Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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
Newsy Lalonde, the first player to score six goals in an NHL game, also had two other five-goal games. Wayne Gretzky, the NHL's all-time leading scorer, had four five-goal games. Mario Lemieux recorded four five-goal games. Sergei Fedorov scored all of the Red Wings' goals in a 5–4 overtime win against the Washington Capitals.
In the inaugural 1917–18 NHL season, Malone scored 2.20 goals per game over 20 games played, a single-season record that remains the highest ever. He is also the only player in the history of the NHL to score seven goals in a single game, accomplishing the feat in 1920.
Alex Ovechkin scored twice and became the third player in NHL history to have at least 20 goals in 19 consecutive seasons as the Washington Capitals beat the Calgary Flames 5-2 on Monday night.
He set up the epic overtime goal scored by Boston Bruins teammate Bobby Orr that clinched the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals, widely considered to be the greatest goal in National Hockey League history. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Over 13 NHL seasons, he amassed 202 goals, 250 assists, 911 penalty minutes and a plus-141 rating in 598 games with five teams.
Most goals in a single season (69 in the 2023-24 NHL Season), surpassed Rick Vaive, who had 54 in the 1981–82 season. [137] Fastest Maple Leafs player to score 25 goals (52 games), surpassed Howie Meeker (58 games in 1946–47). [138] Most points by a rookie (69), surpassed Peter Ihnačák, who had 66 in the 1982–83 season. [139]
Crosby is the seventh player in NHL history to score 600 with one team. Crosby, playing in his 1,295th career game, also surpassed Patrice Bergeron for the 18th-most games played with one ...
Mike Richards holds the NHL career record for most 3-on-5 shorthanded goals scored. He's also one of only two Flyers to score a penalty shot goal in a playoff game. Ron Hextall holds the franchise regular season and playoff records for games played by a goalie, wins, and losses.