Today in NHL History, Jan 23rd

1918: Montreal Canadiens lost at home (the Jubilee Arena), for the first time in team history, 4-3 to Ottawa. Joe Malone extended his goal scoring streak to 10 straight games (since the beginning of the NHL).

1927: Goaltender Lorne Chabot recorded the 5th shutout of his rookie season as the New York Rangers won 2-0 over the visiting New York Americans. A record crowd 18,000 attended the game.

1930: Fred "Bun" Cook scored a hat trick in the Rangers' 6-3 win against the visiting Ottawa Senators.

1932: Detroit's Alex Connell regained the NHL's all-time lead in shutouts, when his 67th career shutout moved him one ahead of George Hainsworth. The milestone came in a 2-0 Detroit victory in Boston Garden.

1934: New York Rangers' Murray Murdoch was presented with a ring at an on-ice ceremony on the occasion of his 400th straight NHL game. His streak eventually reached 508 consecutive games -- the NHL's first "Iron Man". NY won 5-2 over Ottawa.....Harvey "Busher" Jackson scored his second career hat trick, and Charlie Conacher had 2 goals and 3 assists as the Leafs extended their team-record home undefeated streak to 11 straight games (9-0-2), with an 8-4 win over the Montreal Maroons.

1944: Detroit scored 15 straight goals (an NHL record) to beat the visiting Rangers 15-0. Connie Dion got his 1st shutout, and Syd Howe led the scoring with 3 goals and 2 assists. Howe's 3 goals gave him 149 with the Wings, one more than Herbie Lewis.

1945: Detroit's Earl Seibert, wearing a patch over his right eye due to an injury, scored twice within a span of 0:36 in the third period for a 5-4 win over the Bruins, at Boston Garden.

1947: Former Black Hawk Pete Horeck came back to haunt his old team when he scored four goals (his second career hat trick) and an assist to help the Red Wings beat Chicago, 8-2.

1949: Boston's Gord "Red" Henry became the 6th goaltender in NHL history to record a shutout in his first career game when the Bruins won 3-0 over the visiting Montreal Canadiens. It was the only shutout of Henry's three games in two NHL seasons.

1956: Montreal's Jean Beliveau became the first hockey player to make the cover of "Sports Illustrated" magazine.

1958: Former NHL player Steve Christoff born in Richfield, Minn. Christoff played in the NHL 1979-80 through 1983-84 with Minnesota, Calgary and Los Angeles.

1973: Islanders' Craig Cameron scored his first career hat trick and added an assist, and Ralph Stewart had a goal and three assists as New York won 8-1 over the visiting Oakland Seals.

1975: Goaltender Ken Dryden recorded his 16th career shutout, and Pete Mahovlich and Guy Lafleur each scored a goal and two assists as the Canadiens beat the North Stars 7-0 at Minnesota, to extend their road unbeaten streak to 7-0-5.

1976: Garnet "Ace" Bailey scored twice and added an assist as the Capitals ended their team-record 25 game winless streak (0-22-3) with a 7-5 win over the Rangers, in Washington.....Vancouver's Garry Monahan scored his first career hat trick in the Canucks' 8-3 win over the Minnesota North Stars.

1983: In his 290th NHL game, Edmonton's Wayne Gretzky scored a goal and added three assists to give him 400 career assists, as the Oilers beat the Kings 8-6, to extend their home undefeated streak against L.A. to 11 games (7-0-4).....Philadelphia rookie goalie Bob Froese extended his record to 6-0-0 as the Flyers beat the Rangers, 3-1. The win lowered his GAA to 1.33.....Buffalo rookie Phil Housley scored his first NHL hat trick as the Sabres beat the Winnipeg Jets 5-2 at the Aud.

1984: Buffalo Sabres became the first team in NHL history to win 10 straight road games, with a 5-3 victory at Boston.

1986: Bruins' Ken Linseman scored a goal and added an assist to collect his 500th career NHL point in Boston's 7-5 win over the visiting Winnipeg Jets.

1988: Charlie Simmer scored the fastest overtime goal in Penguins' history -- just :24 into the extra period, as the Penguins defeated the Canadiens 4-3 in OT, to end their 11 game winless streak (0-9-2) in Montreal.

1990: Pittsburgh's Paul Coffey scored his 17th goal of the season and the 271st of his NHL career, second most among NHL defenseman. He passed Bobby Orr, who retired with 270, and trailed Denis Potvin, who had 310. Penguins lost 4-2 to Devils.

1993: Mike Gartner became the first player in NHL history to score 30 goals in 14 consecutive seasons. His 30th of the 1992-93 season came as the Rangers won 8-3 over the Kings at Los Angeles....Adam Oates scored a goal and added three assists to lead the Bruins to a 7-5 win over the Devils in Boston.

1996: New York Islanders obtained Don Beaupre, Martin Straka and Bryan Berard from Ottawa, in exchange for Damian Rhodes and Wade Redden. The Islanders than traded Beaupre to Toronto.....Ottawa Senators changed coaches for the second time in the 1995-96 season, as General Manager Pierre Gauthier fired coach Dave Allison (who had a record of 2-22-1 after replacing Rick Bowness on Nov 21, 1995) and named Jacques Martin to take over.

1997: Boston's Ray Bourque scored his 350th career NHL goal as the Bruins lost 4-1 to the visiting Florida Panthers. Bourque became the second defenseman in NHL history to score 350 NHL goals (and the 4th player in Bruins' franchise history to do so).

2001: Peter Bondra became the Washington Capitals all-time leader in game-winning goals, when he picked up the 55th of his career in a 5-2 win against the Lightning at Tampa Bay. He broke the record held by Mike Gartner.

2002: Carolina's Arturs Irbe became just the second European-trained goaltender to appear in 500 NHL games, when he played for the Hurricanes in a 2-2 against the visiting Nashville Predators.....Theo Fleury appeared in his 1,000th career NHL game, and celebrated with a goal and three assists (to give him 600 assists in his NHL career) in the Rangers 8-4 win over the visiting Boston Bruins.

2003: Joel Quenneville became the first person in team history to coach 500 games with the St. Louis Blues, and celebrated his milestone with a 3-3 tie against the Blackhawks, in Chicago.

2004: Vaclav Prospal scored his first career hat trick and added an assist, all in the third period as the Mighty Ducks scored 5 unanswered goals for a 6-2 win over the visiting Minnesota Wild.....Florida's Donald Audette scored two power-play goals to reach 500 points in his NHL career, in a 4-1 win over the visiting Washington Capitals.