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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
He scored a team-record 70 goals and added 80 assists for a total of 150 points. The totals put Nicholls in rare company, and with 70 goals, he joined a group of just eight players to hit that plateau and his 150 points put him a group of just five players in league history to achieve that level of scoring. [ 2 ]
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.
Nedeljkovic is the only goaltender to score a goal in the NHL, AHL, and ECHL, and has the most professional goals for a goaltender, having scored two in the AHL. [16] Mike Smith was also credited with a goal in both the NHL and the ECHL, having scored a goal as a member of the Lexington Men O' War on October 26, 2002, against the Dayton Bombers ...
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. The mark of 50 goals in 50 games is a rare event, achieved by only five players. The quickest, 50 goals in 39 games, is often labelled as ...
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.
Jonathan Cheechoo led the NHL with 56 goals in 2005–06. Dany Heatley topped 50 goals twice with the Ottawa Senators. Vincent Lecavalier scored 52 goals in 2006–07. Evgeni Malkin scored 50 goals in 2011–12. Leon Draisaitl scored 50 goals in 2018–19 and 2021–22. Key * Player is active in the NHL in 2023–24 ^ Inducted into the Hockey ...
Goldsworthy's first two NHL goals came on December 12, 1965, in Boston's 5–3 loss to Detroit at Boston Garden. With big league jobs tight in the days of the Original Six , Goldsworthy served a minor league apprenticeship the next two seasons, playing with the Oklahoma City Blazers of the Central Hockey League and the Buffalo Bisons of the ...