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Did you know …

that baseball titan Babe Ruth dropped in on an NHL game on November 15, 1927? Swarmed by fans, the Bambino swept into the Boston Garden to watch the Bruins play the Chicago Black Hawks in a bruising donnybrook of a game that prompted Ruth to comment, after witnessing his very first hockey spectacle, “Never saw anything like it. Those fellows wanted to kill one another. Thank God I’m in baseball. It’s so peaceful and quiet.”

What incredible feat did Mario Lemieux accomplish on New Year’s Eve 1988?

During his career, the Pittsburgh Penguins’ Mario Lemieux accomplished incredible feats and provided hockey fans with some of the game’s most memorable moments, but on December 31, 1988, he did something even pretty extraordinary for him. In a game against the New Jersey Devils the Magnificent One became the first and thus far only NHL player to score goals in five different ways. Lemieux put the puck into the Devils’ net at even strength, on the power play, shorthanded, on a penalty shot, and into an empty net in an 8–6 Penguins victory.