THIS DATE IN HISTORY: June 8
1984: The Pittsburgh Penguins use the No. 1 pick in the NHL Draft in Montreal to select center Mario Lemieux from Laval of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Lemieux scores 43 goals and has 100 points as a rookie in 1984-85, reaches 100 points in each of his first six NHL seasons, leads the League in scoring six times (including a 199-point season in 1988-89), and helps the Penguins to their first two Stanley Cup championships (1991, 1992).
The only player from the 1984 draft to score more goals than Lemieux's 690 was selected 116 picks later. The Calgary Flames took Brett Hull, a college-bound forward from Penticton of the British Columbia Hockey League, in the sixth round. Though Hull didn't come to the NHL until the 1986-87 season, he scores 741 regular-season goals in the League, 24 more than Lemieux.
The Los Angeles Kings draft a future Hall of Fame player in the fourth round when they select a high school center from Massachusetts named Tom Glavine. He never plays for the Kings but goes on to win more than 300 games as a pitcher for the Atlanta Braves and New York Mets, and induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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1955: The Montreal Canadiens name Hector "Toe" Blake as coach, replacing Dick Irvin, who's coached the Canadiens for 15 seasons. With Blake behind the bench, the Canadiens win the Stanley Cup eight times in the next 14 seasons.
1996: Panthers fans shower ice with thousands of plastic rats after Ray Sheppard scores the first home goal for Florida in the Final.
2000: Ed Belfour makes 48 saves before Mike Modano scores at 6:21 of the third overtime to give the defending champion Dallas Stars a 1-0 victory against the New Jersey Devils in Game 5 of the Cup Final at Continental Airlines Arena. It's the longest 1-0 game in Final history. Modano ends the game and keeps the Stars' hopes of a repeat alive when he pokes the puck through the legs of New Jersey goaltender Martin Brodeur on Dallas' 41st shot. The victory sends the series back to Dallas for Game 6.
2002: Igor Larionov scores twice, including at 14:47 of the third overtime, to give the visiting Detroit Red Wings a 3-2 victory against the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 3 of the Final. At age 41, Larionov becomes the oldest player to score a goal in the Final. Brett Hull gives Larionov the chance to be the hero when he ties it 2-2 by beating goalie Arturs Irbe with 1:14 remaining in the third period.
2011: The Boston Bruins even the Final at 2-2 by defeating the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 in Game 4 at TD Garden. Rich Peverley scores the first and fourth goals for the Bruins, and goaltender Tim Thomas makes 38 saves. Coming on the heels of an 8-1 victory in Game 3, Boston's plus-11 goal differential is the largest ever by an NHL team in a two-game stretch of the Final.
2015: Cedric Paquette's goal with 3:11 remaining in the third period gives the Tampa Bay Lightning a 3-2 victory against the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 of the Final at United Center. Defenseman Victor Hedman gets his second assist of the game by setting up Paquette for a shot that beats Chicago goaltender Corey Crawford. Lightning goaltender Ben Bishop, who's questionable after leaving Game 2 with a lower-body injury, makes 36 saves.
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