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...that for scoring a gold medal-winning, shootout goal against Canadian goaltender Corey Hirsch in the 1994 Winter Olympic Games, forward Peter Forsberg was featured on a Swedish postage stamp?
...that goaltenders are not sent to the penalty box and have their penalties served by proxy by any other player on the ice at the time of the penalty?
...that defenceman Al Iafrate holds the record for fastest slapshot struck in the All-Star skills competition, having propelled a puck 105.2 miles per hour?
...that Peter Pocklington, owner of the Edmonton Oilers, had his father's name, Basil, engraved on the Stanley Cup after the Oilers won the 1984 championship?
...that Canada and the Soviet Union were disqualified from the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships following the Punch-up in Piestany?

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