Quick quiz for hockey fans

 Ed. here. We have received complaints that our National Sports Editor, Poor Len Canayen, always and only writes about the Montréal Canadiens. This year's edition of les Glorieux -- the best since 1993, according to former star player and General Manager Serge Savard -- is so exciting to watch that we can  hardly blame Poor Len. All the same, in the interests of fairness, we have invited Jacques Strappe, who cheers for another team, to write today's hockey column.

Thank you, Ed. Here is a quiz to test your readers' hockey knowledge. 20 seconds should be enough to answer each of the six questions, so total time should be no more a minute and a half, tops!

Q1. What do Jacques Plante, Bernie Parent and Michel Larocque have in common?

20 seconds of "think music"... ... ... Is your answer, "They're all French-Canadian goaltenders."? That is correct, but there's more.

Q2. What do Jacques Plante, Bernie Parent and Michel "Bunny" Larocque have in common?

20 seconds of "think music"... ... ... If you answered, "They've all won Stanley Cups", that is correct, but keep going!

Q3. What do Jacques Plante, Bernie Parent and Bunny Larocque have in common?

20 seconds of "think music"... ... ... If you added "...with teams other than the Toronto Maple Leafs" to your second answer, you're close, but no cigar. So...

Q4. What do Jacques Plante, Bernie Parent and Michel Larocque have in common?

20 seconds of "think music"... ... ... Give up? Thought you'd see the clue after Q3! Answer: They all played for the Maple Laffs but didn't win a Stanley Cup!

Q5. What do Trevor Kidd, Peter Ing and Darren Puppa have in common?

20 seconds of "think music"... ... ... What? You don't know? OK, take one last stab at it.

Q6. What do Trevor Kidd, Damian Rhodes, Peter Ing, Jiri Crha, Doug Favell and Darren Puppa have in common?

20 seconds of "think music"... ... ... Surely you've figured it out by now? OK, I'm gonna give it to you. Those six, along with Jacques Plante, Bernie Parent and Bunny Larocque all played for Toronto between 1968 and 2009 without having their names engraved on Lord Stanley's silverware. Source: Why the Leafs Suck and How They Can Be Fixed, by Al Strachan (Collins, 2009).

But wait (as Vince Offer used to say), there's more! Besides the nine already named, the following goalies also played, between 1968 and 2009, with Leaf teams that never won a Stanley Cup. 

Allan Bester, Andrew Raycroft, Vesa Toskala, Grant Fuhr, Curtis Joseph, Bruce Gamble, Marv Edwards, Ron Low,  Eddie Johnston, Dunc Wilson, Wayne Thomas, Mike Palmateer, Pierre Hamel, Paul Harrison, Jim Rutherford, Félix Potvin, Tim Bernhardt, Don Edwards, Ken Wregget, Mark Laforet, Jeff Reese, Glenn Healy, Ed Belfour, Marin Gerber, Corey Schwab and the unforgettable Mikael Tellqvist.

You can look it up in Mr Strachan's excellent book, which I recommend especially to Leafs fans. Spoiler alert: Mr Strachan says the reasons for the Leafs' 53 years of failure (and counting) is not so much poor players -- they've had lots of good ones -- but ownership and management which ranged from mediocre to execrable. Names are named!