B efore the 1992-93 NHL season began, the idea there would be a unanimous Rookie of the Year winner ... whose debut was even longer coming. Teemu Selanne had been selected by then-Winnipeg Jets ...

When Selanne played his first NHL game Oct. 6, 1992, the night he got the first two of his 132 points as a rookie, people were still occasionally taking old records off their shelves.

Teemu Selanne set an NHL rookie record with the Winnipeg Jets on this day in 1993, and the Detroit Red Wings' Octopus-throwing tradition began this day in 1952. Here's today's NHL Nugget – this ...