Today in NHL History, Dec 10th

1924: In the first ever game between the Montreal Maroons and their cross town rivals, the Canadiens, Georges Vezina shut out the Maroons 5-0, with Aurel Joliat scoring four goals. It was Vezina's 9th career shutout.....Jack Adams scored twice and added two assists as the Toronto St. Pats won 6-3, at Ottawa.

1927: Ottawa goalie Alex Connell and Maple Leafs' John Roach dueled to a 0-0 scoreless tie, in a game played at Toronto. It was Connell's 38th career shutout and the 11th for Roach.

1931: George Hainsworth recorded his 64th career shutout (to pass Alex Connell as the NHL's career shutout leader) and Pip Lepine scored his 4th career hat trick as Montreal won 3-0 against the Americans, at New York.

1936: Red Wings beat the Canadiens 2-1 in a penalty-free game played in Detroit. There were none called against either team for the entire game.

1949: Goaltender Chuck Rayner recorded his 16th career shutout to lead the Rangers to a 1-0 win over the Red Wings in New York.

1953: Eddie Sandford scored a hat trick and added an assist, and Johnny Pierson had a goal and three assists to lead the Bruins to a 6-3 win over the Red Wings in Boston.....Maurice Richard scored his 20th career hat trick in the Canadiens' 5-3 win against the Chicago Black Hawks, in Montreal.

1954: A governors meeting was held to discuss ways and means of assisting the last place Chicago club. Following the meeting, Ed Litzenberger of Montreal and Toronto's Harry Watson were sent to the Black Hawks.

1959: Bronco Horvath picked up three assists to lead the Bruins to a 6-3 win over the Maple Leafs, in Boston. Bruins scored four goals in the first period, to win the game.

1960: Dickie Moore became the 8th player in Montreal Canadiens history to score 200 goals. The milestone goal (along with two assists) came in a 6-4 win over Detroit, at the Forum.....Goaltender Gump Worsley recorded a shutout in the NY Rangers' 3-0 win over the Bruins at Boston. It was the 20th career shutout for Worsley.

1967: Black Hawks ran their team-record road unbeaten streak to 10 games (5-0-5) when Denis DeJordy recorded his 8th career shutout in a 3-0 win over the Flyers at Philadelphia.

1969: Black Hawks' Pit Martin scored twice to give him 100 career NHL goals when Chicago lost 8-5 to the North Stars at Minnesota.

1970: John Bucyk played in his 1,000th NHL game, and scored two goals and four assists, during an 8-2 Bruins' win against the visiting Buffalo Sabres. Boston had 72 shots on goal. Also in that game, goaltender Joe Daley set a Sabres team record with 64 saves as Buffalo lost 8-2, in their first visit to Boston. It was the highest number of shots in a game since 1943.....Jacques Lemaire scored twice (including the 5,000th goal in Montreal Canadiens history) and added an assist in a 6-1 win against the visiting Minnesota North Stars.

1972: In a battle of the hat tricks, the Bruins behind three goals from Ken Hodge (the third of his career) outlasted the Oakland Seals 8-4,Êwho got three goals from Marshall Johnston (the first of his career), at Boston Garden.

1975: Before a Montreal game with Toronto, the Canadiens officially retired uniform #16 worn by Elmer Lach and Henri Richard. Canadiens tied 3-3 with the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs.

1977: Philadelphia's Fred Shero celebrated his 500th game as an NHL coach as the Flyers beat Chicago, 4-2 at the Spectrum.

1980: Bobby Schmautz set a Vancouver team record with four points in the third period (2-2-4), as the Canucks defeated the Leafs 8-5 at Toronto. Per-Olov Brasar also collected four points (2-2-4).

1983: Kings' Marcel Dionne scored his 557th NHL career goal to pass Johnny Bucyk for 4th on the all time goal scoring list as the Quebec Nordiques won 6-4 in Los Angeles.

1984: Kings' Bernie Nicholls extended his team-record point scoring streak to 25 straight games as Los Angeles lost 4-2 to the Rangers, in New York. Nicholls scored 21 goals and 19 assists for 40 points during the 25 game streak.

1985: Mark Howe scored his 400th career NHL point with a pair of goals and an assist as the Flyers defeated the Boston Bruins 7-4, at the Spectrum.

1986: Edmonton's Wayne Gretzky became the first NHL player to score 40 career hat tricks, when his three goals led the Oilers to a 7-4 win against the Jets, at Winnipeg.

1988: Edmonton's Craig Muni played in his 200th career game and Grant Fuhr appeared in his 350th career game in the Oilers' 7-6 loss to the Winnipeg Jets.....Washington's Pete Peeters and Canadiens' Patrick Roy dueled to a 0-0 scoreless tie at the Forum in Montreal. It was the 16th career shutout for Peeters and the 7th shutout of Roy's NHL career.....Mario Lemieux scored two goals :39 apart midway through the third period give the Penguins a 4-4 tie against New Jersey.

1989: Buffalo's Dave Andreychuk collected his 500th career NHL point as the Sabres won 4-3 over the Capitals, at the Aud. It was the Sabres 12th straight home win, tying a club record.....L.A.'s Wayne Gretzky had a goal and three assists to give him 1,900 career NHL points (in just 803 games) as the Kings beat the Nordiques 8-4 in Quebec City.

1992: Jeremy Roenick scored two goals and two assists, and Brent Sutter had four assists to lead the Blackhawks to a 5-3 win against the NY Islanders, at Chicago Stadium.....Quebec's Mats Sundin extended his team-record point scoring streak to 30 games in the Nordiques' 5-4 win at Los Angeles. Sundin scored 21 goals, 25 assists for a total of 46 points during the 30 game streak.....NHL announced that conditional expansion franchises had been awarded to Anaheim, California and Miami, Florida. The teams were targeted to begin play in the 1993-94 season, and would bring the NHL to 26 teams

1997: Dallas' Ed Belfour stopped 12 shots for his franchise-record 7th shutout of the year (and 38th of his career) in a 3-0 win over the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning. Belfour broke the record of 6 shutouts in a season set by Cesare Maniago in 1967-68.....Michel Petit became the first player in NHL history to score a point for 10 different teams, when his first assist of the year helped the Phoenix Coyotes to a 3-3 tie at Chicago.

1998: Nashville goalie Tomas Vokoun won his first career NHL game with 34 saves in the Predators' 2-1 win against the visiting San Jose Sharks.

2001: Montreal goalie Jose Theodore recorded his 10th career shutout, and Oleg Petrov scored a goal and added two assists in the Canadiens 4-0 win against the visiting Minnesota Wild.

2003: Martin Brodeur recorded his 70th career shutout, and Patrik Elias scored his 400th career NHL point with the winning goal at 2:09 of overtime in the Devils 1-0 win over the visiting New York Islanders.


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