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So not including Jagr in 1995-96?
Gaudreau 2021-22
Kucherov 2023-24
Thornton 2005-06
The Panther
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You got 2/3! You may have looked it up by now, but all three were all in the past few years:
-- MacKinnon 92 (2024)
-- KUcherov 91 (2024)
-- Gaudreau 90 (2022)
McDavid had 87 ES points while missing six games last season, so if he'd played all the games there likely would have been three 90-ES point players last year, after having only 1 in 27 years.
I was way off on Thornton there. Should’ve known it was MacKinnon last season, he’s been the ES scoring leader for a few seasons now.
Speaking of the Coyotes, we never had a 100 point scorer during our time in Arizona. Or even 90. Franchise record for most points in a season in Arizona was set by Keith Tkachuk with 86. Clayton Keller matched that record later on. He looks like he’ll probably get more than 86 points this season, but the franchise is in Utah now and counts as a “new franchise” on a technicality.
I don’t know what the record was for the franchise in Winnipeg, but I would safely assume higher than 86 since Teemu Selanne set the rookie goal scoring record with 76 goals. I would assume he got more than 10 assists that year.
The Panther
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Points
132 -- Selanne (1993)
130 -- Hawerchuk (1985)
121 -- Hawerchuk (1988)
Goals
76 -- Selanne (1993)
53 -- Hawerchuk (1985)
50 -- Tkachuk (1996)
Assists
79 -- Housley (1993)
77 -- Hawerchuk (1985)
77 -- Hawerchuk (1988)
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Obscure NHL facts - A to Z
Oscar Asmundson – Recorded the shortest time between two assists in a game (three seconds) on March 12, 1935.
Jake Allen - Only goaltender with wins against 33 different franchises.
Kevin Bieksa – 8/8/8 – Caused eight penalty shots against his team (Vancouver) in an eight year span, with the opponents failing to score on all eight penalty shots. Kris Letang (Pittsburgh) caused nine penalty shots against in a 13-year span, with the opponents scoring only once.
Mike Bossy - Scored points in 630 of 752 regular season games (83.8%). Like Gretzky and Lemieux, he only had one 4-game gap (March 31 – April 5, 1981)
Ray Bourque – Registered at least one shot on goal in 360 consecutive games. Auston Matthews have the longest shot streak to start a career in league history (103 games, 109 including playoffs).
T.J. Brodie - On December 5, 2012, his Calgary Flames lost 0-9 against the Boston Bruins. Brodie had more ice time of any skater on either team (24:57), yet wasn't on ice for any of the nine goals scored by the Bruins. All 17 other Flames skaters posted a "minus" rating.
Mike Bullard – Had a stretch of 114 games, scoring 69 goals without a game winner between February 28, 1983 and December 5, 1984.
Billy Carroll – Retired with the best playoff home record (min.25 games). In 40 career postseason games at Nassau Coliseum and Northlands Coliseum, he won 87,5% of them (35-5).
Zdeno Chara – Longest span between goals for one franchise: 7,762 days between tallies with the New York Islanders (Jan. 12, 2001-April 14, 2022).
Dit Clapper – Went 11 years, 11 months and 8 days between hat tricks (March 9, 1933 - February 17, 1945)
Bobby Clarke – Between February 13, 1975 and December 23, 1975, Clarke played 64 straight regular season games (+74) without being a minus player.
Paul Coffey – Most career multi-goal comeback wins (98)
Shane Doan - Factored on a goal with 192 different teammates in his career, most with a single franchise in history.
Brian Elliott – One of a record eight goaltenders to play for the Philadelphia Flyers in 2018/19 (Elliott, Hart, Stolarz, Pickard, Neuvirth, Talbot, Lyon, McKenna)
Val Fonteyne - Played 188 straight games without picking up a single penalty (March 3, 1965 – November 30, 1968).
Rod Gilbert – Played 1065 games and scored 1021 points without scoring a single empty net point. Of the active players, Craig Smith have played almost 1000 regular season games without an empty net point. (450+ points).
Wayne Gretzky – Factored the most times on a game-opening goal (328). Has the most multi-assist periods (327). Factored on a goal at 19:59 in a regulation period for a record eleven times. Most games with a career point streak of at least five contests within a regular season (89). Factored on a record 330 game winners. Scored at least one point in 89,4% of his first 1,000 games. Collected 104 points in a span of 31 games (November 2, 1983 - January 9, 1984)
Bill Guerin – Had four-point games for seven different teams (Devils, Oilers, Bruins, Stars, Blues, Sharks, Penguins)
Erik Gustafsson - The first player to appear in an outdoor game with five different franchises (Cam Talbot dressed for six).
Camille Henry – Longest points streak without picking up a single penalty, registering 106 points in 124 games between February 7, 1957 and December 2, 1958.
Gordie Howe – Scored 1,048 points at Detroit Olympia, a record for a single venue.
Dale Hunter – Lowest single season career high in points for a 1,000 point scorer, with 79 points (1983/84 & 1992/93).
Jarome Iginla – On November 10, 2005, he scored a “Gordie Howe hat trick” with a twist, as he scored a game winning penalty shot (Power play), added two assists and had a fighting major.
Jaromir Jagr - Scored or assisted on all 15 Pittsburgh Penguins' goals over a seven-game span between October 16 and November 4, 1999.
Lain Kellan – Had a fighting major (and a game misconduct) two seconds into his NHL debut on January 18, 2014.
Pit Lepine – Scored 22 straight unassisted goals for Montreal Canadiens between March 6, 1926 and January 31, 1928.
Nicklas Lidstrom – Scored his first hat trick at the age of 40 years, 7 months and 17 days (December 15, 2010)
Jack Lynch – Took a regular shift in 38 straight games without going plus in a single one of them (-72) between February 1 and November 5, 1975.
Derek Morris – Played four games in four nights between March 7 and March 10, 2004, logging a total of 92 minutes and 30 seconds of playing time.
Alex Nedeljkovic – Only goaltender to score a goal and record an assist in a game. (January 17, 2025)
Gerry O’Flaherty - Scored at least 80 percent of his goals on the road (21 of 25) (with Vancouver Canucks 1974/75). (minimum 20 goals)
Wilf Paiement - Scored 100,000th regular-season goal (Toronto at Philadelphia on October 12, 1980). Last player other than Wayne Gretzky to wear No. 99 in a game. (Toronto - Montreal on March 6, 1982).
David Pastrnak - Scored at least one goal against a record 28 different franchises in 2022/23.
Pete Peeters - Longest span between shutouts with one franchise, 9 years and 24 days with Philadelphia Flyers (January 21, 1981 – February 15, 1990)
Jim Peplinski - Scored 114 goals in 526 games between November 23, 1982 and October 17, 1989 without scoring a single goal on the powerplay.
Bob Probert – Suspended by the league a record 17 times during his career.
Bill Quackenbush - Played 131 straight games without picking up a single penalty (March 7, 1948 – January 25, 1950), the longest streak by a defenseman.
Jim Roberts – Acknowledged as the first player to discard tube skates for Tuuk blades.
Moe Roberts – Went 17 years, 11 months and 20 days between NHL games (December 5, 1933 – November 25, 1951).
Evan Rodrigues - Scored the fastest game-opening goal in a contest outside North America (0:28) (November 1, 2024)
Henrik Sedin - Retired having played 1435 regular season and playoff games without a single major penalty.
Colton Sissons - Only player to score a hat trick with the second goal being an empty netter and the first and third goals being scored on a goalie.
Lee Stempniak – Scored game winning goals for ten different teams.
Blaine Stoughton – Recorded his 100th point of the season in 1979/80 with six seconds left of the regular season (Empty net assist).
Jimmy Thomson – Had 78 consecutive assists (202 games) without scoring a goal between March 15, 1951 and March 7, 1954.
Dave Trottier – Scored three 5-on-3 points (1+2) in 24 seconds on March 15, 1932.
Tony Twist – Had a streak of collecting penalties in 95 (372 PIM) games without scoring a goal between October 5, 1989 and April 14, 1992.
Scottie Upshall – Only player to score his teams first goals in consecutive games, both against the same opponent, while playing for a different team in each game (March 3 – March 5, 2009). Babe Dye (1920), Rick Vaive (1988), Glenn Anderson (1994) also did it, but didn’t score their teams first goals.
Andrei Vasilevskiy - Fastest goaltender in history to register 300 career wins (490 GP).
Tom Webster - Only had 33 career goals in the NHL, despite having a 30 goal season in 1970/71.
Ray Whitney – Had a gap of 16 years, 11 months and 8 days (May 19, 1995 – April 27, 2012) between playoff overtime goals.
Hal Winkler - Only goaltender to record a shutout in his team’s first-ever NHL game (November 16, 1926, New York Rangers - Montreal Maroons 1-0).
Arber Xhekaj – Only player whose last name begins with an X. Only player whose first name is Arber.
Keith Yandle – Most consecutive games played by a defenseman (989).
Libor Zabransky – Scored his only goal, a game winner against the all-time leader in goalie wins, Martin Brodeur. (January 5, 1997). Chad Wiseman, Brad Moran, Jozef Balej and Evgeny Korolev also scored their only goal against Brodeur, but they weren’t game winners.
Peter Zezel - Scored in his debut with four different franchises (Washington, Toronto, Dallas and Vancouver), all wins. On top of that he also had an assist in his debut for two other teams (Philadelphia and twice for St. Louis). Only Daniel Sprong and Marian Gaborik managed to score in their debut with four different franchises, but they weren’t all wins.
Oscar Asmundson – Recorded the shortest time between two assists in a game (three seconds) on March 12, 1935.
Jake Allen - Only goaltender with wins against 33 different franchises.
Kevin Bieksa – 8/8/8 – Caused eight penalty shots against his team (Vancouver) in an eight year span, with the opponents failing to score on all eight penalty shots. Kris Letang (Pittsburgh) caused nine penalty shots against in a 13-year span, with the opponents scoring only once.
Mike Bossy - Scored points in 630 of 752 regular season games (83.8%). Like Gretzky and Lemieux, he only had one 4-game gap (March 31 – April 5, 1981)
Ray Bourque – Registered at least one shot on goal in 360 consecutive games. Auston Matthews have the longest shot streak to start a career in league history (103 games, 109 including playoffs).
T.J. Brodie - On December 5, 2012, his Calgary Flames lost 0-9 against the Boston Bruins. Brodie had more ice time of any skater on either team (24:57), yet wasn't on ice for any of the nine goals scored by the Bruins. All 17 other Flames skaters posted a "minus" rating.
Mike Bullard – Had a stretch of 114 games, scoring 69 goals without a game winner between February 28, 1983 and December 5, 1984.
Billy Carroll – Retired with the best playoff home record (min.25 games). In 40 career postseason games at Nassau Coliseum and Northlands Coliseum, he won 87,5% of them (35-5).
Zdeno Chara – Longest span between goals for one franchise: 7,762 days between tallies with the New York Islanders (Jan. 12, 2001-April 14, 2022).
Dit Clapper – Went 11 years, 11 months and 8 days between hat tricks (March 9, 1933 - February 17, 1945)
Bobby Clarke – Between February 13, 1975 and December 23, 1975, Clarke played 64 straight regular season games (+74) without being a minus player.
Paul Coffey – Most career multi-goal comeback wins (98)
Shane Doan - Factored on a goal with 192 different teammates in his career, most with a single franchise in history.
Brian Elliott – One of a record eight goaltenders to play for the Philadelphia Flyers in 2018/19 (Elliott, Hart, Stolarz, Pickard, Neuvirth, Talbot, Lyon, McKenna)
Val Fonteyne - Played 188 straight games without picking up a single penalty (March 3, 1965 – November 30, 1968).
Rod Gilbert – Played 1065 games and scored 1021 points without scoring a single empty net point. Of the active players, Craig Smith have played almost 1000 regular season games without an empty net point. (450+ points).
Wayne Gretzky – Factored the most times on a game-opening goal (328). Has the most multi-assist periods (327). Factored on a goal at 19:59 in a regulation period for a record eleven times. Most games with a career point streak of at least five contests within a regular season (89). Factored on a record 330 game winners. Scored at least one point in 89,4% of his first 1,000 games. Collected 104 points in a span of 31 games (November 2, 1983 - January 9, 1984)
Bill Guerin – Had four-point games for seven different teams (Devils, Oilers, Bruins, Stars, Blues, Sharks, Penguins)
Erik Gustafsson - The first player to appear in an outdoor game with five different franchises (Cam Talbot dressed for six).
Camille Henry – Longest points streak without picking up a single penalty, registering 106 points in 124 games between February 7, 1957 and December 2, 1958.
Gordie Howe – Scored 1,048 points at Detroit Olympia, a record for a single venue.
Dale Hunter – Lowest single season career high in points for a 1,000 point scorer, with 79 points (1983/84 & 1992/93).
Jarome Iginla – On November 10, 2005, he scored a “Gordie Howe hat trick” with a twist, as he scored a game winning penalty shot (Power play), added two assists and had a fighting major.
Jaromir Jagr - Scored or assisted on all 15 Pittsburgh Penguins' goals over a seven-game span between October 16 and November 4, 1999.
Lain Kellan – Had a fighting major (and a game misconduct) two seconds into his NHL debut on January 18, 2014.
Pit Lepine – Scored 22 straight unassisted goals for Montreal Canadiens between March 6, 1926 and January 31, 1928.
Nicklas Lidstrom – Scored his first hat trick at the age of 40 years, 7 months and 17 days (December 15, 2010)
Jack Lynch – Took a regular shift in 38 straight games without going plus in a single one of them (-72) between February 1 and November 5, 1975.
Derek Morris – Played four games in four nights between March 7 and March 10, 2004, logging a total of 92 minutes and 30 seconds of playing time.
Alex Nedeljkovic – Only goaltender to score a goal and record an assist in a game. (January 17, 2025)
Gerry O’Flaherty - Scored at least 80 percent of his goals on the road (21 of 25) (with Vancouver Canucks 1974/75). (minimum 20 goals)
Wilf Paiement - Scored 100,000th regular-season goal (Toronto at Philadelphia on October 12, 1980). Last player other than Wayne Gretzky to wear No. 99 in a game. (Toronto - Montreal on March 6, 1982).
David Pastrnak - Scored at least one goal against a record 28 different franchises in 2022/23.
Pete Peeters - Longest span between shutouts with one franchise, 9 years and 24 days with Philadelphia Flyers (January 21, 1981 – February 15, 1990)
Jim Peplinski - Scored 114 goals in 526 games between November 23, 1982 and October 17, 1989 without scoring a single goal on the powerplay.
Bob Probert – Suspended by the league a record 17 times during his career.
Bill Quackenbush - Played 131 straight games without picking up a single penalty (March 7, 1948 – January 25, 1950), the longest streak by a defenseman.
Jim Roberts – Acknowledged as the first player to discard tube skates for Tuuk blades.
Moe Roberts – Went 17 years, 11 months and 20 days between NHL games (December 5, 1933 – November 25, 1951).
Evan Rodrigues - Scored the fastest game-opening goal in a contest outside North America (0:28) (November 1, 2024)
Henrik Sedin - Retired having played 1435 regular season and playoff games without a single major penalty.
Colton Sissons - Only player to score a hat trick with the second goal being an empty netter and the first and third goals being scored on a goalie.
Lee Stempniak – Scored game winning goals for ten different teams.
Blaine Stoughton – Recorded his 100th point of the season in 1979/80 with six seconds left of the regular season (Empty net assist).
Jimmy Thomson – Had 78 consecutive assists (202 games) without scoring a goal between March 15, 1951 and March 7, 1954.
Dave Trottier – Scored three 5-on-3 points (1+2) in 24 seconds on March 15, 1932.
Tony Twist – Had a streak of collecting penalties in 95 (372 PIM) games without scoring a goal between October 5, 1989 and April 14, 1992.
Scottie Upshall – Only player to score his teams first goals in consecutive games, both against the same opponent, while playing for a different team in each game (March 3 – March 5, 2009). Babe Dye (1920), Rick Vaive (1988), Glenn Anderson (1994) also did it, but didn’t score their teams first goals.
Andrei Vasilevskiy - Fastest goaltender in history to register 300 career wins (490 GP).
Tom Webster - Only had 33 career goals in the NHL, despite having a 30 goal season in 1970/71.
Ray Whitney – Had a gap of 16 years, 11 months and 8 days (May 19, 1995 – April 27, 2012) between playoff overtime goals.
Hal Winkler - Only goaltender to record a shutout in his team’s first-ever NHL game (November 16, 1926, New York Rangers - Montreal Maroons 1-0).
Arber Xhekaj – Only player whose last name begins with an X. Only player whose first name is Arber.
Keith Yandle – Most consecutive games played by a defenseman (989).
Libor Zabransky – Scored his only goal, a game winner against the all-time leader in goalie wins, Martin Brodeur. (January 5, 1997). Chad Wiseman, Brad Moran, Jozef Balej and Evgeny Korolev also scored their only goal against Brodeur, but they weren’t game winners.
Peter Zezel - Scored in his debut with four different franchises (Washington, Toronto, Dallas and Vancouver), all wins. On top of that he also had an assist in his debut for two other teams (Philadelphia and twice for St. Louis). Only Daniel Sprong and Marian Gaborik managed to score in their debut with four different franchises, but they weren’t all wins.
The Panther
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Epic post by @Robert Gordon Orr !
No, that's not a typo. An NHL Dman went -49 in fifteen games.
It will be hard for anyone to match Bourque here. This is for two reasons: (1) obviously, much harder to gets distance shots through to the net nowadays (it seems like 75% of shots toward the net are blocked these days), and (b) fewer power plays now. Bourque was a master at getting points shots through to the net on the PP.
That reminds of the Oilers-Whalers game on March 29th, 1985: The Oilers lost 8-7, and Edmonton's Paul Coffey had six points and went +6.
I believe Bullard's 1983-84 season in Pittsburgh is the only season in history where a player scored 50 or more goals and not a single one was a game-winner. (Of course, the Pens only won 16 games, but still...)
That's absolutely insane.
I hope this puts to bed the ridiculous "Gretzky-wasn't-clutch" arguments the anti-Wayne crowd has been spouting of late...
I guess somebody in the free-agency-trade-mania era had to do this... Might as well be "Dollar-Bill" Guerin.
How did I miss this? That's great.
In Lynch's first four games with the hapless 1974-75 Capitals, he went "only" -4. Then, in the next fifteen games he went a mind-boggling -49.
No, that's not a typo. An NHL Dman went -49 in fifteen games.
Further evidence that this may be the least impressive 100-point season ever...
Mike C
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Not a single point ever?! Apparently that one he missed was such an all-timer they never let him back out there 6 on 5 again
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This one surprised me. Not so much that it’s Coffey with the record, I guess I didn’t realize how rare multi-goal comeback wins were. Didn’t he play for around 20 years? So about 5 per year. I guess the number would be somewhat higher if his career didn’t include so many ties.
Just to clarify - is this games where a player had multiple goals in a comeback win? Or played in a win where they faced a multi goal deficit?
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It's where a player played in a win where they faced a multi-goal deficit
Paul Coffey (98)
Mark Messier (94)
Jaromir Jagr (88)
Kevin Lowe (87)
Patrick Marleau (86)
Glenn Anderson (85)
Ron Francis (85)
Sidney Crosby (83)
Evgeny Malkin (83)
Wayne Gretzky (82)
Ray Bourque (80)
Matt Cullen (80)
pnep
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Multi-Goal Comeback Wins incl. SO Wins (Reg. Seasons: 1917-2024)
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Multi-Goal Comeback Wins excl. SO Wins (Reg. Seasons: 1917-2024)
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seventieslord
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Travis Green holds the record for most faceoffs won in a game, and he also holds the record for most faceoffs lost in a game. He lost 28 on November 5th, 1997, and remarkably, he won 33 just three nights later, on November 8th, 1997.
This was during the second ever month of official faceoff statistic tracking, yet, the record has stood for 27.5 more years.
Doug weight hold the record for most faceoffs taken in one game with 54. That is so many that it's eight more than third place (46). It's so many that he simultaneously won the second most Faceoffs in one game (32) and lost the 40th most faceoffs ever in one game (22).
Doug Gilmour had the best single game faceoff win percentage (among players with at least 30 draws in a game) with 87.4% (27-4). Tomas Plekanec had the worst mark of all-time with 17.7% (6-28).
This was during the second ever month of official faceoff statistic tracking, yet, the record has stood for 27.5 more years.
Doug weight hold the record for most faceoffs taken in one game with 54. That is so many that it's eight more than third place (46). It's so many that he simultaneously won the second most Faceoffs in one game (32) and lost the 40th most faceoffs ever in one game (22).
Doug Gilmour had the best single game faceoff win percentage (among players with at least 30 draws in a game) with 87.4% (27-4). Tomas Plekanec had the worst mark of all-time with 17.7% (6-28).
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