Today in NHL History, Jan 22nd

1931: Goaltender George Hainsworth recorded his 56th career shutout in the Canadiens' 3-0 win at Ottawa.

1935: Tiny Thompson stopped Montreal Maroons Russ Blinco and Earl Robinson in penalty shots, during a 4-3 Bruins win at Boston Garden. The second shot was awarded when Bruins' Nels Stewart began skating around during the first shot.

1938: Boston Bruins recorded their biggest road win in team history (up to that time) a 9-1 victory over Toronto, at Maple Leaf Gardens.

1961: Chicago's Glenn Hall became the third goaltender in franchise history to record 100 wins as a member of the Black Hawks. The milestone came in an 8-3 win over the visiting Boston Bruins. Stan Mikita led the scoring with four assists.

1966: Detroit's Roger Crozier recorded his 15th career shutout as the Red Wings won 3-0 at Montreal. The Wings had to wear the jerseys of their junior team in Hamilton as their NHL jerseys had been stolen from the Forum locker room the night before.

1972: Bruins' John McKenzie scored a goal and added three assists as Boston won 8-5, at Montreal.

1976: Reggie Leach scored his 6th career hat trick, Bill Barber had two goals and three assists and Orest Kindrachuk picked up four assists in the Flyers' 7-2 win over the Atlanta Flames, at the Spectrum.

1977: Goaltender Tony Esposito recorded his 58th career shutout in the Black Hawks' 3-0 win over the Red Wings at Detroit.

1978: Jean Pronovost scored twice in the first period to become the first 300 goal scorer in Penguins history. The milestone came as Pittsburgh won 3-1 over the visiting New York Rangers.

1980: Ron Duguay scored his third career hat trick (including two shorthanded goals), as the Rangers beat the Kings 5-4 at the Forum in Los Angeles.

1981: Rookie Steve Christoff scored his second career hat trick and added an assist as the Minnesota North Stars lost 5-4 to the Flyers, at Philadelphia.

1983: Vancouver Canucks celebrated the 1,000th game in franchise history with a 4-3 win over Edmonton.

1986: Penguins had their first win in Edmonton, when Mike Bullard scored his 5th career hat trick and Mario Lemieux added 4 assists in a 7-4 victory over the Oilers. The Pens snapped their 10 game winless streak (0-9-1) at Edmonton, since Feb. 1980.....Detroit ended their 10-game home winless streak against Boston (0-7-3) with a 6-5 overtime win against the Bruins. Warren Young scored twice, including the winner at 1:32 of overtime.

1987: A snowstorm in New Jersey delayed the game between the Devils and Flames for two hours. When it finally started, only 334 fans were on hand to see the Devils beat the Flames 7-5. The game ended at 11:44 PM.

1988: Minnesota North Stars traded Keith Acton to Edmonton in exchange for Moe Mantha.

1989: Sabres Captain Lindy Ruff scored his 100th career NHL goal as Buffalo won 6-4 over the visiting Boston Bruins, to extend their unbeaten streak to 7 games (5-0-2).

1992: Ray Bourque became the highest goal-scoring defenseman in Boston Bruins' history, surpassing Bobby Orr, when he picked up career goal #265 in a 5-2 win at Toronto.

1994: The Eastern Conference All-Stars beat the Western All-Stars 9-8 at the 45th NHL All Star Game at Madison Square Garden New York. Rangers' Mike Richter won the MVP award.

1995: Flames' defenseman Phil Housley scored his 250th NHL career goal as Calgary won 4-1, at Detroit.

1996: Ray Bourque scored a shorthanded goal and added three assists, and Adam Oates had four assists as the Bruins lost 7-6 in overtime at Pittsburgh.....Allan Bester picked up his first NHL victory in 5 years and 297 days, when he led the Dallas Stars to a 6-4 win over Vancouver. Bester was filling in for injured Stars' goalies Andy Moog and Darcy Wakaluk.

1997: Toronto's Doug Gilmour picked up five assists in the Maple Leafs' 5-3 win over the visiting Calgary Flames.

1998: Minnesota's new NHL franchise (set to begin play in 2000-2001) announced that their new team would be called the "Wild".

2000: Goaltender Kevin Weekes recorded his first career NHL shutout in the Islanders 2-0 win against the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning.

2003: Dallas' Mike Modano tied Neal Broten's franchise record for most games in team history (992), and then broke Broten's record for career assists, when he picked up the 594th of his career in a 4-2 Stars' win over the visiting Columbus Blue Jackets.....Olaf Kolzig became the first goaltender in Washington Capitals history to win 200 games, when he made 35 saves in a 5-3 win over the visiting Carolina Hurricanes. Also in that game, Washington's Jaromir Jagr scored twice (and added an assist) to give him 25 goals in each of his 13 NHL seasons......Detroit's Brett Hull became just the second player in NHL history to score 20 goals in each of his first 16 NHL seasons, when he connected for the 699th of his career in the Red Wings 4-3 loss in overtime against the Oilers at Edmonton.....Martin Brodeur won the 350th game of his NHL career, and Joe Nieuwendyk scored twice (the tying goal with 13 seconds left in regulation and the winner at 4:32 of overtime) and added 2 assists in the Devils 5-4 win against the Sharks at San Jose.

2004: Chicago rookie Craig Anderson made 30 saves to record his first career win and his first NHL shutout in a 7-0 win over the visiting Columbus Blue Jackets. Anderson entered the game with an 0-11-2 record in his 2-year NHL career.