Today in NHL History, March 27th

1925: Montreal's Howie Morenz led the Canadiens to a 4-2 win over the Victoria Cougars with the second hat trick of his Stanley Cup playoff career.

1952: Toronto's Turk Broda became the first goaltender in NHL history to appear in 100 career playoff games, when he faced the Red Wings in a 1-0 loss, in Game Two of the Stanley Cup Semi-Finals in Detroit.

1973: Buffalo's Craig Ramsay played the first of 776 consecutive games -- the most by a player with one team (until the record was broken by Chicago's Steve Larmer in 1991-92). Sabres won 3-2 over the Islanders at New York.

1974: Lowell MacDonald scored his 4th career hat trick and Syl Apps had three assists to lead the Penguins to a 3-3 tie against the Minnesota North Stars at the Civic Arena.....Philadelphia Flyers Bernie Parent tied the NHL record for most wins in a season, as he picked up his 44th of the year in a 6-2 victory at St. Louis. Parent tied the record held by Terry Sawchuk.....Boston Bruins became the first team in NHL history to win 50 (or more) games four straight seasons, when they got their 50th victory of the 1973-74 season, 3-2 over the Rangers, in New York.

1976: St. Louis' Red Berenson scored his 4th career hat trick and added an assist in the Blues' 6-3 win against the visiting Minnesota North Stars.....Montreal's Guy Lafleur scored twice to hit the 50 goal mark for the second time in his NHL career, as the Canadiens won 8-2 over the Kansas City Scouts, at the Forum. Teammate Steve Shutt scored his third career hat trick.

1982: Dino Ciccarelli became the second player in Minnesota North Stars history to get 100 points in a season, when he picked up an assist in a 6-5 win at Boston.....Detroit Red Wings ended their team-record 14 game losing streak with a 2-1 win at Toronto.....Vancouver coach Harry Neale was handed a 10-game suspension by the NHL for his involvement in an altercation with the crowd in Quebec City on March 20. Roger Neilson took over as coach, and led the Canucks to the Stanley Cup Finals.

1988: Mario Lemieux scored two shorthanded goals and added three assists to lead the Penguins to a 6-3 win over the Nordiques, in Quebec City. Lemeiuex also set an NHL record in the game by getting a point on 11 consecutive Penguins' goals.

1991: Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Red Wings 7-4 at Detroit to clinch their first Patrick Division Championship, in the team's 24th NHL season.....NHL named Scotty Bowman and Neil Armstrong as the newest members of the Hockey Hall of Fame, Bowman in the "Builders" Dept and Armstrong in the "Officials" Dept.

1993: Sherry Ross became the first woman in NHL history to do play-by-play of a game, when she handled the first period of the 5-2 NJ Devils' win over Washington for WABC radio. Ross filled in for a late-arriving Gary Thorne.....Doug Gilmour's first of two assists gave him 118 points to set a new Toronto team record for most points in a season. He broke the old mark of 117 set by Darryl Sittler, and led the Leafs to a 6-2 win over the Oilers, at Edmonton.

1996: Toronto's Larry Murphy had a goal and an assist to become the 4th defenseman in NHL history to score 1,000 career points as the Maple Leafs won 6-2 at Vancouver.....Detroit's Chris Osgood ran his team-record undefeated streak to 21 games (19-0-2) with a 4-2 Red Wings' win over the visiting Bufalo Sabres. The streak ended with a loss in his next start (six days later).

1999: Mark Messier had two assists, including the 1,049th of his career, tying him with Gordie Howe for 4th on the all-time list as Vancouver won 5-1 against the visiting Montreal Canadiens.....Ray Bourque scored his 385th career NHL goal, to tie Paul Coffey as the highest goal scoring defenseman in NHL history. The milestone was Bourque's 10th goal of the season, and came in a 2-2 Bruins tie against the visiting San Jose Sharks.

2000: Doug Gilmour had a goal and three assists to lead the Sabres to a 5-1 win at Carolina. The four points gave Gilmour 1,301 in his NHL career. He became the 20th player in NHL history to record 1,300 career points.

2001: Bobby Holik scored a goal and added three assists as New Jersey won 7-1 against the Lightning at Tampa Bay. The win gave the Devils 100 points for the fifth straight season

2002: Chicago's Phil Housley became the fourth defenseman (and first U.S. born player) in NHL history to score 1,200 career points, when he picked up the game winning goal in a 4-1 Blackhawks win over the visiting Nashville Predators.

2003: Patrick Roy recorded his 66th (and final) career shutout and his 547th victory, tops in NHL history and 100 more than second-place Terry Sawchuk as the Avalanche won 3-0 against the visiting Los Angeles Kings.