My apologies to anyone who follows this thread I missed a few days. Life got busy

On This Day in Hockey History - November 26th

1917
The National Hockey League was founded. The original teams were the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Toronto Arenas, and Quebec Bulldogs (which announced that they would not operate during the inaugural season).
I would say this was a pretty significant day in history

Frank Calder was elected as the NHL's first president.
I never knew this

1925
Pittsburgh Pirates and NY Americans franchises were officially acccepted into the NHL. The Americans purchased the Hamilton Tigers roster to fill its lineup, while the Pirates purchased the USHL's Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets.

NHL announced it's new "anti-defense" rule, which would prohibit teams from having more than two players in their own zone when the puck was not present. The NHL also upped the number of regular season games from 30 to 36 for the upcoming season.
What a strange rule!

1961
Detroit's Gordie Howe became the first player in NHL history to play in 1,000 career regular season games, when the Red Wings lost 4-1 at Chicago

1975
Bobby Orr played his final game with Boston, scoring a goal and adding an assist, in a 6-4 Bruins' win over the Rangers at MSG. Orr finished with 264 goals, 888 points in 631 games with Boston, before joining Chicago.

1980
Edmonton rookie Jari Kurri got his first NHL hat trick and added an assist, and Wayne Gretzky
scored a goal and picked up four assists to lead the Oilers to a 10-3 win over the Black Hawks.

1983
Edmonton's Wayne Gretzky began an NHL-record 17 consecutive game assist streak, at St. Louis. It came in the midst of his NHL record 51-game point scoring streak (during which he scored 153 points). Oilers lost 8-6 to Blues.

1984
Two days after playing against Detroit, Montreal's Guy Lafleur announced his "first" retirement. He ended his "first" career with 518 goals and a Canadiens' team record of 728 assists for a team record 1,246 points.

1999
Steve Yzerman scored his 600th NHL goal in the Red Wings 4-2 win against the visiting Edmonton Oilers. Yzerman joined Gretzky, Howe, Dionne and Messier as the only NHL players with 600 goals and 900 assists.

Detroit's Larry Murphy became the fourth player (and first defenseman) in NHL history to appear in 1,500 career NHL games. The milestone came in a 4-2 win over the visiting Edmonton Oilers. Murphy picked up two assists in the game
This would later be broken by Scott Stevens on the SAME DAY (see below)

2003
Scott Stevens set an NHL record for defenseman by playing in his 1,616th career NHL game (breaking the record held by Larry Murphy) as the Devils tied 3-3 against the Mighty Ducks, at Anaheim.

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On This Day in Hockey History - November 30th

1993
STRIKE NHL Officials announced the end of their strike, which had begun on November 15, 1993.

1995
MILESTONE: Kings' Rick Tocchet scored a goal for his 700th career NHL point, as Los Angeles won 3-2 over Washington, at the Forum.

1996
STAT Mario Lemieux had a goal and three assists for his 1,400th career point and Ron Francis added a goal and two assists for his 900th career assist in the Penguins' 6-2 win over Boston. Lemiuex became the 9th NHL player to score 1,400 points.
Two AWESOME NHLers!

2001
STAT Peter Bondra scored twice to set a franchise record for career goals (breaking Mike Gartner's club record of 397) as the Capitals won 6-2 against the visiting Carolina Hurricanes.
I was always caught cheering for Peter Bondra - very talented

2002
INDUCTION: Former NHL stars Peter Stastny, Stan Mikita and Vaclav Nedomansky were inducted into the newly created Slovak Hockey Hall of Fame in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia.

2003
TRADE Los Angeles Kings acquired forward Martin Straka from the Pittsburgh Penguins for defenseman Martin Strbak and winger Sergei Anshakov.




BOLD PREDICTION of the NIGHT - November 30th, 2010
I have a feeling that tonight will be the night of the "hat tricks" where we see at least 3 players get one.

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On This Day in Hockey History - December 1st

1924
TEAM DEBUT - Boston Bruins played their first NHL game, a 2-1 win over the Montreal Maroons, at the Boston Arena, in the first NHL game played in the United States.
Now 80% of the teams are American. Huge first step in history.

1938
STAT - Boston's rookie goalie Frankie Brimsek played his first NHL game. He lost 2-0 to the Canadiens (with rookie Claude Bourque getting his first career shutout), but went on to record 6 shutouts in his next 7 games, to earn the nickname "Mr. Zero".

1940
WEIRD EVENT - Four sets of brothers played in one NHL game: Rangers' Lynn & Muzz Patrick and Neil & Mac Colville played against the Black Hawks' brother acts of Max & Doug Bentley, and Bob & Bill Carse. Black Hawks won the game 4-1, at Chicago Stadium.

1954
STAT - Gordie Howe scored twice to become the second Red Wing (and the 7th player in NHL history) to reach 250 career goals as Detroit beat the Rangers 6-1, at New York. Detroit defenseman Red Kelly also scored twice, including his 100th NHL goal.

1974
STAT - New York's Jean Ratelle picked up two assists for a career toal of 730 points, passing Andy Bathgate into second place on the Rangers' all-time list. (Linemate Rod Gilbert led with 774 career points). NY tied 4-4 with the Blues, at MSG.

1985
STAT - Craig MacTavish scored 3 straight goals within a span of 6:38 during the 2nd period (his first career hat trick) and added an assist as the Oilers beat Calgary 5-3, to extend their home undefeated streak against the Flames to 16 games (12-0-4).

1987
STAT/MILESTONE - Vancouver's Stan Smyl became the first player in team history to get 600 career points, when he scored a goal in a 3-1 win over the Quebec Nordiques.

MILESTONE - Quebec Nordiques center Peter Stastny became the second-highest European-born scorer in NHL history with 867 points, passing Ivan Boldirev. Quebec lost 3-1 to visiting Vancouver Canucks.

DEATH - George "Punch" Imlach, the former General Manager of Toronto and Buffalo, died in Scarborough, Ontario, at the age of 69.

1989
STAT - Buffalo's Pierre Turgeon scored his first career NHL hat trick and picked up two assists to lead the Sabres to a 6-4 win over the Devils, their 10th consecutive win at the Aud. The win ran the Sabres' season home record to 11-0-1.

WEIRD EVENT - New York Rangers had three apparent goals disallowed by referee Rob Schick, but still managed a 4-3 win at Vancouver.

1995
MILESTONE - Calgary's Phil Housley became the 7th defenseman in NHL history to score 900 career points, when his goal helped the Flames to an 8-2 win at Edmonton.

1999
MILESTONE - Ken Hitchcock became the Dallas Stars' franchise all-time leader in coaching victories with his 175th win, with a 3-2 victory at Montreal. Hitchcock replaced Glen Sonmor as the winningest coach in Stars' history.

2000
TEAM RECORD - Calle Johansson picked up two assists to become the Washington Capitals all-time leader in assists by a defenseman, in a 3-2 win over the visiting Boston Bruins. Johansson broke the mark of 31 set by Scott Stevens.
Mike Green currently has 157 assists in 337 games for those of you who were curious. I was

2001
MILESTONE - Ed Belfour became the Dallas Stars' all-time leader in career victories, when he picked up #146 in a 6-4 win at Edmonton. He broke the mark of 145 set by Minnesota North Stars goaltender Cesare Maniago. It was also his 350th NHL win.

2002
San Jose Sharks fired head coach Darryl Sutter. Doug Wilson and Cap Raeder were named as interim coaches. The move came after the Sharks stumbled to an 8-12-2-2 start to the 2002-03 season.
Anyone else think it would be ironic if the Flames fired Sutter again on December 1st? C'mon, DO it!

intersting stuff. kudos for the effort.

..tho not sure i would check it everyday. still read some interesting facts. thanks!

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10 Teams, Head to Head Yahoo League.

G,A,+-,PPG,SHG,Pims, GWG, SOG / GS, W, L, GAA, SV, SV%, SHO

Team:
C - Malkin, Toews,
LW- Cammalleri, Kovalchuk, Hall
RW - Semin, Gionta
D - Green, Visnovsky, Giordano
Util - Eriksson
G -Lindback(temp), Quick, Steve Mason, Khabibulan
IR - Rinne

Yesterday (11/30) was 5 years to the day the Sharks traded for Jumbo Joe - Sturm, Primeau and Stuart were sent over.

2005/11/30 Boston Bruins traded Joe Thornton to the San Jose Sharks for Marco Sturm, Brad Stuart and Wayne Primeau.

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12 Team Yahoo Head to Head Keeper League
Positions: 2C, 2LW, 2RW, 2D, 2Utility, 2G, 4 Bench, 2IR
Stats: G, A, PIM, +/-, SOG, PPP, SHP, W, SV, GAA, SO

C: Tavares (2yrs), Crosby (2yrs), Little (RW)
LW: Vanek, Moulson (1yr), Kunitz, Fleischmann
RW: St. Louis (2yrs), Voracek (1yr), Heatley (LW), Callahan
D: Subban, Edler (1yr)
G: Quick (2yr), Rask (3yr), Backstrom

http://tinyurl.com/GoSharksHockey

Thanks. I am not sure how I missed that one.

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Awesome to see this get some more exposure, kudos!

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I read them every day. Just simply don't post out of respect - to not clutter the thread, you know?

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UDL
16 Team H2H - Dynasty

Start 3 C/LW/RW each, 5 D, 1 Util, 2 G (IR)

G/A/P/PIM/PPP/SHP/(+/-)/SOG
W/L/GAA/SV%/SHO

C - Little, Ott
LW - EKane, NFoligno, Kulemin, Vanek, Pouliot, Latendresse
RW - Kessel, Carter, Tootoo, Radulov
D - Weber, Green, Larsson, Meszaros, Voynov, Spurgeon, Stralman, Beauch
G - Lundqvist, Rask, York
Farm : Markstrom, MikGranlund, Tatar, Brodin, Orlov, Merrill, Stalock, Kabanov, Moore, Galchnyuk, Rielly, Dansk, JLarsson, Frk

Great thread! Very fun read. I would have loved to have been around for some of the older moments. More historical dates would be cool.

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9 Teams, 6 Keepers, 18 Player Roster (10F,6D,2G)
Points Only G(1),A(1) Goalies W(2), SO(3)

F: E. Cole, Getzlaf, Perry, Marleau, Ryder, Giroux, Wheeler, M. Lucic, S. Hartnell, Kunitz

D: Visnovsky, Burns, Pieterangelo, Hamhuis, Leddy, J-Bo

G: Luongo, T. Thomas

Ir: Backstrom, Koivu

Keep 5 and a Franchise Goalie.

Thanks for the feedback guys! I enjoy doing this so I will continue to entertain

On This Day in Hockey History - December 2nd

1909
The National Hockey Association was formed in Montreal. The NHA was the forerunner of the National Hockey League. Charter members included the Montreal Wanderers, Renfrew Creamery Kings, and the Montreal Canadiens.

1925
New York Americans played their first NHL game, a 2-1 OT win over the Pirates, in Pittsburgh.

1961
MILESTONE - Goalie Gerry Cheevers played his first NHL game (substituting for Johnny Bower) and led Toronto to a 6-4 win over the visiting Chicago Black Hawks. Billy Harris led the scoring with his second career hat trick.

1969
EXPANSION - NHL Board of Governors announced in New York that expansion franchises had been awarded to Buffalo and Vancouver. The two new teams would begin play in 1970-71.
Neither team has won a Stanley Cup since coming into the league

1972
STAT/MILESTONE - Montreal rookie Steve Shutt scored the first goal of his NHL career and added an assist, in the Canadiens 4-4 tie against the visiting Atlanta Flames.
Shutt was a great dman from everything I have read and been told

1977
TRADE - Detroit Red Wings obtained veteran Dennis Hull from Chicago in exchange for a future draft choice in the 1980 draft. The Black Hawks later used the pick to select Carey Wilson.

1980
STAT - Mike Bossy became just the second player in team history to score 200 goals with the Islanders, as the team extended their club-record undefeated streak to 15 straight games (13-0-2) with a 5-1 win over the visiting Colorado Rockies.

1981
TRADE - Buffalo Sabres traded Danny Gare, Jim Schoenfeld and Derek Smith to Detroit in exchange for Mike Foligno, Dale McCourt and Brent Peterson

TRADE - Detroit Red Wings obtained goaltender Bob Sauve from Buffalo in exchange for future considerations.

1995
COACHING CHANGE - San Jose Sharks fired coach Kevin Constantine. Assistant Jim Wiley was named as his replacement, and got his first win as the Sharks won 5-3 over the visiting Washington Capitals. Jeff Friesen led the scoring with two goals and an assist.

MANAGEMENT CHANGE - N.Y. Islanders fired General Manager Don Maloney. Darcy Regier was named as his interim replacement.

STAT/MILESTONE - Florida's Ed Jovanovski, the #1 pick in the 1994 draft scored his first career NHL goal as the Panthers won 5-3 against the Whalers, at Hartford

1999
COACHING CHANGE - Chicago Blackhawks fired GM Bob Murray and Coach Lorne Molleken and named Bob Pulford as the G.M. and Head Coach. Molleken was retained as an assistant coach.

MILESTONE - John Vanbiesbrouck became the first U.S. born goaltender (and the 8th goalie in NHL history) to play in 800 career games, as Philadelphia won 4-2 at Buffalo.

2001
RECORD - Ed Belfour tied an NHL record (held by Tom Barrasso) by picking up an assist in his 3rd straight game, and set a Dallas franchise record for goaltenders with his fourth assist of the season, in an 4-2 win at Vancouver.

MANAGEMENT CHANGE - Florida Panthers fired G.M. Bill Torrey and coach Duane Sutter. One day later the team would name Mike Keenan as their new Head Coach and Cliff Fletcher as the new interim General Manager.

2003
MILESTONE - Mats Sundin became the Toronto Maple Leafs all-time leader in game winning goals, when his 64th with the Leafs gave the team a 5-4 win over the New York Rangers. He broke the mark of 63 set by Dave Keon.




Born On This Day


1934
Former NHL left winger Bill McCreary born in Sundridge, Ont. McCreary played in the NHL 1953-54 through 1970-71 with the New York Rangers, Detroit, Montreal and St. Louis


1954
Former NHL defenseman Mario Faubert born in Valleyfield, Que. Faubert played in the NHL 1974-75 through 1981-82 with Pittsburgh.
1955
Former NHL right winger Paul Holmgren born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Holmgren played in the NHL 1975-76 through 1984-85 with Philadelphia and Minnesota, and later coached the Flyers and Whalers.

1962
Former NHL player Daryl Stanley born in Winnipeg, Man. Stanley played in the NHL 1983-84 through 1989-90 with Philadelphia and Vancouver.

1963
Former NHL right winger Rich Sutter born in Viking, Alberta. Sutter played in the NHL 1982-83 thru 1994-95 with Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Vancouver, St. Louis, Chicago, Tampa Bay and Toronto.

1975
Former NHL right winger Brett Lindros born in London, Ontario. Lindros played in the NHL 1994-95 thru 1995-96 with the New York Islanders.