Today in NHL History, November 30th

1911: Hall of Famer Dave "Sweeney" Schriner born in Russia. At he age of one month his family settled in Calgary, Alberta. Schriner played in the NHL 1934-35 through 1945-46 with the New York Americans and Toronto.

1918: The NHL modified its penalty rules: From this time forward, teams would play shorthanded for only the first three minutes of a five minute major, and for only the first five minutes of a 20 minute match penalty.

1926: Ace Bailey scored his first career hat trick as the Toronto St. Patricks (before their name changed to "Maple Leafs") beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-0, at the Mutual Street Arena in Toronto. John Roach recorded his 6th career shutout.

1929: Nels Stewart scored a natural hat trick as the Montreal Maroons won 3-2 at Ottawa.

1933: Playing on a line that averaged only 150 pounds, Cooney Weiland was the star in his first game with Detroit, as they beat Chicago 2-1.

1940: Toronto's Hank Goldup scored his first career hat trick in the first period and later added another goal as the Maple Leafs won 6-1 over the visiting NY Americans.

1946: Toronto's Bill Ezinicki scored his first career hat trick and Turk Broda got his 36th career shutout in the Maple Leafs' 11-0 win over the Chicago Black Hawks.

1947: Toronto goalie Turk Broda and Bruins' Frank Brimsek dueled to a 0-0 scoreless tie, in a game played at Boston. It was the start of a team-record 9 game road unbeaten streak (4-0-5) for the Leafs.

1950: Toronto Maple Leafs' rookie Al Rollins and Canadiens' rookie Gerry McNeil recorded shutouts to lead their teams to a 0-0 tie in Montreal. It was the 5th career shutout for McNeil, and the second for Rollins.

1949: Rookie defenseman Jean Lamirande scored two goals in his first NHL game, as the Rangers beat Montreal, 5-2.....Goaltender Harry Lumley recorded his 22nd career shutout to lead the Red Wings to a 3-0 win over the Bruins at the Olympia in Detroit.

1954: Montreal and Chicago had a 3-3 tie in a Black Hawks "home" game in Omaha, Nebraska. 4,506 fans showed up to see the game. Chicago played six "home games" on the road that year, in Omaha, St. Louis, and St. Paul.

1957: Montreal's Jean Beliveau scored his 5th career hat trick and added an assist as the Canadiens won 6-1 against the Black Hawks, at the Forum.

1958: Montreal's Bernie Geoffrion scored his 7th career hat trick and an assist, and Dickie Moore added two goals and three assists when the Canadiens won 7-0, at Detroit. Jacques Plante earned his 38th career shutout for the Habs.

1963: Boston Bruins' goalie Eddie Johnston and Canadiens' Charlie Hodge dueled to a 0-0 scoreless tie, in a game played at Montreal. It was the third career shutout for Johnston and the 7th for Hodge.

1966: Goaltender Ed Giacomin recorded his second consecutive shutout (and the third of his career) and Reg Fleming scored two goals and an assist in the Rangers' 5-0 win at Chicago.

1972: Bobby Orr scored twice and added two assists to lead the Bruins to a 5-4 win against Buffalo.

1973: Los Angeles Kings traded Gilles Marotte and Real Lemieux to the NY Rangers in exchange for Sheldon Kannegiesser, Tommy Williams, and Mike Murphy.

1974: etroit goaltender Jim Rutherford recorded his 7th career shutout to lead the Red Wings to a 1-0 win over the expansion Scouts, at Kansas City, in the first game ever between the two teams.

1976: Buffalo beat Boston 6-2, to end the Bruins' 31 game home unbeaten streak. Andre Savard scored a goal and added two assists to lead the scoring.....Detroit Red Wings traded veteran defenseman Bryan Watson to Washington, in exchange for Greg Joly, who had been the first player selected in the 1974 draft.

1977: Peter Mahovlich scored his third (and final) career hat trick in his first game as a Penguin, and Lowell MacDonald had a goal and three assists to lead the Penguins to a 6-4 win against the Red Wings, at the Civic Arena.

1983: Darcy Rota scored his fourth hat trick as a Canuck and the 8th (and final) of his NHL career and added an assist in the Canucks' 6-2 victory over the Whalers, at Hartford. Thomas Gradin earned four assists in the game.

1985: Quebec goaltender Clint Malarchuk recorded his second career (and second consecutive) shutout in the Nordiques' 2-0 win over the visiting Boston Bruins.

1988: Hartford's Ray Ferraro scored his 100th NHL career goal when the Whalers lost 6-3 to the visiting Montreal Canadiens.

1989: Andy Moog extended his unbeaten streak to 7-0-1 with a 5-1 Bruins' win over Buffalo. Boston's Cam Neely extended his goal streak to eight games, the second-longest such streak in team history.

1991: Bryan Trottier played in his 1,200th career NHL game as the Penguins won 5-1 at Philadelphia to extend their undefeated streak to 6 games (5-0-1).....Minnesota North Stars veteran Bobby Smith scored his 1,000th career NHL point with an assist, and also added a goal in a 4-3 win at Toronto.

1993: NHL Officials announced the end of their strike, which had begun on November 15, 1993.....Gary Roberts scored his 200th career NHL goal as the Flames extended their home undefeated streak against Dallas to 12 games (9-0-3), in a 2-2 tie with the Stars. Roberts became the 5th player in franchise history to score 200 goals as a Flame.

1995: Grant Fuhr became the 11th goaltender in NHL history to reach the 300-victory plateau as St. Louis won 4-1 against the Jets, at Winnipeg. Fuhr improved his career record to 300-207-74.....Mario Lemieux scored four goals, and Markus Naslund added four assists as Pittsburgh won 9-6 at Boston. It was the 34th career hat trick for Lemieux.

1996: 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.....New Jersey's Steve Thomas scored his 300th career NHL goal, in a 2-1 Devils' loss in Colorado.....Ed Belfour became the third goaltender in franchise history to record 200 victories as a member of the Blackhawks. The milestone came in a 5-3 win over the Kings, at Los Angeles. Tony Amonte led the scoring with his third career hat trick.

2000: Rookie goalie Robert Esche recorded his first career shutout (in his sixth start of the season) as the Coyotes won 2-0 against the visiting Minnesota Wild.

2001: Igor Larionov scored his 150th career NHL goal and added an assist in the Red Wings 4-2 win over the visiting New Jersey Devils. Larionov's goal came 3 days before his 41st birthday.

2002: 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.


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