{"id":410611,"date":"2026-01-13T19:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/410611\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T19:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:05:06","slug":"maple-leafs-to-honour-50th-anniversary-of-darryl-sittlers-10-point-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/410611\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs to honour 50th anniversary of Darryl Sittler&#8217;s 10-point night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darryl Sittler&#8217;s big night is set to get another nod.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-maple-leafs\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> will honour their former captain&#8217;s record 10-point game \u2014 almost 50 years later \u2014 when the club meets the Buffalo Sabres on Jan 27.<\/p>\n<p>Sittler scored six goals and added four assists in Toronto&#8217;s 11-4 victory over the Boston Bruins on Feb. 7, 1976, at Maple Leaf Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>Maple Leafs general manager Brad Treliving said in a press release the 10-point performance is &#8220;one of the most extraordinary individual performances in the history of our game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sittler broke the record of eight points in a game previously held by Maurice Richard (1944) and Bert Olmstead (1954).<\/p>\n<p>A total of 11 different players have registered eight-point contests in the NHL \u2014 Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux each did it twice \u2014 with Sam Gagner being the last to accomplish the feat in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darryl Sittler&#8217;s big night is set to get another nod. The Toronto Maple Leafs will honour their former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-410611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}