Unit 05

Question 1

What was the importance of the 1890s-1913?

Answer 1

It was a huge time for technological advancements, telegraphs, steamships and photographs, and a national rail link coast to coast in 1892
There were also civic visions of industrial growth, economic prosperity, and modernizing the culture

Question 2

What did the technological advancements enhance?

Answer 2

The national community and a new sense of economic prospects for “the common man”

Question 3

What happened to the market during the 1890s- 1913?

Answer 3

It was growing immensely at this time and was becoming more and more important to the game of hockey

Question 4

What happened to the media in the early 1900s?

Answer 4

Paul Rutherford states that the press was told to “fix the identity of the Dominion as a Victorian commonwealth”

Question 5

What happened with the newspapers in 1874-1900?

Answer 5

There was a three-fold increase

Question 6

What was the People’s journal?

Answer 6

Took on a populist neutral stance

Question 7

What was the “highbrow” paper?

Answer 7

Supported by the Tories and added sports, cartons, and sections for women

Question 8

What happened with advertising in the 1890s?

Answer 8

Publications were not viewed as products but more as vehicles that organized audiences could fit into clearly identifiable target groups that could be sold

Question 9

What happened to the audiences during advertisements in the 1890s?

Answer 9

Audiences themselves became the product generated by the media industry

Question 10

What did advertising become in the 1890s?

Answer 10

It became an industry, with special copywriters and agencies ads designed to speak to male readers

Question 11

Why was their hostility towards hockey?

Answer 11

Some believed it was a waste of time and money

Question 12

What happened after world war 1?

Answer 12

Professional hockey bloomed by 1922 and US teams started competing for the Stanley Cup

Question 13

What was the importance of the World Championship in 1927?

Answer 13

It was a huge expansion time for hockey

Question 14

What happened to teams in Toronto and Quebec?

Answer 14

They went through name and ownership changes, but Montreal Canadiens remained the same

Question 15

What happened to the Hamilton Tigers?

Answer 15

Hamilton Tigers were sold to an investor in NY for $75,000 led by Ted Rockard of Madison Square Garden

Question 16

What did Ted Rockard encourage people to do?

Answer 16

Other investors to buy teams and bring them to the US (birth of the Chicago Blackhawks)

Question 17

What did Conn Smythe do for Toronto?

Answer 17

Paid $160,000 for his Toronto team and named them the Toronto Maple Leafs much economic value in NHL teams during this time

Question 18

What were advertising companies mostly led by?

Answer 18

US companies

Question 19

What were Canadian fans supportive of?

Answer 19

US companies investing in the NHL

Question 20

What happened in the 1920s?

Answer 20

Companies were soon in Canada and NBC and CBS were also generating interest in hockey, and sporting companies were profiting off the NHL

Question 21

What was special about Canadian players?

Answer 21

In the 1920s, they still dominated the league

Question 22

What happened in 1927?

Answer 22

There were 10 NHL teams and the number of games in the 1921-22 season was doubled to 44 games

Question 23

How did the NHL cope during the Great Depression?

Answer 23

NHL had a difficult time and only American investors and millionaires were able to save the league

Question 24

What happened during World War II with the NHL?

Answer 24

Many junior players stepped up to fill empty NHL spots

Question 25

What happened in 1952?

Answer 25

There were television broadcasting games and the number of TVs in Canadian households jumped to 70%

Question 26

What happened in 1967?

Answer 26

It was the first post-war expansion

Question 27

What happened in the 1970s?

Answer 27

The NHL’s rival pro league World Hockey Association

Question 28

What was special about the WHA?

Answer 28

Brought hockey back to Western Canada, as Gretzky played for the Edmonton team until the NHL took it over

Question 29

What happened to sports photography after WWII?

Answer 29

There was a boom as improvements in film quality found their way into mainstream journalism

Question 30

What was hockey covered as?

Answer 30

The big time tam sport in Canada and the northern United States

Question 31

Which camera was favoured by the press?

Answer 31

The large-format “Speed Graphic” because it was capable of capturing lush detail and a rich depth of field when used with flash

Question 32

What did the Turofsky brothers and Kilpatrick do?

Answer 32

Rigged powerful strobe flashbulbs, which took about 12 seconds to recharge, so photographers had only one chance to capture key shots

Question 33

What does the Turofsky shot of Bill Barilko show?

Answer 33

His famous overtime goal in Game 5 of the 1951 Finals at Maple Leafs Gardens, which won the Stanley Cup for the Leafs

Question 34

How is the Turofsky shot edited?

Answer 34

It is trimmed, which emphasizes the Barilko/McNeil duel and all players are labelled and so is the puck

Question 35

Where did Turofsky’s picture hang?

Answer 35

The middle of the west-end lobby of Maple Leaf Gardens

Question 36

What is so special about Turofsky’s picture?

Answer 36

It captures the exact split second after the puck has entered the net, but before the goal has registered on the faces in the crowd

Question 37

What does still photography do?

Answer 37

It freezes the moment but tells nothing about what transpired just before or after

Question 38

What does Paul Patskou suggest about Turofsky’s picture?

Answer 38

That Meeker who behind the net and being checked by Tom Johnson had attempted a wrap-around on McNeil’s right; McNeil went down to stop Meeker and the puck came out to Harry Watson to McNeil’s left, and Watson shot it back towards the net where McNeil, who still on the ice moved to block it The puck mysteriously appeared back on the goalie’s right where Barilko had pinched in, he appeared to shovel it on his background

Question 39

What do all reports of the ‘51 finals make mention of?

Answer 39

McNeil’s superlative play, but not mentioned in Turofsky’s photo

Question 40

What did McNeil do?

Answer 40

He won the Stanley Cup in ‘53 posting two shutouts, one being the clinching game that also went into overtime