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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 National Hockey League statistical leaders by country of birth, sorted by total points. The top ten players from each country are included. Statistics are current through the end of the 2023–24 NHL season and players currently playing in the National Hockey League are marked in boldface.
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.
Of the players on the list, 39 are centremen, 21 are defencemen, 15 are goaltenders, 15 are right wingers and 10 are left wingers. [3] There are 21 players who started their NHL career in the decade of the 1980s, and 22 who last played in the NHL during the decade of the 2000s, the most by decade for each category.
Nicknamed "the Great One", [1] he has been called the greatest ice hockey player ever by the NHL [2] based on surveys of hockey writers, ex-players, general managers and coaches. [3] Gretzky is the leading career goal scorer, assist producer and point scorer in NHL history, [ 4 ] and has more career assists than any other player has total points.
Lidström is also the all-time leader in games played with a single NHL team by a European-born player. Lidström was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2014. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on 9 November 2015. [5] In 2017, Lidström was named one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players" in history. [6]
Toronto Maple Leafs forward Auston Matthews' $13.25 million cap hit makes him the NHL's highest-paid player in 2024-25. Highest-paid NHL players by salary cap hit Player, team, cap hit, contract
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