This Day In Hockey History for March 23rd… → 1918 - Alf Skinner of the Toronto Arenas scored the first hat trick by an NHL player in the Stanley Cup Finals. The Vancouver Millionaires beat Toronto 6-4 in Game 2 of the 1918 Finals. → 1923 - Toronto Ontario - Foster Hewitt announces his first hockey game, over the Toronto Stars radio station CFCA; known as voice of hockey. → 1926 - NHL Championship: Mont Canadiens outscore Pitt Pirates, 6-4 in 2 games. → 1929 - Boston Bruins knocked the Montreal Canadiens out of the playoffs in their first ever post-season meeting. Eddie Shore had the winning goal in a 3-2 win, in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Semi-Finals. → 1944 - Playing in his second career playoff game, Montreals Maurice Richard scored all five goals to lead the Canadiens to a 5-1 victory over Toronto, in Game Two of the Stanley Cup Semi-Finals. → 1952 - Chicagos Bill Mosienko set an NHL record for fastest three goals by one player (:21). Black Hawks won 7-6 against the Rangers at New York, before a crowd of just 3,254. It was Mosienkos 5th (and final) career hat trick. → 1980 - Former US Olympic star Mark Johnson scored his first two NHL goals to lead the Penguins to a 4-2 win against the Jets at Winnipeg → 1982 - Isles Mike Bossys 20th career hat trick-4 goals. → 1994 - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 802 goals scored. → 1988 - Mario Lemieux scored a goal and added two assists to become the third player in NHL history (along with Wayne Gretzky and Phil Esposito) to score 150 points in a season when he led the Penguins to a 7-1 win over Washington. → 1993 - Winnipeg Jets Teemu Selanne had two goals and an assist in a 5-4 loss to Toronto, to set an NHL record for most points in a season by a rookie. He broke the old mark of 109 set by Peter Stastny with the Quebec Nordiques in 1980-81. → 1994 - Wayne Gretzky scored career goal #802, to break Gordie Howes record for all-time NHL goals. The record goal was scored against Vancouvers Kirk McLean as the Kings lost 6-3 to the Canucks. → 1999 - Colorado Avalanche acquired center Dale Hunter and a 2000 third-round draft pick from the Washington Capitals for a 1999 second-round draft pick. → 1999 - Detroit Red Wings acquired defenseman Chris Chelios from the Chicago Blackhawks for defenseman Anders Eriksson and first-round draft picks in 1999 and 2001. → 2000 - Joe Sakic scored a hat trick against Phoenix. In doing so he passed Peter Stastnys Colorado/Quebec franchise record of 1049 career points. → Happy Birthdays to: John Tonelli, Don Marshall, Bengt-Ake Gustafsson, Gord Murphy, Wayne Presley, Ted Green, Alex Selivanov, Charlie Sands, Warren Godfrey, Bill Touhey, Iiro Jarvi, Nolan Baumgartner, John McCreedy, Pavel Brendl, Michal Neuvirth, Darren Puppa and Flat Walsh…Ω
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 07:15:45 +0000
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