{"id":24681,"date":"2016-04-11T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-april-11\/"},"modified":"2016-04-11T08:00:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T15:00:40","slug":"today-in-sports-history-april-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-april-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in sports history: April 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

1936 \u2014 The Detroit Red Wings win the NHL Stanley Cup with a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1965 \u2014 Jack Nicklaus shoots a record 271 and wins the Masters golf tournament by nine strokes over Arnold Palmer and Gary Player.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1966 \u2014 Jack Nicklaus wins his third Masters and becomes the first to win in consecutive years as he shoots a 70 in an 18-hole playoff to beat Tommy Jacobs and Gay Brewer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1976 \u2014 Ray Floyd shoots a record-tying 271 to win the Masters by eight strokes over Ben Crenshaw.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1981 \u2014 Larry Holmes beats Trevor Berbick in a 15-round unanimous decision to retain his world heavyweight title in Las Vegas.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1982 \u2014 Craig Stadler beats Dan Pohl in a sudden-death playoff to take the Masters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1983 \u2014 Spain\u2019s Seve Ballesteros wins the Masters by four shots over Tom Kite and Ben Crenshaw.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1989 \u2014 Ron Hextall scores his second career goal and becomes the first goalie to connect for a playoff goal, and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Washington Capitals 8-5.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1993 \u2014 Bernhard Langer of Germany wraps up his second Masters title with a 20-foot eagle putt on No. 13. Langer posts a four-stroke win over Chip Beck with an 11-under 277 total.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2004 \u2014 Phil Mickelson\u2019s agonizing pursuit of a major ends at the Masters when he makes an 18-foot birdie putt on the final hole, ending a spectacular back-nine duel with Ernie Els.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2007 \u2014 Roberto Luongo sets an NHL record for saves in a first career playoff start, making 72 in Vancouver\u2019s 5-4 quadruple-overtime win over Dallas. The sixth-longest playoff game in NHL history, ends on a goal by Henrik Sedin 18:06 into the fourth overtime period.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2008 \u2014 Missouri\u2019s Jacob Priday sets a Big 12 Conference record, hitting four home runs against Texas in a 31-12 rout. The senior goes 5-for-5, drives in nine runs and scores six times.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2010 \u2014 Phil Mickelson wins his third Masters title, shooting a 5-under 67 to pull away for a three-stroke win over Lee Westwood.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2014 \u2014 Corey Brewer scores a career-high 51 points and Gorgui Dieng hit a short jumper with 4.6 seconds to play to lift short-handed Minnesota to a 112-110 win over Houston.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2014 \u2014 Stephen Curry had 30 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds, and Golden State clinches a playoff berth with a 112-95 win over the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers set a franchise low with the 54th loss of their miserable season. The 1957-58 Minneapolis Lakers lost 53 times in their 72-game season. These Lakers would finish 27-55.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2014 \u2014 Frans Nielsen, Josh Bailey and Ryan Strome score in the shootout, and the New York Islanders beat New Jersey 3-2. New Jersey has lost all 13 shootouts this season and has dropped an NHL-record 17 straight, dating to last season.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1936 \u2014 The Detroit Red Wings win the NHL Stanley Cup with a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs. 1965 \u2014 Jack Nicklaus shoots a record 271 and wins the Masters golf tournament by nine strokes over Arnold Palmer and Gary Player. 1966 \u2014 Jack Nicklaus wins his third Masters and becomes the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-24681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24681"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}