Today in NHL History, Jan 24th

1927: Howie Morenz scored the final goal of his NHL career, when the Montreal Canadiens beat the Black Hawks 4-1 in Chicago.

1928: Pittsburgh goalie Roy Worters and Bruins' Hal Winkler dueled to a 0-0 scoreless tie, in a game played at Boston. It was Worters' 17th career shutout and the 14th for Winkler.....George Hainsworth recorded his 21st career shutout, Howie Morenz scored twice and added three assists and Arthur Gagne got his first career hat trick in the Canadiens' 10-0 win over the visiting Chicago Black Hawks.

1929: Goaltender Roy Worters recorded his 30th career shutout and Billy Burch scored twice in the New York Americans' 2-0 win against the visiting Montreal Maroons.

1937: Flash Hollett had three assists and Reginald Smith scored the game-tying effort at 19:48 with Tiny Thompson off the ice for an extra attacker as Boston scored six third-period goals to earn a 6-6 tie with the NY Americans, at Boston Garden.

1952: Detroit's Gordie Howe reached the 300 point mark in his NHL career. He picked up two assists as the Red Wings and Toronto tied 2-2, at Detroit. Ted Lindsay had a goal and an assist for the Wings.

1960: Chicago's Glenn Hall tied the NHL record for consecutive games by a goaltender, when he appeared in his 328th straight game, a 3-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens. Hall tied the mark set by Montreal's Georges Vezina.

1968: Don McKenny and Frank St. Marseille set a Blues' team record by scoring goals just seven seconds apart, during a 5-2 win over the visiting Minnesota North Stars.

1969: Minnesota North Stars obtained veteran defenseman Leo Boivin from Pittsburgh in trade for Duane Rupp.

1970: Rangers' defenseman Brad Park picked up four assists as New York won 8-1 over Boston, at Madison Square Garden.

1971: Dave Balon scored four goals, including his 4th career hat trick as the Rangers beat the visiting Minnesota North Stars 6-2.....Boston's Bobby Orr extended his consecutive game point scoring streak to 18, with a goal and two assists in the Bruins' 4-2 win over Montreal. Orr scored 35 points (9 goals, 26 assists) during the streak.

1973: Kevin O'Shea scored a goal and added three assists to lead the Blues to a 7-5 win over the Kings at Los Angeles.

1976: Chris Oddleifson became the first Vancouver Canucks' player to score two shorthanded goals in a game, when he scored twice in the second period of a 5-5 tie against Toronto.

1978: Buffalo played host to the 1978 NHL All Star Game. Rick Martin tied the game with 1:39 in regulation and Gil Perreault scored the winner at 3:55 of overtime for a 3-2 win for the Wales Conference, in the first All-Star game to go into overtime.

1981: Mario Tremblay scored his first career hat trick to lead the Canadiens to a 6-3 win against the Philadelphia Flyers, at the Forum in Montreal.....Islanders' right winger Mike Bossy scored twice in a 7-4 win over the Quebec Nordiques, to become only the 2nd player in NHL history to score 50 goals in the first 50 games of a season. Maurice Richard was the first in 1944-45 season.....Toronto's Darryl Sittler scored four goals as the Maple Leafs beat the Hartford Whalers, 7-4. It was the 17th hat trick of Sittler's NHL career.

1986: Mike Bossy became the 20th player in NHL history to score 1,000 career points. #1,000 came as an assist in a 7-5 Islanders' win at Washington. (Bossy had a goal and three assists in the game).

1988: The North Stars got their first win in Philadelphia in almost 10 years, as Minnesota won 5-3 at the Spectrum. In 16 games since April 9, 1978, the North Stars had been 0-11-5 at the Spectrum.

1991: Ray Bourque had two assists in a 3-0 win over the Hartford Whalers, to pass Bobby Orr and become Boston's all-time leading scorer among defensemen. Orr had scored 888 points in 631 career games with Boston. Andy Moog got his 11th career shutout.


1992: New Jersey Devils beat the Capitals 5-2 at Washington to put the team eight games over .500 for the first time in franchise history. Rookie Valeri Zelepukin led the scoring with two goals and an assist.

1994: Panthers beat the Canadiens 8-3 to win its franchise-best fourth in a row, and extended its unbeaten streak to 6 straight games. They scored 5 goals on 7 shots during the second period.

1996: Kevin Dineen played his 500th career game with the Hartford Whalers, in the team's 4-2 loss in Buffalo. Dineen became the second player to appear in 500 games in a Hartford uniform.

1999: Team North American beat Team World 8-6, in the NHL All Star game, in Tampa Bay. Wayne Gretzky had a goal and two assissts, and was named the game's MVP, and Arturs Irbe became the first goaltender to pick up an assist in an All Star Game.....Vancouver Canucks fired head coach Mike Keenan, and named Marc Crawford as his replacement (the 15th coach in team history).

2001: Mario Lemieux scored a goal in each period for his 40th career hat trick (passing Mike Bossy for 2nd place in NHL career hat tricks) as Pittsburgh won 3-1 against the visiting Montreal Canadiens. Lemieux scored his 3 goals on 3 shots.....Detroit's Larry Murphy became just the second player in league history to appear in 1,600 NHL games, and chipped in with an assist as the Red Wings won 4-3 against the visiting Nashville Predators.

2002: Jacques Martin picked up his 300th career coaching victory when Daniel Alfredsson and Shawn McEachern scored power-play goals three minutes apart in the third period to lead the Senators to a 4-3 win against the visiting Boston Bruins.....Andy Murray recorded his 100th victory as coach of the Kings when Los Angeles won 4-1 against the visiting Minnesota Wild.

2003: Mike Modano became the Dallas Stars' franchise all-time leader in games played when he appeared in his 993rd game with the team, a 4-2 win over the Blues, in St. Louis. He broke the record of 992 games held by Neal Broten.....Detroit's Sergei Fedorov scored his 20th goal of the season for the 12th time in his NHL career, and added two assists in a 5-2 Red Wings' victory at Vancouver.