THIS DATE IN HISTORY: June 26
2004: Alex Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin, a pair of future stars, are the first players taken at the NHL Draft in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Ovechkin, selected by the Washington Capitals, scores 52 goals as a rookie in 2005-06 and wins the Calder Trophy. In 2015-16, he becomes the first Russian-born player to score 500 goals in the League.
Malkin, taken by the Pittsburgh Penguins with the No. 2 pick, wins the Calder in 2007; two years later, he earns the Conn Smythe Trophy after helping Pittsburgh win the Stanley Cup for the first time since 1992. He leads all players in scoring during the 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs, helping the Penguins become the first team in 19 years to win back-to-back championships.
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1993: The second-year Ottawa Senators use the No. 1 pick in the NHL Draft at Quebec to select highly touted forward Alexandre Daigle from Victoriaville of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Daigle scores 20 goals and has 51 points as a rookie, but finishes his NHL career with 129 goals and 327 points in 616 games. The Hartford Whalers, picking second, fare much better when they select defenseman Chris Pronger, who goes on to earn induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2015.
1999: The NHL's newest team, the Atlanta Thrashers, select forward Patrik Stefan with the No. 1 pick at the draft in Boston. But the real prizes of the day belong to the Vancouver Canucks, who wheel and deal in order to get the second and third pick to select twin brothers Daniel Sedin (No. 2) and Henrik Sedin (No. 3). The biggest prize in the late stages of the draft goes to the Detroit Red Wings, who take forward Henrik Zetterberg in the seventh round (No. 210).
2001: Ray Bourque, the highest-scoring defenseman in NHL history, retires a few weeks after finally winning the Stanley Cup. The last act of Bourque's 22 NHL seasons is to carry the Cup around the ice after the Colorado Avalanche defeat the New Jersey Devils 3-1 in Game 7 of the 2001 Final. After 20-plus seasons with the Boston Bruins without winning a championship, he's traded to Colorado on March 6, 2000. Fifteen months later, he retires as a champion. Bourque retires with more goals (410), assists (1,169), and points (1,579) than any defenseman in NHL history.
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