After four seasons at Boston Arena (now Matthews Arena), the Bruins, then wearing brown and gold, make their debut at the Garden. A crowd estimated at 16,000 goes home disappointed when the home team
loses 1-0
to the Montreal Canadiens.
But the real star of the night, according to the Boston Globe's John J. Hallahan, is the new Garden itself.
"While the surroundings were new to the spectators they found it easy to locate their seats … As an ice palace -- a place where hockey is to be played -- nothing is to be lacking," Hallahan writes.
The Bruins remain at the Garden for 67 years before moving to their current home, now known as TD Garden. The old Garden goes out the way it came in; with a (preseason) game between the Bruins and Canadiens on Sept. 26, 1995.
MORE MOMENTS
1934:
Busher Jackson
becomes the first NHL player to score
four goals in one period
of a regular-season game. Jackson scores four times in the third period to power the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 5-2 win against the St. Louis Eagles.
1955: With all of the Original Six teams in action on a Sunday night (
Montreal at New York Rangers
,
Detroit Red Wings at Chicago Blackhawks
, and
Toronto at Boston
), each of the three games ends in a 1-1 tie. Each is the second of a home-and-home series when the visiting teams Sunday had won at home Saturday. None of the three games has a goal scored in the third period.
1974:Toronto center Dave Keon has his fifth NHL hat trick in his 1,000th game in the League, an 8-5 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins at the Civic Arena. Keon becomes the third player to appear in 1,000 games with the Maple Leafs.
1988:The Blackhawks retire the numbers of goalies
Glenn Hall
(No. 1) and
Tony Esposito
(No. 35) in a pregame ceremony at Chicago Stadium. Hall plays 10 seasons in Chicago; Esposito is with the Blackhawks for 15. In the game that follows, the Vancouver Canucks score
seven times on 23 shots
against
Darren Pang
in a 7-4 victory.