Today in NHL History, November 27th

1921: Toronto purchased Harry Cameron from the Montreal Canadiens.

1926: Rangers rookie Lorne Chabot became the second goaltender in NHL history to record a shutout in his first career game as New York won 2-0 over the Canadiens, in the Rangers' first visit to Montreal.

1931: Toronto Maple Leafs fired coach Art Duncan, and named Dick Irvin as his replacement. Irvin went on to coach the Leafs for the next eight years.

1941: Boston Bruins tied an NHL record by scoring four goals in the 10-minute overtime period, to beat the New York Americans 6-2. Overtime was a mandatory 10 minute period before it was discontinued in November 1942

1943: Bob Davidson scored his first career hat trick and Lorne Carr had a goal and four assists as the Toronto Maple Leafs won 7-4 over the Boston Bruins. Don Gallinger scored a hat trick for the losing Bruins.....Montreal's rookie goalie Bill Durnan improved his career record to 10-0-1, with a 6-3 win over the visiting New York Rangers. Durnan set an NHL record for rookie goalies by going 12-0-2 in his first 14 games.

1946: Boston's assistant coach Dit Clapper came out of retirement to help the Bruins' on defense, replacing the injured Jack Crawford. He got a standing ovation from 14,000 fans and inspired the Bruins to a 5-2 win against the NY Rangers.

1948: Chicago's Bill Mosienko scored four goals and added an assist to lead the Black Hawks to a 5-3 win against the Red Wings, at Detroit.

1960: Rod Gilbert played in his first NHL game, a 3-3 NY Rangers' tie against the Chicago Black Hawks, in New York.....Terry Sawchuk got his 83rd career shutout as the Red Wings beat the Maple Leafs 2-0 at the Olympia in Detroit.

1963: Rod Gilbert beat Terry Sawchuk on a penalty shot when the Rangers beat Detroit 3-2 at MSG.

1965: Detroit's Gordie Howe scored his 600th NHL goal. It came in a 6-2 Red Wings loss to Montreal. Howe also got a major penalty that night for elbowing J.C. Tremblay. Howe became the first NHL player to get 600 career goals.

1969: Detroit's Gordie Howe became the first player in NHL history to score 1,700 career points, when he picked up two assists in a 5-1 win against Los Angeles. Howe reached 1,700 points in 1,567 NHL games.

1974: Montreal Canadiens began an NHL-record 23 game road undefeated streak (14-0-9), with a 3-2 win at Pittsburgh.....Jean Ratelle became the second player to score 300 goals as a member of the NY Rangers. The milestone came in a 4-1 win over the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs.

1976: Roland Eriksson scored his first career NHL hat trick, with three power play goals in one period to lead the Minnesota North Stars to a 6-1 win against the Washington Capitals, at the Met Center.

1981: Minnesota's Dino Ciccarelli scored three goals (for his third career hat trick) to lead the North Stars to a 5-5 tie with the Jets, at Winnipeg.

1984: Edmonton's Wayne Gretzky scored his 30th career hat trick and added two assists, and Mike Krushelnyski had two goals and two assists in the Oilers' 7-1 win at Toronto.

1985: New York's Mike Bossy scored his 34th career hat trick, with three straight goals in the third period as the Islanders tied the North Stars 4-4 at Minnesota.....Washington's Bengt Gustafsson set a new club record with an assist in his ninth straight game, as the Capitals beat Montreal 5-3.

1988: New York's Bryan Trottier picked up two assists to become the 8th player in NHL history to score 1,300 career points, as the Islanders lost 5-3 to the Rangers at MSG.

1991: Penguins defeated the Devils 8-4 at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, following a 10 minute candlelight ceremony paying tribute to Bob Johnson, who had passed away one day earlier.

1992: Steve Larmer, in his 824th consecutive game, scored two goals and four assists, and Jeremy Roenick had four assists to lead the Blackhawks to an 8-1 win against the Oilers, at Edmonton.

1993: Pittsburgh Penguins' defenseman Larry Murphy picked up his 646th career assist in a 2-2 tie against Ottawa to move ahead of Bobby Orr into sixth place on the all time assist list for defensemen.

1995: Daren Puppa set a club mark with 45 saves in his 13th career shutout, and Alexander Selivanov scored both goals as Tampa Bay won 2-0 over the visiting L.A. Kings. The Lightning set a franchise-record with their fifth consecutive win.

1996: St. Louis Blues obtained Pavol Demitra from the Ottawa Senators, in exchange for Christer Olsson.

1999: Al MacInnis scored once to tie Jeff Brown as the highest goal scoring defenseman in St. Louis team history. His 80th goal with the Blues (along with two assists) came in an 8-3 win over the visiting Chicago Blackhawks.....Toronto's Mats Sundin scored twice, including his 400th point as a Maple Leaf, in a 5-2 win against the visiting Edmonton Oilers.

2001: Rookie goalie Johan Hedberg made 39 saves to record his 3rd career shutout, and Robert Lang scored a goal and added three assists in the Penguins 6-0 win over the visiting New Jersey Devils.....Colorado's Joe Sakic scored a goal and added an assist to become the 34th NHL player to record 1,200 career points as the Avalanche won 4-1 against the visiting Florida Panthers.

2002: Andreas Johansson scored his first career hat trick (including two power play goals) in the Predators 4-2 win over the visiting San Jose Sharks.

2003: Despite being outshot 43-23 by the visiting Los Angeles Kings, Sean Burke made 39 saves, and Ladislav Nagy scored his first career hat trick (with a goal in each period) and added an assist in the Coyotes 6-4 victory. Also in that game Luc Robitaille of the Kings became the second left wing in NHL history to record 700 career assists.....Dan Cloutier recorded his 100th NHL victory, and Markus Naslund scored with 46.2 seconds remaining in overtime and added an assist to give the Canucks a 3-2 win against the Senators at Ottawa.