Jan. 3: Bobby Hull born in Ontario

THIS DATE IN HISTORY: Jan. 3
1939:
Bobby Hull
, one of the greatest goal-scorers in NHL history, is born in Point Anne, Ontario.

Hull joins the Chicago Blackhawks for the 1957-58 season at age 18. Two seasons later, his 39 goals and 81 points lead the League. He helps the Blackhawks win the
Stanley Cup in 1961
, scores 50 goals in 1961-62, and becomes the first NHL player to score more than 50 goals in a season when he gets 54 in 1965-66.
By now, he's known as the "Golden Jet," a tribute to his speed (he's clocked at nearly 30 mph) and his booming shot (one of his slap shots is measured at 118 mph).
Hull increases his single-season record by scoring 58 goals in 1968-69, leading the League for the fourth consecutive season. He scores 50 goals and has 93 points in 1971-72, then becomes the first NHL star to sign with the World Hockey Association.
Hull returns to the NHL in 1979 when the Winnipeg Jets are one of four teams to join the League. He retires after the 1979-80 season with 610 NHL goals (604 with the Blackhawks) and is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983.

MORE MOMENTS
1929: Defenseman
Eddie Shore
of the Boston Bruins
drives through a blizzard
to get from Boston to Montreal. He arrives in time for the game and
scores the only goal
in a 1-0 victory against the Maroons at the Forum. Rookie
Tiny Thompson
gets his fifth NHL shutout.
1943: The Blackhawks get an all-Bentley goal during their
3-3 tie
with the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden.
Reg Bentley
opens the scoring at 5:44 of the first period, with
Doug Bentley
and
Max Bentley
getting the assists. It's the first goal in NHL history on which brothers get all three points.
1970:
Gordie Howe
of the Detroit Red Wings and
George Armstrong
of the Toronto Maple Leafs become the first players to appear in the NHL in four decades when each plays in his first game of the new year. The Red Wings defeat the Philadelphia Flyers
6-1
; the Maple Leafs
win 6-2
against the Blackhawks.
1990:
Guy Lafleur
, playing for the Quebec Nordiques, scores his 545th goal to move past
Maurice Richard
into eighth place on the NHL all-time goal-scoring list. Despite Lafleur's milestone goal, the visiting Nordiques
lose 5-4
to the Maple Leafs.

1991:
Wayne Gretzky
of the Los Angeles Kings becomes the fourth player in NHL history to score 700 goals, then gets two more for his 47th NHL hat trick. He reaches the milestone in
a 6-3 victory
against the New York Islanders at Nassau Coliseum.
2015:Jaromir Jagr of the New Jersey Devils becomes the oldest player in NHL history to have a hat trick when he
scores three goals
in a 5-2 win against the Philadelphia Flyers. At 42 years, 322 days old, Jagr is more than a year older than Howe was at the time of his last NHL hat trick (41 years, 216 days on Nov. 2, 1969) when he set the mark.

Jagr's hat trick comes 23 years, 11 months and 1 day after his first three-goal game for the Pittsburgh Penguins against the Bruins on Feb. 2, 1991. Jagr also breaks another NHL record held by Howe, the longest gap between a player's first and last hat tricks. Howe's last NHL hat trick comes 19 years, 264 days after his first one, on Feb. 11, 1950.
2018: Andreas Athanasiou ties the NHL record for the fastest regular-season overtime goal when he scores six seconds into OT to give the
Detroit Red Wings a 2-1 victory against the Ottawa Senators
at Little Caesars Arena. He ties the mark held by
Mats Sundin
of the Toronto Maple Leafs,
David Legwand
of the Nashville Predators and Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals.
2019: The Tampa Bay Lightning extend their winning streak to seven games and their point streak to 16 by
defeating the Los Angeles Kings 6-2
at Staples Center. Nikita Kucherov leads the Lightning with one goal and three assists.