Today In NHL History - Jannik Hansen Beats Rask

On December 14th in 2013, Danish winger Jannik Hansen fired an 88 foot center ice slapshot that deflected off Slovak defenseman Zdena Chara's stick and knuckled past Finnish backstop Tuukka Rask, giving the Vancouver Canucks a 1-0 lead against the Boston Bruins. The Canucks put three more pucks past Rask before being pulled, then added two goals to complete the 6-2 rout of their rival.

The game marked the Bruins first visit to Vancouver since the 2011 Stanley Cup. Despite almost three years passing since the series, the perennially classless pest Brad Marchand taunted his opponents in defeat with ring-kissing and Cup-hoisting gestures during the game. Afterwards, Bruins coach Claude Julien noted, "It's definitely not something we will accept in our organization ... it's certainly something we are going to deal with".  Ironically, one of Marchand's ring-kissing gestures was directed towards Brad Richardson, the only current member of the Canucks with a Stanley Cup ring (Los Angeles Kings 2012).

That's today in NHL history.