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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
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.
The most recent goaltender to have scored a goal by deliberately shooting the puck into his opponents' net was Alex Nedeljkovic on January 17, 2025. Of the nineteen goals scored by NHL goaltenders, twelve 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.
Rick MacLeish scored the first two 4-goal games in team history, a mark that has been matched but not exceeded in regular season competition 15 times since. Antero Niittymaki holds the team regular season record for most saves in a game. Simon Gagne scored the fastest overtime goal in franchise history on January 5, 2006.
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
He also has 134 game-winning goals, two away from breaking Jaromir Jagr's mark (135). Ovechkin has scored on 179 goaltenders and counting, breaking Jagr's record by beating Leevi Merilainen of the ...
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.
Crosby and Washington's Alex Ovechkin are the only active players to have scored at least 600 goals in the NHL. Ovechkin scored his 600th on March 12, 2018, and now has 868 — 26 behind Wayne ...