Pens beat Scouts in first meeting

Before the New Jersey Devils were the Devils, they were the Colorado Rockies. And before that, they were the Kansas City Scouts. KC entered the NHL as an expansion team in 1974-75 and lasted only two years before being sold and transferred to Denver. The Rockies enjoyed a bit more longevity before moving east to become the Devils in 1982.

The Penguins first faced off against the Devils franchise when they paid a visit to the recently completed Kemper Arena on November 5, 1974 to take on the Scouts. Kansas City was fresh off its first-ever win, a 5-4 triumph on the road against their even more inept expansion cousins, the Washington Capitals. Their record heading into the game stood at 1-8-1.

As this game report explains, the hapless Scouts played a struggling Pens team tight for 55 minutes until Ron Schock scored an unassisted goal to give Pittsburgh a 4-3 lead. Rick Kehoe added an empty netter at 19:54 to seal the win against future Penguin goalie Michel Plasse and the Scouts.