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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
A goaltender achieves a shutout when he does not allow a goal against him, and plays the full game. Since 2005-06, if the game ends in a shootout after a 0-0 scoreless tie, both teams' goaltenders are credited with a shutout, regardless of how many shots are conceded during the shootout.
The most recent goaltender to have scored a goal by deliberately shooting the puck into his opponents' net was Alex Nedeljkovic on January 17, 2025. Of the nineteen goals scored by NHL goaltenders, twelve were shot into the opposing team's net by the goaltender. Two goaltenders have scored a goal and earned a shutout in the same game.
Lundqvist was among the NHL leaders in several categories: fifth in GAA (2.24), fourth in save percentage (.922), 11th in wins (30) and tied for 16th in shutouts with two. However, his regular season success did not continue in the 2006 playoffs , where he appeared in three playoff games, posted a 0–3 record, a 4.40 GAA and an .835 save ...
For a single NHL season, the most shutouts recorded by a goaltender is 22, by George Hainsworth during the 1928–29 season. The modern-day record for a team being shut out in a season is held by the Columbus Blue Jackets at 16, during the 2006–07 season. In the event that a shutout is accomplished by a team using more than one goaltender in ...
With the shutout, Vasilevskiy joined Tom Barrasso as the only goaltenders in NHL history to record their first shutout in a playoff year during the Stanley Cup clinching game. [53] He also set an NHL record for the most minutes played by a goaltender in the postseason (1,708:12) and the most postseason wins in a single season (18). [54]
At the time of his death, Sawchuk was the all-time leader among NHL goaltenders with 447 wins and with 103 shutouts. In the decades following his death, his NHL win record has been surpassed by seven goaltenders, and his NHL shutout record has been surpassed by one goaltender, though Sawchuk was the all-time leader in wins and shutouts by ...
During that seven game span, he also set the NHL record for the longest shutout streak, 231 minutes and 54 seconds. [19] At the end of the regular season, Brimsek had backstopped the Bruins to a first-place finish in the league, and he recorded the most wins (33), the most shutouts (10) and the lowest GAA (1.56) in the league. [10]