Today in NHL History, March 26th

1915: Barney Stanley scored four goals as the Vancouver Millionaires won their only Stanley Cup Championship, with a 12-3 win over the Ottawa Senators.

1919: In the longest game in Stanley Cup Finals history, the Canadiens and Metropolitans played 100 minutes of overtime without scoring a goal. Goalies were Georges Vezina and Harry Holmes. It was the first 0-0 tie in NHL playoff history.

1927: Despite losing 4-3 to the visiting Boston Bruins on the final night of the season, the New York Rangers won the NHL's American Division Championship (with a record of 25-13-6) in their first season in the league.

1931: Stewart Adams scored at 19:20 of overtime to lead the Black Hawks to a 2-1 win over Toronto, in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Quarter-Finals. It was the first win, and first overtime goal in Chicago playoff history.

1939: Marty Barry scored the 2nd power play overtime goal in NHL history (at 7:47 of OT) to give the Red Wings a 1-0 win over Montreal, in the 3rd and final game of their Stanley Cup Quarter-Finals. Tiny Thompson got his 7th & final playoff shutout.....A record playoff crowd of 16,981 jammed Boston Garden to watch the Bruins beat the Rangers, 4-1 in Game Three of the Stanley Cup Semi-Finals. Milt Schmidt led the scoring with two goals.

1950: Toronto's rookie defenseman Tim Horton played in his first career NHL game when the Maple Leafs lost 5-3 to the Rangers, at New York.....Detroit's Ted Lindsay set an NHL record for most assists in a season, when he picked up his 55th of the year in a 5-4 Red Wings' loss to the visiting Chicago Black Hawks. Lindsay broke the record of Elmer Lach, who had 54 assists in 1944-45.....Montreal set an NHL record with their 19th tie of the season, and Maurice Richard scored a goal to become the 4th NHL player to get 250 career goals in a 3-3 at Bosto

1961: Glenn Hall had 53 saves, and Murray Balfour scored twice, including the winner at 52:12 of OT to give the Black Hawks a 2-1 win over Montreal, in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Semi-Finals. Balfour scored the 8th power play OT goal in NHL history.

1970: Rookie Tony Esposito broke Harry Lumley's 16-year-old "modern" NHL record of 13 shutouts in a season. His 14th led the Black Hawks to a 1-0 win over the Red Wings at Detroit. Esposito finished with 15 shutouts in his first full NHL season.

1974: Bob Berry became just the second player in L.A. Kings history to score 100 career goals. He reached the milestone in a 5-1 loss to the North Stars in Minnesota.

1975: Kings' Dave Hutchison became just the second player in NHL history to be called for a "triple minor" in the Kings' 5-1 win over Washington. Hutchison was called for charging (two minutes) and roughing (four minutes) at 6:48 of the second.

1977: Phil Russell set a team team record with eight penalties in the Black Hawks' 7-2 win over the Minnesota North Stars. He picked up six minors, a misconduct and a game misconduct on the night.

1979: Gil Perreault and Rick Dudley scored goals 35 seconds apart with less than eight minutes remaining, to give the Sabres a 4-2 win at St. Louis, and a then-club record of four consecutive road victories.

1981: Pierre Larouche scored his 9th career hat trick and added an assist, and Mark Napier had a goal and three assists as the Canadiens extended their home unbeaten streak to 24 games (22-0-2) with an win 8-2 against Calgary

1985: Edmonton's Jari Kurri became the third player in NHL history to score 70 goals in a season. He picked up #70 in a 7-5 win over the Islanders at New York.

1986: Minnesota North Stars' center Neal Broten became the first U.S. born player to score 100 points in a season. He reached the century mark with two assists in a 6-1 North Stars' victory at Toronto.

1987: Philadelphia's Mike Keenan became the first coach in NHL history to win 45 games in each of his first three seasons, when the Flyers had a 3-2 OT win over the visiting Quebec Nordiques.

1988: Calgary Flames beat Vancouver 6-1 to win their first Smythe Division Championship, ending Edmonton's six year reign as Division Champs. Brad McCrimmon led the scoring with a goal and two assists.

1989: Washington beat the Islanders 3-2, to clinch their first Patrick Division championship. Dino Ciccarelli scored his 9th goal in his third week with the team, as the Capitals extended their team-record home winning streak to 7 straight games.

1990: Goaltender Jon Casey became the first goalie in North Stars' history to win 30 games in a season, as Minnesota won 5-4 over the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs.

1991: Cam Neely scored twice, for his second straight 50 goal season, in a 7-4 Bruins' win over the Nordiques in Quebec City. Neely became the 18th player in NHL history to get back-to-back 50 goal seasons.

1992: Mario Lemieux and Rick Tocchet each had two goals and four assists, as Lemieux recorded his 600th NHL assist, to lead the Penguins to a 7-3 win over Vancouver, at the Civic Arena.

1994: Mario Lemieux became the 21st player in NHL history to hit the 1,200 point plateau when he had a goal and an assist in the Penguins' 5-3 loss to Calgary.....Toronto's Mike Gartner scored twice to become the first player in NHL history to get 30 or more goals in 15 straight seasons. They came in the Maple Leafs' 6-3 win over the visiting Quebec Nordiques.

1996: Winnipeg's Keith Tkachuk scored four goals for the first time in his NHL career (his second career hat trick), and added an assist as the Jets won 8-2 at Dallas.

2002: Dan Cloutier set a Vancouver franchise record with his 7th shutout of the season, a 4-0 win over the visiting L.A. Kings. He broke the mark of 6 shared by Gary Smith and Garth Snow. Also Trevor Linden played in his 1,000th career NHL game.