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The player who scores during this extra time is given the overtime goal. 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.
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.
Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals is closing in on the NHL career goals record of 894 held by Wayne Gretzky. Ovechkin has 874 goals and needs 21 to set a new record. Ovechkin entered the ...
The only player to win four major NHL awards in one season (Hart, Norris, Art Ross, and Conn Smythe in 1970), as well as the only player to win the Norris and Art Ross in the same season. [49] [50] Fastest goal from start of overtime to clinch the Stanley Cup (0:40; 1970, game 4) [176] Most points in one NHL season by a defenceman (139; 1970 ...
In his NHL career, O'Shea appeared in 133 games, scoring thirteen goals and adding eighteen assists. He is best known for scoring an overtime goal in Game 7 of a playoff quarterfinal series in 1972, leading the Blues past the Minnesota North Stars and into the next round. [2] [3] [4] He played in 68 WHA games, scoring ten goals and adding ten ...
The 1970 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1969–70 season, and the culmination of the 1970 Stanley Cup playoffs.It was a contest between the Boston Bruins and the St. Louis Blues, who appeared in their third consecutive finals series.
Henri won the Stanley Cup 11 times as a player, the most in NHL history. [23] Only one other athlete in North American professional sports has achieved winning eleven championships in his respective league—Bill Russell of the NBA's Boston Celtics. [24] Henri also scored two Stanley Cup-winning goals, one of five players to have done so. [9]