Thursday, November 29, 2007

Today in NHL History, November 29th

1930: Montreal's George Hainsworth became just the second goaltender in team history to win 100 career games, as the Canadiens won 3-2 over the visiting Boston Bruins.

1931: Rangers' Bill Cook scored a natural hat trick, and Johnny Roach recorded his 36th career shutout as New York won 5-0 at Chicago.

1932: Ottawa's Alex Connell became the first goaltender in NHL history to record 70 career shutouts, in the Senators 2-0 win over the visiting Detroit Red Wings.

1936: New York Americans' goalie Roy Worters recorded his 67th (and final) career shutout in a 2-0 win over the Red Wings, in Detroit.

1956: Boston goalie Terry Sawchuk recorded his 68th career shutout in the Bruins' 2-0 win at Chicago.

1962: Rangers' Andy Bathgate scored his 229th career NHL goal to become New York's all-time leading scorer, breaking Bill Cook's record for Rangers' goals (228) in a 5-0 win at Detroit. Gump Worsley got his 23rd career shutout.

1967: In one of hockey's biggest trades, St. Louis traded Ron Stewart and Ron Atwell to the NY Rangers in exchange for Barclay Plager and Red Berenson, who went on to become stars of the expansion Blues.....Scotty Bowman picked up the first coaching victory of his NHL career when the Blues beat the Kings 3-2 in St. Louis (to end a team-record 7 game losing streak). Jimmy Roberts led the scoring with two goals.

1972: Eddie Shack scored his 7th (and final) career hat trick (and his only one with Pittsburgh) and Syl Apps had a goal and three assists in the Penguins' 7-4 win against Toronto, at the Civic Arena.

1975: Los Angeles goalie Rogie Vachon made six saves in the first 1:02 of the game, and went on to win his 200th NHL career game when the Kings won 8-3 over the Sabres, at the Forum. Vachon became the 19th NHL goaltender to get 200 career wins.....Islanders' Denis Potvin and Eddie Westfall each scored a goal and added three assists as New York won 8-2 over the visiting St. Louis Blues.

1981: Lindy Ruff scored his first career hat trick as the Sabres beat the N.Y. Islanders 5-2.....Montreal's Mario Tremblay scored a goal and added four assists, Doug Risebrough got his second career hat trick and Pierre Mondou had a goal and three assists in the Canadiens 6-3 win against Hartford, at the Forum.

1983: Brent Sutter scored three goals to lead the Islanders to a 5-5 tie at St. Louis.

1984: Kings beat the Canucks 12-1 at the Forum, setting team records for power play goals (6) and goals (12) in a game.....Playing in his 416th NHL game, Edmonton's Wayne Gretzky recorded his 599th and 600th career assists as the Oilers won 4-2 at Boston.

1986: Philadelphia's Mark Howe picked up three assists in the Flyers 6-5 win over the Islanders, in New York. Mike Bossy scored his 38th career hat trick for the losing Islanders.....Whalers' defenseman Dave Babych collected four assists in a 7-5 Hartford win over the Canadiens at Montreal.

1987: Rangers' goalie Bob Froese was credited with a goal during a delayed penalty against the Islanders. The scoring was changed a few days later when a replay revealed that Froese was not the last Ranger to touch the puck. Rangers won 3-1

1991: Rangers' Brian Leetch began a team-record 15 game assist streak as New York won 5-4 over the Sabres, at Buffalo.....Kevin Stevens scored four goals and an assist to lead the Penguins to a 9-3 win at Philadelphia. It was the 5th hat trick of Stevens' NHL career.

1992: Sabres' Pat LaFontaine scored twice to give him 350 goals in his NHL career as Buffalo won 5-2, at Ottawa.

1997: Toronto's Wendel Clark recorded his 500th career NHL point (287 goals, 213 assists), with a goal in a 4-2 Maple Leafs' loss to Vancouver.....New York Islanders celebrated their 1,000th home game in team history with a 4-2 win over the St. Louis Blues.

1998: John LeClair scored four goals, including his 9th career hat trick and Eric Lindros picked up four assists in the Flyers' 6-2 win against the visiting Vancouver Canucks.....Chicago Blackhawks beat the Oilers 3-2 in Edmonton, for the 2,000th all-time win since the franchise entered the NHL in 1926-27.

2001: Minnesota goalie Dwayne Roloson recorded his 4th career shutout and Matt Johnson collected his 1,000th career penalty minutes as the Wild won 6-0 against the visiting Florida Panthers.