The Panther
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Connor McDavid now has more 100-point seasons than every player in the entire history of the Toronto Maple Leafs' franchise.
Obscure hockey facts/stats (Part 2)
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seventieslord
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The 2 longest current ironman streaks are held by the 2 oldest skaters in the NHL.
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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.
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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:
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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
- 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.
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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
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
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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.
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Voight
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He was the first guy I thought of, thought I typed his name but I guess not
reckoning
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Voight
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Another guy I immediately thought of but for whatever reason forgot to include.
Staniowski
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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
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Also interesting is that Pilote followed Harvey and then Makar followed Hedman.
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We're well into "obscure" territory with this one.
In all of NHL history, there's only been one team where the spread between highest and lowest plus/minus is less than 10 (among players who appeared in at least half the games).
The 2010 Florida Panthers:
In all of NHL history, there's only been one team where the spread between highest and lowest plus/minus is less than 10 (among players who appeared in at least half the games).
The 2010 Florida Panthers:
This is as random as it gets. Before the actual stat and the follow-up question, some background. I was watching the Liiga qualification a week ago, and between periods they showed Petri Varis interview. Watching Liiga in the 90's as a kid, to me he was one of those iconic Jokerit players I'd had completely forgotten about, so of course I went to eliteprospect to refresh my memory what he did and where he played during his career.
www.eliteprospects.com
15 seasons in the Liiga, 638 games for a statline of 236+297=533. Not bad, someone might say good. Couple of seasons in the Swiss leagues. Good enough to get attention from NHL, 77 games and 72 points in the IHL with Indianapolis Ice in the 1997-1998 season, good enough for 26th in scoring that year.
And he has exactly one NHL game, from that season, which also was his only one in NA. One and only one game. I guess there were a lot of veteran Euro players in the late 90's and early 2000's that got an NHL contract, and most of them were not good enough for NHL, even though they were good or great Liiga / SHL / NLA / DEL players, and never played in the NHL or got at least 10 or 20 games.
But for Petri Varis, it was one game. No more, no less. Best player ever to play only one game in the NHL?
edit: and a fun little detail for me as a Flames fan, Ryan Huska was his team mate that season
Petri Varis - Stats, Contract, Salary & More
Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Petri Varis, 1969-05-13 Varkaus, FIN Finland. Most recently in the SM-liiga with Jokerit. Complete player biography and stats.
www.eliteprospects.com
15 seasons in the Liiga, 638 games for a statline of 236+297=533. Not bad, someone might say good. Couple of seasons in the Swiss leagues. Good enough to get attention from NHL, 77 games and 72 points in the IHL with Indianapolis Ice in the 1997-1998 season, good enough for 26th in scoring that year.
And he has exactly one NHL game, from that season, which also was his only one in NA. One and only one game. I guess there were a lot of veteran Euro players in the late 90's and early 2000's that got an NHL contract, and most of them were not good enough for NHL, even though they were good or great Liiga / SHL / NLA / DEL players, and never played in the NHL or got at least 10 or 20 games.
But for Petri Varis, it was one game. No more, no less. Best player ever to play only one game in the NHL?
edit: and a fun little detail for me as a Flames fan, Ryan Huska was his team mate that season
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Between 1997-98 (DPE) and 2017-18 (mini-DPE), only three players hit 80-or-more even-strength points in one season:
84 -- McDavid 2018
83 -- H. Sedin 2010
82 -- Jagr 1999
Between 2012-13 and 2020-21, the most even strength goals scored by any player was:
37 -- Tavares, 2019
(Perry, Ovechkin, Kane, McDavid, and Matthews were all second with 35.)
From 1996-97 to today, the most power-play goals scored in one season are:
32 -- Draisaitl 2023
27 -- Kovalchuk 2006
27 -- Reinhart 2024
From 1996-97 to today, the most even-strength points scored in one season are:
92 -- MacKinnon 2024
91 -- Kucherov 2024
90 -- Gaudreau 2022
87 -- McDavid 2024
84 -- McDavid 2018
(The top 4 are all in the past four seasons. As McDavid missed six games in 2024, he may have hit around 94-95 ES points that year if not injured.)
From 1996-97 to today, the most even-strength goals scored in one season are:
51 -- Matthews 2024
48 -- Stamkos 2012
45 -- Bure 2000
44 -- Matthews 2022
43 -- Ovechkin 2008
43 -- Pastrnak 2023
(Bure missed 8 games in his season, and Matthews 2022 missed 9.)
From 1996-97 to today, only 5 forwards have reached +50 in a single season. The 5 forwards, however, comprise most of only two lines:
+64 -- Gaudreau 2022
+61 -- Lindholm 2022
+57 -- Tkachuk 2022
+52 -- Forsberg 2003
+52 -- Hejduk 2003
84 -- McDavid 2018
83 -- H. Sedin 2010
82 -- Jagr 1999
Between 2012-13 and 2020-21, the most even strength goals scored by any player was:
37 -- Tavares, 2019
(Perry, Ovechkin, Kane, McDavid, and Matthews were all second with 35.)
From 1996-97 to today, the most power-play goals scored in one season are:
32 -- Draisaitl 2023
27 -- Kovalchuk 2006
27 -- Reinhart 2024
From 1996-97 to today, the most even-strength points scored in one season are:
92 -- MacKinnon 2024
91 -- Kucherov 2024
90 -- Gaudreau 2022
87 -- McDavid 2024
84 -- McDavid 2018
(The top 4 are all in the past four seasons. As McDavid missed six games in 2024, he may have hit around 94-95 ES points that year if not injured.)
From 1996-97 to today, the most even-strength goals scored in one season are:
51 -- Matthews 2024
48 -- Stamkos 2012
45 -- Bure 2000
44 -- Matthews 2022
43 -- Ovechkin 2008
43 -- Pastrnak 2023
(Bure missed 8 games in his season, and Matthews 2022 missed 9.)
From 1996-97 to today, only 5 forwards have reached +50 in a single season. The 5 forwards, however, comprise most of only two lines:
+64 -- Gaudreau 2022
+61 -- Lindholm 2022
+57 -- Tkachuk 2022
+52 -- Forsberg 2003
+52 -- Hejduk 2003
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The Buffalo Sabres and Toronto Maple Leafs have not made the playoffs in the same year since 2001. Also, the former and the Blue Jackets have never made the playoffs in the same year since Columbus came to the league.
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Among active players, Charlie Coyle has the longest streak, 13, of consecutive playoff appearances.
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