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The following is a list of the all-time records for each of the 32 active National Hockey League (NHL) teams, beginning with the first NHL season (), with regular season stats accurate as of the end of all games on October 26, 2023, and playoff stats accurate as of the end of the 2020–21 NHL season and 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs. [1]
This table lists the number of times that NHL/NHA teams had the top record in the regular season (this list does not count Stanley Cup/League Champion wins). The Presidents' Trophy is the current award for the team with the best regular season record, which began being awarded starting with the 1985–86 NHL season.
The four teams that began the inaugural NHL season were the Montreal Canadiens, the Montreal Wanderers, the original Ottawa Senators, and the Toronto Arenas.However, after completing four games, the Wanderers withdrew from the league due to their arena burning down, and the NHL continued that season and the next with only three teams.
Team Seasons GP W T L OT/SO GF GA Diff Pts Pt% 1 Montreal Canadiens 1: 106 7,033 3,556 837 2,432 208 22,398 19,097 +3,301 8,157 .580 2 Boston Bruins: 99 6,872
The NHL continued to organize exhibition games between NHL and European teams before the beginning of the NHL season; those games were known as the NHL Premiere from 2007 to 2011 and as the NHL Global Series since 2017. [163] The last exhibition game between an NHL and European club occurred during the 2024 NHL Global Series. [164]
x The NHL realigned prior to the 2013–14 season. The Canadiens were placed in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. [107] y The season was suspended on March 12, 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The top 24 teams in the league qualified for the playoffs. z Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020–21 NHL season was shortened to ...
3 No post season occurred in 2005 due to the season long NHL lockout. 4 The Montreal Canadiens only missed the playoffs once – by a tie-breaker – in the 46 seasons from 1948–49 to 1993–94 . In the 1969–70 season, they tied for fourth and last playoff spot with the New York Rangers, but were eliminated on total goals scored tiebreak ...
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. Joe Sakic , 8 Maurice Richard , 6