This Day in Hockey History

2007 - Gaborik scores 5 for Wild against Rangers

Minnesota Wild forward Marian Gaborik scores five goals in a 6-3 victory over the New York Rangers, becoming the first player in 11 years to accomplish the feat.

Gaborik's performance was the latest sign of the dead-puck era's demise. No player had scored five in a game since Mario Lemieux and Sergei Fedorov did it in 1996, ending a run of seven different players recording five-goal games over five years.

Gaborik added an assist to tie a career high with six points. Johan Franzen was the next (and last) player to score five goals in a game when he did it in 2011 with the Detroit Red Wings.

Birthdays

1909 - Charlie Conacher
1950 - Bill Clement
1970 - Travis Green
1973 - Cory Stillman
1978 - Andrei Markov
1986 - Derek Dorsett
1989 - Chris Tanev