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Most assists by a player, first NHL season, one game: Wayne Gretzky (February 15, 1980), 7. Longest goal-scoring streak, first NHL season: Joe Malone (1917–18), 14 games. Most assists by a player, first NHL Season Wayne Gretzky (1979–80), 86. Most points by a player, first NHL Season Wayne Gretzky (1979–80), 137.
The first player outside of Asia and Europe to score 100 international goals was Mark Hager of Australia. To date, eleven players representing India and ten from Netherlands and Pakistan each have scored 100 or more international goals, the most of any country. The Asian Hockey Federation and European Hockey Federation has the highest number of ...
A record 21 players scored 100 points in 1992–93, the same season that a record 14 players reached the 50-goal plateau. The second most to achieve 100 points in the same season was 16, in 1984–85. By contrast, the 100-point player became a rarity in the eight seasons from 1996–97 to 2003–04; only eight players, on eleven occasions ...
This is a list of top goal-scorers by season in the National Hockey League. Players marked with a dagger (†) are active, while players inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame are marked with an asterisk (*).
All overtime in the NHL is sudden death —meaning the first team to score is the winner—so the player who scores in overtime also has the game-winning goal. Patrick Kane, 5 Corey Perry, 4. Nicklas Backstrom, 4. Brayden Point, 3 Jordan Staal, 3 Brad Marchand, 3 Joe Pavelski, 3.
The 48 players to score 500 goals consist of 34 Canadians [note 1], five Americans (Brett Hull, Joe Mullen, Mike Modano, Jeremy Roenick and Keith Tkachuk), three Slovaks (Stan Mikita, Peter Bondra and Marian Hossa) [note 2], two Finns (Jari Kurri and Teemu Selanne), two Russians (Evgeni Malkin and Alexander Ovechkin), one Czech (Jaromir Jagr) and one Swede (Mats Sundin).
The NHL has a record for most 60 goal seasons, but not 70. Eight players have achieved 70 goals, and Brett Hull did so three times. Most consecutive 70 goal seasons: 4; Most 80-or-more goal seasons: 2; Most 90-or-more goal seasons: 1. Gretzky is the only player to achieve this. Fastest 50 goals from start of season: 50 goals in 39 games.
Holds the record for shots on goal in a single season with 550 in 1970–71. All-time leader in game-winning goals with 118. (tied by fellow Bruin Jaromír Jágr on April 21, 2013) [30] Had thirteen consecutive 30+ goal seasons, second most in NHL history. In 1998, he was ranked number 18 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players.