June 28: Dryden traded to Canadiens by archrival Bruins

THIS DATE IN HISTORY: June 28
1964: The Montreal Canadiens make a franchise-altering trade with the Boston Bruins, although no one knows it at the time.

Shortly after taking 16-year-old goalie
Ken Dryden
with the 14th pick in the NHL Draft, the Bruins trade him to the Canadiens with Alex Campbell for Guy Allen and Paul Reid. However, Dryden opts for college instead of the pros and goes 76-4 with one tie in his final three seasons at Cornell before signing with the Canadiens.
He makes his NHL debut late in the 1970-71 season, goes 6-0-0 and is named as Montreal's playoff starter. Dryden goes on to win 12 of 20 games, helps the Canadiens win the Stanley Cup and is awarded the
Conn Smythe Trophy
as MVP of the playoffs.
Dryden wins the
Calder Trophy
as the NHL's top rookie in 1971-72, helps the Canadiens win another Cup in 1973 and is the backbone of the team that wins four consecutive championships from 1976-79. He retires after the 1978-79 season at age 31.

MORE MOMENTS
1993: The New Jersey Devils name Jacques Lemaire as their new coach, replacing Herb Brooks. In the Devils' first two seasons under Lemaire, they advance to Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Final in 1994 and sweep the Detroit Red Wings in the 1995 Cup Final to win the Stanley Cup for the first time since entering the NHL as the Kansas City Scouts in 1974.
1994: The biggest news at the NHL Draft in Hartford isn't the selection of defenseman
Ed Jovanovski
by the Florida Panthers with the first pick, it's a blockbuster trade between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Quebec Nordiques. Toronto sends forward
Wendel Clark
, defenseman
Sylvain Lefebvre
, forward
Landon Wilson
and its first-round pick (No. 12) in the draft to Quebec for defenseman
Garth Butcher
, forward
Todd Warriner
, the Nordiques' first-round pick (No. 16) and 23-year-old center
Mats Sundin
, who goes on to become the highest-scoring player in Toronto history (987 points) and is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2012.

2007: The Hall of Fame announces the election of four players, all in their first year of eligibility. The quartet includes centers
Mark Messier
and
Ron Francis
, as well as defensemen
Al MacInnis
and
Scott Stevens
. It's the first time voters elect four players to the Hall in one year since 2001, when
Mike Gartner
,
Viacheslav Fetisov
,
Jari Kurri
and
Dale Hawerchuk
are chosen.