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Wayne Gretzky is the NHL's all-time leading goal scorer. Alexander Ovechkin is the active leader in goalscoring and second all time. The puck Maurice Richard used to score his 500th NHL goal on October 19, 1957. Richard was the first player in league history to record 500 career goals. the current list as of February 11, 2025. Legend
On January 2, 1986, Bossy became the fastest player to reach 500 goals in NHL history, scoring twice in his 647th game, a 7–5 victory against the Boston Bruins. [122] On January 24, Bossy collected his 1,000th regular season point by assisting on a Trottier goal in a 7–5 win against Washington; a goal in the same game moved Bossy into 10th ...
As the all-time goal-scoring and points leader amongst American-born players in NHL history, Modano is widely regarded as one of the greatest American-born ice hockey players of all time. [1] [2] [3] He was drafted first overall by the North Stars in 1988, and after the team moved to Texas he helped the Stars win the Stanley Cup in 1999.
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
He finished the season with team-leading totals of 61 points and 28 goals – becoming the first player in NHL history to score at least 20 goals in his first ten full seasons. [58] Aided by Richard's 7 goals in 12 playoff games, the Canadiens defeated Boston in the 1953 Stanley Cup Finals to capture Montreal's first Stanley Cup championship ...
List of NHL players with 500 consecutive games played; List of NHL players with 500 goals; List of NHL players with 1,000 games played; List of NHL players with 1,000 points; List of NHL players with 2,000 career penalty minutes
In Detroit, he passed the 1,000-point mark, scored his 500th goal, and moved into the top 25 in career goal scoring before returning to Dallas for his final NHL season in 2001–02. Verbeek is the only NHL player to record 40+ goals and 200+ penalty minutes in the same season three times.
The following are lists showing the point- and goal-scoring leaders of the National Hockey League before the league issued trophies for such achievements. The point-scoring leader has been awarded the Art Ross Trophy since the 1947–48 NHL season, and the goal-scoring leader has been awarded the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy since the 1998–99 NHL season.