NHL Most Goals Through Age 19 Season | StatMuse (2024)

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What is the record for most goals in an NHL season? ›

Who is the record holder? Gretzky scored 92 goals for the Edmonton Oilers during the 1981-82 season and needed only 369 shots, achieving an extremely efficient 24.9% accuracy rate.

Brett Hull has gotten the most career goals by a 38-year-old player, with 37 scored.

Gordie Howe has scored the most career goals by a player older than 35, with 235 scored.

Gretzky holds the record for most goals in a season and has four of the top-10 goal-scoring seasons in NHL history. His top scoring campaign came in 1981-82, when he tallied 92 goals at just 21 years old. He nearly broke his own record two years later when he lit the lamp 87 times in 1983-84.

Ovechkin needs 54 more goals to surpass Wayne Gretzky (894) as the NHL's all-time scoring leader. If you operate under the assumption that this contract — which expires at the end of the 2025-26 season — is his last, Ovechkin has up to 180 games to catch Gretzky (if he stays healthy).

The NHL last had a 70-goal scorer in the 1992-93 season, with Teemu Selanne and Alexander Mogilny each netting 76 goals.

Wayne Gretzky makes history by scoring his 50th goal in 39 games on Dec. 30th, 1981.

Wayne Gretzky collected his most goals in a game 4 times, with 5 scored.

Joe Malone has put up the most goals in a game, with 7 scored against the Toronto St. Patricks on January 31, 1920.

It was during that 1977-1978 OHA season that Gretzky started wearing his now-iconic '99', after his usual Gordie Howe-inspired '9' was taken by another player. Next came the pros.

Who is the fastest to 40 goals in a season NHL? ›

The goal was McDavid's 40th of the season in just his 48th game, making him the fastest player to reach the 40-goal mark since Pavel Bure did so in 48 games during the 1999-00 season.

A player who signs a contract at age 35 or older can be bought out as a compliance buyout, or, as a regular buyout. As a regular buyout, the team does not receive cap relief, instead they free a roster position and decrease the salary owed to the player.

Wayne Gretzky played 266 games with exactly 0 points.

Broken. Gretzky's record of 15 regular season overtime assists has now been surpassed by over 40 players. Patrick Kane is the current record holder at 26 assists in regular season overtime. Joe Sakic (16), Mark Messier (14), and Ray Bourque (13) have passed Gretzky's record (12) for most All-Star game assists.

Connor McDavid joined a very exclusive club in Monday's 9-2 win against the San Jose Sharks. The Edmonton Oilers star became just the fourth player in NHL history to register 100 assists in a single season. McDavid became the first player since Wayne Gretzky (122 assists 1990-91) to achieve the feat.

On January 10, 1920 the Montreal Canadiens defeated Toronto 14–7. It took almost 66 years for that (21 goals total) record to be tied. On December 11,1985 the Edmonton Oilers defeated the Chicago Black Hawks 12–9. The 21 goals scored remains the record to this day.

Gretzky, who played from 1979-99, has a record 894 regular-season NHL goals. Ovechkin, 38,who passed Gordie Howe last season to move into second place, has 853 goals and needs 42 more to pass Gretzky. Ovechkin has two years left on his contract after this season and would need to average 21 goals a season.

As of today, 24 seasons after retirement, he still holds or shares 57 NHL records. Winning four Stanley Cups (1984, 1985, 1987 ,1988), Gretzky set records in both regular season and post-season play, holding the record for most career regular season goals (894), assists (1,963), points (2,857) and hat-tricks (50).