When was the last time we saw 3 100 point players on the same team?

[JianYang]

Another big one was the 70-71 bruins who might be the first ones to have four guys with 100 points.

Esposito 152
Orr 139
Bucyk 116
Hodge 105

 

[Rafafouille]

And he's making just 5.125mil per season. Signed for 6 more years. Is this this cheapest 100 point scorer? excluding ELC's of course.

Best contract in the NHL going into next season? Mack's and Pastrnak's new contracts kick in next year.

Second to Thompson if he hits 100pts(1.4m cap hit this year, he makes 7.1m next year though, still dirt cheap)

 

[SEALBound]

How's their bottom 6 doing?

 

[The Devilish Buffoon]

Yep, you often hear people say that Gretzky's teammates were a large part of his success- stacked oilers team etc. Yeah his teammates were good but they benefited more from playing with him than he did from playing with them. he was essentially lapping his teammates. That year 84 he had 205 pts, 2nd best on team was Coffey with 126.
In 82 he had 212 points, Anderson was 2nd on Oilers with 105 less than 1/2 Gretzky's totals. That year Gretzky's assists only would have led the team in scoring at 120, His goals at 92 would have been 2nd in pts to andersons 105.
in 81 he had more than double the pts as second on the team too

This is what makes the "Gretzky would suck nowadays" arguments even more ridiculous. Imagine Mario Lemieux or Wayne Gretzky on the Avalanche right now. They would be doing exactly what McDavid is doing this season, if not more, consistently.

 

[Shareefruck]

Are all three centers on different lines too? That would be pretty cool.

 

[Frank the Tank]

Are all three centers on different lines too? That would be pretty cool.

It depends. When Woodcroft goes with 11 forwards the Oilers often rotate through 5-7 different line groups, certain of which does include McDavid, Draisaitl, and RNH at center. Opposing coaches don't often get their line matches that way because they don't know what to expect.

 

[Forgot About Drai]

How's their bottom 6 doing?

Really good actually.

Outside of Connor, Leon, Nuge and Hyman...

Nurse - 10 goals
Bouchard - 6 goals
Foegele - 13 goals
Kane - 14 goals (34 games)
Kailer - 10 goals (51 games)
Ryan - 12 goals (!)
McLeod - 11 goals (55 games)

Lots of goals and contributions from the bottom 6 and D. Plus they add Bjustad. The offensive core is stanley cup contention worthy. Its if everything else can keep up.

 

[SwedishFire]

Really good actually.

Outside of Connor, Leon, Nuge and Hyman...

Nurse - 10 goals
Bouchard - 6 goals
Foegele - 13 goals
Kane - 14 goals (34 games)
Kailer - 10 goals (51 games)
Ryan - 12 goals (!)
McLeod - 11 goals (55 games)

Lots of goals and contributions from the bottom 6 and D. Plus they add Bjustad. The offensive core is stanley cup contention worthy. Its if everything else can keep up.

Holland should really had added a RD more, and outed one D, probably Ceci.

 

[SEALBound]

Really good actually.

Outside of Connor, Leon, Nuge and Hyman...

Nurse - 10 goals
Bouchard - 6 goals
Foegele - 13 goals
Kane - 14 goals (34 games)
Kailer - 10 goals (51 games)
Ryan - 12 goals (!)
McLeod - 11 goals (55 games)

Lots of goals and contributions from the bottom 6 and D. Plus they add Bjustad. The offensive core is stanley cup contention worthy. Its if everything else can keep up.

2 Dmen and a top 6 wing...interesting definitions of bottom 6 but cool cool. Happy for the Oilers.

 

[BB79]

Gretzkys #s were just stupid good. 163 assists in a single season like wtf is that shit. How?

You could use a cheat code on EA NHL and still not achieve that. It's really insane how good the Oilers in the 80s had it.

 

[BB79]

1993 Penguins had 4, almost 5

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[TD]55[/TD]
[TD]38[/TD]
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[TD]55[/TD]
[TD]56[/TD]
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[TD]17[/TD]
[TD]177[/TD]
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[TD]80[/TD]
[TD]48[/TD]
[TD]61[/TD]
[TD]109[/TD]
[TD]28[/TD]
[TD]252[/TD]
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[TD]Ron Francis[/TD]
[TD]84[/TD]
[TD]24[/TD]
[TD]76[/TD]
[TD]100[/TD]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD]68[/TD]
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[TD]Jaromir Jagr[/TD]
[TD]81[/TD]
[TD]34[/TD]
[TD]60[/TD]
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Such a shame Kevin Stevens went down a dark path. I remember watching him those first few seasons. Tough as nails and offensively gifted. Thank God he had Mario on his side

 

[Forgot About Drai]

2 Dmen and a top 6 wing...interesting definitions of bottom 6 but cool cool. Happy for the Oilers.

Evander Kane, Kailer, Foegele, Janmark and Mcleod have all spent extended time in the top 6 and bottom 6. Could of easily included Janmark (8) and Kostin (10) in there as well.

I was thinking more depth scoring though, so fair enough.

 

[Straight Fire]

Flames almost last year: gaudreau 115, Tkachuk 104, Lindholm 82. Ok Elias dropped the ball some. Closeish. Ish.

 

[Section 104]

Another big one was the 70-71 bruins who might be the first ones to have four guys with 100 points.

Esposito 152
Orr 139
Bucyk 116
Hodge 105

1-2-3-4 in scoring and 7 out of the top 11 in the league. Wayne Cashman 7th with 79. John McKenzie 8th with 77. Fred Stanfield 11th with 76 (he was tied with Jean Beliveau and Dave Keon but played more games).

 

[Former Referee 68]

How's their bottom 6 doing?

quite well thanks for asking

 

[Dirty Dan]

Here are the closest to hitting it since 95-96 (see @MikeyMike01's post above). Only including years where 3+ guys on one team hit 90+ points.

1996-97, Pittsburgh:
- Lemieux (122 in 76)
- Jagr (95 in 63)
- Francis (90 in 81)

1998-99, Colorado:
- Forsberg (97 in 78)
- Sakic (96 in 73)
- Fleury (93 in 75; 24pts in 15 games with COL)

2000-01, Pittsburgh:
- Jagr (121 in 81)
- Kovalev (95 in 79)
- Straka (95 in 82)

2005-06, Ottawa (ATL HM):
- Alfredsson (103 in 77)
Heatley (103 in 82)
Spezza - (90 in 68)
HM: Kovalchuk(98 in 78); Savard (97 in 82); Hossa (92 in 80)

2018-19, Tampa:
- Kucherov (128 in 82)
- Stamkos (98 in 82)
- Point (92 in 79)

So yeah, Sens trio was the closest (only group with 2x 100 pt seasons) til now (since 95-96).

Another wild stat: from 2012-13 to 2016-17, only Crosby (x1), Kane (x1), and McDavid (x1) topped 90 points! And each in separate seasons.

Yeah my mind went immediately to Ottawa and Atlanta in 2006 where power plays exploded

Spezza would have hit it with more games, and Atlanta really should have as well with that talent but the rest of the team was extremely mediocre so teams focused on the top line

 

[Xelebes]

1970-1971 Boston Bruins (Phil Esposito, Bobby Orr, John Bucyk, Ken Hodge)
1973-1974 Boston Bruins (Phil Esposito, Bobby Orr, Ken Hodge)
1978-1979 New York Islanders (Bryan Trottier, Mike Bossy, Denis Potvin)
1980-1981 Los Angeles Kings (Marcel Dionne, Dave Taylor, Charlie Simmer)
1982-1983 Edmonton Oilers (Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Glenn Anderson, Jari Kurri)
1983-1984 Edmonton Oilers (Wayne Gretzky, Paul Coffey, Jari Kurri, Mark Messier)
1984-1985 Edmonton Oilers (Wayne Gretzky, Jari Kurri, Paul Coffey)
1984-1985 New York Islanders (Mike Bossy, Brent Sutter, John Tonelli)
1985-1986 Edmonton Oilers (Wayne Gretzky, Paul Coffey, Jari Kurri, Glenn Anderson)
1986-1987 Edmonton Oilers (Wayne Gretzky, Jari Kurri, Mark Messier)
1988-1989 Pittsburgh Penguins (Mario Lemieux, Rob Brown, Paul Coffey)
1992-1993 Pittsburgh Penguins (Mario Lemieux, Kevin Stevens, Rick Tocchet, Ron Francis)
1995-1996 Pittsburgh Penguins (Mario Lemieux, Jamorir Jagr, Ron Francis)
*2022-2023 Edmonton Oilers (Connor McDavid, Leon Draisatl, Ryan Nugent Hopkins)

*To Be Determined

The biggest anomaly in this group is perhaps the 1980-1981 Los Angeles Kings, who would go on to lose in the preliminary round against New York Rangers.

 

[Shareefruck]

If one of the players is closer to PPG than 100 points, they really shouldn't be brought up as "close" at all, IMO.

 

[Enga Olly]

Another big one was the 70-71 bruins who might be the first ones to have four guys with 100 points.

Esposito 152
Orr 139
Bucyk 116
Hodge 105

Done with a 78 game season

What happened to Ryan Nothing-Happens? Dude is having a career year after a dozen years in the league. He's almost 30 points above his best year that happened 5 years ago.
Before this year I wouldn't give a plug nickel for that chump and I have serious doubts he will come close to repeating this year, but no denying he's having himself a year. Hyman too - not convinced he'll keep it up

 

[Sheikyerbouti]

Done with a 78 game season

What happened to Ryan Nothing-Happens? Dude is having a career year after a dozen years in the league. He's almost 30 points above his best year that happened 5 years ago.
Before this year I wouldn't give a plug nickel for that chump and I have serious doubts he will come close to repeating this year, but no denying he's having himself a year. Hyman too - not convinced he'll keep it up

You are greatly underestimating how good he is. His IQ is elite. This year he is shooting with purpose and going to the front of the net more but he's also part of the best PP in the history of the game so far this season

He definitely has had the weirdest development path possible but the oilers were a mess and RNH had to compensate by playing really defensively responsible. He was always better than Taylor Hall imo, even in his rookie season when Hall was older

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

Done with a 78 game season

What happened to Ryan Nothing-Happens? Dude is having a career year after a dozen years in the league. He's almost 30 points above his best year that happened 5 years ago.
Before this year I wouldn't give a plug nickel for that chump and I have serious doubts he will come close to repeating this year, but no denying he's having himself a year. Hyman too - not convinced he'll keep it up

Ringo Starr was a part of some great music.

Kidding, Nuge deserves a bit more credit than that, but the analogy works.

 

[SNES]

Wow, I didn't realize Nuge had anywhere close to 96 points before I clicked this thread

A blind monkey feeding McDavid could ring up 100pts or conversely lob in 30+ goals from Mcd feeds. He’s just that good.

 

[Kuz]

The pizza line could have done it in 05/06, but Spezza missed to many games and got 90 in 68 with Heatley and Alfredsson at 103.

 

[Stupid Sexy Flanders]

Fun thread.
1981-82 Minnesota North Stars were close:
Bobby Smith 114
Dino Ciccarelli 106
Neal Broten 98

 

[SnowblindNYR]

The fact that team was infractioned to death by the Panthers was an embarassement to the sport. No penalties called. Penguins screwed up by going with Barrasso over Wregget too.

We were left with one of the biggest mismatches in SCF history going in. We could have had a superstar series between Pens/Avs instead. Guaranteed that is no sweep.

Just ranting. Sorry.

It's almost as if the NHL hates viewership.