Its also available for football, basketball and baseball. Bruins zdeno chara enters nhl history books with 200th career goal. For ice hockey players in the national hockey league nhl, scoring 500 regular season goals is considered a highly significant achievement. Seasonbyseason goal scoring leaders if empty net goals didnt count. Can you name the players who have scored the most goals in nhl history. The 3 youngest 50goalscorers in nhl history bardown. Here are some more facts and figures on the top10 goal scorers in nhl history. Including the complete histroy and records for the pittsburgh penguins.
He would also record 86 assists and finish the season with a ridiculous 7 points. Fifty goal seasons increased in frequency during the 1970s and 1980s as offense increased. Frequently the answer is gretzky, and supporters of that answer point to his 894 goals. Today, staff writer david satriano writes about washington capitals forward alex ovechkin tying steve yzerman for ninth in nhl history by scoring goal no. The player who scores during this extra time is given the overtime goal.
Wondering who holds the nhl alltime record for goals. Capitals fans may be surprised that bonsai ranks as the fifthgreatest goal scorer in team history. The first 786 came during his 25 seasons with the detroit red wings. Three weeks ago i adjusted alex ovechkins goals to see how many he would have hypothetically had through the first 800 games of his career if he had played from 197989 a highscoring nhl era. A 500 goal career was first achieved in 195758, the 41st season of the nhl, when maurice richard scored his 500th goal in his 863rd game played. Kevin stevens was a 50 goal scorer and joe mullen lit the lamp 42 times, giving pittsburgh a wellbalanced attack. A website for all your hockey needs, history, records and everything in between. Find the top 100 nhl alltime goals leaders including past and present players.
The first is those that are visually incredible and flashy, and the second is those goals that are of great importance to the history of the game. You see, lemieux scored on his first shot as an nhl player. Alex ovechkin and 4 players who hit 500 goals the fastest. It was the second sixgoal game in modern nhl history since the. What brett hulls 86 goal season teaches us about todays nhl game. Wayne gretzky is known as the greatest goal scorer in nhl history simply by scoring the most career goals and having the single greatest goal scoring season. Yearbyyear leading scorers bottom of page 19171918 player club gp g a pts. Here is our list of the greatest goals in hockey history. The list of players who have scored five or more goals in an nhl game includes only 57 names in the national hockey league nhl, it is rare for one player to score so many goals in a single event the most recent instance was mika zibanejad on march 5, 2020 scorers. Shots from the 11to15 foot range accounted for 1,577 goals 22. In 194445, maurice richard became the first player to score 50 goals in a season. Berenson had emerged as their top scorer, although he stepped onto the ice at the. Why the 1920s single game scoring record will stand.
Roy immediately got his game turned around, and montreal won game 2 by a 31 count and then reclaimed home ice in game 3 with a 41 win. Every day, well send you an email to your inbox with scores, todays schedule, top performers, new debuts and interesting tidbits. The nhl has seen its fair share of prolific scorers. The wrist shot proved the most deadly, accounting for 3,369 goals, 48. Every nhl teams top goal scorer in a single season. The most recent player to score 500 goals is patrick marleau who achieved it on february 2, 2017. Wondering who holds the nhl alltime record for points. The whalers had the fifthbest offense in the nhl, led by 45 goal scorer sylvanian turgeon and they got to roy in game 1, taking a 41 win. So without further ado, here are your top goal scorers. When 99 potted a record 92 goals in 198182, the average nhl game had eight goals. Nhl goal scoring dominated by wrist shots, star analysis shows. Alex ovechkin is nhls greatest goal scorer of all time. Over the past 30 years, here are the top10 players in scoring after 96 career nhl games, according to hockeyreferences play index. All teams avalanche blackhawks blue jackets blues bruins canadiens canucks capitals coyotes devils ducks flames flyers golden knights.
Rate 5 stars rate 4 stars rate 3 stars rate 2 stars rate 1 star. Mike bossy is considered by many as the best pure goal scorer the nhl has ever seen. Youngest 100 goal scorers through nhl history quiz by. The most notable change that stands out to me is john leclair going from a zerotime to twotime rocket richard winner if they had. Nhl points leaders alltime national hockey league espn. Nhl, the nhl shield, the word mark and image of the stanley cup, the stanley cup playoffs logo, the stanley cup final logo, center. Jaromir jagr of the florida panthers continues to climb up the ranks of the nhl s top alltime goal scorers. Motivated by unintendoleafsfan post earlier, i decided to take it upon myself to and figure out who each teams top scorer is and organize it from top to bottom because i knew my team would be at the top. Carson only recorded 50 goals in a single season once, and it impressively came at a very. Looking for yearbyyear breakdowns of every series in stanley cup playoffs history. Find the top 100 nhl alltime points leaders including players from the past and present. The 1980s represented one of the highest scoring eras in nhl history. Gunnar nordahl nordahl two serie a titles with milan. Nearly everyone knew that mario lemieux was a goal scorer, and he silenced any doubters in his first game with the pittsburgh penguins.
Some players lose the ability to brag about hitting different x0 goal miletones, but the best goal scorers are typically still the best. A lot talk recently about ovis chances of catching gretzkys record, and a lot of debate around who the best goal scorer of all time is. When ovechkin scored a careerhigh 65 in 200708, that number had fallen to about 5. See how many players have reached the 50 goal mark. Over the course of a 915game career, lemieux scored 659 additional goals, retiring with the 10th most goals in nhl history. Bossy, a guy who has long been cited as the best pure goal scorer the world has seen, broke. Some believe, had he remained healthy, mario lemieux could have broken at least some of gretzkys records. Highest shootout scoring percentage, season minimum.
Seasonbyseason goalscoring leaders if empty net goals. The 42yearold chara needs just three more goals to pass shea weber 202 as the nhls leading goalscorer among active defensemen. Nhl players who hold the alltime record for the most goals in nhl. All overtime in the nhl is sudden deathmeaning the first team to score is the winnerso the player who scores in overtime also has the gamewinning goal. In his first full season in the nhl, gretz became the youngest player to reach 50 goals at 19 years and two months of age. Sports quiz youngest 100 goal scorers through nhl history random sports or nhl quiz can you name the youngest 100 goal scorers nhl history. With lemieux scoring 44 goals and passing for 87 assists, the penguins had the secondbest offense in the nhl.
List of players with five or more goals in an nhl game. Top 20 greatest goals in hockey history thesportster. Bondra led the nhl in goals in both 1995 and 1998, with 34 and 52, respectively 1995 was the shortened lockout year. Sports quiz nhl top 200 goal scorers career random sports or nhl quiz. As a rookie, auston matthews scored 40 goals and led the nhl in 5v5 scoring a task that is more impressive, and harder to do, than winning the overall goal title. After all, he still holds the franchise mark for regularseason goals scored, according to nhl. Ranking the 5 greatest scorers in washington capitals history. Auston matthews becomes fastest nhl player to 50 goals. He also won two latin cups, a competition for clubs. Bossy, who had set a league rookiescoring record with 53 goals in 197778, surpassed the 50 goal mark in each of his first nine nhl seasons. Scoring 50 goals in the nhl is a feat typically reserved for the games alltime great players. I used a statistic i created called goal share per game and it provided some worthy insight. But the single game goal record is held by a man most hockey fans wouldnt recognize.
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