Today in NHL History, Feb 27th

1918: Ottawa and Montreal traveled to Quebec City for the first "neutral site" game in NHL history. Frank Nighbor scored twice in the first period to lead the Senators to a 3-1 win over the Canadiens.

1924: Ottawa's King Clancy scored three goals and added an assist in the Senators' 7-4 win over the visiting Hamilton Tigers.

1930: New York Americans loaned their goaltender Roy Worters to the Montreal Canadiens for one night. He gave up 2 goals in a 6-2 win against the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs. Howie Morenz led the Canadiens' scoring with his 9th career hat trick.

1960: Detroit's Terry Sawchuk became the third goaltender in NHL history to record 300 victories. The milestone came in a Red Wings' 4-3 win over the Maple Leafs.

1970: Minnesota North Stars purchased 41-year-old goaltender Gump Worsley from the Montreal Canadiens. Worsley went on to play four and a half years with the North Stars, compiling a record of 39-37-24 with 2.62 GAA

1974: Chicago's Tony Esposito became just the 4th goaltender in NHL history to record five 30-win seasons. The milestone came in a 3-1 Black Hawks win over the North Stars, in Minnesota. Dennis Hull led the scoring with two goals and an assist.

1979: Guy Lafleur scored his 100th point of the season when he picked up an assist in a Canadiens' 7-3 loss to the Islanders at New York. Lafleur became the third player in NHL history to record 5 straight 100 point seasons.

1981: Kent Nilsson had 3 goals and an assist to become the 3rd player in Flames history (& the first since the move to Calgary) to score 100 points in a season. It came in a 5-1 win over the Hartford Whalers. It was Nilsson's 2nd consecutive hat trick.

1982: Denis Savard became the second player in Chicago Blackhawks history to get 100 points in a season, when he picked up an assist in a 5-3 win at Los Angeles.....Blake Dunlop extended his team-record point scoring streak to 19 straight games, and Bernie Federko scored his fifth career hat trick to lead the Blues to a 6-2 win against the Red Wings. Dunlop had 10 goals and 21 assists in the 19 games.

1984: Paul Coffey became the first defenseman in Oilers' history to score 100 NHL goals, and added two assists as Edmonton tied a team record with its 8th consecutive win, a 6-5 overtime win against the Jets at Winnipeg.

1985: Minnesota's Brian Bellows scored his 100th career NHL goal when the North Stars lost 6-1 at Toronto.

1988: Montreal Captain Bob Gainey scored the only hat trick of his 15 year NHL career to lead the Canadiens to a 6-0 win over the Winnipeg Jets at the Forum. Brian Hayward recorded his fourth career shutout.

1990: Danton Cole became the only Winnipeg Jets' rookie to score a goal during the 1989-90 season, in an 8-3 loss to the Minnesota North Stars. Eight rookies played for the Jets in 1989-90, but Cole scored their only goal.

1992: Playing in his first NHL game since leading the Unified Team to the 1992 Olympic Gold Medal, Igor Kravchuk scored his first NHL goal to lead the Blackhawks to a 4-2 win over the Red Wings, in Chicago.....Pittsburgh's Bob Errey played in his 500th NHL game, and picked up 15 penalty minutes in an 8-4 loss to the Hartford Whalers.....St. Louis Blues signed free agent Philippe Bozon, who had spent the previous 5 seasons playing in France. Bozon went on to become the first French born-and-trained player to appear in the NHL.

1993: Penguins' Larry Murphy played in his 1,000th career NHL game, a 3-3 tie against Tampa Bay, at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh.....Joe Mullen became the first U.S. born player to reach the 900 career NHL point plateau, when he scored twice and added an assist to lead the Penguins to a 3-3 tie against Tampa Bay at the Civic Arena.

1994: Boston's Adam Oates had three assists, and goaltender Jon Casey recorded his 16th career shutout to lead the Bruins to a 3-0 win over the Blackhawks, in Chicago.....Lightning center Denis Savard became the 96th player in NHL history to appear in 1,000 career games as Tampa Bay lost 3-2 to the Edmonton Oilers.

1996: St. Louis obtained Wayne Gretzky from Los Angeles, in exchange for Craig Johnson, Patrice Tardif, Roman Vopat, the Blues' 1st round pick in the 1997 Entry Draft (Matt Zultek) and 5th round pick in the 1996 Entry Draft (Peter Hogan).

2000: New Jersey's Martin Brodeur became the first NHL goaltender to win 35 (or more) games for four straight seasons, with a 3-0 win over the visiting Montreal Canadiens. It was also Brodeur's 40th career shutout.....Scotty Bowman earned his 300th victory as Red Wings head coach with a 3-1 win against the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning.

2001: Luc Robitaille scored his 30th goal of the season (for the 11th time in his 15 year career) as the L.A. Kings beat the Predators 2-1 at Nashville.

2002: Pittsburgh's Mario Lemieux became just the 7th player in NHL history to score 1,600 points, when he had two assists in a 5-4 loss to the visiting Los Angeles Kings.

2003: Cliff Ronning scored twice in the final four minutes of play (after getting an earlier assist) to lead the Minnesota Wild to a 6-3 win at Montreal. The victory gave Minnesota 73 points (equalling the franchise record set one year earlier).....Brett Hull scored twice and added an assist to surpass 1,300 career NHL points in the Red Wings 7-2 win over the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs. The two goals gave Hull 25 goals (or more) for the 15th time in his NHL career.