March 13 NHL History
1984: Wayne Gretzky reaches 900 points in his NHL career when he has a goal and an assist in the Edmonton Oilers’ 6-5 road victory against the Quebec Nordiques.
Point No. 900 comes in Gretzky’s 385th NHL game, the fewest ever needed to reach that milestone. He scores his 82nd goal of the season at 8:44 of the first period and assists on Paul Coffey’s goal at 4:35 of overtime.
1954: Rookie Camille Henry of the New York Rangers scores an NHL-record four power-play goals in one game. Henry’s big night helps the Rangers defeat the Detroit Red Wings 5-2 at Olympia Stadium. Henry’s record has been matched seven times but never surpassed.
1971: At age 35, Johnny Bucyk of the Boston Bruins scores a goal in a 6-3 road win against the Vancouver Canucks to become the fifth player in NHL history with 100 points in one season. Three of the five (Bucyk, Phil Esposito and Bobby Orr) are Bruins. Bucyk finishes with 116 points (51 goals, 65 assists).
1976: Billy Reay becomes the winningest coach with one team in NHL history. He gets his 501st regular-season win with the Chicago Blackhawks when they defeat the Minnesota North Stars 4-1 at Met Center. Reay passes Toe Blake, who wins 500 games with the Montreal Canadiens.
1999: Phil Housley passes Joe Mullen to become the highest-scoring U.S.-born player in NHL history when he has three assists in the Calgary Flames’ 5-4 overtime win against the Washington Capitals. The three assists give him 1,066 points, three more than Mullen.
On the same night, Ray Bourque passes Bucyk as the Bruins’ all-time leader in games played. He appears in his 1,437th game, a 3-1 road loss to the Buffalo Sabres.
2003: Ron Francis of the Carolina Hurricanes joins Gordie Howe as the only players in NHL history to have 50 points in 22 consecutive seasons. Francis reaches the 50-point mark when he has two assists in a 5-3 road loss to the Philadelphia Flyers. Francis finishes the season with 57 points (22 goals, 35 assists) in 82 games.
2017: The Flames defeat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 in a shootout at Scotiabank Saddledome for their 10th consecutive victory. Kris Versteeg scores the lone goal in the tiebreaker. The Flames join the Columbus Blue Jackets (16 consecutive wins), Minnesota Wild (12) and Philadelphia Flyers (10) to make 2016-17 the first season in which four teams have winning streaks of at least 10 games.
2019: Connor McDavid has three assists for the Edmonton Oilers in a 6-3 loss to the New Jersey Devils at Rogers Place to reach the 100-point mark for the third consecutive season. He becomes the 19th player in NHL history to have at least three consecutive 100-point seasons, as well as the fourth active player to reach 100 points at least three times.
