Hockey History Photo of the Day: Bobby Orr's 1970 Bic Ad
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1918 - The NHL modified its penalty rules: From this time forward, teams would play shorthanded for only the first three minutes of a five minute major, and for only the first five minutes of a 20 minute match penalty.
1954 - Montreal and Chicago had a 3-3 tie in a Black Hawks "home" game in Omaha, Nebraska. 4,506 fans showed up to see the game. Chicago played six "home games" on the road
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I think everybody knows Wayne Gretzky is from Brantford, Ontario. The only person more famous in Brantford is The Great One's father, Walter. Some guy named Alexander Graham Bell might ring a bell, too.
Did you know that there are 33 other NHL players to date who were born in Brantford? Combined all 33 scored 2,430 points in the National Hockey League. Gretzky had 2857 by himself.
The most
1924 - The Montreal Forum had its official opening, and the Canadiens beat the Toronto St. Patricks 7-1, before a crowd of 9,000 fans. Billy Boucher had three goals to lead the scoring.
1967 - St. Louis traded Ron Stewart and Ron Atwell to the NY Rangers in exchange for Barclay Plager and Red Berenson, who went on to become stars of the expansion Blues.
1977 - Pittsburgh Penguins traded
1957 - Gordie Howe picked up an assist during Detroit's 3-3 tie against Toronto to become the NHL's all time assist leader, with #409 of his career. He broke the record set by Montreal's Elmer Lach.
1963 - Montreal rookie Yvan Cournoyer scored the first goal of his NHL career. It came in the Canadiens' 7-3 win at Detroit.
1970 - Toronto rookie Darryl Sittler scored the first goal of his NHL
The 2002 Olympics. What memories! Martin Brodeur celebrates Canada's first gold medal in 50 years.
Gordie Howe was born in Floral, Saskatchewan in 1928. Gordie may have been born in the farming village famous for it's grain elevator, but he essentially was a Saskatoon boy through and through. Floral is just southeast of Saskatoon.
Here's a photo of Gordie Howe, in the back row wearing the unfamiliar number 13, with this Saskatoon Lions Bruins teammates. This photo was taken in 1943 when the
1931 - Toronto Maple Leafs fired coach Art Duncan, and named Dick Irvin as his replacement. Irvin went on to coach the Leafs for the next eight years.
1941 - Boston Bruins tied an NHL record by scoring four goals in the 10-minute overtime period, to beat the New York Americans 6-2. Overtime was a mandatory 10 minute period before it was discontinued in November 1942.
1946 - Boston's
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).
1925 - 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
This is Team USA's jersey at the 1976 Canada Cup. It still ranks as my favorite USA jersey in hockey history.
1930 - Philadelphia Quakers picked up their first NHL victory, 2-1 over Toronto. The Quakers finished their only NHL season (1930-31) with a record of 4-36-4.
1954 - Bill Mosienko became the first player in Chicago Black Hawks history (and the 6th player in NHL history) to get 250 goals, when he scored in a 3-2 loss to the visiting Montreal Canadiens.
1981 - Edmonton's Wayne Gretzky
Mike Leonetti is back with yet another in his long line of hockey history inspired children's titles. This time his work was inspired by and titled with Crosby's Golden Goal Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com
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1938 - Future Hall of Famer Sid Abel scored his first career NHL goal in a 4-2 Red Wings' win over Chicago in Detroit.
1987 - Paul Coffey traded to Pittsburgh with Dave Hunter and Wayne Van Dorp for Dave Hannan, Chris Joseph, Moe Mantha, and Craig Simpson.
1990 - Fred Shero passed away from cancer at age 65. Shero coached the Flyers from 1972-1978 and the Rangers 1978-1980. At the time of
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Chris Golden grows his stache to raise cash for Movember.