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In ice hockey, a player is credited with one point for either a goal or an assist.. The total number of goals plus assists equals total points. In the National Hockey League (NHL), the Art Ross Trophy is awarded to the player who leads the league in points at the end of the regular season.
Scoring eight or more points in a single game is considered a great feat and has happened only 16 times, by 13 players. Only one player, Darryl Sittler, scored more than eight points in a game, setting the NHL record with 10 while playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1976. Paul Coffey and Tom Bladon are the only defensemen to have scored ...
The fewest NHL games required to reach the mark was 424, set by Wayne Gretzky.Second quickest was Mario Lemieux, achieving the mark in his 513th game.In a sense, Gretzky was the fastest and the second fastest, as he scored his second 1,000 points (the NHL's only player ever to score 2,000 points in regular-season play) only 433 games after scoring his first 1,000 points.
The player who scores during these extra five minutes 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.
The first NHL season in which a player scored 100 points was 1968–69, when Phil Esposito scored his hundredth point on March 2, 1969. Esposito finished the season with 126 points, and two other players achieved 100 points that season: Bobby Hull, who finished with 107 points, and Gordie Howe, who finished with 103 points. [1]
Ovechkin has 868 goals after scoring 15 in the first 18 games this season. ... Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals is closing in on the NHL career goals record of 894 held by Wayne Gretzky ...
P or PTS – Points – Team points, calculated from W, OTW, OTL, L, SOL and SOW. As 2 points for a W, 2 points for an OTW or SOW, 1 point for a T or OTL or SOL, and zero for a L. GF – Goals for – Number of goals the team has scored; GA – Goals against – Number of goals scored against the team; OTW – Overtime Win; SOW – Shoot Out Win
Longest goal-scoring streak, first NHL season: Joe Malone (1917–18), 14 games Most assists by a player, first NHL Season Wayne Gretzky (1979–80), 86 Most points by a player, first NHL Season Wayne Gretzky (1979–80), 137