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All overtime in the NHL is sudden death —meaning the first team to score is the winner—so the player who scores in overtime also has the game-winning goal. Alexander Ovechkin, 22. Jeff Carter, 13 Sidney Crosby, 13. Brad Marchand, 12 Brent Burns, 12 Evgeni Malkin, 12.
Most assists by a player, first NHL season, one game: Wayne Gretzky (February 15, 1980), 7. Longest goal-scoring streak, first NHL season: Joe Malone (1917–18), 14 games. Most assists by a player, first NHL Season Wayne Gretzky (1979–80), 86. Most points by a player, first NHL Season Wayne Gretzky (1979–80), 137.
The following is a list of the all-time records for each of the 32 active National Hockey League (NHL) teams, beginning with the first NHL season (1917–18), with regular season stats accurate as of the end of all games on October 26, 2023, and playoff stats accurate as of the end of the 2020–21 NHL season and 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs. [1]
Most consecutive 70 goal seasons: 4. Most 80-or-more goal seasons: 2. Most 90-or-more goal seasons: 1. Gretzky is the only player to achieve this. Fastest 50 goals from start of season: 50 goals in 39 games. The mark of 50 goals in 50 games is a rare event, achieved by only five players.
The fewest NHL games required to reach the mark was 424, set by Wayne Gretzky.Second quickest was Mario Lemieux, achieving the mark in his 513th game.In a sense, Gretzky was the fastest and the second fastest, as he scored his second 1,000 points (the NHL's only player ever to score 2,000 points in regular-season play) only 433 games after scoring his first 1,000 points.
Alexander Ovechkin is the active leader in goalscoring and second all time. The puck Maurice Richard used to score his 500th NHL goal on October 19, 1957. Richard was the first player in league history to record 500 career goals. This list is current as of the 2023–24 season. Legend Rank – Ranking on all-time goals list
This is a list of National Hockey League statistical leaders by country of birth, sorted by total points.The top ten players from each country are included. Statistics are current through the end of the 2023–24 NHL season and players currently playing in the National Hockey League are marked in boldface.
The following are lists showing the point- and goal-scoring leaders of the National Hockey League before the league issued trophies for such achievements. The point-scoring leader has been awarded the Art Ross Trophy since the 1947–48 NHL season, and the goal-scoring leader has been awarded the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy since the 1998–99 NHL season.