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Highest goals-per-game average including playoffs, career (among players with 200-or-more goals): Mario Lemieux, .749 Highest goals-per-game average, one season (among players with 20-or-more goals): Joe Malone (1917–18), 2.20
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.
Bossy's season included an NHL-record 9 hat tricks, [55] and he finished the season with 68 goals, and through his first four seasons had the highest goals per game average in NHL history with .785. [56] Bossy was again named a starter for the 1981 All-Star Game, [57] and was named a First Team All-Star at the end of the season. [58]
The Great Eight is within striking distance of Wayne Gretzky's all-time NHL goals record of 894, which Gretzky reached on March 29, 1999, against the New York Islanders. Ovechkin began this season ...
Following the 1994–95 lockout, the NHL entered a prolonged period of offensive decline. Throughout the 1980s, 7.6 goals were scored per game on average. That figure had dropped below six goals per game by the 1994–95 season, and to 5.19 by 1998–99. [25] There have been many arguments put forth as to what caused this decline.
Clint Benedict, a goaltender of the 1920s in the NHL holds several GAA records. Goals against average (GAA) also known as "average goals against" or "AGA" is a statistic used in field hockey, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer, and water polo that is the mean of goals allowed per game by a goaltender or goalkeeper (depending on sport).
Highest goals-per-game average, one season (among players with 50-or-more goals): 1.18 in 1983–84, 87 goals in 74 games; Highest assists-per-game average, career (300 min.): 1.321-- 1,963 assists in 1,487 games; Highest assists-per-game average, one season: 2.04 in 1985–86, 163 assists in 80 games; Highest points-per-game average, one ...
GWG – Game-winning goals – Number of game-winning goals the player has scored (a goal is considered game winning when the team would win the game without scoring any more goals, for example, the winning team's third goal in a 5–2 win). GTG – Game-tying goals – Number of game-tying goals (that is, the last goal scored in a tie game ...