Today in NHL History, March 5th

1921: Ottawa's Clint Benedict became the first goaltender in NHL history to record 10 career shutouts, in a 1-0 Senators' win over the Canadiens, in Montreal.

1923: Goaltender John Roach recorded the first shutout of his NHL career as the Toronto St. Pats won 2-0 over the visiting Ottawa Senators.

1942: Montreal Canadiens beat the Maple Leafs 5-2, for the Canadiens' first win in Toronto since December 1938. Joe Benoit led the scoring with two goals and two assists.

1959: Boston's Harry Lumley recorded his 69th career shutout as the Bruins won 3-0 over the visiting Detroit Red Wings. Lumley extended his NHL record with a shutout in his 15th consecutive season.

1961: Pat Hannigan and Andy Bathgate set a NY Rangers' record for fastest two goals, scoring twice in five seconds in the first period of an 8-3 win over Detroit. Doug Sulliman and Eddie Johnstone tied the record in 1980. Rangers' Camille Henry scored his third career hat trick, and Andy Bathgate added a goal and three assists.

1969: Chicago's Bobby Hull became the first player to score 50 goals in a season four times in his NHL career, when he picked up a goal in a 4-4 tie against the visiting New York Rangers.....Phil Esposito had two assists to set an NHL single season record with 63, as the Bruins tied 2-2 with Detroit, at Boston Garden.

1972: Brad Park became just the third defenseman in NHL history to score 20 goals in a season, when he scored a goal for the Rangers in a 6-1 win over the visiting Canucks. Park joined Flash Hollet and Bobby Orr as the NHL's 20-goal defensemen.

1977: Canadiens' Jacques Lemaire scored two goals and added two assists as Montreal tied an NHL record for longest home unbeaten streak -- 27 games (22-0-5) with a 7-2 win over the New York Rangers.

1984: Pittsburgh traded Randy Carlyle to the Winnipeg Jets, in exchange for Winnipeg's first round choice (Doug Bodger) in 1984 Entry Draft and future considerations (Moe Mantha).

1985: New York's Mike Bossy became the first NHL player to get 8 straight 50-goal seasons, in a 5-4 Islanders' loss to the visiting Philadelphia Flyers.....Los Angeles Kings center Marcel Dionne picked up an assist to give him 100 points for the season in a 6-0 win over Pittsburgh. Dionne became the first player in NHL history to score 100 points in a season eight times in his career.

1986: Playing in his 539th career game, Oilers' Wayne Gretzky scored twice and added two assists, to give him 1,300 career NHL points. The milestone came in a 6-3 Oilers' win over the Kings, in Edmonton.

1987: Hartford Whalers' Ron Francis set a club record with six assists in a 10-2 victory over the Bruins.

1988: Blackhawks' Rick Vaive scored his 350th career NHL goal as Chicago won 4-2 over the North Stars at Minnesota.

1991: Wayne Gretzky became the first player in NHL history to record 1,400 career assists, when the Kings tied the Capitals 3-3 in Washington.....St. Louis Blues traded Geoff Courtnall, Robert Dirk, Sergio Momesso, Cliff Ronning and future considerations to Vancouver in exchange for Dan Quinn and Garth Butcher.

1992: Mats Sundin had five goals (his third career hat trick) and added two assists as Quebec won 10-4 over the Whalers, at Hartford. It ended the Nordiques' team-record 33 game road winless streak (0-25-8) from the start of the season.....Buffalo's Pat LaFontaine became the first player in NHL history to score a goal against 21 teams in one season, when he connected for the Sabres in a 5-3 loss to the North Stars, in Minnesota.

1993: Goaltender Tommy Soderstrom recorded a shutout to lead the Flyers to a 3-0 win over the Capitals at Washington. It was the Capitals' first home shutout since 1987. All three goals were scored in the third period.

1996: Tampa Bay's Terry Crisp became the first coach in NHL history to win 100 games with an expansion team, when the Lightning won 2-0 over the visiting Chicago Blackhawks.....Boston's Joe Mullen played in his 1,000th career NHL game, and goaltender Bill Ranford appeared in NHL game #500 when the Bruins lost 5-3 to the Islanders, at Long Island.

2000: Steve Yzerman became the NHL's all-time leader in assists among players who spent their entire careers with one team. His 36th of the year (in a 5-3 Red Wings victory at Dallas) gave him 927 career assists, one more than Chicago's Stan Mikita.

2001: Phoenix Coyotes traded goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin and Stan Neckar to Tampa Bay, in exchange for Paul Mara, Mike Johnson, Ruslan Zainullin and a second round draft choice.

2002: Brian Leetch scored twice, including the winning goal at 3:44 of overtime to give the Rangers a 3-2 win over the Wild at Minnesota. It was Leetch's sixth career regular-season overtime goal, the most by any defenseman in NHL history.

2003: Toronto Maple Leafs acquired right wing Owen Nolan from the San Jose Sharks in exchange for Alyn McCauley and Brad Boyes, along with Toronto's first round pick in the 2003 NHL Draft.

2004: Danny Markov scored the 10,000th goal in Philadelphia Flyers history, in a 5-3 win over the visiting Ottawa Senators. The two teams combined to set an NHL record with 419 penalty minutes, and the Flyers set a record for one team (213).