Obscure hockey facts/stats (Part 2)

[The Panther]

Connor McDavid now has more 100-point seasons than every player in the entire history of the Toronto Maple Leafs' franchise.

 

[seventieslord]

The 2 longest current ironman streaks are held by the 2 oldest skaters in the NHL.

 

[seventieslord]

In the 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-00 and 2000-01 seasons, 14 of the 15 players currently at the top of the all-time GP list were active.

 

[Beville]

Ovechkin scored his record-breaking 895th goal in his 1,487th game – the same game count Gretzky played in his NHL career (894 goals in 1,487 GP).

And both were against the Islanders, IIRC

 

[The Panther]

NHL scoring leaders in the calendar year of 1990:
132 PTS (72GP) -- Gretzky
123 PTS (80GP) -- Yzerman
116 PTS (83GP) -- Cullen
114 PTS (84GP) -- Coffey
112 PTS (80GP) -- Hull
111 PTS (83GP) -- Sakic
107 PTS (83GP) -- Recchi

NHL scoring leaders March 1st 1990 to Dec. 31st 1990:
87 PTS (46GP) -- Gretzky
85 PTS (56GP) -- Cullen

1990-91 NHL scoring leaders up to November 21st 1990:
40 PTS (20GP) -- Cullen
38 PTS (20GP) -- Gretzky

Here's how Cullen fared in various calendar years in scoring:
1989 -- 83rd
1990 -- 3rd
1991 -- 19th
1992 -- 82nd
1993 -- 109th
1994 -- 440th


So... regarding 1990:

 

[Mr Nogatco]

I believe Daniel Sprong is one of only 3 players to score a goal in the first game he’s played in for four different teams.

 

[Johnny Engine]

Connor McDavid now has more 100-point seasons than every player in the entire history of the Toronto Maple Leafs' franchise.

To clarify, that would have already been true between March 7, 2024 and this past Wednesday when Marner got his 100th point, and then true again after McDavid hit 100 yesterday? Or am I missing something?

Edit: Or rather, it would have been true even earlier than that, as Matthews had 106 points last year, so there would have been 2 Leafs that hit 100 since McDavid did last, meaning he had built up a larger lead by then.

 

[Johnny Engine]

OK, so the timeline goes:

- from 1917 to 1975, the Toronto Maple Leafs win several Stanley Cups but no one scores 100 points.
- In 1976, Darryl Sittler hits 100. Kelly McNamara and Brian McDavid are both small children.
- in 1978, Sittler beats his previous mark by 17 points. Presumably Brian and Kelly are growing up into lovely young people, but likely haven't met.
- In the 80s, Rick Vaive, Vincent Damphousse and any other Leaf, does not score 100 points.
- in 1993, Doug Gilmour beats Sittlers '78 season by 10 points. Dave Andreychuk hits 99 but many of those came in Buffalo anyway. Mats Sundin gets 114 but hes in the wrong shade of blue. Brian and Kelly have a kid, but his name is Cameron.
- in 1994, Gilmour gives us a little less of the same and Andreychuk stops at 99 again. We're at 4 seasons for the Leafs and none for Cameron McDavid.
- in 1997, Sundin hits 94 and the McDavids have another child, and the earth shifts a little on its axis.
- from 1998 to 2015, Sundin and Phil Kessel both top out in the 80s. Connor McDavid does unspeakable things at various levels of minor hockey.
- in 2016, Connor plays a partial rookie season and the Leafs take a season off to see if they can find any other good players to score for them
- from 2017 to 2018, McDavid gets 100 twice while several good Leafs players stay in the 60 point range. It's now 4-2 Leafs.
- in 2019, Marner hits 94 but McDavid gets 100 again.
- in 2020, Rudy Gobert touches some Microphones and the NHL shuts down before McDavid can hit 100.
- in 2021, the league plays a 56 game season so surely no one can...damn Connor. It's now tied.
- in 2022, McDavid hits 100 on March 30 to take the lead, but Auston Matthews hits 100 on April 14 so we're tied again.
- in 2023, McDavid takes offense to Matthews' Hart trophy and takes the lead in 100 point seasons on February 17.
- in 2024, McDavid extends his lead on March 7, but Matthews gets one back on April 6.
- in 2025, Marner ties this race on April 15, but McDavid puts himself back in the lead 2 days later.

So foe 2 weeks in 2022, and between February 17, 2023, and April 15, 2025, McDavid had that record, and now he's got it back. Also, Mats Sundin's highest scoring seasons line up with the birth of McDavid children.

 

[Hockey Stathead]

In 2024-2025, Leon Draisaitl joined 14 other players who have led the league in goals and assists for the regular season at some point in their careers (not necessarily in the same season).

Jean Beliveau
Doug Bentley
Sidney Crosby
Cy Denneny
Leon Draisaitl
Phil Esposito
Wayne Gretzky
Gordie Howe
Guy Lafleur
Newsy Lalonde
Mario Lemieux
Ted Lindsay
Connor McDavid
Dickie Moore
Howie Morenz

 

[The Panther]

In 2024-2025, Leon Draisaitl joined 14 other players who have led the league in goals and assists for the regular season at some point in their careers (not necessarily in the same season).

Jean Beliveau
Doug Bentley
Sidney Crosby
Cy Denneny
Leon Draisaitl
Phil Esposito
Wayne Gretzky
Gordie Howe
Guy Lafleur
Newsy Lalonde
Mario Lemieux
Ted Lindsay
Connor McDavid
Dickie Moore
Howie Morenz

Draisaitl has also been top-5 in goals and assists simultaneously three times, which is pretty rare.

(For reference here, none of Crosby, Ovechkin, or Kucherov have ever "done" this. MacKinnon did it once in 2024. McDavid has done it twice, and his includes the ultra-rare 1st-in-goals and 1st-in-assists in the same season.)

 

[Staniowski]

In 2024-2025, Leon Draisaitl joined 14 other players who have led the league in goals and assists for the regular season at some point in their careers (not necessarily in the same season).

Jean Beliveau
Doug Bentley
Sidney Crosby
Cy Denneny
Leon Draisaitl
Phil Esposito
Wayne Gretzky
Gordie Howe
Guy Lafleur
Newsy Lalonde
Mario Lemieux
Ted Lindsay
Connor McDavid
Dickie Moore
Howie Morenz

Makes sense...of the players today, Draisaitl and Kaprizov are the two guys who are probably the most elite, and fairly close, at both, combined, goal-scoring and playmaking.

 

[Voight]

Cale Makar is more than likely to receive a Norris nomination for the fifth straight season this year.

From what I can tell, he would join Doug Harvey, Ray Bourque, Denis Potvin, Victor Hedman, Pierre Pilote, Bobby Orr, Nicklas Lidstrom, Larry Robinson & Brad Park as the only defensemen in history to accomplish that.

Red Kelly just missed the cut at four straight seasons.

 

[FinLurker]

Cale Makar is more than likely to receive a Norris nomination for the fifth straight season this year.

From what I can tell, he would join Doug Harvey, Denis Potvin, Victor Hedman, Pierre Pilote, Bobby Orr, Larry Robinson & Brad Park as the only defensemen in history to accomplish that.

Red Kelly just missed the cut at four straight seasons.

You might have missed mr. Ray Bourque.

 

[Voight]

You might have missed mr. Ray Bourque.

He was the first guy I thought of, thought I typed his name but I guess not

 

[carjackmalone]

If still reasonably healthy Orr would of been playing in Los Angeles by 80-81

 

[reckoning]

Cale Makar is more than likely to receive a Norris nomination for the fifth straight season this year.

From what I can tell, he would join Doug Harvey, Ray Bourque, Denis Potvin, Victor Hedman, Pierre Pilote, Bobby Orr, Larry Robinson & Brad Park as the only defensemen in history to accomplish that.

Red Kelly just missed the cut at four straight seasons.

Lidstrom did it 6 years in a row.

 

[Voight]

Lidstrom did it 6 years in a row.

Another guy I immediately thought of but for whatever reason forgot to include.

 

[Staniowski]

Cale Makar is more than likely to receive a Norris nomination for the fifth straight season this year.

From what I can tell, he would join Doug Harvey, Ray Bourque, Denis Potvin, Victor Hedman, Pierre Pilote, Bobby Orr, Nicklas Lidstrom, Larry Robinson & Brad Park as the only defensemen in history to accomplish that.

Red Kelly just missed the cut at four straight seasons.

An interesting thing about this pretty short list of defensemen is that four of them - Orr, Park, Robinson, Potvin - are very close to each other in age, so they really dominate their era. Especially, first Orr and Park, then Potvin and Robinson.

 

[Voight]

An interesting thing about this pretty short list of defensemen is that four of them - Orr, Park, Robinson, Potvin - are very close to each other in age, so they really dominate their era. Especially, first Orr and Park, then Potvin and Robinson.

Also interesting is that Pilote followed Harvey and then Makar followed Hedman.