[Tea Time] On this Day In Hockey History - ongoing

[Dean Youngblood]

Come back to this thread daily to learn what happened on this day in history in the greatest game ever created - HOCKEY.

Please feel free to comment and/or add to the archives if I missed a significant event/game/stat

Cheers Youngblood

I will add my comments if I have any.

[Dean Youngblood]

On this Day in Hockey History - November 15

There were some doozies on this day....check them out!

1915 - The NHA (forerunner of the National Hockey League) agreed to pay no more than $800 to each player for the upcoming season. $800 looks like a penny on the sidewalk after Kovalchuk signed his $100 million dollar contract this past summer

1973 - Boston's Bobby Orr had three power play goals and added four assists to become the first NHL defenseman to score seven points in one game, as the Bruins beat the New York Rangers 10-2. 7 poins by a dman! That's fantasy GOLD!

1984 - Philadelphia retired uniform #16, worn by center Bobby Clarke, who ended his 15-year career as Philadelphia's all-time leading scorer (1,210 points). I had no idea that Clarke's jersey was retired. I learned something today

1992 - Philadelphia rookie Eric Lindros scored three goals for his first career NHL hat trick, and added an assist, and Mark Recchi had a goal and four assists to lead the Flyers to a 7-2 win over Ottawa at the Spectrum. ahhh I miss the BIG E. He was my favourite player of all time

2002 - Patrick Roy became the NHL career leader in minutes played, passing Terry Sawchuk as the Avalanche lost 4-2 to the Stars at Dallas.

2002 - Dallas' Mike Modano became the 5th U.S. born player to reach the 1,000 NHL point milestone, when he picked up an assist as the Stars won 4-2 against the visiting Colorado Avalanche.

[Dean Youngblood]

On This Day in Hockey History - Novermber 16


1926
MILESTONE: Rookie Eddie Shore made his NHL debut as the Boston Bruins opened their third NHL season with a 4-1 win over the Canadiens

MILESTONE: Goaltending great George Hainsworth made his first NHL appearance as the Montreal Canadiens lost, 4-1 in Boston.
Both Eddie Shore and George Hainsworth made their NHL debut against each other...Pretty neat

1957
STAT: Detroit goalie Terry Sawchuk got his 70th career shutout as the Red Wings beat the Black Hawks 1-0 at Chicago Arguably the best goaltender EVER

1991
STAT: Red Wings' Steve Yzerman scored twice to become the third player in franchise history to score 350 goals. The milestone goal (along with an assist ) came as Detroit won 5-3, at Los Angeles

1993
MILESTONE: Paul Holmgren resigned as coach of the Hartford Whalers and named assistant General Manager Pierre McGuire as the new head coach while Holmgren continued as the General Manager. Monster Decision!!!!!!!!!!!

1998
MILESTONE: Hockey Hall of Fame inducted it's newest members: Peter Stastny, Michel Goulet, and veteran Roy Conacher. Peter Stastny was one of my favourites from the "old days"

2003
TRADE: Calgary Flames acquired goalie Miikka Kiprusoff from the San Jose Sharks, in exchange for a 2nd round draft pick in 2005. Kiprusoff went on to lead the NHL in GAA etc. Kiprusoff went on to have a record of 24-10-4, and led the NHL with a 1.69 GAA. What a DAMN good deal in hindsight for Calgary - awful for SJ


See ya Tomorrow! Enjoy (i hope)

[Dean Youngblood]

On this Day in Hockey History - November 17th

1922
The Swedish Ice Hockey Federation was founded

1932
When Detroit met Montreal for the first time in the season there was a problem: both teams had nearly identical red jerseys! The Wings were forced to wear white pullovers in a 1-0 loss. George Hainsworth recorded his 68th career shutout.

1974
Rangers rookie Rick Middleton set a team rookie record with five points in a 10-0 win over the Oakland Seals. Middleton had four goals (his 1st career hat trick) along with an assist. Gilles Villemure recorded his 12th career shutout.

1992
Arturs Irbe made 39 saves to record the first shutout in the San Jose Sharks team history, a 6-0 win over the Kings, at the Cow Palace in Oakland, California. It came in the Sharks' 99th all-time NHL game. It was also Irbe's first career shutout.
Ahhhh, I miss those big white pillow pads Irbe used to wear

1996
Pittsburgh Penguins acquired Darius Kasparaitis and Andreas Johansson from the New York Islanders in exchange for Bryan Smolinski.

1997
Mario Lemieux, Bryan Trottier, Glen Sather, Flyers' announcer Gene Hart, and Hockey News founder Ken McKenzie were inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, in Toronto.
Good Induction Group. I loved Lemieux (almost as much as Crosby )

2003
Dallas Stars acquired veteran defenceman Jon Klemm and a 2004 4th round draft pick from the Chicago Blackhawks, in exchange for Stephane Robidas and a 2004 second round pick

Edmonton Oilers announced the signing of free agent Adam Oates
Love Oates but he needs to get that NJ Powerplay going

[Dean Youngblood]

On This This Day in Hockey History - November 18

1992
TEAM MILESTONE: Hartford Whalers picked up their 400th all time NHL victory, a 5-2 win over the Blues in Hartford. The win came in the Whalers' 14th season in the NHL.
Great Uniforms

1926
MILESTONE: Montreal Canadiens made the Forum their permanent home rink and lost to Ottawa 2-1 in their first home game.

1930
RECORD: Toronto's Lorne Chabot became the first goaltender in NHL history record a shutout in each of his first three games of the season, when he led the Maple Leafs to a 3-0 win over the Montreal Maroons.

1967
MILESTONE/STAT: Rookie Garry Unger scored the first goal of his NHL career, and Tim Horton played in his 1,000th career NHL game in the Maple Leafs' 2-2 tie against the visiting Chicago Black Hawks. Horton became the first to play 1,000 games with Toronto.

1979
MILESTONE: Vancouver Canucks earned their first ever home victory over Montreal, 5-2. The win snapped a streak of 21 home games (0-15-6) without a win versus the Habs. Glen Hanlon stopped 34 of 36 shots for the win, the 4th straight for Vancouver.

1996
MILESTONE: John MacLean scored twice to become the first player in New Jersey Devils history to score 250 goals. The milestone came in a 5-2 victory at Ottawa. The win gave the Devils' four straight road victories, tying a team record.
Fire John MacLean

MILESTONE: Phoenix' Teppo Numminen became the Coyotes' franchise all-time leader in games played by a defenseman, when he appeared vs Detroit, in his 565th career game. Numminen passed Randy Carlyle, who had played 564 games with Winnipeg.

Pretty quiet day.

[sasquatch]

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TRADE: Calgary Flames acquired goalie Miikka Kiprusoff from the San Jose Sharks, in exchange for a 2nd round draft pick in 2005. Kiprusoff went on to lead the NHL in GAA etc. Kiprusoff went on to have a record of 24-10-4, and led the NHL with a 1.69 GAA. What a DAMN good deal in hindsight for Calgary - awful for SJ


See ya Tomorrow! Enjoy (i hope)

To be fair they still had Nabokov who wasnt exactly a slouch. But with the draft pick they acquired, Marc Eduoardo-Vlasic..... Sooooo yeah. Agreed horrible trade for SJ

[Dean Youngblood]

On this Day in Hockey History - November 19th

1946
STAT: Former NHL goalie Robbie Irons born in Toronto, Ont. Irons had the briefest career of any goaltender in NHL history, playing just three minutes in one game for the St. Louis Blues in 1968-69.

1983
TEAM MILESTONE: Keith Crowder scored the 12,000th goal in Bruins history as Boston tied 6-6 against the visiting New York Rangers.

1984
MILESTONE/STAT: Montreal's Larry Robinson became the fifth defenseman in NHL history to score 500 career assists, when the Canadiens lost 6-4 to Toronto, at the Forum.

1985
MILESTONE: Scotty Bowman became the first coach in Sabres history to record 200 victories

1987
STAT: Calgary's Joe Nieuwendyk became the first rookie in Flames' history to score four goals, in a 9-1 win over the visiting Quebec Nordiques. It was Nieuwendyk's second career hat trick

1996
TRADE: Calgary Flames obtained Aaron Gavey from Tampa Bay, in exchange for Rick Tabaracci.

TRADE: Mighty Ducks of Anaheim announced the acquisition of veteran Brian Bellows from Tampa Bay, in exchange for a sixth round pick in the 1997 NHL Draft.

1997
JERSEY RETIREMENT: Pittsburgh Penguins retired jersey #66 in honor of Mario Lemieux, in a pre-game ceremony before a 3-3 tie against the Boston Bruins.
Mario - the most gifted player to ever play the game IMO

1999
TRADE: Florida traded goaltender Sean Burke to Phoenix in exchange for goaltender Mikhail Shtalenkov.
Mikhail Who?

[Dean Youngblood]

Sorry for the delay in posting this. I was out refereeing and getting yelled at by the hockey moms of today

On this Day in Hockey History - November 20th

1934
STAT: Toronto's Harvey "Busher" Jackson became the first NHL player to score a hat trick in one period of a regular season game. He finished with four goals in the third period to lead the Leafs to 5-2 win over the St. Louis Eagles

1964
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Former NHL right winger John MacLean born in Oshawa, Ont. MacLean played in the NHL 1983-84 through 2001-02 with New Jersey, San Jose, the New York Rangers and Dallas.
Happy Birthday to John MacLean of the Devils Coaching staff...now get the hell out, you are fired!

1974
MILESTONE: Toronto's Dave Keon played in his 1,000th career NHL game, and scored his 5th career hat trick, as the Maple Leafs lost 8-5 to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Keon became the third player to appear in 1,000 games with Toronto

1988
JERSEY RETIREMENTS: Blackhawks retired the jerseys of goaltenders Glenn Hall (#1) and Tony Esposito (#35) in a pregame ceremony at Chicago Stadium. Hall had played 15 years in Chicago, and Esposito 10 years. Blackhawks lost 7-4 to the Canucks.

1999
MILESTONE: Igor Korolev scored the winning goal at 1:16 of overtime and added an assist as Toronto won 4-3 against the visiting New York Rangers, in the NHL's inaugural Hockey Hall of Fame Game.

2000
COACHING CHANGE: Montreal Canadiens fired GM Rejean Houle and Head Coach Alain Vigneault and replaced them with Andre Savard (as the new GM) and Michel Therrien as the new Head Coach (the 25th in team history).
I remember this day

2001
TRADE: Dallas Stars traded Donald Audette and Shaun Van Allen to Montreal, in exchange for Martin Rucinsky and Benoit Brunet.
Who won this deal

2002
SIGNING: Atlanta Thrashers signed free agent goaltender Byron Dafoe, who had been with the Boston Bruins.

[Dean Youngblood]

well it's officially November 21st so here we go

On this Day in Hockey History - November 21st

1942
RULE CHANGE: The NHL Board of Governors announced that overtime would be discontinued in regular season games because of conflicts with train schedules. Overtime was finally reinstated in the 1983-84 season after a 41-year absence.

1964
STAT: Terry Sawchuk became the first goaltender in NHL history to get one (or more) shutout in 16 straight seasons, when he led the Maple Leafs to a 1-0 win over the visiting Chicago Black Hawks. Sawchuk broke the record of 15 years set by Harry Lumley.

1984
COACHING CHANGE: Vancouver fired coach Bill LaForge after only 20 games, the shortest tenure of any coach in team history. LaForge was 4-14-2 before GM Harry Neale took his place. The Canucks lost 6-4 in Calgary later that day.

1985
TRADE: Hartford Whalers traded Ray Neufeld to the Winnipeg Jets, in exchange for defenseman Dave Babych.

1997
TRADE: San Jose acquired Mike Ricci and a future second round draft pick from the Colorado Avalanche, in exchange for Shean Donovan and San Jose's first round pick (Alex Tanguay) in 1998 Entry Draft.
Ugliest man to ever play the game

2001
TRADE: Dallas Stars traded Jyrki Lumme to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for Dave Manson.

[Dean Youngblood]

On This Day in Hockey History- November 22nd

1943
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Former NHL star Yvan Cournoyer born in Drummondville, Que. Cournoyer played in the NHL 1963-64 through 1978-79 with Montreal.
"The Roadrunner!"

1947
STAT Red Wing Gordie Howe scored the first of his 118 regular season game-winning goals. Detroit beat Chicago at home, 8-5.
Fun Fact - On NHL.com they have Jagr listed as the all time leader in career regular season GW goals with 112. Unfortunately, they do not have the stats for Howe in the GW goals cat. He would indeed be 1st on that list.

1962
MILESTONE Toronto's Red Kelly became just the third player in NHL history to appear in 1,000 NHL games; the milestone came in a 1-0 Maple Leafs loss at Chicago.

1972
TEAM LEADER Toronto's Dave Keon scored his 297th career goal to become the Maple Leafs' All-Time leading goal scorer, passing Frank Mahovlich and George Armstrong (who each had 296 goals). Maple Leafs lost 3-1 to the North Stars, in Minnesota.

NHL RECORD: Penguins set an NHL record with five goals in a span of 2:07 during a 10-4 win over the Blues, in Pittsburgh. Scoring were Bryan Hextall, Jean Pronovost, Al McDonough, Ken Schinkel & Ron Schock, on goalie Wayne Stephenson.

1978
GM HIRING Winnipeg Jets (of the WHA) hired John Ferguson as their General Manager. He was fired nearly 10 years later, on October 30, 1988.

1980
COACHING CHANGE: Edmonton Oilers fired coach Bryan Watson. General Manager Glen Sather took behind the bench.
We all know what happened in the next 10 years

1983
COACHING CHANGE Winnipeg Jets named Barry Long as head coach, replacing GM John Ferguson, who had taken over after firing Tom Watt two weeks earlier.

1986
MILESTONE Buffalo's Gilbert Perreault played in the 1,191st (and final) game of his 17-year NHL career as the Sabres lost to the Quebec Nordiques 3-1. Perreault retired 22nd on all-time games played list.
Perreault is a player I wish I could have seen (or remembered) play the game. From all things I have read - he was a dandy

1989
TEAM RECORD: Doug Wilson became the first defenseman in Chicago Blackhawks history to score 200 goals, when the team lost 6-3 at Los Angeles.

STAT: Kings' Larry Robinson became just the second defenseman in NHL history to score 700 career assists. He reached the milestone in a 6-3 win over the visiting Chicago Blackhawks.

1991
STAT: Vancouver defenseman David Babych scored the only hat trick of his NHL career, with the final goal coming in overtime to lead the Canucks to a 6-5 win over Calgary.

STAT: Detroit rookie Vladimir Konstantinov had three assists in a 4-3 Red Wings' win over the Minnesota North Stars, at Joe Louis Arena.
What a terrible accident. I wish we could have s.een Vladdie play longer

1997
TEAM STAT:Curtis Joseph became the first goalie in Edmonton Oilers history to record back-to-back shutouts, in a 1-0 victory at Ottawa

1999
HHOF INDUCTION Seven months after retiring as a player, Wayne Gretzky was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, along with referee Andy Van Hellemond and builder Scotty Morrison.
Isn't it great that Gretzky choose to RETIRE in the year 1999? How fitting. I wonder if that was his plan all along

[Dean Youngblood]

My apologies to anyone who follows this thread I missed a few days. Life got busy

On This Day in Hockey History - November 26th

1917
The National Hockey League was founded. The original teams were the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Toronto Arenas, and Quebec Bulldogs (which announced that they would not operate during the inaugural season).
I would say this was a pretty significant day in history

Frank Calder was elected as the NHL's first president.
I never knew this

1925
Pittsburgh Pirates and NY Americans franchises were officially acccepted into the NHL. The Americans purchased the Hamilton Tigers roster to fill its lineup, while the Pirates purchased the USHL's Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets.

NHL announced it's new "anti-defense" rule, which would prohibit teams from having more than two players in their own zone when the puck was not present. The NHL also upped the number of regular season games from 30 to 36 for the upcoming season.
What a strange rule!

1961
Detroit's Gordie Howe became the first player in NHL history to play in 1,000 career regular season games, when the Red Wings lost 4-1 at Chicago

1975
Bobby Orr played his final game with Boston, scoring a goal and adding an assist, in a 6-4 Bruins' win over the Rangers at MSG. Orr finished with 264 goals, 888 points in 631 games with Boston, before joining Chicago.

1980
Edmonton rookie Jari Kurri got his first NHL hat trick and added an assist, and Wayne Gretzky
scored a goal and picked up four assists to lead the Oilers to a 10-3 win over the Black Hawks.

1983
Edmonton's Wayne Gretzky began an NHL-record 17 consecutive game assist streak, at St. Louis. It came in the midst of his NHL record 51-game point scoring streak (during which he scored 153 points). Oilers lost 8-6 to Blues.

1984
Two days after playing against Detroit, Montreal's Guy Lafleur announced his "first" retirement. He ended his "first" career with 518 goals and a Canadiens' team record of 728 assists for a team record 1,246 points.

1999
Steve Yzerman scored his 600th NHL goal in the Red Wings 4-2 win against the visiting Edmonton Oilers. Yzerman joined Gretzky, Howe, Dionne and Messier as the only NHL players with 600 goals and 900 assists.

Detroit's Larry Murphy became the fourth player (and first defenseman) in NHL history to appear in 1,500 career NHL games. The milestone came in a 4-2 win over the visiting Edmonton Oilers. Murphy picked up two assists in the game
This would later be broken by Scott Stevens on the SAME DAY (see below)

2003
Scott Stevens set an NHL record for defenseman by playing in his 1,616th career NHL game (breaking the record held by Larry Murphy) as the Devils tied 3-3 against the Mighty Ducks, at Anaheim.

[Dean Youngblood]

On This Day in Hockey History - November 30th

1993
STRIKE NHL Officials announced the end of their strike, which had begun on November 15, 1993.

1995
MILESTONE: Kings' Rick Tocchet scored a goal for his 700th career NHL point, as Los Angeles won 3-2 over Washington, at the Forum.

1996
STAT Mario Lemieux had a goal and three assists for his 1,400th career point and Ron Francis added a goal and two assists for his 900th career assist in the Penguins' 6-2 win over Boston. Lemiuex became the 9th NHL player to score 1,400 points.
Two AWESOME NHLers!

2001
STAT Peter Bondra scored twice to set a franchise record for career goals (breaking Mike Gartner's club record of 397) as the Capitals won 6-2 against the visiting Carolina Hurricanes.
I was always caught cheering for Peter Bondra - very talented

2002
INDUCTION: Former NHL stars Peter Stastny, Stan Mikita and Vaclav Nedomansky were inducted into the newly created Slovak Hockey Hall of Fame in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia.

2003
TRADE Los Angeles Kings acquired forward Martin Straka from the Pittsburgh Penguins for defenseman Martin Strbak and winger Sergei Anshakov.




BOLD PREDICTION of the NIGHT - November 30th, 2010
I have a feeling that tonight will be the night of the "hat tricks" where we see at least 3 players get one.

[Dean Youngblood]

Are people reading these posts or am I the only one gaining the knowledge from posting this information? Feedback is appreciated.

On This Day in Hockey History - December 1st

1924
TEAM DEBUT - Boston Bruins played their first NHL game, a 2-1 win over the Montreal Maroons, at the Boston Arena, in the first NHL game played in the United States.
Now 80% of the teams are American. Huge first step in history.

1938
STAT - Boston's rookie goalie Frankie Brimsek played his first NHL game. He lost 2-0 to the Canadiens (with rookie Claude Bourque getting his first career shutout), but went on to record 6 shutouts in his next 7 games, to earn the nickname "Mr. Zero".

1940
WEIRD EVENT - Four sets of brothers played in one NHL game: Rangers' Lynn & Muzz Patrick and Neil & Mac Colville played against the Black Hawks' brother acts of Max & Doug Bentley, and Bob & Bill Carse. Black Hawks won the game 4-1, at Chicago Stadium.

1954
STAT - Gordie Howe scored twice to become the second Red Wing (and the 7th player in NHL history) to reach 250 career goals as Detroit beat the Rangers 6-1, at New York. Detroit defenseman Red Kelly also scored twice, including his 100th NHL goal.

1974
STAT - New York's Jean Ratelle picked up two assists for a career toal of 730 points, passing Andy Bathgate into second place on the Rangers' all-time list. (Linemate Rod Gilbert led with 774 career points). NY tied 4-4 with the Blues, at MSG.

1985
STAT - Craig MacTavish scored 3 straight goals within a span of 6:38 during the 2nd period (his first career hat trick) and added an assist as the Oilers beat Calgary 5-3, to extend their home undefeated streak against the Flames to 16 games (12-0-4).

1987
STAT/MILESTONE - Vancouver's Stan Smyl became the first player in team history to get 600 career points, when he scored a goal in a 3-1 win over the Quebec Nordiques.

MILESTONE - Quebec Nordiques center Peter Stastny became the second-highest European-born scorer in NHL history with 867 points, passing Ivan Boldirev. Quebec lost 3-1 to visiting Vancouver Canucks.

DEATH - George "Punch" Imlach, the former General Manager of Toronto and Buffalo, died in Scarborough, Ontario, at the age of 69.

1989
STAT - Buffalo's Pierre Turgeon scored his first career NHL hat trick and picked up two assists to lead the Sabres to a 6-4 win over the Devils, their 10th consecutive win at the Aud. The win ran the Sabres' season home record to 11-0-1.

WEIRD EVENT - New York Rangers had three apparent goals disallowed by referee Rob Schick, but still managed a 4-3 win at Vancouver.

1995
MILESTONE - Calgary's Phil Housley became the 7th defenseman in NHL history to score 900 career points, when his goal helped the Flames to an 8-2 win at Edmonton.

1999
MILESTONE - Ken Hitchcock became the Dallas Stars' franchise all-time leader in coaching victories with his 175th win, with a 3-2 victory at Montreal. Hitchcock replaced Glen Sonmor as the winningest coach in Stars' history.

2000
TEAM RECORD - Calle Johansson picked up two assists to become the Washington Capitals all-time leader in assists by a defenseman, in a 3-2 win over the visiting Boston Bruins. Johansson broke the mark of 31 set by Scott Stevens.
Mike Green currently has 157 assists in 337 games for those of you who were curious. I was

2001
MILESTONE - Ed Belfour became the Dallas Stars' all-time leader in career victories, when he picked up #146 in a 6-4 win at Edmonton. He broke the mark of 145 set by Minnesota North Stars goaltender Cesare Maniago. It was also his 350th NHL win.

2002
San Jose Sharks fired head coach Darryl Sutter. Doug Wilson and Cap Raeder were named as interim coaches. The move came after the Sharks stumbled to an 8-12-2-2 start to the 2002-03 season.
Anyone else think it would be ironic if the Flames fired Sutter again on December 1st? C'mon, DO it!

[csingh]

intersting stuff. kudos for the effort.

..tho not sure i would check it everyday. still read some interesting facts. thanks!

[goose191919]

Yesterday (11/30) was 5 years to the day the Sharks traded for Jumbo Joe - Sturm, Primeau and Stuart were sent over.

2005/11/30 Boston Bruins traded Joe Thornton to the San Jose Sharks for Marco Sturm, Brad Stuart and Wayne Primeau.