The highlights and lowlights in Hockey history

Who was the first NHL player to raise his stick in celebrating a goal?

When the first NHL PLAYER appear on a U.S. TV networks?

The players from the Soviet Union was the first to be authorised to accede to an NHL Club?

You can find the answers and more in our Hockey Time Line, a look at highlights and turning points in the game history.

Of course, there are a lot more to hockey history than memories of guys that Jean Beliveau and Bobby Hull (image).

Time Line tracks also lowlights that the first NHL players strike, Richard Riot and the brevity of the employment of dud franchising as the Colorado Rockies and Kansas City Scouts.

Photo: Jean Beliveau carries on Bobby Hull during a game in december of 1968.(Hulton archive/Getty Images).

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Fantasy Hockey pick: Comeback player of the year

Each fantasy hockey manager knows the temptation.

You swore you would stay clear of players who got beat up last year.

Case, concussion, reconstructed knee cases, the annoying groin cases, even the super-skilled guy who seems to have terrible luck with bumps and bruises and breaks.

Avoid them all; too much risk.

But at some point in the draft your determination begins to feel free.

Of course, that the center was missed 60 games last season, and that the defenseman has not been the same since the shoulder surgery, and to power up is limping in and out of the Channel editing.

This is probably why they are still available.

But if any of them can play as they did before injury troubles, you can look at a gold mine.

That is why we've compiled our list of Fantasy Hockey Comeback player of the season in (more or less) full health, is the guys on this list, your best bets is to return to the form during the 2010-11.

Photo: healthy Ales Hemsky is good for 60 points, even in an off year (Dave Sandford/Getty Images).

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