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The player on the list with the shortest NHL career is goaltender Bill Durnan, who played for seven seasons – winning the Vezina Trophy and selected to the NHL First All-Star team in six of his seasons. The two players on the list with the longest NHL career, at 26 seasons each, are right winger Gordie Howe and defenceman Chris Chelios.
The player who scores during this extra time 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.
Nicknamed "the Great One", [1] he has been called the greatest ice hockey player ever by the NHL [2] based on surveys of hockey writers, ex-players, general managers and coaches. [3] Gretzky is the leading career goal scorer, assist producer and point scorer in NHL history, [4] and has more career assists than any other player has total points ...
100 Greatest Hockey Players may refer to: The Hockey News#All-time NHL player rankings; 100 Greatest NHL Players This page was last edited on 8 ...
This is a list of National Hockey League statistical leaders by country of birth, sorted by total points. The top ten players from each country are included. Statistics are current through the end of the 2023–24 NHL season and players currently playing in the National Hockey League are marked in boldface.
Nicknamed "Mr. Hockey", Howe is often considered the most complete player ever to play the game and one of the greatest of all time. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] At his retirement, his 801 goals, 1,049 assists, and 1,850 total points were all NHL records that stood until they were broken by Wayne Gretzky , who himself has been a major champion of Howe's legacy.
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8-Time All-NHL first team (1981–87, 1991) 7-Time All-NHL second team (1980, 1988–90, 1994, 1997, 1998) All-WHA second team (1979) In 1998, he was ranked number 1 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players; Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1999 (Three-year waiting period post retirement waived)