Friday, October 28, 2011

On this Date in Pittsburgh Penguins History

2009
Sidney Crobsy recorded his third career hat trick against the Montreal Canadiens 

2008
the Penguins tied a franchise low with 11 shots with just three in each of the first and third periods (they lost to San Jose 2-1)

2006
Sidney Crosby earns his first NHL hat trick against the Philadelphia Flyers

2000
Penguins re-introduce the skating Penguin logo to the team jersey and suffered the largest margin of defeat at home when they lost to the New Jersey Devils, 9-0. Devils forwards John Madden and Randy McKay scored four goals each and tied records for most goals by a player in a game against the Pens.

1998
Pittsburgh scored five power-play goals against the Calgary Flames (tying a team record for power-play goals in a road game)

1995
Mario Lemieux recorded his 33rd career hat trick (against New Jersey Devils Martin Brodeur)

1993
Ron Francis scored his 1000th NHL career point against the Quebec Nordiques


1991
Pittsburgh ends a club record of 211 games without being shut out losing to the Washington Capitals by a score of 8-0

facts obtained from PITTSURGHHOCKEY.NET

2 comments:

Unknown said...

The information presented year by year is really good. Its really fantastic to know the old memories of the teams also.
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Gamer vista said...

Good to know the history of the team Penguin. Nice to see that their greatness is written here.




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