Jan. 12: Devils use four players from Soviet Union

THIS DATE IN HISTORY: Jan. 12
1992: The New Jersey Devils make NHL history when they
use four players born in the Soviet Union
.

Defensemen
Viacheslav Fetisov
and
Alexei Kasatonov
, and forwards
Valeri Zelepukin
and
Alexander Semak
all play during a 5-2 victory against the Los Angeles Kings in East Rutherford, New Jersey. It's the first time an NHL team has dressed four players born in the Soviet Union in the same game.
Zelepukin has a goal and an assist, and Kasatonov assists on his first-period power-play goal.
MORE MOMENTS
1918:
Joe Malone
scores five goals in the Montreal Canadiens'
9-4 victory
against the Ottawa Senators to become the NHL's first 20-goal scorer. Malone extends his goal-scoring streak (from the start of the NHL) to seven games.

1943:
Bep Guidolin
, a 16-year-old rookie, scores twice and has an assist in the Boston Bruins'
3-0 victory
against the Chicago Blackhawks at Boston Garden, and
Frank Brimsek
earns his 26th NHL shutout. It's the second of four games to benefit the American Red Cross war fund and raises $10,624.

1980:
Gordie Howe
gets a tremendous ovation in his
first NHL appearance in Detroit in nine years
when he and the Hartford Whalers come to Joe Louis Arena to play the Red Wings. Howe retired as a player in 1971 after 25 seasons with the Red Wings, but returned to the ice two years later and played six seasons in the World Hockey Association. When the Whalers were one of four WHA teams absorbed by the NHL in 1979, Howe returned to the NHL. He doesn't have a point in the Whalers' 6-4 victory, but son
Mark Howe
finishes with two assists, helping Hartford end a nine-game winless streak.

1993:The Pittsburgh Penguins announce that
Mario Lemieux
has been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma. Lemieux is found to be in the early stages of the disease after a large lymph node is removed from his neck. He has radiation treatments and misses nearly two months. He returns on March 2 and wins the scoring title with 160 points in 60 games.

1994:
Wayne Gretzky
scores twice to become the
first player in NHL history to reach 2,400 points
and the seventh player in Los Angeles Kings history to score 200 goals. The milestones, along with two assists, come in the Kings' 6-4 victory against the Whalers at the Forum in Inglewood, California.

2001: Defenseman
Jean-Jacques Daigneault
becomes the second player
to play for 10 different NHL teams
when he appears in his first game with the expansion Minnesota Wild, a 5-0 loss to the Colorado Avalanche. Daigneault ties the mark set by defenseman
Michel Petit
.
2006:The New York Rangers retire
Mark Messier
's No. 11 prior to their
5-4 overtime win
against the Edmonton Oilers. Messier, the No. 2 scorer in NHL history who won the
Stanley Cup
five times with the Oilers, then scores the Cup-winning goal for the Rangers in the
1994
Final, giving New York its first championship since
1940
.

2016: Arizona Coyotes rookie Max Domi accomplishes something his father, Tie Domi, never managed during his 16 NHL seasons: scoring three goals in a game. Max
gets his first NHL hat trick
before Oliver Ekman-Larsson's goal with nine seconds remaining in overtime gives the Coyotes a 4-3 win against the Edmonton Oilers at Gila River Arena.
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2019: The New York Rangers get their first win in eight tries in Brooklyn when they
defeat the New York Islanders 2-1
at Barclays Center. A goal by Mats Zuccarello with 5:05 remaining breaks a 1-1 tie and ends the Rangers' seven-game winless streak (0-6-1) in Brooklyn after the Islanders move there to start the 2015-16 season.