Nov. 3: Arbour coaches one last game with Islanders

THIS DATE IN HISTORY: Nov. 3
2007: Hockey Hall of Famer Al Arbour comes out of retirement to coach one last game with the New York Islanders.

At the suggestion of current coach Ted Nolan, Arbour, the coach during their Stanley Cup dynasty in the early 1980s, goes back behind the bench with his old team for one night, giving him an even 1,500 games coached with New York.
Miroslav Satan
scores twice and the Islanders rally
to defeat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2
at a sold-out Nassau Coliseum.
After the game, the banner commemorating Arbour's 739 victories with the Islanders is lowered and replaced by one celebrating his 1,500 games as their coach.
"Just by him being here won the game," Nolan says. "Al said he didn't know all the names of the players, but they sure knew him."
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of the Detroit Red Wings makes the first of his NHL-record 23 All-Star Game appearances. He helps the All-Stars to a 3-1 victory against the Stanley Cup champion Toronto Maple Leafs at Chicago Stadium.

1951:
Maurice Richard
scores his scores his 300th and 301st NHL goals in the Montreal Canadiens'
3-2 loss to the Red Wings
at the Forum. Richard becomes the second player in NHL history (after
Nels Stewart
) to score 300 career goals.

1974:
Johnny Bucyk
of the Boston Bruins becomes the
highest-scoring left wing in NHL history
. His two assists in a 10-1 victory against the Minnesota North Stars at Boston Garden move him ahead of Bobby Hull's 1,153 points, all with the Chicago Blackhawks.

1987:
Marcel Dionne
becomes the second player in NHL history to reach
1,700 career points
. The milestone comes when he scores a goal for the visiting New York Rangers in a 5-3 loss to the Calgary Flames.

1990:Linesman Wayne Bonney takes part in a personal doubleheader. Bonney officiates an afternoon game between the Blackhawks and Philadelphia Flyers at the Spectrum, then hops on a plane and works a night game between the Buffalo Sabres and Bruins in Boston as a replacement for injured colleague Gerard Gauthier.
1998:The Penguins extend their own NHL record by scoring on their 12th consecutive power play.
Maxim Galanov
scores on the first of Pittsburgh's seven power-play opportunities in a
4-4 tie against the Flyers
at the Spectrum; the Penguins fail to cash in on six other chances. Galanov's second goal of the game at 14:36 of the third period gives the Penguins a point after they fall behind by three goals 11:28 into the first period.
2002:
Mark Messier
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Larry Murphy
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3-2 loss to the St. Louis Blues
at Madison Square Garden. He finishes his career with 1,756 games played, 11 shy of Howe's record.

2011:Hours after signing a seven-year contract, $49 million extension on his 29th birthday, Nashville Predators goalie Pekka Rinne completes a personal one-day hat trick with a
3-0 victory against the Phoenix Coyotes
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2018:Marc-Andre Fleury becomes the 29th goalie in NHL history to have 50 career shutouts. No. 50 comes when Fleury makes 34 saves for the Vegas Golden Knights in a
3-0 victory against the Carolina Hurricanes
at T-Mobile Arena.
2019:Alex Ovechkin plays in his 1,100th NHL game, but he's overshadowed by Jakub Vrana, who scores three goals for his first League hat trick to help the Washington Capitals
defeat the Calgary Flames 4-2
at Capital One Arena. Only
Wayne Gretzky
(793 goals) and
Brett Hull
(679) score more goals than Ovechkin (669) through their 1,100th NHL games.