Craziest Numbers You've Ever Seen

[Penncakes]

What are the most unbelievable numbers you've seen from a player in any league? Obviously players who can put up 100+ points in the NHL are so insanely better than a 500 point beer leaguer. However, I'm still curious. What are the craziest stat lines you've ever seen?

A couple I can think of:
Wayne Gretzky with Brantford (Atom Minor Hockey) in 1971-72: 85 games, 378 goals, 139 assists, 517 points
Kevin Evans with Kalamazoo (IHL) in 1986-87: 73 games, 50 points, 648 PIM
And on the other end, Ken Daneyko went like 250 games without a goal in the NHL

I find players who just completely outmatch their opponents super interesting, especially if they later go into a league we have a better idea of the caliber.

 

[The Panther]

Ken Dryden's regular-season won-lost-tied record in ECAC (US College), AHL, and NHL combined comes to mind. Dryden went:
350 wins - 68 losses - 63 ties (.793)

For, like, thirteen years there was a 14% chance, each game, that Dryden would lose.

 

[PistolPete]

Tony Tanti 81 goals in OHA

 

[The Panther]

Probably the most stunning offensive stats in NHL history are Wayne Gretzky's peak NHL years, and the most stunning of his stunning stats is his 7-year specific peak and its Non-Power-Play (i.e., ES + SH) scoring dominance.

Non-Power-Play Points (Jan. 3rd 1981 to Jan. 3rd 1987):
926 -- Gretzky
520 -- Kurri
508 -- Bossy
460 -- Statsny
434 -- Goulet
422 -- Coffey
420 -- Anderson
418 -- Dionne
417 -- Trottier

I believe those are the only guys, for this seven-year period, to score 400 non-PP points. Gretzky more than doubled Statsny's production... for seven years.

 

[wetcoast]

The first one that comes to mind is Bill McDougall in the 92-93 AHL playoffs for Cape Breton.

Bill has some crazy numbers on his resume like 148 points in the ECHL in 57 games but many players had stuff like that.

In 92-93 his line in the regular season was 71-42-46-88 which was very good but was second on the team behind the immortal Dan Currie who was a goal scoring star for Cape Breton 3 years straight.



But in the playoffs Bill McDougall goes mental and has a line of 16-26-26-52

So in 16 playoff games


Bill has 15 more goals than his next best team mate who has 11.

He also has 7 more assists than his next best team mate.

He has 26 more points than his next best team mate.

Bill is the definition of carrying his team to a championship and the AHL is a very high level.

Cape Breton Oilers 1992-93 roster and scoring statistics at hockeydb.com

The roster, scoring and goaltender statistics for the 1992-93 Cape Breton Oilers playing in the AHL.

www.hockeydb.com

 

[Chuck Downie]

I always marvel at Kevan Evan’s pms with Kalamazoo.

Kevin Evans (b.1965) Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com

Statistics and Records of Kevin Evans, a hockey player and coach from Peterborough, ONT born Jul 10 1965 who was active from 1983 to 2000.

www.hockeydb.com

Over 1,000 minutes from 86-88!

 

[alko]

The NHL goalie with the most career penalty minutes is Ron Hextall, who accumulated 569 penalty minutes during his career. He also holds the record for most penalty minutes in a single season by a goalie, with 113 during the 1988-89 season.

 

[BM67]

Greg Millen's H/R split with STL in 1988-89 comes to mind

H 16-4-3 2.26 .913 (Riendeau 6-7-4 3.38 .873)
R 6-16-4 4.36 .854 (Riendeau 5-8-1 3.69 .866)

 

[Gambitman]

Grant Furh 14 assists in 83-84.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

Wayne Gretzky with Brantford (Atom Minor Hockey) in 1971-72: 85 games, 378 goals, 139 assists, 517 points

the 85 games is pretty bonkers tbh

i think (in the 90s) we played maybe 30 games in a season at that age? those poor parents

 

[Penncakes]

The first one that comes to mind is Bill McDougall in the 92-93 AHL playoffs for Cape Breton.

Bill has some crazy numbers on his resume like 148 points in the ECHL in 57 games but many players had stuff like that.

In 92-93 his line in the regular season was 71-42-46-88 which was very good but was second on the team behind the immortal Dan Currie who was a goal scoring star for Cape Breton 3 years straight.



But in the playoffs Bill McDougall goes mental and has a line of 16-26-26-52

So in 16 playoff games


Bill has 15 more goals than his next best team mate who has 11.

He also has 7 more assists than his next best team mate.

He has 26 more points than his next best team mate.

Bill is the definition of carrying his team to a championship and the AHL is a very high level.

I have never heard of this guy. Insane playoff run!

 

[Penncakes]

A couple others I can think of:

Tony Hand in the BHL (Britain): 484 games, 921 goals, 1338 assists, 2259 points

Roman Wolynec this season in USPHL Premier: 43 games, 163 points. He appears to have signed now with Dryden in the SIJHL

 

[Michael Farkas]

I'll never miss a chance to dismiss Tony Hand's extremely odd and undeserved mystique haha

BHL all time points/season:
Tim Salmon (1986): 254 pts (35 GP)
Rick Fera (1987): 133 goals/242 pts (34 GP)
Kevin Conway...
Scott Morrison...
Tony Hand (1994): 222 points (44 GP)
Rick Brebant...218 in 36

Tim Salmon was fresh off of a 17 pts in 20 game overage OHL season, followed by a 0+4=4 line in 8 GP in the AHL. Rick Fera was up and down between the OHL and the OJ in his overage year. He was narrowly not a point-per-game OHL player in his career ( at a time when 75 to 80 players per year were point per game or better in the OHL).

 

[Albatros]

Mark Kosturik's largely inconsequential 100+ goal years in the German second league. 102 goals in 55 games in '88 and again 119 goals in 69 games in '92, neither campaign really took him or his team anywhere and even dropped down to the third league for '93.

 

[MS]

The first one that comes to mind is Bill McDougall in the 92-93 AHL playoffs for Cape Breton.

Bill has some crazy numbers on his resume like 148 points in the ECHL in 57 games but many players had stuff like that.

In 92-93 his line in the regular season was 71-42-46-88 which was very good but was second on the team behind the immortal Dan Currie who was a goal scoring star for Cape Breton 3 years straight.



But in the playoffs Bill McDougall goes mental and has a line of 16-26-26-52

So in 16 playoff games


Bill has 15 more goals than his next best team mate who has 11.

He also has 7 more assists than his next best team mate.

He has 26 more points than his next best team mate.

Bill is the definition of carrying his team to a championship and the AHL is a very high level.

Cape Breton Oilers 1992-93 roster and scoring statistics at hockeydb.com

The roster, scoring and goaltender statistics for the 1992-93 Cape Breton Oilers playing in the AHL.

www.hockeydb.com

When I was a kid/teenager in the 1990s I got the NHL Official Guide and Record book every year and pored over all the stats/player profiles endlessly and I remember seeing those playoff numbers in that year's guide and thinking that there must have been some sort of typo or mistake.

I always marvel at Kevan Evan’s pms with Kalamazoo.

Kevin Evans (b.1965) Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com

Statistics and Records of Kevin Evans, a hockey player and coach from Peterborough, ONT born Jul 10 1965 who was active from 1983 to 2000.

www.hockeydb.com

Over 1,000 minutes from 86-88!

I still have no idea who Evans found the time to score 50 points in his 648 PIM season.

On the PIM front, my favourite weird PIM statistical anomaly is Gary Rissling in 1983-84 :

In 47 games with Pittsburgh, he had 297 PIM which projects to 505/80 which would have shattered Dave Schultz' NHL record.

But in 30 AHL games with Baltimore he scored 25 points and had only 47 PIM which is only 125/80 and less than future not-overly-physical NHLers like Dave Hannan and Phil Bourque on the same team.

 

[carjackmalone]

Ray Ferraro 108 goals one season in junior

 

[MidnightRyder]

Jacques Cloutier set the QMJHL record for wins in 1978 with 46, only to then smash that the following year with a staggering 58, which still comfortably stands as the overall CHL record. No one else has been able to even eclipse 50, Fuhr currently sits 2nd with 48 and the closest anyone has come in the Q is Zachary Fucale with 45 while backstopping the 12-13 Mooseheads.

 

[The Panther]

Laval Voisins 1983-84 scoring (70 GP):​

Mario Lemieux (70GP): 133G + 149A = 282PTS
Jacques Goyette (62GP): 76G + 94A = 170PTS
François Sills (70GP): 56G + 74A = 130PTS
Yves Courteau (62GP): 45G + 75A = 120PTS
Alain Bisson (59GP): 31G + 82A = 113PTS
Michel Mongeau (60GP): 45G + 49A = 94PTS
Vincent Damphousse (66GP): 29G + 36A = 65PTS

(Damphousse was 15.)

 

[MadLuke]

I remember seeing those Gretzky numbers in a book my uncle had in his bathroom, they could simply be those. For me to remember that page so many decades later... it was during the narrative Gretzky was in the hockey sense not an all time raw talent-athlete so I did not know he was so gifted and natural at it.

Lemieux 4 pts season are impressive but an little bit younger Lafontaine scored 104 goals -234 pts the year before, well Lafontaine was a first overall worthy type of prospect so maybe that do not really diminish them.

Some earlys days are maybe more nonsensical than crazy, like Joe Malone score 44 in 20 games, I do not know enough about 1918 NHL to make any senses of them.

 

[JackSlater]

The first one that comes to mind is Bill McDougall in the 92-93 AHL playoffs for Cape Breton.

Bill has some crazy numbers on his resume like 148 points in the ECHL in 57 games but many players had stuff like that.

In 92-93 his line in the regular season was 71-42-46-88 which was very good but was second on the team behind the immortal Dan Currie who was a goal scoring star for Cape Breton 3 years straight.



But in the playoffs Bill McDougall goes mental and has a line of 16-26-26-52

So in 16 playoff games


Bill has 15 more goals than his next best team mate who has 11.

He also has 7 more assists than his next best team mate.

He has 26 more points than his next best team mate.

Bill is the definition of carrying his team to a championship and the AHL is a very high level.

Cape Breton Oilers 1992-93 roster and scoring statistics at hockeydb.com

The roster, scoring and goaltender statistics for the 1992-93 Cape Breton Oilers playing in the AHL.

www.hockeydb.com

I have talked about this one a few times as well. Glad to see it. McDougall became the peak Gretzky+ of the AHL for one playoff run. McDougall still has the record for most goals in one AHL playoff and most assists in one playoff, and it comes from the same playoff run. A run where his team only lost two games, so he almost played the minimum number of games possible for a finalist (I acknowledge that the AHL has had some weird bye rules).

 

[JackSlater]

Wayne Gretzky with Brantford (Atom Minor Hockey) in 1971-72: 85 games, 378 goals, 139 assists, 517 points

Jesus, pass the puck a little bit Wayne.

 

[The Panther]

Bob Probert's NHL stats in the full (incl. playoffs) 1987-88 season:
-- 90GP: 37G + 46A = 83PTS (+24)
-- 449 Penalty Minutes (!!)

 

[FerrisRox]

There are many eye-opening numbers in the career of Trevor Jobe.

The first one that really jumps out is #39. That represents how many teams he played for his journeyman minor league career.

Jobe's transient existence started in the WHL where he played for the Calgary Wranglers, the Lethbridge Broncos, the Spokane Chiefs, the Moose Jaw Warriors and the Prince Albert Raiders.

Jobe was supremely gifted and racked up points during most of his stops, but he was also supremely troubled, and often was released or traded for breaking team rules.

But there are a few other numbers in his career I find very interesting.

He has 229 PIM in just 59 games in 1990-91 with the Nashville Knights of the ECHL. He also had 109 points. That's an incredible amount of points in 59 games when you are spending that much time in the box. In '92-'93, he has 222 PIM, this time in 61 games; but that year he had 161 points - including 85 goals! 85 goals in 61 games! And he's in the box all the time!

In '97-'98, during a 23-game stint with the Tuscon Gila monsters of the WCHL, Jobe had 29 points. But despite soaring six more points than games played, Jobe was also a staggering -34. In 1999-'00, with the Knoxville Speed of the UHL, Jobe racks up 52-points in 31 games... while posting a -38. 2000-01, with the CHL's Border City Bandits he plays 21 games, posts 23 points and puts up a -36.

Jobe started the 1997-98 season with the Columbus Cottonmouthsof the CHL. In 12 games he scored an astounding 33 points. He left and joined the Gila Monsters for 23 games and 29 more points then he was off to his third league of the season, joining the UHL's Flint Generals for 22 games where he piled up 39 points. The next season began with Jobe playing four games for a Slovenian Team, then three games with the Amarillo Rattlers of the WPHL, then 13 games with the Alexandria Warthogs then he finished the season with 22 games of the ECHL's Baton Rouge Kingfish. In two seasons, Jobe played for 7 different teams in six different leagues.

Another interesting number is four. Despite playing a 17-year professional career and accumulating huge offensive numbers, Jobe only played more than five playoff games in a post season four times in his career. This is largely because Jobe was usually cut loose by his teams before the playoffs even began. (Interestingly, in '97-'98, he played the most playoff games of his career with 17 and he led the UHL in post-season scoring that year wth 28 points.)