The correct answer isThis was inspired by a tweet I just saw.
What is the most career penalty minutes by an actual hockey player who never got credited with playing an NHL game statistically? What was the circumstance? (Don't need the name - just the minutes amount and circumstance behind this statistical anomaly).
a) 5 Minutes of Penalties with 0 official games played.
b) The context was a backup goalie of the Canadiens in the mid 70's got involved in a bench clearing brawl, and received a major for fighting. That being said he never appeared in that game since he was the backup goalie and goalies do not credited with a game played until they step into the pipes. He backed up some more games in his career but never officially got into a game. So he has 0 career games played and for that reason will not show up on hockeydb or hockey reference with the Canadiens.
His name was Dave Elanbaas












