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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
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 was the most recent NHL player to score 500 goals, doing so on October 16, 2024.
The most recent goaltender to have scored a goal by deliberately shooting the puck into his opponents' net was Filip Gustavsson on October 15, 2024. Of the eighteen goals scored by NHL goaltenders, eleven were shot into the opposing team's net by the goaltender. Two goaltenders have scored a goal and earned a shutout in the same game.
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 (*).
Newsy Lalonde, the first player to score six goals in an NHL game, also had two other five-goal games. Wayne Gretzky, the NHL's all-time leading scorer, had four five-goal games. Mario Lemieux recorded four five-goal games. Sergei Fedorov scored all of the Red Wings' goals in a 5–4 overtime win against the Washington Capitals.
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 Sidney Crosby , 13
Teemu Selanne set an NHL rookie record with 76 goals in 1992–93. Hakan Loob became the first Swede to score 50 goals in one season in 1987–88. Sergei Fedorov scored 56 goals in 1993–94. Joe Sakic reached the 50-goal mark twice. Pavel Bure topped 50 goals with both Vancouver and Florida. Jonathan Cheechoo led the NHL with 56 goals in 2005 ...
Most playoff goals scored by both teams in one game: 18, (Los Angeles Kings had 10 and the Edmonton Oilers 8) on April 7, 1982; Most playoff goals scored by both teams in one period: 9, by the New York Rangers (6) and the Philadelphia Flyers (3) on April 24, 1979 and the Los Angeles Kings (5) and the Calgary Flames (4) on April 10, 1990