Detroit Red Wings
This Day in Hockey History – April 16, 1961 – Chicago’s Drought Ends in Snow
After 23 years going dry, the Black Hawks had to celebrate their 1960-61 Stanley Cup victory in Detroit as Chicago was...
This Day in Hockey History – April 3, 1966 – Three Goalies and a Point
For the penultimate Original-Six season, 1965-66, the final regular-season games were played on April 3rd. Two of the three games...
This Day in Hockey History – March 30, 1969 – Everybody Gets a Record!
The final games of the 1968-69 NHL season took place on March 30. At the standing-room-only Chicago Stadium, the East...
This Date in Hockey History – March 24, 1953 – Sawchuk Says Nay, Scorers Say Yay
The reigning Stanley Cup champions of 1952, the Detroit Red Wings, were hoping to raise the silver chalice again in 1953. To...
This Day in Hockey History – March 16, 1947 – Aiding and A-Hitting
The March 16th games of 1947 were all about making playoffs. In New York, the Rangers failed to make playoffs...
This Day in Hockey History – February 3, 1944 – Syd’s Six
Ten days after the Detroit Red Wings obliterated the New York Rangers 15-0, they set a few more records in a...
This Day in Hockey History – January 23, 1934 and 1944 – Rangers’ Iron and Rust
For the New York Rangers, the games on January 23rd in 1934 and 1944 could not have gone much differently....
This Day in Hockey History – January 20, 1977 – Wilson Versus Wilson
Although the newspaper then claimed it was the “first time in the history of the National Hockey League,” January 20, 1977...
This Day in Hockey History – December 29, 1995 – Beam Up, Scotty
As a coach, Scotty Bowman was well-known for record-setting. On December 29, 1995, he broke Al Arbour’s record for...
This Day in Hockey History – December 18, 1928 and 1955 – Habs Record Shutout Then Shut Out
For the Montreal Canadiens, December 18 became a day of shutouts, whether in their favor or not. In 1928, they notched...
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