Today in NHL History, March 7th

1921: Toronto beat the visiting Montreal Canadiens 6-4, as the Arena's Babe Dye finished the season with 35 goals and just two assists, a "record" for 30 goal scorers.....Cy Denneny scored six goals when the Senators beat the Hamilton Tigers in Ottawa, 12-5. Cy became part of the first brother combo to each score 6 goals in an NHL game, joining Corbett, who also had 6 goals in a game vs Hamilton six weeks earlier.....When the Canadiens lost 6-4 at Toronto in the final game of the year, Montreal's Newsy Lalonde finished the 1920-21 season with 33 goals and 8 assists. Although he was 3rd in goals, and 4th in assists, Lalonde won the NHL scoring championship.

1925: Doc Stuart got his second career shutout as Boston beat Hamilton 2-0 on the road, for the Bruins' sixth (and final) win of their inaugural season. It was the only time all season that the Bruins were able to win consecutive games.

1936: Goalie Lorne Chabot became the third goaltender in the NHL to record 200 career victories when the Montreal Maroons won 5-3 over the visiting Detroit Red Wings.

1939: Bruins clinched the NHL regular season championship (in the new single division league) by beating the Red Wings 3-0 in Boston. Rookie Frankie Brimsek recorded the 10th shutout of the season.

1951: 18-year-old Scotty Bowman suffered a severe head injury while playing in a junior hockey game. The injury ended his playing career, but Bowman wanted to remain in hockey, so he turned to coaching, and began a new career.....Gordie Howe scored twice during the Red Wings' 3-0 win at Toronto, to give him 75 points for the season - breaking the NHL record for points by a right winger, set by Toronto's Lorne Carr (74) in 1943-44.

1959: Montreal's Dickie Moore scored two goals and added four assists in the Canadiens' 10-2 win over Detroit, at the Forum.

1965: Glenn Hall recorded his 62nd career shutout, and Eric Nesterenko scored two shorthanded goals to lead the Black Hawks to a 7-0 win over Montreal at Chicago Stadium. Nesterenko's 5th & 6th SHG gave Chicago 14 for the season, a new NHL record.

1970: Detroit's Gordie Howe scored the 16th (and final) empty net goal of his NHL career at 19:57 of the third period to help defeat Montreal Canadiens, 5-2.

1974: Bill Clement became the first Flyer ever to take a penalty shot. He missed against Red Wings' goalie Jimmy Rutherford, as the Flyers won the game 6-1.

1975: Boston's Bobby Orr became the first defenseman in NHL history to score 250 goals. The milestone goal, an empty netter, came in a 4-2 win over the Flames, at Atlanta.

1981: Edmonton's Wayne Gretzky became the first player in NHL history to get six career hat tricks before age 21, when he scored four times in a 5-3 win over the Flyers, in Philadelphia. The four scores gave Gretzky 100 goals in his first 145 NHL games.....Wayne Babych scored two goals and added an assist to lead the Blues to a 7-2 win over the Rangers, in St. Louis. With the victory the Blues moved into the number one position in the NHL overall standings for the first time in team history.

1989: Minnesota North Stars traded Dino Ciccarelli (their all-time leading scorer) and Bob Rouse to Washington in exchange for Mike Gartner and Larry Murphy.....Mario Lemieux set a new Penguins' record with his 11th shorthanded goal of the season. It came on a penalty shot against Kelly Hrudey at Los Angeles. It was Lemieux's second penalty shot goal of the 1988-89 season. Pittsburgh lost 3-2 in OT.....Calgary's Lanny McDonald scored two goals in the Flames' 9-5 win over the Winnipeg Jets to give him 1,001 career NHL points. He became the 23rd player in NHL history to get 1,000 career points.....Los Angeles Kings signed free agent Chris Kontos, who had recently returned from playing in Switzerland. Kontos went on to score nine goals in 11 playoff games in 1989.

1991: Los Angeles' Wayne Gretzky picked up an assist to give him 100 assists for the 11th consecutive season, as the Kings lost 3-2 to the Penguins at Pittsburgh.

1992: Pittsburgh Penguins' Kevin Stevens became the first player in NHL history to get 100 points and 200 penalty minutes in the same season, when he got his 100th point of the year with an assist in a 5-3 loss at Los Angeles. Also in that game the Kings Jari Kurri picked up his 600th career NHL assist

1994: Cam Neely, scoring his 49th and 50th goals in only his 44th game of the season tied Mario Lemieux in becoming the third-fastest player in NHL history to reach the 50-goal mark. Neely also had an assist as the Bruins won 6-3 over the Caps.

1998: Rangers' Wayne Gretzky scored his 1,000th career NHL goal (878 regular season and 122 more in the playoffs) as New York lost 6-3 at New Jersey.

2002: Dwayne Roloson recorded his 6th career shutout, and Marian Gaborik scored twice in the second period as the Minnesota Wild won for the first time against the Blues (ending a winless streak of 0-4-2) in a 3-0 victory at St. Louis.