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Whalers career highlights
Mike Liut checks over his shoulder as Claude Lemieux scores the OT game 7 winner in the 1986 Adams Division Finals
Mike Liut checks over his shoulder as Claude Lemieux scores the OT game 7 winner in the 1986 Adams Division Finals
Mike Liut Whalers Career Highlights
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DATE HIGHLIGHT
2/23/1985 Mike Liut plays his 1st Whalers game vs Los Angeles. 
3/17/1985 Mike Liut records his 1st Whalers win vs Pittsburgh. 
4/4/1985 Mike Liut records his 1st Whalers shutout (11th NHL/14th career) with 40 saves vs Washington. 
11/27/1985 Mike Liut records his 2nd Whalers shutout (12th NHL/15th career) with 30 saves vs Los Angeles. 
1/10/1986 Mike Liut records his 200th career win (WHA/NHL) with 26 saves vs Vancouver. 
1/27/1986 Mike Liut makes the save on the 2nd NHL penalty shot (8th franchise) vs the Whalers taken by Steve Kasper of Boston. 
2/26/1986 Mike Liut plays his 400th NHL game vs Minnesota. 
3/10/1986 Mike Liut records his 1st Whalers point (an assist) vs Montreal. 
3/22/1986 Mike Liut is named NHL player of the week with a 3-0 record, 3.0 GAA, and .899 save %. 
3/26/1986 Mike Liut records his 3rd Whalers shutout (13th NHL/16th career) with 30 saves vs Montreal. 
4/9/1986 Mike Liut plays his 1st Whalers playoff game recording the win with 37 saves vs Quebec. 
4/27/1986 Mike Liut records the first (and only) Whalers NHL playoff shutout with 32 saves vs Montreal. 
10/16/1986 Mike Liut plays his 500th career game (WHA/NHL) suffering an injury and is replaced by Steve Weeks vs Winnipeg. 
11/21/1986 Mike Liut records his 4th career Whalers shutout (14th NHL/17th career) with 22 saves vs St Louis. 
11/26/1986 Mike Liut records his 5th Whalers shutout (his 2nd consecutive - for the first time in his career and the first ever for the Whalers - his 15th NHL/18th career) with 24 saves vs Buffalo. 
12/23/1986 Mike Liut records his 6th Whalers shutout (16th NHL/96th career) with 23 saves vs Boston. 
12/26/1986 Mike Liut sets the Whalers (NHL) goaltending record for longest individual shoutout sequence (Overall) at 151:34 (starting on 12/20/86) vs Montreal. 
1/15/1987 Mike Liut plays his 100th Whalers game vs Boston. 
1/17/1987 Mike Liut is scored against on the 3rd NHL penalty shot (9th franchise) vs the Whalers taken by Mike Gartner of Washington. 
1/19/1987 Mike Liut is scored against on the 4th NHL penalty shot (10th franchise) vs the Whalers taken by Mats Naslund of Montreal. 
1/29/1987 Mike Liut records his 200 NHL win vs Boston. 
3/7/1987 Mike Liut sets the Whalers (NHL) goaltending record for longest win streak at 5 games (starting on 2/23/87) vs Philadelphia. 
3/13/1987 Mike Liut records his 7th Whalers shutout (17th NHL/20th career, his 4th of the season setting the Whalers record) making 36 saves vs Winnipeg. 
5/18/1987 Mike Liut is named a first-team All-Star by the Sporting News in voting by NHL players. 
11/11/1987 Mike Liut records the shutout with 24 saves (8th Whalers, 18th NHL/21st career) besting Brian Haywards's 23 saves in the only 0-0 tie in Whalers (NHL) history vs Montreal. 
1/2/1988 Mike Liut plays his 500th NHL game making 27 saves in a 1-1 tie vs New Jersey. 
1/23/1988 Mike Liut makes 33 saves recording his 9th Whalers shutout (19th NHL/22nd career) vs Minnesota. 
1/24/1988 Mike Liut ties the Whalers (NHL) goaltending record for longest win streak at 5 games (starting on 1/16/88) vs Detroit. 
1/25/1988 Mike Liut is named NHL player of the week with a 4-0 record including a 33 save shoutout. 
2/17/1988 Mike Liut plays his 600th career game (WHA/NHL) recording the win with 24 saves vs Winnipeg. 
4/6/1988 Richard Brodeur plays in his 1st Whalers playoff game in relief of an injured Mike Liut vs Montreal. 
4/10/1988 Mike Liut play his 17th and last Whalers playoff game recording his 8th win with 26 saves vs Montreal. 
10/29/1988 Mike Liut records his 10th Whalers shutout (20th NHL/23rd career) with 29 saves vs New Jersey. 
11/12/1988 Mike Liut plays his 200th Whalers game recording the win with 25 saves vs Minnesota. 
3/25/1989 Peter Sidorkiewicz records his 4th NHL shutout (tying him with Mike Liut for the team record for shutouts in a season) with 29 saves vs St. Louis. 
10/11/1989 Mike Liut records his 100th Whalers win with 24 saves vs Washington. 
10/25/1989 Mike Liut records his 11th Whalers shutout (21st NHL/24th career) with 22 saves vs Quebec. 
10/28/1989 Mike Liut records his 12th Whalers shutout (22nd NHL/25th career) and 2nd consecutive (for the 2nd time in his career) with 28 saves vs Boston. 
10/30/1989 Mike Liut is named NHL player of the week with a 2-1-0 record including consecutive shoutouts. 
11/3/1989 Mike Liut makes the save on the 5th NHL penalty shot (11th franchise) vs the Whalers taken by Jimmy Carson of Detroit. 
11/14/1989 Mike Liut records his 13th Whalers shutout (23rd NHL/26th career) making 26 saves vs Detroit. 
12/20/1989 Mike Liut suffers a knee injury vs Boston. 
2/1/1990 Mike Liut returns after missing 15 games with a knee injury stopping 32 of 34 shots vs Philadelphia. 
3/2/1990 Mike Liut plays his 252nd and last Whalers game recording his 115th win (both set the Whalers team NHL records for a goaltender) making 23 saves vs Washington.