2007 - Marc Savard has a goal and four assists, Phil Kessel scored his first NHL hat trick and added an assist and Milan Lucic scored his first NHL goal en route to a ‘Gordie Howe Hat Trick’ in an 8-6 win in Los Angeles against the Kings.
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1967 - Goalie Gerry Cheevers wears a mask for the first time in an NHL game. He earns a 4-4 tie with the Detroit Red Wings. 1970 - Tom Johnson coaches his first game as the Bruins defeat the Detroit Red Wings by a 7-3 score. Boston’s Ted Green plays his first game since suffering a fractured skull in a September, 1969 pre-season game. 1979 - Ray Bourque has a goal and an assist in his first NHL game, a 4-0 Boston win over the Winnipeg Jets. 1984 - Pittsburgh’s Mario Lemieux scores his first career NHL goal on his first NHL shot in his first NHL game, a 4-3 Boston victory over the Penguins. 1998: The Bruins extend their opening night unbeaten streak to 9-0-3 with a 3-3 tie with the St. Louis Blues. Pre-game ceremonies on the night the B's opened the team’s 75th anniversary season included presentations of the Adams Trophy to coach Pat Burns by Don Cherry and the Calder Trophy to Sergei Samsonov by Bobby Orr, Derek Sanderson & Ray Bourque. Ken Baumgartner scored the game-tying goal in the game, his first goal since January 17, 1996. 1989 - Reggie Lemelin makes 24 saves in a 2-0 win over the Montreal Canadiens. It is Boston’s first shutout over Montreal in Boston since Mar. 8, 1970 and the first overall since Jan. 19, 1974.
1999 -The Bruins play their first game under the League’s new four-on-four overtime format, tying the Philadelphia Flyers in a 1-1 game. 2000 - Mike Knuble scores Boston's first shorthanded goal since Dec. 19, 1998 in a 4-2 win over Florida. 1942: Garry Peters is born in Regina, Saskatchewan 2001 - Byron Dafoe makes 22 saves and Joe Thornton scores a goal and adds two assists as the Bruins defeat the Washington Capitals by a 4-0 score.
2005- Glen Murray scores two goals, including the game-winner in overtime, and adds two assists in a 7-6 win in Pittsburgh. Hannu Toivonen records his first NHL win in goal and Brad Boyes scores his first NHL goal. 1959: John Blum is born in Detroit Michigan. 1995 - The Bruins play their first game at the Fleet Center (currently known as TD Banknorth Garden), a 4-4 tie with the New York Islanders. Sandy Moger scores the first Bruins goal in the new building and Cam Neely scores the first hat trick.
2000 - Joe Thornton has two goal and two assists and Jason Allison adds four assists as the Bruins defeat the Flyers, 5-1. It is their first win in Philadelphia since Dec. 3, 1997. On Oct. 26, Middleton, who has made Hampton, NH his home since 1997, will be one of seven new inductees into the New Hampshire Legends of Hockey Hall of Fame, a group that also includes two other men with strong Seacoast ties — Phillips Exeter Academy coaches Bill Dennehy and Mark Evans.
“I was very, very surprised,” said Middleton, whose local ties also include a stint assisting Al Brandano with the Portsmouth High School team and will be enshrined as a coach. “I never even thought about it. I’d heard about the Legends of Hockey through Tommy Bolton but I never thought I would qualify. I was flabbergasted when they told me.” Full Article Dean Prentice was born in the small mining town of Shumacher, Ontario. It was there that he was introduced to the worlds of hockey and digging for gold. Hockey came first as he excelled with the South Porcupine Teepees of a local juvenile league. The Teepees were affiliated with the Guelph Biltmores of the OHA and that's where he ended up as a teenager. But time off during the summer also meant coming home to work the mines with his father. That was all the motivation he needed to raise his game as far above ground as possible. With the Biltmores, Prentice stepped into an all-star lineup that included future NHLers Andy Bathgate, Ron Stewart, Lou Fontinato and Harry Howell. Together, they won the Memorial Cup in 1952, the only championship that Prentice would ever attain during his lengthy career in hockey.
With such success at the junior level, the needy New York Rangers brought Prentice, Bathgate and Howell, among others, up to the Big Apple. There as a young recruit, Prentice struggled to find his confidence. The only real instruction given to the recruits was provided by goaltender Charlie Rayner who would spend extra time on the ice, offering advice on how to approach various goaltenders around the league. Prentice eventually settled onto a line with Andy Bathgate and Larry Popein. The trio became the Rangers' most successful unit. Prentice became the two-way standout who excelled at backchecking, killing penalties, working the corners and jumping onto the powerplay. But his quiet, unassuming personality took a back seat to the more colourful Bathgate who was the dipsy-doodler and scorer among the trio. As such, Prentice has been characterized as the most underrated forward of his era. In his eleventh season with the Rangers, he was traded to the Boston Bruins for Don McKenney in 1963. Prentice was not unhappy to join the Bruins, but he did feel a twinge of regret when, shortly thereafter, McKenney and Bathgate were traded to the Leafs?a lineup he'd wanted to join. In 1966, Prentice was traded to the Detroit Red Wings where he continued to skate with the league's elite, this time with Alex Delvecchio and Gordie Howe. He also picked up shifts with his old Ranger teammate Andy Bathgate who had also joined the Wings. Two seasons later, however, Bathgate had moved on to the Pittsburgh Penguins. And in keeping with the program, Pens coach Red Kelly claimed Prentice in the Intra-League Draft to skate along side Bathgate. Prentice clicked in his new setting, leading the team in scoring. He lasted with the Pens until 1971 at which time he was sold to the Minnesota North Stars where he continued to score even at the age of 40. By 1974, however, at age 41, Prentice finally closed out his 22-year NHL career. |
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