THIS DATE IN HISTORY: July 27
1995: Two future Hockey Hall of Famers are traded for each other when the St. Louis Blues send forward Brendan Shanahan to the Hartford Whalers for defenseman Chris Pronger.
Pronger, the second player taken in the 1993 NHL Draft, blossoms during his nine seasons in St. Louis and serves as captain for seven of them. He spends 2005-06 with the Edmonton Oilers, helping them get to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, then is traded to the Anaheim Ducks in the summer of 2006 and helps them win the Cup in 2007. Pronger spends three seasons with the Ducks and three more with the Philadelphia Flyers before injuries force him to end his playing career in December 2012. He is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2015.
Shanahan scores 44 goals for Hartford in 1995-96, but he's traded to the Detroit Red Wings on Oct. 9, 1996, and scores 46 goals in his first season with Detroit, helping the Red Wings end a 42-year Stanley Cup drought. Shanahan also plays on Detroit's Cup-winning teams in 1998 and 2002. He finishes his career by playing 34 games for the New Jersey Devils, the team that took him with the second pick in the 1987 NHL Draft, and ends up with 656 goals and 1,354 points in 1,524 NHL games. He is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2013.
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1879: Jack Laviolette, the first captain and coach of the Montreal Canadiens, is born.
Laviolette grows up in Valleyfield, Quebec, and takes up hockey at an early age. He excels as an offensive defenseman for teams in Montreal and Michigan but receives an offer he can't refuse in the fall of 1909 -- to put together a French-speaking team to go along with two English-speaking teams in the National Hockey Association (the predecessor of the NHL). He's tasked with recruiting players as well as serving as captain and coach. The Canadiens win the Stanley Cup for the first time in franchise history in 1916. Laviolette's last season with the Canadiens is 1917-18, the franchise's first in the newly formed NHL. He's elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1962, two years after his death.
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