Date in year · 1944 · The 1940s
On December 28, 1944, maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of NHL ice hockey. Kathy Acker, Philip Jackson, James Heckman would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · December 28, 1944
Joseph Henri Maurice Richard was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens. He was the first player in NHL history to score 50 goals in one season, accomplishing the feat in 50 games in 1944–45, and the first to reach 500 career goals.
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1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1944th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 944th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1940s decade.
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Canadian ice hockey player (1921–2000)
Joseph Henri Maurice Richard was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens. He was the first player in NHL history to score 50 goals in one season, accomplishing the feat in 50 games in 1944–45, and the first to reach 500 career goals.
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