Gordon Howe ... “Gordie Howe hat trick”: a goal, an assist and a fight in the same game, though he only recorded two such games in his career. He was the inaugural recipient of the NHL ...

Hockey himself. The Great One wore a No. 9 red pin over the left side of his chest, the number of Gordie Howe. Gretzky held the NHL record for 31 years until Ovechkin scored his 895th career goal ...

The Toledo radiologist and the Russian hockey player share a common lineage, because Murray’s dad, Gordie Howe, had once been the NHL’s greatest goal scorer. Wayne Gretzky later broke Howe’s ...

“Gordie Howe hat trick? Ha,” said Glenn Hall to Dave Stubbs of NHL.com. “Gordie just kicked the [crap] outta the tough guys and then he didn’t have to fight.” Still, on two occasio ...

It was Gordie Howe who passed down the excellence to Wayne Gretzky, and now Wayne Gretzky will be passing down the same excellence to Alexander Ovechkin! Wayne Gretzky shared with NHL.com ...

Gretzky is now second, and Howe is third. The three players are the only NHL skaters to have at least 800 goals. The Capitals star Ovechkin trails Gretzky and the great Gordie Howe in Stanley Cups.

2021 — San Jose Sharks forward Patrick Marleau breaks Gordie Howe’s NHL record for most games played.

1897 — John J. McDermott wins the first Boston Marathon in 2 hours, 55 minutes, 10 seconds.