November 26, Part IV

A new addition to the Crease, be sure to check out "On This Day in Hockey History". I waited till today to debut this feature as back in 1917 on this date the National Hockey League was officially founded, and what better day then this to start, so be sure to check back everyday for look back at Hockey's History.


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).

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.

1927: Detroit goalie Hap Holmes and Black Hawks' Chuck Gardiner dueled to a 0-0 tie at Chicago. It was the 8th scoreless tie in NHL history, the first of Gardiner's NHL career and the 8th career shutout for Holmes.

1944: Montreal's Maurice Richard scored his 5th career hat trick as the Canadiens won 4-1 against the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs.

1953: Goaltender Terry Sawchuk recorded his 36th career shutout and Marcel Pronovost scored a goal and an assist in the Red Wings' 2-0 win over the Maple Leafs at Toronto.

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: Pittsburgh's Jean Pronovost picked up an assist to become the first player to score 400 points in a Penguins' uniform as Pittsburgh won 5-2 over the visiting Detroit Red Wings.

1976: Flyers' Bernie Parent became the 20th NHL goaltender to record 200 career victories when Philadelphia won 4-2 against the Rockies, at Colorado. Bobby Clarke led the scoring with a goal and two assists.

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: Neal Broten scored a "natural" hat trick, including the OT winning goal (for his second career hat trick) in the Minnesota North Stars' 7-6 win at Toronto.....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.....Hartford's Blaine Stoughton scored the winning goal at 4:52 of overtime to lead the Whalers to a 4-3 win over the Rangers. It was the Whalers' first NHL overtime game.

1986: Peter Zezel scored his seventh game winning goal just 21 games into the schedule, as the Flyers beat Montreal 4-2 at the Spectrum. Their record at the Spectrum was 13-1.....Petri Skriko scored his 3rd hat trick in 8 days (4th of his career) as Vancouver won 5-3, at Los Angeles. Skriko had the hottest scoring period of any player in Canucks history, scoring 12 goals and 2 assists for 14 points in a span of five games.

1989: In his 11th NHL season, Rangers' Lindy Ruff was awarded his first penalty shot, and he scored in a 3-1 win over the Quebec Nordiques.

1991: Defenseman Randy Ladouceur was named the Hartford Whalers' 10th Team Captain in their 20-year history.

1992: Owen Nolan scored his 4th career hat trick, including the game winner :23 into overtime, to lead the Quebec Nordiques to a 5-4 win at Toronto.

1996: Rangers' Mark Messier scored his 18th career hat trick, and Mike Richter extended his unbeaten streak to 14-0-2, as New York won 3-1 at Phoenix.

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

2000: Antti Laaksonen scored his first career hat trick (and the first in Minnesota Wild history) and added an assist in a 4-2 win against the visiting Vancouver Canucks.