THIS DATE IN HISTORY: Feb. 8
1983: Wayne Gretzky puts on a show for the sellout crowd attending the NHL All-Star Game at Nassau Coliseum, scoring four goals in the third period of the Campbell Conference's 9-3 win against the Wales Conference.
With the Campbell Conference leading 3-2, Gretzky scores his first goal at 6:20, beats goalie Pelle Lindbergh at 10:31 and again at 15:32, then ends the night with his fourth goal of the period at 19:18.
He breaks Ted Lindsay's record of three goals in an All-Star Game, set in 1950.
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1958: Harry Lumley becomes the second NHL goalie to reach 300 wins. Lumley's milestone victory comes in the Boston Bruins' 7-3 win against the Toronto Maple Leafs at Maple Leaf Gardens.
1970: Gordie Howe becomes the first NHL player to score 750 goals. Howe gets No. 750 by beating Philadelphia Flyers goalie Bernie Parent 3:10 into the third period, but the Detroit Red Wings lose 5-3 at Olympia Stadium.
1975: Rookie goalie Pete LoPresti gets his first NHL shutout when the Minnesota North Stars win 5-0 against the visiting Flyers at Met Center. LoPresti becomes part of the first father/son combo to have a shutout in the NHL; his father, Sam LoPresti, has four in two seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks from 1940-42.
1991: Gretzky begins a pair of streaks when he gets a second-period assist during the Los Angeles Kings' 4-4 tie against the Buffalo Sabres at Memorial Auditorium. It's the start of a 23-game assist streak and a 25-game point streak.
1997: Scotty Bowman becomes the first NHL coach to win 1,000 regular-season games when Brendan Shanahan scores 2:01 into overtime to give the visiting Detroit Red Wings a 6-5 victory against the Pittsburgh Penguins. The victory moves Bowman to 1,000-452-255 with the St. Louis Blues, Montreal Canadiens, Buffalo Sabres, Penguins and Red Wings. At the time, he has more victories than all but seven NHL franchises, the Original Six teams and the Flyers.
On the same night, Mark Messier scores three goals for his 19th regular-season hat trick in the visiting New York Rangers' 5-2 win against the New York Islanders. Messier's hat trick is the first by a member of the Rangers at Nassau Coliseum in the 25-year history between the two rivals. It's also the final hat trick of his NHL career.
2003: Mario Lemieux has four assists in the Penguins' 5-2 win against the Bruins in Boston, becoming the 10th NHL player with 1,000 in his career. "It's nice," he says. "It's only numbers though."
2006: The Philadelphia Flyers become the first post-1967 expansion team to win 1,500 games when they defeat the visiting Islanders 5-2. Rookie center Mike Richards scores three goals his first NHL hat trick.
2019: The Carolina Hurricanes end a winless streak of more than eight years at Madison Square Garden as goalie Petr Mrazek made 27 saves in a 3-0 victory against the New York Rangers. The Hurricanes' win ends an 0-13-3 drought in New York since Jan. 5, 2011.
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