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Nedeljkovic is the only goaltender to score a goal in the NHL, AHL, and ECHL, and has the most professional goals for a goaltender, having scored two in the AHL. [16] Mike Smith was also credited with a goal in both the NHL and the ECHL, having scored a goal as a member of the Lexington Men O' War on October 26, 2002, against the Dayton Bombers ...
Craig played a key role in one of the landmark moments in United States sports history, as the goalie for the United States in the Miracle on Ice, when the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the favored Soviet Olympic hockey team, which was led by veterans including greats Boris Mikhailov and Vladislav Tretiak. In that game, Craig stopped ...
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 ...
He was a six-time NHL All-Star and, in 2003, was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. In 2017, Fuhr was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history. [1] [2] He set a number of firsts for black ice hockey players in the NHL, including being the first to win the Stanley Cup and being the first inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. [3]
Cheevers's hockey career began in 1956 at the age of 16 when he played for the St. Michael's Majors of the Ontario Hockey Association.. The right to sign him to an NHL contract was held by the Toronto Maple Leafs (with whom he played two games) until the Boston Bruins drafted him in 1965, despite Toronto general manager Punch Imlach trying to slip Cheevers through unselected by listing him as ...
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 players who have played at least one game for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1926–27 to the most recent complete season.. As of the completion of the 2018–19 New York Rangers season, a total of 932 skaters and 84 goalies have played for the Rangers in the 92 full seasons since starting in the 1926–27 New York Rangers season.
The following are lists showing the point- and goal-scoring leaders of the National Hockey League before the league issued trophies for such achievements. The point-scoring leader has been awarded the Art Ross Trophy since the 1947–48 NHL season, and the goal-scoring leader has been awarded the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy since the 1998–99 NHL season.