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This Day in Hockey History – May 6, 1995 – Sakic Does the Trick

The season before, the Quebec Nordiques did not even make the playoffs while the New York Rangers won the Stanley Cup....

This Day in Hockey History – May 5, 1974 – Flying Towards the Cup

The NHL doubled from the Original Six in 1967, but it took until 1974 before one of the expansion teams moved into...

This Day in Hockey History – April 13, 1933 and 1940 – Overtime Over Toronto

Toronto fans must have experienced the worst case of déjà vu. On the exact same date (April 13) seven years apart (in 1933...

This Day in Hockey History – April 2, 1939 – Hill Reaches Summit in Sudden Death

(Photo: Hendrik Seis , via Wikimedia Commons) At the end of the 1938-39 season, the NHL-leading Boston Bruins came into the...

This Day in Hockey History – March 2, 1982 – Identical Twins on Blades

At Åre, Jämtland, Sweden, March 2, 1982, the Lundqvist family welcomed the births of identical twin boys. Henrik arrived first with

This Day in Hockey History – February 25, 1940 and 1978 – Rangers Wreck Canadiens

On February 25, 38 years apart, the New York Rangers scored six goals in big victories over the Montreal Canadiens. The...

This Day in Hockey History – February 4, 1989 – 44th for Gretzky

The Great One is at the top of almost all the statistics sheets, so it should not be surprising that he tops the records...

This Day in Hockey History – January 21, 1945 and 2004 – Fastest Four, Fastest Two

On January 21 almost 60 years apart, two teams set NHL records for fastest goals by one team. In 1945, the Boston Bruins...

This Day in Hockey History – January 11, 1941 – When NY Visits Toronto Everyone Behaves

Back-to-back penalty-free games in Toronto when New York teams were visiting. Was everyone on their best behavior or were the officials lax? The news...

This Day in Hockey History – January 5, 1957 – NHL on TV in USA

A little over four years after Hockey Night in Canada was first televised, the U.S. began nationally televising NHL games. The network CBS...