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Bossy's season included an NHL-record 9 hat tricks, [55] and he finished the season with 68 goals, and through his first four seasons had the highest goals per game average in NHL history with .785. [56] Bossy was again named a starter for the 1981 All-Star Game, [57] and was named a First Team All-Star at the end of the season. [58]
Following the 1994–95 lockout, the NHL entered a prolonged period of offensive decline. Throughout the 1980s, 7.6 goals were scored per game on average. That figure had dropped below six goals per game by the 1994–95 season, and to 5.19 by 1998–99. [25] There have been many arguments put forth as to what caused this decline.
Most games: Patrick Marleau, 1,779 Most games, including playoffs: Mark Messier, 1,992 Most playoff games: Chris Chelios, 266 Most games played in a single season, not including playoffs: Jimmy Carson (1992–93) and Bob Kudelski (1993–94), 86 (both being traded mid-season, allowing them to play more than the then-team maximum of 84 games in a season)
List of NHL players with 500 consecutive games played; List of NHL players with 500 goals; List of NHL players with 1,000 games played; List of NHL players with 1,000 points; List of NHL players with 2,000 career penalty minutes
Goals against average is the average number of goals a goaltender allows over a 60-minute period (the regulation length of a game). It is calculated by multiplying the goals against by 60 minutes, then dividing by the total minutes played.
The changes initially led to a sharp increase in scoring. Teams combined to score 6.1 goals per game in 2005–06, more than a full goal per game higher than in the 2003–04 season. This represented the highest increase in offence since 1929–30. [144] However, scoring has rapidly declined since, approaching pre-lockout totals in 2007–08. [148]
It proved, at the time, to be the highest-scoring regular season in NHL history, as a total of 7,311 goals were scored over 1,008 games for an average of 7.25 per game. [1] Twenty of the twenty-four teams scored three goals or more per game, and only two teams, the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Chicago Blackhawks , allowed fewer than three goals ...
As of the 2024–25 season – the 107th regular season of play of the National Hockey League (NHL) – 48 different ice hockey players have scored at least 500 regular season goals in their NHL career. A 500-goal career was first achieved in the 44th year of the NHL , when Maurice Richard scored his 500th goal in his 938th game. Evgeni Malkin ...