{"id":413037,"date":"2026-01-17T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/413037\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T13:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:55:11","slug":"hockey-day-in-canada-brings-back-colorful-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/413037\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey Day in Canada brings back colorful memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1987, Edmonton\u2019s Jari Kurri scored two goals and added five assists to give him 700 career points in the Oilers\u2019 7-4 road win against Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>And in 1996, Steve Yzerman of the Red Wings became the 22nd player in NHL history to score 500 career goals, his milestone coming in Detroit\u2019s 3-2 win against the Colorado Avalanche at Joe Louis Arena. Yzerman, a native of Cranbrook, British Columbia, joined Howe as the second Red Wings player to reach No. 500.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimply happiness,\u201d Yzerman would say of his feat. \u201cI was really happy to have the whole thing over with. I didn\u2019t feel relieved at all. I\u2019ve enjoyed the excitement towards it and attention that came with it. It\u2019s something I really enjoyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yzerman scored his historic goal with a backhand over the shoulder of fellow future Hall of Famer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/patrick-roy-8451033\" title=\"Patrick Roy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Roy<\/a>, in goal for the Avalanche.<\/p>\n<p>Roy will be in Calgary on 2026 Hockey Day in Canada, behind the bench Saturday coaching the Islanders. Yzerman will have a rare Saturday night off, Detroit home to the visiting Senators on Sunday (5 p.m. ET, FDSNDET, TSN5, RDS2).<\/p>\n<p>Top photo: In a picture-perfect Canadiana scene, a player practices on an outdoor shinny rink before the start of the next tournament game during the seventh annual 2016 Lake Louise Pond Hockey Classic on Lake Louise, Alberta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1987, Edmonton\u2019s Jari Kurri scored two goals and added five assists to give him 700 career points&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-413037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}