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Sixteen goaltenders have scored a total of nineteen goals in National Hockey League (NHL) games. Such goals are often called a "goalie goal." A goalkeeper can score by either shooting the puck into the net or being awarded the goal as the last player on his team to touch the puck when an opponent scored an own goal. A goal scored by shooting ...
If one combines both their NHL and World Hockey Association (WHA) statistics, Gerry Cheevers (329), Mike Liut (325), and Bernie Parent (304) would have at least 300 wins as well. Five goaltenders on this list remain active in the 2024–25 NHL season: Sergei Bobrovsky, Marc-Andre Fleury, Connor Hellebuyck, Jonathan Quick, and Andrei Vasilevskiy ...
The 1979 expansion or NHL–WHA merger was the culmination of several years of negotiations between the NHL and the World Hockey Association (WHA). The result of the negotiations was that the WHA folded, and four of its six surviving teams - the Edmonton Oilers, New England Whalers, Quebec Nordiques, and Winnipeg Jets – entered the NHL as expansion teams prior to the start of the 1979–80 ...
This is a list of top goal-scorers by season in the National Hockey League. Players marked with a dagger (†) are active, while players inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame are marked with an asterisk (*).
Grant Scott Fuhr (born September 28, 1962) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League (NHL) and former goaltending coach for the Arizona Coyotes, who played for the Edmonton Oilers in the 1980s during which he won the Stanley Cup five times.
In the 1979–80 season Cheevers and Gilles Gilbert were runners-up for the Vezina Trophy, which was won by Don Edwards and Bob Sauvé of the Buffalo Sabres. He retired at the end of that season. Cheevers had a career NHL goals against average of 2.89, recorded 230 NHL wins, played in 419 NHL games, and registered 26 NHL shutouts. He is second ...
This is a list of players who are not rookies, but are playing in their first NHL season via expansion or through the birth of the NHL. Most goals by a player, first NHL season, one game: Joe Malone (December 19, 1917, January 12, 1918 and February 2, 1918), 5; Most goals by a player, first NHL game: Joe Malone (December 19, 1917), 5
Best penalty kill percentage in a season: 89.58%, by the 2011–12 New Jersey Devils; Worst penalty kill percentage in a season: 67.70%, by the 1979–80 Los Angeles Kings; Best home record: 36–2–2 by the 1975–76 Philadelphia Flyers; Worst home record: 7–28–5 by the 1974–75 Washington Capitals