Now) Alone film franchise. The series kicks off Tim Allen is turning Christmas around with the story of young Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin), who finds himself left at in all three of The Santa Clause films, home alone in the holiday rush as his family streaming now. When Scott Calvin (Allen) heads off to Paris. While having the run of inadvertently makes Santa fall off his roof the family home was fun at first, Kevin has on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magito act quickly by wiring his own house with cally recruited to take his place. Eric Lloyd makeshift booby traps to stop two burglars, also stars.

Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), who are trying to rob his house on Christmas Eve.

“Reacher” (Prime Video — Dec. 15, Season Premiere) Based on “Bad Luck and Trouble,” the 11th book in Lee Child’s global best-selling series, Season 2 begins when veteran military police investigator Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) receives a coded message that the members of his former U.S. Army unit, the 110th MP Special Investigations, are being mysteriously and brutally murdered one by one. Pulled from his drifter lifestyle, Reacher reunites with three of his former teammates turned chosen family — Frances Neagley (Maria Sten), Karla Dixon (Serinda Swan) and David O’Donnell (Shaun Sipos) — to investigate.

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BY STAFF WRITERS

The life and works of the Queen of Crime Answers: 1) 66 2) “The Passing of Mr. Quin” (1928) 3) “And Then There Were None” 4) Hercule Poirot

Questions: 1) The subject of the PBS series “Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen,” Dame Agatha Christie is the best-selling fiction writer of all time. How many detective novels did she write?

2) Directed by Kenneth Branagh, “A Haunting in Venice” (2023) is the most recent film adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel. What was the first?

3) “Death on the Nile,” “Murder on the Orient Express” or “And Then There Were None” — which novel is Christie’s best-selling work?

4) Which Christie character was given a full-page obituary in The New York Times in 1975?

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A Paddy Chayefsky party starts with “Marty”

BY JAY BOBBIN

Ernest Borgnine in “Marty”

Widely recognized as one of the greatest screenwriters, Paddy Chayefsky gets a two-night tribute from Turner Classic Movies starting Wednesday Dec. 6, with one of his most famous works.

“Marty” was a television play starring Rod Steiger before it became a 1955 film, with Ernest Borgnine assuming the title role of a lonely Bronx butcher and winning an Oscar for performance that transformed his career from the bad-guy roles he largely had been playing. The movie also earned Academy Awards for best picture, director (Delbert Mann) and Chayefsky’s adapted screenplay.

Marty generally hangs out with his pals after work, but a visit to a dance hall introduces him to shy teacher Clara (Betsy Blair), and they take a real shine to each other … but the critical comments of Marty’s buddies make him doubt pursuing a relationship with her. The picture is alternately amusing and heartbreaking, but always affecting. Notable supporting players include Frank Sutton, who would become Sgt. Carter to TV’s “Gomer Pyle, USMC,” and Jerry Paris – later one of TVs top sitcom directors (“The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “Happy Days”).

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playerprofile BY ROBERTO JOZEF Hurricanes’ Kotkaniemi aims to continue hot streak in Edmonton In another clash of offensive talents, the surging Carolina Hurricanes get set to battle the Edmonton Oilers Wednesday, Dec. 6, at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta. The action airs live on TNT. In what’s been yet another impressive season for the Carolina Hurricanes (9-6-0 as of Nov. 11), the team currently sits comfortably near the top of the Metropolitan Division with contributions coming from the likes of Sebastian Aho, Martin Necas and Teuvo Teravainen helping Carolina rank among the top teams in goal scoring.

However, one player catching eyes around the league — and certainly proving his worth this season — is bonafide second-line center Jesperi Kotkaniemi.

Coming off an impressive season that saw Kotkaniemi set career highs in goals (18), assists (25) and points (43), the Finnish native has carried that momentum into this season.

In Kotkaniemi’s first 15 games, he managed to rack up six goals and seven assists for a total of 13 points — an impressive feat to start the season for the young star, as he sits as one of the team’s top five contributors.

Facing the Hurricanes will be the offensive juggernaut Edmonton Oilers, led by none other than Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl. While those two names ring synonymous with success, the start of the 2023-24 campaign has been quite the opposite in comparison to their opponents.

For the Oilers, they sit at the bottom of the Pacific Division, recently coming off one of their worst losses of the year, falling short to the league-trailing San Jose Sharks, marking a new all-time low for the Oilers.

As the Hurricanes prepare for the Oilers, Kotkaniemi’s contributions will prove critical against a team that, regardFull name: Jesperi less of their struggles, is a threat night in and night out.

Kotkaniemi Birthdate: July 6, 2000 (23) Birthplace: Pori, Finland Height/weight: 6-2/201 pounds Team(s)/number: Carolina Hurricanes, No.82 (2021-present), Montreal Canadians, No.15 (20182021) Honors and achievements: U18 World Junior Championship gold medal (2018), U17 World Junior Championship silver medal (2017), U20 SM-Liiga silver medal (2017)

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help of the rest of the Kirwan asked why story songs are his bread and butter, Kirwan said clan on a family camping trip. “maybe it’s because I’m so full Kirwan was born and raised Kirwan’s solo show is a blend of crap.” in Bozeman and currently of old country and folk tunes, Take “Zumbro River Blues,” lives a few miles west of with originals thrown into the a song Kirwan has yet to play mix, often written with the Belgrade, where he worries in public. Kirwan started the help of wife, Karen. about new developments song on a trip to the Mayo Songs come from changing the character of his Clinic in Rochester, experiences, from tidbits of rural existence.

Minnesota. He and information, or even from Many songs feature his wife expected “I grew up in Montana, cold other stories. Kirwan has to be there for a written about the oilfield a little town,” winters, open spaces few days, but tests boom in eastern Montana Kirwan sings. and the Bridger and appointments and the western Dakotas, Mountains that feel didn’t follow their about his wife’s propensity for “It’s different like home. timeline. With picking up hitchhikers (“This “I’ve never lived now I guess time on his hands, Old Coat”), about Ivan Doig’s anywhere else,” — box stores Kirwan found mother (“Hatfield Mountain), Kirwan said. himself crossing or even from a line he picked and Subarus, “Shit-Kickers and the Zumbro River, up in a coffee table book with Jeans,” specifically, and traffic, it’s stopping to lock cowboy sayings — “where is about growing up a mess. We no eyes with a blue coyotes go to mourn their in Bozeman and the heron while in kin.” longer host changes to the place. search of a pawn Many of these tunes are “I grew up in a a big rodeo, shop and a cheap available on “Whiskey and little town,” Kirwan many things guitar he could Worry,” an album recorded as sings.

“It’s different offload before they part of a KGVM spotlight that have passed now I guess — box departed. While the was released on Bandcamp away. But old stores and Subarus, shop wouldn’t buy in July (https://tomkirwan. cowpokes and and traffic, it’s a the guitar back, he bandcamp.com/album/ mess. We no longer did discover they whiskey-and-worry). other such host a big rodeo, had a 10-day “no Kirwan, admittedly a poor folks still dine many things have questions asked” student, never opened a passed away. But old return policy. book he wasn’t assigned as a at the Western cowpokes and other Guitar in hand, youngster. Only after he had Cafe.” such folks still dine Kirwan started kids and committed to reading at the Western Cafe.” writing a song to them at night, did he While part of about his guitar acquiring develop the love for literature Kirwan wishes he had come adventure. The song became that he said changed his life. more fantastical after a phone back to music earlier, he knows Books helped him learn how PROVIDED BY MOLLY KIRWAN the path that led him here has call with daughter Molly, to write, how to put thoughts Bozeman musician Tom Kirwan performs at the Haufbrau in Bozeman. who asked “what if when you helped make the music what together. it is. with full knowledge that go back, the pawn shop isn’t “Writing really would never into my head,” Kirwan said.

“That’s just how life is,” he embellishments are the right Kirwan gravitates actually there?” (It was.) The have happened if I hadn’t been song was completed with the of the storyteller. When reading and getting some input toward story songs, said.

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For the kiddos: The Lorax

by Dr. Seuss. “I am the Lorax. I The essential idea is for home- speak for the trees.” Dr. Seuss’s owners to work within their beloved story teaches kids to financial and practical contreat the planet with kindness straints both to meet their own and stand up and speak up for needs and do as much for the others. Experience the beauty planet as possible. With all the of the Truffula Trees and the building that’s happening in the danger of taking our earth for BoZone, this book is very timely. granted in a story that is timely, 14

playful, and hopeful. The book’s final pages teach us that just one small seed, or one small child, can make a difference. Dr. Seuss wrote the entire book in rhyme.

Sound like a good time?

The Wump World written and illustrated by Bill Peet.

When a race of blue humanoids named the Pollutians

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(Sounds awfully bleak, doesn’t it?) The Wumps emerge,

and find a changed world, a concrete jungle. The book instructs us on how nature can recover, a hopeful message.

Beth Boyson is a Programming Librarian and Cataloger at Bozeman Public Library. She can be reached through the library website at www.bozemanlibrary.org Friday–Thursday, December 1–7, 2023

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BY ALEX HENDRY

NHL Scoring Leaders Answers:

5) Maurice 4) Bill Mosienko

8) Who was the only player in Atlanta Thrashers history to score over 50 goals in a season? (Hint: He did it twice)

(Jan. 31, 1920)

9) He was born in Canada but played for the United States - his 741 career NHL goals are the most for any American player in NHL history. Who is he?

(76, 1992-93) 2) Teemu Selanne

10) Which active NHL player currently ranks 2nd alltime in goals scored?

1) Gordie Howe

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“Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” (Netflix — Dec. 15, Movie Premiere) This eagerly-anticipated sequel to the beloved computer animated family film, “Chicken Run,” catches back up with Ginger (Thandiwe Newton), who, having pulled off a death-defying escape from Tweedy’s farm, has finally found her dream — a peaceful island sanctuary for the whole flock, far from the dangers of the human world. When she and Rocky (Zachary Levi) hatch a little girl called Molly (Bella Ramsay), Ginger’s happy ending seems complete. But back on the mainland, the whole of chicken-kind faces a new and terrible threat. This time, Ginger and the team are breaking in to save the day.

7) He won three Stanley Cups and scored 692 career NHL goals (10th all-time) — all as a member of the Detroit Red Wings. Who is he?

(1944-45)

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6) Only two players in NHL history have scored 19 goals in a single-playoff campaign. Reggie Leach was the first. Who was the second?

6) Jari Kurri

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5) Fifty goals in fifty games! The once-unbreakable record was first accomplished by which Hockey Hall of Fame inductee?

7) Steve Yzerman

4) The fastest hat-trick in hockey history was completed in just 21 seconds. Who achieved this once-in-a-lifetime feat?

8) Ilya Kovalchuk

3) Only one player in NHL history has managed to score 7 goals in a single game. Name the player.

9) Brett Hull

2) Lighting up the lamp! Which player holds the record for most goals scored by a rookie in their debut NHL season?

10) Alexander

1) On March 23, 1994, Wayne Gretzky scored his 802nd career NHL goal, surpassing which player to become the NHL’s all-time leading goal scorer?

Ovechkin

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