Ryan Whitney

Just good shit, you know, ball-busting hockey.

Like, that's such a huge part of the hockey college is busting balls.

I know Garth Brooks didn't play, but it was nice to bring a little levity to the situation.

And again, congrats to our buddy Chase on getting the True Blue Award.

But moving along, today in NHL history, some pretty good shit happened, Biz.

66 years ago today, Gordie Howe had a goal and an assist in a 3-1 win over Chicago to pass Maurice Richard and take over as the NHL's all-time lead point getter with 947 points.

He'd hold the record for 29 years until a guy named Wayne Gretzky passed him 1,851 points.

Pretty good stuff there.

And then 58 years ago today, the Leafs beat the NHL All-Stars at Maple Leaf Gardens.

This was back... The All-Star game was the Stanley Cup winner from the previous year would play a collection of all the other All-Stars around the league.

Something that we would never have today, but...

Obviously it wouldn't happen, but would you think, Keith, would defending cup champs, regardless of what team it is, would even have a chance against the best of the rest of the league these days, given the talent in the league?

Yeah.

Yeah, but it's kind of wild that they did that, but that was actually the last year they did it.

1968, obviously the last time the Leafs won the Cup is, I believe, was 1967.

I'm not sure if you knew that.

And this is a wild one.

20 years ago today, Ovechkin scored probably the most dazzling of his 917 goals versus the Phoenix Coyotes.

It's wild, though.

Gretzky was coaching the Yotes at the time.