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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.
GP – Games played – Number of games the player has set foot on the ice in the current season. G – Goals – Total number of goals the player has scored in the current season. A – Assists – Number of goals the player has assisted in the current season. P or PTS – Points – Scoring points, calculated as the sum of G and A.
The NHL also has a system which awards points to its nightly three stars: 30 points to the first star, 20 points to the second, and 10 to the third. [2] It keeps a running tally of the number of points each player has been awarded .
A table of NHL season stats for a player, including +/- values. Plus−minus (+/−, ±, plus/minus) is a sports statistic used to measure a player's impact, represented by the difference between their team's total scoring versus their opponent's when the player is in the game.
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.
In the NHL's points system, a team is awarded 2 points for a win (regardless if earned in regulation, overtime or shootout), 1 point for a tie, 1 point for an overtime loss, and 0 points for a loss. [2] The overtime loss statistic (abbreviated as OL, OT, or OTL) was introduced into the NHL's points system in the 1999–2000 season.
Corsi, called shot attempts (SAT) by the NHL, [4] is the sum of shots on goal, missed shots and blocked shots. [5] It is named after coach Jim Corsi, but was developed by an Edmonton Oilers blogger and fan who developed the statistic to better measure the workload of a goaltender during a game. [6]
List of goalscoring NHL goaltenders; List of players with five or more goals in an NHL game; List of players with eight or more points in an NHL game; List of NHL players with 50-goal seasons; List of NHL players with 100-point seasons; List of NHL goaltenders with 300 wins; List of NHL players with 500 consecutive games played