Dec. 20: Henri Richard earns 1,000th NHL point

THIS DATE IN HISTORY: Dec. 20
Three Hockey Hall of Famers who played for the Montreal Canadiens reach significant milestones exactly 10 years apart.

1973:Center
Henri Richard
becomes the ninth player in NHL history to reach 1,000 career points. It comes when he sets up a second-period goal by
Jim Roberts
in a
2-2 tie
with the Buffalo Sabres at Memorial Auditorium.
1983:
Guy Lafleur
scores his 500th NHL goal and
Steve Shutt
gets his 400th during a
6-0 victory
against the New Jersey Devils in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Shutt scores No. 400 at 3:55 of the second period when he takes a pass from
Ryan Walter
and beats goalie
Glenn Resch
. Lafleur scores his 500th at 8:34 of the third, beating Resch with a rising 30-footer.

MORE MOMENTS
1938:Boston Bruins rookie
Frank Brimsek
gets his third straight shutout and sixth in seven games in
a 3-0 victory
against the New York Americans at Boston Garden. The win gives Brimsek six shutouts in his first eight NHL games.
1950:
Turk Broda
of the Toronto Maple Leafs becomes the first NHL goalie to reach 300 victories. The milestone comes when
Toronto defeats the Canadiens 6-1
at Maple Leaf Gardens.
1964:
Bobby Hull
scores in the
Chicago Blackhawks' 3-2 victory against the Bruins
, giving him 28 goals in 28 games. Hull goes on to score 32 goals in Chicago's first 35 games of the 1964-65 season, but injuries limit him to 39 goals in 61 games.

1969:
Bobby Orr
has five assists to lead the Bruins
to a 6-4 road victory
against the Pittsburgh Penguins. He assists on each of Boston's last five goals, including two by
Johnny Bucyk
. Orr goes on to become the first defenseman to lead the NHL in scoring.
1981:
Doug Smail
of the Winnipeg Jets sets an NHL record for the fastest goal from the start of a game when he
scores five seconds after the opening faceoff
against the St. Louis Blues. Smail's 15-foot wrist shot beats goaltender
Paul Skidmore
, who is making his NHL debut. Smail also scores the go-ahead goal in the third period to help the Jets to a 5-4 victory at Winnipeg Arena.
1985:
Denis Potvin
of the New York Islanders becomes the NHL's
all-time scoring leader among defensemen
. Potvin gets his 916th career point, breaking a tie with Orr, with a first-period assist in a 2-2 tie against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden.

On the same night,
Jari Kurri
scores four goals and
Wayne Gretzky
has six assists in the
Edmonton Oilers' 9-4 victory against the Los Angeles Kings
at Northlands Coliseum.
1986:The Kings rally from a four-goal deficit in the final 9:14 of the third period to
earn an 8-8 tie
with the Oilers in Edmonton.
Bernie Nicholls
gets the tying goal with 34 seconds remaining in the third period and goalie
Darren Eliot
on the bench for a sixth attacker.
2007:
Marian Gaborik
of the Minnesota Wild becomes the first NHL player in nearly 11 years to score five goals in a game. Gaborik's
five-goal performance
in a 6-3 win against the Rangers at Xcel Energy Center is the first since
Sergei Fedorov
of the Detroit Red Wings does it against the Washington Capitals on Dec. 26, 1996.
2019: Noel Acciari of the Florida Panthers has his second consecutive hat trick for the Florida Panthers, scoring three times in a
7-4 win against the Dallas Stars
at BB&T Center. Acciari scores the last three of Florida's five second-period goals, with all three coming in a span of 3:59. He caps his big night by scoring a shorthanded goal on a penalty shot at 11:25.