On This Date in Pittsburgh Penguins History / Penguins Trivia
Published: 21st Feb 12 9:06 am
Charles LeClaire - US PRESSWIRE
2011
- THE NEAL DEAL (appropriate that his contract is extended around the same time he came to Pittsburgh last year!): the Pittsburgh Penguins traded Alex Goligoski to the Dallas Stars for forward James Neal and defenseman Matt Niskanen
2009
- Marc-Andre Fleury’s win over the Flyers game him seven wins in Philadelphia, the most for a Pittsburgh netminder
1999
- Tom Barrasso played his 700th career game against the Flyers in Philadelphia
1998
- the Czcech Republic wins gold medal game at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan (Jaromir Jagr, Martin Straka, Robert Lang and Jan Hrdina become first active Penguins players to win gold; Aleksey Morozov and Darius Kasparaitis won silver medals for Russia)
1991
- Toronto led 3-0 in the second period before Pittsburgh netted six in a row on the way to an 11-4 win
1986
- Mike Bullard scored his sixth hat trick against the Detroit Red Wings
1982
- Pittsburgh ended an NHL record, 15-game winning streak of the New York Islanders by beating them 4-3
1976
- Chicago Blackhawks’ Gilles Villemure surrendered three goals to both Pierre Larouche (his third hat trick) and Lowell MacDonald (his fourth); the Pens won, 10-1, and it was the second time in team history that two Penguins scored hat tricks in the same game
1974
- former Pittsburgh Hornets star defenseman, Tim Horton, died at the age of 44 as a result of an automobile accident (Horton briefly played for the Penguins near the end of his NHL career)
1968
- the Penguins’ first mascot, “Penguin Pete,” (an Ecuadorian-born bird on loan from the Pittsburgh Zoo) made his first appearance during the second intermission of the game
1937
- Pittsburgh Hornets won on the road over the New Haven Eagles by a score of 3-1 (Ken Doraty scored the game-winning goal)
Most information obtained from PittsburghHockey.net
TODAY’S PENGUINS TRIVIA QUESTION:
In what year did the Penguins change the team colors from blue and white to black and gold to follow in the tradition of other Pittsburgh sports teams, the Steelers and Pirates?
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Chicago Blackhawks (the Penguins won by a score of 4-2)
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