Today in NHL History, Feb 19th

1891: Hockey Hall of Famer Frank Foyston born in Minesing, Ontario.

1944: 'Bud' Poile scored four times for his first career hat trick and Jack Hamilton added his second (and final) career hat trick as the Maple Leafs beat Boston, 10-4. Babe Pratt added four assists in the game for Toronto.

1952: The Bruins' home game was moved to 4,000 seat Boston Arena when a section of roof over the North station track platform in Boston Garden collapsed. Gordie Howe scored twice to lead the visiting Red Wings to 4-3 win over the Bruins.

1953: Black Hawks' Gus Bodnar set a team record for the fastest goal from the start of a game, when he scored nine seconds into a 4-2 loss against the Rangers, at Chicago Stadium

1955: Montreal's Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion scored five goals (his fourth career hat trick) and an assist and defenseman Doug Harvey had five assists (a team record) as the Canadiens beat the NY Rangers, 10-2 at the Forum.

1969: Pittsburgh rookie Joe Daley recorded his first career shutout, as the Penguins beat Boston, 3-0, at the Civic Arena. Daley set a team record for most saves in a shutout (41) that lasted until 2004 when J-S Aubin had 45 in a 4-0 win over Dallas.....Eddie Joyal scored his second career hat trick and added an assist as the Kings lost 7-2 to the North Stars at Minnesota.

1972: Gerry Cheevers tied an NHL record by extending his unbeaten streak to 23 straight games (17-0-6) as the Bruins beat the North Stars 6-4, at Minnesota. Derek Sanderson had two goals and an assist for the Bruins.....Toronto's Darryl Sittler scored his first career hat trick, including two goals in ten seconds, Buffalo's Rick Martin broke Gil Perreault's NHL record (set the year before) for most goals by a rookie. Martin got #39 as the Maple Leafs beat the Buffalo Sabres, 4-1.

1977: Montreal's Yvan Cournoyer scored twice to become the third player in franchise history to score 400 goals and Jacques Lemaire became the 6th player in franchise history to score 300 goals as the Canadiens extended their team-record home undefeated streak to 23 straight games (18-0-5) with a 5-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers.....Rod Gilbert scored a goal and added an assist to become the first player in NY Rangers history (and the 11th in NHL history) to score 1,000 career points. It came in a 5-2 loss to the Islanders at Long Island, in his 1,027th NHL game.....Rogie Vachon recorded his 38th career shutout as the Kings beat Boston 2-0 at the Forum, in the first penalty-free game played in Los Angeles. Wally Harris was the referee.

1979: Mike Bossy scored his 100th career NHL goal (in an 8-3 Islanders' win at Los Angeles) in just his 129th career game, to break Maurice Richard's NHL record (134 games) for fastest 100 goals.

1980: Washington beat Montreal 3-1 to end the Canadiens' 34 game unbeaten streak against the Caps. Washington had been 0-32-2 against Montreal since entering the NHL in October 1974.....Colorado's Rene Robert scored twice and added three assists, Kevin Morrison had a goal and four assists and Lanny McDonald pitched in with two goals and two assists as the Rockies won 8-6 over the visiting Philadelphia Flyers.....Edmonton rookie Wayne Gretzky played against Hartford's Gordie Howe for the fourth (and final) time in their NHL careers, when the Whalers beat the Oilers 6-2 at Hartford. Both players went scoreless in the game.

1983: Edmonton defenseman Kevin Lowe scored a goal and added five assists in an Oilers' 10-7 victory at Pittsburgh and established a new club record for most points in a game by a defenseman.

1986: Brian Lawton scored his first NHL hat trick and added an assist, and Dennis Maruk had a goal and four assists to lead the Minnesota North Stars to a 6-5 win, at Chicago.....Chris Ruuttu scored the 6,000th goal in Sabres team history, in a 6-3 loss at Pittsburgh.....Paul Coffey scored two goals and added three asissts to give him 100 points in the season, in a 9-5 win over the Maple Leafs in Edmonton. It was Coffey's third straight 100 point season with the Oilers.

1988: Phil Housley set a new scoring record for Sabres defensemen, when he got his 25th goal of the season, in a 5-4 loss to the Flyers in Buffalo.

1989: Washington's Dale Hunter scored the 4,000th goal in Capitals' history, as Washington lost 3-2 at Vancouver.....Winnipeg Jets retired Bobby Hull's uniform #9 in a pre-game ceremony. Then the Jets came out and beat the Hartford Whalers 7-6 in overtime, with a hat trick (the 6th of his career including the winning goal) and an assist by Brent Ashton.

1991: Chris Ruuttu scored the 6,000th goal in Sabres team history, in a 6-3 loss at Pittsburgh.

1992: Calgary goalie Mike Vernon led the Flames to a 6-4 win over Boston to win his 20th game of the season for the sixth consecutive NHL year.....Los Angeles Kings acquired Paul Coffey from the Pittsburgh Penguins, in exchange for Brian Benning, Jeff Chychrun and a 1st round draft pick in 1992. The Penguins later traded the pick to Philadelphia (who used the pick to select Jason Bowen).

1995: Pittsburgh's Luc Robitaille scored twice to give him 400 goals in his NHL career as the Penguins tied 3-3 with the Sabres, at the Civic Arena. Robitaille became the 47th player in the NHL to reach the 400 goal mark.

1996: Colorado's Patrick Roy became the second youngest goaltender to reach 300 NHL victories, and Peter Forsberg scored his second career hat trick and added two assists as the Avalanche won 7-5 over the visiting Oilers.

1997: Chris Osgood recorded his 5th shutout of the season in the Red Wings' 4-0 win over the visiting Calgary Flames. Steve Yzerman picked up three assists in his 1,000th career NHL game. He became the 3rd to play 1,000 games with Detroit.....Devils' extended their team-record unbeaten streak to 12 straight games (6-0-6) and Martin Brodeur stretched his personal unbeaten streak to 13 straight games (8-0-5) as New Jersey tied 1-1 with the visiting New York Rangers.

1998: Calgary Flames signed free agent Martin St. Louis.

2000: Mark Messier picked up two assists for the 2,000th point of his NHL career (including the playoffs) as Vancouver won 3-1 at Ottawa.

2001: Patrick Roy became just the fourth goaltender in NHL history to record six consecutive 30 win seasons, when the Avalanche had a 5-1 win at Pittsburgh. Peter Forsberg led the scoring with two goals and two assists.

2003: Jean-Sebastien Giguere recorded his club-record 7th shutout of the season (breaking the team record set by Guy Hebert) in the Mighty Ducks 2-0 win against the visiting Columbus Blue Jackets.

2004: Philadelphia Flyers acquired center Alexei Zhamnov and a fourth-round draft pick in 2004 from the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for defenseman Jim Vandermeer, center Colin Fraser and a second-round draft pick in 2004.