Team Canada 1972 September 24 NHL History
1972: Canada scores three goals in a 1:23 span during the second period and holds on to defeat the Soviet Union 3-2 in Game 6 of the Summit Series

September 24 NHL History

1937: The NHL adopts the icing rule, under which a team not playing shorthanded that shoots the puck from its own zone across the opposition’s goal line has the ensuing faceoff brought back to one of the circles in its zone after the opposing team touches the puck. It prevents a team from dumping and chasing the puck from its zone.

In 2005, the NHL modifies the rule to prevent a team that has iced the puck from changing players. Hybrid icing is introduced for the 2013-14 season. This allows the linesman to blow the play dead if he determines that the puck will cross the goal line and the defending player is not behind in the race to the end-zone faceoff dots.

1972: Canada scores three goals in a 1:23 span during the second period and holds on to defeat the Soviet Union 3-2 in Game 6 of the Summit Series at Luzhniki Ice Palace in Moscow.

Two days after blowing a 4-1 lead in the third period, Canada overcomes a 1-0 deficit on goals by Dennis Hull (5:13), Yvan Cournoyer (6:21) and Paul Henderson (6:36). The Soviets get a power-play goal from Alexander Yakushev at 17:11 of the second period, but Ken Dryden stops all nine shots he faces in the scoreless third for the win.

Canada’s victory narrows the Soviets’ lead in the eight-game series to 3-2-1.

1990: Center Gilbert Perreault and left wing Bill Barber, two stars of the 1970s, are inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, along with Fern Flaman and Bud Poile. Perreault is honored after scoring 512 goals in 17 seasons with the Buffalo Sabres. Barber is inducted after scoring 420 goals in 12 seasons and playing on two Stanley Cup-winning teams with the Philadelphia Flyers.

1992: Scott Stevens is named the fifth captain of the New Jersey Devils. He remains in that role until he retires in 2004. Along the way he helps New Jersey win the Stanley Cup three times and is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2007

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