Next Goal Wins: Ultimate Hockey Trivia with Liam Maguire

When it comes to hockey history, you'll be hard pressed to find anyone more knowledgeable than Liam Maguire. Liam started mentally cataloguing hockey history after watching a September 1975 NHL game between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Montreal Canadiens. After purchasing a program for $2 Liam took it home and the history filing began.

Liam Maguire is regarded as the world’s number-one NHL historian. Next Goal Wins! is his third book.

Along the way, he has worked with Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr, Bobby Hull, Jean Beliveau and Wayne Gretzky, who has written the foreword to Next Goal Wins! Ultimate Hockey can be found on Facebook and you can follow Liam on Twitter at Liams_Hockey.

“There’ve been almost 8,000 players who have played at least one NHL game since 1917,” said Maguire. “I probably know something on maybe 5,000 of them. How many people know that Davey Keon had one fight in his NHL career, in his last game, vs. Greg Sheppard?

Try to stump Liam Maguire. If you can there may be a surprise in it for you.This walking hockey encyclopedia joins us LIVE Wednesday January 2nd @ 7PM EST at BEYONDtheCheers on blogtalkradio. Dial-in TOLL FREE 1-877-357-2448 in Canada and United States to ask a question, or email in advance.