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This is a list of players who are not rookies, but are playing in their first NHL season via expansion or through the birth of the NHL. Most goals by a player, first NHL season, one game: Joe Malone (December 19, 1917, January 12, 1918 and February 2, 1918), 5; Most goals by a player, first NHL game: Joe Malone (December 19, 1917), 5
A total of 41 individual players have scored exactly five goals in a game, on one or more occasion. While five-goal games continue to occur from time to time, no player has scored six or more goals since Darryl Sittler scored six in February 1976. [2] Only eight players have multiple five-goal games.
As a result, he scored only seven goals in his final 13 games. [6] Richard scored his 50th goal, in 50 games, in the third period of Montreal's final game of the season against the Boston Bruins. [7] The league introduced the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy in his honour in 1999, and the Canadiens donated the physical trophy. [8]
Most 70-or-more goal seasons: 4. 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.
Over his 17-year playing career, Nicholls played 1,127 games [1] for the Los Angeles Kings, New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers, New Jersey Devils, Chicago Blackhawks and San Jose Sharks, scoring 1,209 points. He is one of only eight players in NHL history to score 70 goals in one season, and one of six to score 150 points.
He also has 134 game-winning goals, two away from breaking Jaromir Jagr's mark (135). Ovechkin has scored on 179 goaltenders and counting, breaking Jagr's record by beating Leevi Merilainen of the ...
During the 1992-93 season, a record twenty-one players reached the 100-point plateau, while a record fourteen players reached the 50-goal plateau. As of the 2023-24 season, both records still continue stand after three decades. This was also the last season that a NHL player scored 70 or more goals in a single regular season.
The player who scores during these extra five minutes is given the overtime goal. 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.