November 3 NHL History
1948: Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings makes the first of his NHL-record 23 All-Star Game appearances. He helps the All-Stars to a 3-1 victory against the Stanley Cup champion Toronto Maple Leafs at Chicago Stadium.
1951: Maurice Richard scores his 300th and 301st NHL goals in the Montreal Canadiens’ 3-2 loss to the Red Wings at the Forum. Richard becomes the second player in NHL history (after Nels Stewart) to score 300 career goals.
1974: Johnny Bucyk of the Boston Bruins becomes the highest-scoring left wing in NHL history. His two assists in a 10-1 victory against the Minnesota North Stars at Boston Garden move him ahead of Bobby Hull’s 1,153 points, all with the Chicago Blackhawks.
1987: Marcel Dionne becomes the second player in NHL history to reach 1,700 career points. The milestone comes when he scores a goal for the visiting New York Rangers in a 5-3 loss to the Calgary Flames.
1990: Linesman Wayne Bonney takes part in a personal doubleheader. Bonney officiates an afternoon game between the Blackhawks and Philadelphia Flyers at the Spectrum, then hops on a plane and works a night game between the Buffalo Sabres and Bruins in Boston as a replacement for injured colleague Gerard Gauthier.
2007: Hockey Hall of Famer Al Arbour coaches one last game with the New York Islanders.
At the suggestion of current coach Ted Nolan, Arbour, the coach during their Stanley Cup dynasty, returns to lead his old team one last time, giving him an even 1,500 games coached with New York. Miroslav Satan scores twice and the Islanders rally to defeat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 at a sold-out Nassau Coliseum.
After the game, the banner commemorating Arbour’s 739 victories with the Islanders is lowered and replaced by one celebrating his 1,500 games as their coach.
“Just by him being here won the game,” Nolan says. “Al said he didn’t know all the names of the players, but they sure knew him.”
2011: Hours after signing a seven-year contract, $49 million extension on his 29th birthday, Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne completes a personal one-day hat trick with a 3-0 victory against the Phoenix Coyotes in Glendale, Arizona. Rinne makes 35 saves to cap “a day that I’ll remember for the rest of my life, for sure.”
