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17 March in Sports History

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Sports Jersey Dispatch March Daily Digits

Sports history is made every day of the year. We will preserve at least a small sampling from some great athletes every day based on the uniform number they wore.

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Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of hockey great Howie Morenz in a game vs. the New York Rangers circa 1930?

March 17, 1932 - Howie Morenz, Number 7  the center of the Montreal Canadiens nets his 334th career point with an assist in a 10-4 win v New York Americans. With this he passed Cy Denneny, Number 16 of the Ottawa Senators as NHL leader for career points at the time.

March 17, 1983 - Number 22, Mike Bossy fired home the 70th hat trick in New York Islander franchise history as the Isles dropped the New Jersey Devils 9-5.


18 Mar 1983, Fri The Palm Beach Post (West Palm Beach, Florida) Newspapers.com

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A Very Special thanks to information obtained from the following brilliant internet sites: On This Day Sports, the Sports Reference's family of website databases & Stathead.com.

Banner photo is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of hockey great Howie Morenz in a game vs. the New York Rangers circa 1930?, taken by an unknown.

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