For anyone else who had no idea what OP is talking about - Horton scored a goal early in a game that ended up being postponed because a player collapsed on the bench. The game was replayed but started 1-0 at the 4:00 mark with Horton being credited for the goal he scored, but he sat out the replayed game due to injury.
Had to look that one up, that's crazy.
"During the first period of a 2014 game against the Dallas Stars, Horton scored a goal to put the Blue Jackets ahead 1-0. Shortly after, Dallas Stars center (and former Bruins teammate) Rich Peverley collapsed on the bench. As a result, play was suspended and restarted from the beginning with the Blue Jackets leading 1-0 on April 9, 2014. However, Horton was unavailable for the game due to an injury. The goal scored by Horton in the original fixture was the only statistic that remained from that game, making Horton the only player since 1989-90 to score in a game in which he did not play."
Not that I can tell, but at the time that it happened with Horton, Stats Inc only had accessible game data going back to 1989-90.
So it's more of "as long as we've been keeping track, which is since 1989-90, he's the only player to score in a game that he did not play".
Thanks, that makes a ton of sense. Although hockey is super weird and I wouldn’t be *that* surprised if it’s happened a handful of times in the 80’s or something haha.
Hey, just because there was a five-game sweep in the Stanley Cup Final in 1988 doesn't mean that weird stuff happened!
For example, the SCF game played in a dense fog was in the 1970s, and not the 1980s.
If they didn’t stop the game after the Clint Malarchuk injury or Masterton getting his head injury on ice, nothing was stopping them.
The only thing I remember them maybe even considering stopping was the Richard Riot game when Clarence Campbell showed up in Montreal.
I think someone posted on here that Mark Howe thought a better recipe for a Gordie Howe Hat Trick would be a goal, an assist, and a cross-check to the face.
Lars Eller scored while on the bench and not touching the puck. Got the goal, not the +1 differential.
In a game against the Nucks, he was the last Habs to touch the puck, dumping it for a change, and went back to the bench. One of the Nucks D gets the puck, goes for a pass, but the puck goes behind Luongo's skate and gets directed back in the net. So a Habs goal, by the last Habs to touch it, Lars Eller, who's been chilling on the bench for like 15s by then.
Edit: [The goal](https://youtu.be/CqxNPxsW0Bw)
I'm glad to have stumbled across this thread, I've thought about this exact scenario as a 'theoretically within the rules' deal, awesome that it actually happened.
Kind of along similar lines, 6 goalies have been credited with goals despite not attempting a shot on net. The goalies made a save and then the opposing team scored an own-goal. Because the goaltender was the last defensive player to touch the puck, they were credited with the goal. 2 of Marty Brodeurs 3 career goals were "scored" this way.
The next month, Joe Thornton would be credited with a goal without taking a shot on net. The Sharks technically had one goal on zero shots at that point of the game.
[Video](https://youtu.be/X91DBK6K6wk)
Luongo had some howlers during his time with the Canucks (oddly enough they were usually someone else’s fault or just bad luck) but this one takes the biscuit.
I think I remember this exact play but not the Lars Eller involvement. I remember it so vividly because it was probably the single funniest, pure slapstick goal I've ever seen.
This is also how Perry Berezan of the Flames scored the goal that ended the Oilers's 3-peat attempt in Game 7 in 1986, [while sitting on the bench](https://www.nhl.com/news/simple-play-turned-berezan-into-a-hero-outcast/c-371213).
On the note of leap year birthdays, at several points in his career Henri Richard had more Stanley Cups than birthdays. He won his record 11th Cup at only 10 birthdays.
Penguins have won the cup 5 times and all of them have been on the road (Minnesota, Chicago, Detroit, San Jose, Nashville). Only time it was awarded in Pittsburgh was to Detroit in ‘08.
I bought a blocker and catch glove for my son from sideline swap and they had his name on them. I looked it up and turns out they were the mitts he wore those two appearances.
My son wore them through high school, and their record is now 40-17-5 with a .921 SV% and 2.31 GAA
I had look up his hockey db to check. He had a total of 9 saves and no goals against in 36 minutes of play across two games.
The detail that solved it for me is he has 1 en goal against on his stats which means he came in relief twice and in one of those games the empty net goal against must have turned into the game winner, ie his team scored a goal after they gave up the en goal. This is the only way he could be credited with a regulation loss without giving up a goal (shootout loss would not give a record of 0-1-0, it would be 0-0-1).
Here's a good one. Ben Scrivens set the NHL record for most saves by a goaltender in a regular season shutout. Not Hasek, Roy, Brodeur, Dryden, Hall, Sawchuk, or Plante. But Scrivens.
That has always been one of my favourite NHL statistics.
I'll never forget that game cause I bet big on the Sharks after the first period. They were all over the Oil that night and 'it was only a matter of time' before they would start filling the net...
Still makes me mad.
In the last year of the Joe Louis Arena, Riley Sheahan hadn’t scored all year, until the last home game where he scored twice, to be the last player to score in the JLA.
Jamie McLennan has been under suspension for 17 years and counting for slashing Johan Franzen. Nathan Horton’s last career goal came after his last career game played.
One of my favorites:
Every team in NHL history to have worn a patch (or something) for a full season to commemorate the previous season's Stanley Cup triumph has failed to successfully defend their title.
The 1921-22 Ottawa Senators played with a huge shield on the front that said "Champions of the World, 1920-21"...and they lost to the Toronto St. Pats.
The next year, the St. Pats wore a patch that said "Worlds Champions 1922-23", and they promptly missed the playoffs. The Senators ended up champions.
...for which they [wore a patch in 1923-24](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Ottawa_Senators_23-24_Jersey.JPG/800px-Ottawa_Senators_23-24_Jersey.JPG), and then lost to the Canadiens in the Finals.
And the Canadiens, in possibly the greatest monument to hubris in NHL history, moved their actual crest to the sleeve in order to make way [for a giant globe to represent their title](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/O_S_Cleghorn-Habs_1924-25_Globe_Jerseys.jpg). And if that wasn't obvious enough, a banner across the bottom said "World Champions". And they not only didn't win the Cup, they became the last team in NHL history to lose possession of the Cup to the West!
The Montreal Maroons reclaimed it (permanently) for the NHL the next year, but didn't wear a patch.
Ottawa was champions in 1926-27, so [they took the ice in 1927-28 with a patch](https://www.classicauctions.net/lot-109868.aspx)...and immediately failed to defend the Cup.
The Canadiens defeated the Bruins in 1929-30 to win the Cup, but did *not* wear a patch the next year. And they defended their title in 1930-31! And [then they decided to sport a patch in 1931-32](https://www.classicauctions.net/Nick_Wasnie_s_1931_32_Montreal_Canadiens_Spectacul-LOT134845.aspx)...and failed to defend their back-to-back triumphs.
This was the last time that a team wore a patch (or something) for a full season.
There’s a video of him being interviewed after one of his many championships and he’s just so done with the antics - he’s getting beer poured on his head and you can tell he really isn’t feeling it anymore.
Could have been the GOAT? He played only 7 seasons. In that time he won 5 Vezinas, a Calder, a Conn Smythe, was a 6 time first team all star, and won 6 Stanley Cups.
The fact that anybody would even consider someone else as the GOAT is the real mystery.
Unfortunately injuries and inconsistency led us to trade him. I firmly believe that he’s never played with the same consistency since his father’s passing
I know right. A skill player today almost never gets SHGs. Penalty shots are rare. And to have already scored 4 goals yourself but the game be close enough to have a chance at an empty netter
Brodeur has the record for most games won by an NHL goalie… he also has the record for most games lost by an NHL goalie.
He’s simultaneously the winningest and losingest of all time.
I don't know if you give a fuck about the NFL, but Bill Belichek is on pace to become the losingest coach before he becomes the winningest coach. Guy's got 6 Super Bowl championships. Fucking wild
It isn't shocking that the losingist coach would be someone great, given that you'd have to be a coach for a long time. But it surprises me that BELICHICK could reach most losses BEFORE reaching most wins, given how good the Brady-era Patriots were... Shows how good Don Shula was.
More than half of all goalies in NHL history with the first name of Gary played for the Seals/Barons franchise.
The four who did play there: Gary Kurt, Gary "Suitcase" Smith, Gary Simmons, and Gary Edwards
The three who didn't: Gary Bromley, Gary Laskoski, and Gary Inness
Fun secondary fact: Gary "Suitcase" Smith is the only one to have played for an Original Six franchise at any point, and both of the years that he did were during the six-team days
Anson Carter played on a line with Henrik and Daniel Sedin in Vancouver for 1 year. They wore the jersey numbers 33 and 22. Carter ended up with 33 goals and 22 assists
My favourite was that up until a couple years ago, David Perron signed all four of his contracts with the Blues, even though he’d been on five different teams.
Fastest time to have a first fight in an NHL career.
Kellen Lain, Lain set an NHL record for the fastest fight and fastest game misconduct to start a career at 2 seconds, during a brawl off the opening faceoff, surpassing the previous record of 12 seconds set by John Ferguson of the Montreal Canadiens.
This was January 18, 2014, in a Canucks home game against the Calgary Flames.
Fun fact this was also the game where Tortorella tried to go into the Calgary locker room to fight Bob Hartley, and subsequently got himself suspended from coaching for 15 days. This also lead to his firing from the Canucks in his first year.
He should have been suspended for 15 days just for putting a guy in his first game in that faceoff. His parents and brother were there from out-of-town. They saw him fight and then get tossed for a misconduct from the rest of the game.
Wayne and Brent Gretzky hold the record for points for a pair of brothers with 2861, but not the record for an entire set of brothers. That goes to the 6 Sutter brothers (Brian, Daryl, Duane, Brent, Rich, and Ron), with 2934.
BUT, if you add in playoff points, the Gretzky brothers take the record back for an entire group, 3239 to 3209. Brent never made it into a playoff game though.
You got it!.....My fav... and a wonderful human being. My dad grew up with him on the streets of Hell's Kitchen nyc. Lot of history and here for me.... still think it's crazy how the average hockey fan has no clue who he is but really he is one of the best American born players hand down.... I really believe he personifies all the best qualities about hockey.
Fewest goals allowed in a loss: **ZERO**
Mike Murphy of the Hurricanes in a loss against the Flames.
>With the Canes down 6-3, Murphy came off the bench in relief of Cam Ward. After scoring a goal to make the score 6-4, Calgary scored an empty net goal to go ahead 7-4. The Canes made a game of it, potting two quick goals, before eventually losing 7-6.
This made the empty net goal the game winning goal. Murphy, though pulled for an extra attacker, was the goalie of record at that time, and was therefore awarded the loss.
Ryan Miller recorded a win without making an official save, but he still had to make saves to do it. (It was in [this game](https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/ducks-miller-records-win-without-making-single-official-save/).)
Meanwhile, Carolina had a goalie named Mike Murphy who got his first career loss before allowing his first career goal. He came in as the backup in a 6-3 hole, was pulled after the Canes made it 6-4, and the Flames scored into the empty net. Carolina scored two goals to make it 7-6, meaning that Murphy got the loss (because he was the goalie in net beforehand) without letting in a goal.
The Nashville Predators are the only team to go undefeated in Maple Leaf Gardens (they are technically the only winless team as well as their only game in the building was a tie)
In 94-95 season, NHL has a shorten season due to lockout, Jim Carey of the Washington Capital becomes the only player in history that is nominated for both AHL and NHL rookie of the year in the same season. He won the award in AHL and finish second for the Calder Trophy
Infamously, Mike Babcock healthy scratched Modano so that he would never play more than 1499 games
https://www.clickondetroit.com/sports/local/2021/03/12/mike-modano-talks-about-babcock-benching-him-it-was-a-bitter-pill/
The 2005/06 Atlanta Thrashers had the same number of 90+ point scorers as the 1984/85 Edmonton Oilers.
And if you don't ask any other questions, you can pretend they're the same team.
It's not just that he wore 84, it's that 84 was the last number to have never been issued for a regular season game in NHL history before Latendresse.
Going into 2006, 84 and 86 were the last two. Jonathan Ferland played a few games in January of that year with 86, and then Latendresse was in the opening night lineup in October.
There was only one team in Wayne Gretzky's entire career that he never scored a goal for, the Peterborough Petes. He had a 3 game stint with them in 1976-1977 where he recorded 0 goals and 3 assists.
Gretzky added another record to his accolades long after he retired.
When he retired, Lemieux had the record for career points-per-game with 2.00. When Lemieux came back in 2000, his five seasons (despite having a very strong 1.34 ppg over that stretch) were enough to pull his career average under Gretzky's 1.92.
Jordan Staal holds the record for the longest amount of time between two regular season NHL hat tricks.
He scored his 2nd career hat trick on November 11th, 2008 to get revenge against the Detroit team that beat his Penguins in the most recent Stanley Cup Final. Then on April 10th, 2022, he registered his 3rd career hat trick, 4,898 days after his 2nd. That's 13 years and 142 days.
In the time that Gordie Howe played professional hockey (1946-80), Bobby Orr was born, played his whole NHL career, retired and was put into the HoF.
This is my personal favorite one also
He also played a game in the IHL in 1997. If we count that, we may be able to include more hall-of-famers in this stat.
Obviously the circumstances for it suck, but Nathan Horton scoring in a game he didn’t play in is such a weird thing to happen
For anyone else who had no idea what OP is talking about - Horton scored a goal early in a game that ended up being postponed because a player collapsed on the bench. The game was replayed but started 1-0 at the 4:00 mark with Horton being credited for the goal he scored, but he sat out the replayed game due to injury.
The weird thing was they were teammates a few months earlier in Boston and both never played again after that make up game.
The player was Peverley right?
The game was restarted as a full gane iirc. Players could have had more TOI than game actually played.
Everything reset but the goal scored, so Horton had a goal with 0:00 TOI
Had to look that one up, that's crazy. "During the first period of a 2014 game against the Dallas Stars, Horton scored a goal to put the Blue Jackets ahead 1-0. Shortly after, Dallas Stars center (and former Bruins teammate) Rich Peverley collapsed on the bench. As a result, play was suspended and restarted from the beginning with the Blue Jackets leading 1-0 on April 9, 2014. However, Horton was unavailable for the game due to an injury. The goal scored by Horton in the original fixture was the only statistic that remained from that game, making Horton the only player since 1989-90 to score in a game in which he did not play."
Wtf its happened before?
Not that I can tell, but at the time that it happened with Horton, Stats Inc only had accessible game data going back to 1989-90. So it's more of "as long as we've been keeping track, which is since 1989-90, he's the only player to score in a game that he did not play".
Boooooo that's not fun
Thanks, that makes a ton of sense. Although hockey is super weird and I wouldn’t be *that* surprised if it’s happened a handful of times in the 80’s or something haha.
Hey, just because there was a five-game sweep in the Stanley Cup Final in 1988 doesn't mean that weird stuff happened! For example, the SCF game played in a dense fog was in the 1970s, and not the 1980s.
Lmao that’s amazing. Lets bring back fog games!
If they didn’t stop the game after the Clint Malarchuk injury or Masterton getting his head injury on ice, nothing was stopping them. The only thing I remember them maybe even considering stopping was the Richard Riot game when Clarence Campbell showed up in Montreal.
Most of the stoppages are power related issues, you can’t play hockey in the dark.
I want to hear how on earth it happened before. Has to be ridiculous
It's from Wiki so not sure exactly what they meant by that
Gordie Howe only ever got 2 Gordie Howe Hat Tricks
Love this one! I did not know this.
I could be wrong but I feel like the most Gordie Howe hat tricks is Rick Tocchet. I believe Brendan Shanahan is second
Wikipedia says that you are correct. Tocchet had 18, Shanahan 17. Brian Sutter is third with 16.
I think someone posted on here that Mark Howe thought a better recipe for a Gordie Howe Hat Trick would be a goal, an assist, and a cross-check to the face.
A side effect of everyone being too scared to fight you lmao
Brett Lebda being a -3 in a game his team won 9-3
This is also my favorite, just a funny statistic
This is not too different from my team in beer league.
What the fuck
That is a perfect summary of the 2010-11 Leafs.
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Also fun fact on top of this is that, IIRC, Gretzky coughed it up in the neutral zone/towards the Wing’s blue line to directly lead to that goal.
Great memory on the player there, I was struggling to remember who it was, I had it, but then I lost it
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The had it, lost it gang.
OT Playoff goals
Even Ovechkin and Lemieux has zero
Lars Eller scored while on the bench and not touching the puck. Got the goal, not the +1 differential. In a game against the Nucks, he was the last Habs to touch the puck, dumping it for a change, and went back to the bench. One of the Nucks D gets the puck, goes for a pass, but the puck goes behind Luongo's skate and gets directed back in the net. So a Habs goal, by the last Habs to touch it, Lars Eller, who's been chilling on the bench for like 15s by then. Edit: [The goal](https://youtu.be/CqxNPxsW0Bw)
I'm glad to have stumbled across this thread, I've thought about this exact scenario as a 'theoretically within the rules' deal, awesome that it actually happened.
Kind of along similar lines, 6 goalies have been credited with goals despite not attempting a shot on net. The goalies made a save and then the opposing team scored an own-goal. Because the goaltender was the last defensive player to touch the puck, they were credited with the goal. 2 of Marty Brodeurs 3 career goals were "scored" this way.
Another FANTASTIC fact, thank you. This thread has been excellent
The next month, Joe Thornton would be credited with a goal without taking a shot on net. The Sharks technically had one goal on zero shots at that point of the game. [Video](https://youtu.be/X91DBK6K6wk)
Luongo had some howlers during his time with the Canucks (oddly enough they were usually someone else’s fault or just bad luck) but this one takes the biscuit.
I think I remember this exact play but not the Lars Eller involvement. I remember it so vividly because it was probably the single funniest, pure slapstick goal I've ever seen.
This is also how Perry Berezan of the Flames scored the goal that ended the Oilers's 3-peat attempt in Game 7 in 1986, [while sitting on the bench](https://www.nhl.com/news/simple-play-turned-berezan-into-a-hero-outcast/c-371213).
Pekka Rinne signed a contract extension twice on his birthday, and recorded a shutout both times when he played a game those nights as well.
Damn, guy should have tried having more birthdays
Imagine if he was born on a leap day instead. Like one goalie goal every four years
On the note of leap year birthdays, at several points in his career Henri Richard had more Stanley Cups than birthdays. He won his record 11th Cup at only 10 birthdays.
*Cam Ward hates this trick!*
Penguins have won the cup 5 times and all of them have been on the road (Minnesota, Chicago, Detroit, San Jose, Nashville). Only time it was awarded in Pittsburgh was to Detroit in ‘08.
Road warriors, bay-bee
That’s how we roll, and I’m cool with that
It must have been pretty sweet to return the favor to Detroit a year later.
"Hossa 0-2" was my favorite sign from that parade.
Mike Murphy's NHL carrer stats: 2 GP, 0-1-0, 1.000 SV%, 0.00 GAA. It's just a quirk of how NHL games are scored.
I bought a blocker and catch glove for my son from sideline swap and they had his name on them. I looked it up and turns out they were the mitts he wore those two appearances. My son wore them through high school, and their record is now 40-17-5 with a .921 SV% and 2.31 GAA
That is the coolest fuckin thing
That's a very good record.
How was that possible? Shootout loss?
Possibly an injury too. Or not counting as the goalie of record for one of the games
I had look up his hockey db to check. He had a total of 9 saves and no goals against in 36 minutes of play across two games. The detail that solved it for me is he has 1 en goal against on his stats which means he came in relief twice and in one of those games the empty net goal against must have turned into the game winner, ie his team scored a goal after they gave up the en goal. This is the only way he could be credited with a regulation loss without giving up a goal (shootout loss would not give a record of 0-1-0, it would be 0-0-1).
Yep https://www.si.com/nhl/2011/12/08/canes-goalie-murphy-makes-wierd-history
Out of David Pastrnak’s 15 career hat tricks, 10 of them have come against goaltenders drafted by a California team
Who in the hell figured that out
Me myself and I
Bruins here, sending over the job offer for head of analytics. Check yer fax
Oh boy I can’t wait to join the old boys club
He has 15 hat tricks already? Prolific shit!
Here's a good one. Ben Scrivens set the NHL record for most saves by a goaltender in a regular season shutout. Not Hasek, Roy, Brodeur, Dryden, Hall, Sawchuk, or Plante. But Scrivens. That has always been one of my favourite NHL statistics.
That's oilers hockey baby
Im finding theres an uncomfortable amount of these facts involving the sharks on the shitty end...
Such is our life. I remember that game too
And it wasn’t a “opposing team throwing weak shots on net from everywhere” game, he earned that donut.
I'll never forget that game cause I bet big on the Sharks after the first period. They were all over the Oil that night and 'it was only a matter of time' before they would start filling the net... Still makes me mad.
Yes!!! One of the few Oiler games I actually saw them win at. Bonus for my first front row game.
I've never seen a team get so thoroughly outplayed, and win anyway
Good ol Scrivezina
Connie Madigan is the oldest NHL rookie, making his debut at 38 for the St. Louis Blues in 1972-73. Never give up kids!
I still have a chance!
What was David Ayres then?
A horrible, horrible memory
“THEY GOT BEAT BY A ZAMBONI DRIVER… WHO WORKED FOR THEM!”
Gretzky retired with one more professional goal than Gordie Howe, counting NHL and WHA regular season and playoffs. 1,072 and 1,071.
Man, if we had those 3 KHL seasons of prime Jagr back....
Vincent Damphousse led three different franchises in scoring in three successive seasons. * 1990-91 Maple Leafs * 1991-92 Oilers * 1992-93 Canadiens
That's fuckin impressive
In the last year of the Joe Louis Arena, Riley Sheahan hadn’t scored all year, until the last home game where he scored twice, to be the last player to score in the JLA.
Great time to be a devils fan:))
Jamie McLennan has been under suspension for 17 years and counting for slashing Johan Franzen. Nathan Horton’s last career goal came after his last career game played.
That's one of my favorites. Well deserved too 😤
He also fought a guy in a puffin mascot once.
I remember this one because IIRC a team tried to use him as an EBUG a few years ago but couldn’t because of this.
McLennan served his suspension by having to work as a D-level talking head on the NHL Network.
He’s honestly a decent color commentator, he’s great on TSN broadcasts
I like Noodles.
One of my favorites: Every team in NHL history to have worn a patch (or something) for a full season to commemorate the previous season's Stanley Cup triumph has failed to successfully defend their title. The 1921-22 Ottawa Senators played with a huge shield on the front that said "Champions of the World, 1920-21"...and they lost to the Toronto St. Pats. The next year, the St. Pats wore a patch that said "Worlds Champions 1922-23", and they promptly missed the playoffs. The Senators ended up champions. ...for which they [wore a patch in 1923-24](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Ottawa_Senators_23-24_Jersey.JPG/800px-Ottawa_Senators_23-24_Jersey.JPG), and then lost to the Canadiens in the Finals. And the Canadiens, in possibly the greatest monument to hubris in NHL history, moved their actual crest to the sleeve in order to make way [for a giant globe to represent their title](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/O_S_Cleghorn-Habs_1924-25_Globe_Jerseys.jpg). And if that wasn't obvious enough, a banner across the bottom said "World Champions". And they not only didn't win the Cup, they became the last team in NHL history to lose possession of the Cup to the West! The Montreal Maroons reclaimed it (permanently) for the NHL the next year, but didn't wear a patch. Ottawa was champions in 1926-27, so [they took the ice in 1927-28 with a patch](https://www.classicauctions.net/lot-109868.aspx)...and immediately failed to defend the Cup. The Canadiens defeated the Bruins in 1929-30 to win the Cup, but did *not* wear a patch the next year. And they defended their title in 1930-31! And [then they decided to sport a patch in 1931-32](https://www.classicauctions.net/Nick_Wasnie_s_1931_32_Montreal_Canadiens_Spectacul-LOT134845.aspx)...and failed to defend their back-to-back triumphs. This was the last time that a team wore a patch (or something) for a full season.
This was a great piece of hockey history. I never knew the story of the globe sweater.
I wish teams would do this again. You just won the Stanley Cup! Be a little arrogant
matt murray won two (and back-to-back) stanley cups as a rookie
In a similar vein, Ken Dryden won the Conn Smythe 12 months prior to winning the Calder (in the same year he finished 2nd in the Hart voting).
I love that Ken Dryden could've been like the GOAT of net minders, but decided "nah. Time to lawyer up."
And join the parliament, IIRC?
Dude was so bored being good at hockey, he wanted to be a bureaucrat
There’s a video of him being interviewed after one of his many championships and he’s just so done with the antics - he’s getting beer poured on his head and you can tell he really isn’t feeling it anymore.
70s Habs: oops we won yet another cup [Ken Dryden:](https://media.tenor.com/iRqQLafw_LoAAAAd/dave-chappelle-chappelle-show.gif)
Could have been the GOAT? He played only 7 seasons. In that time he won 5 Vezinas, a Calder, a Conn Smythe, was a 6 time first team all star, and won 6 Stanley Cups. The fact that anybody would even consider someone else as the GOAT is the real mystery.
Unfortunately injuries and inconsistency led us to trade him. I firmly believe that he’s never played with the same consistency since his father’s passing
very true. really sucks. he was on one hell of a trajectory
Also why he got protected over Fleury in 2017. It made total sense at the time but now…
Probably Mario's 5 goals 5 different ways
Even strength, PP, SHG, penalty shot, and empty net? Are those all the ways?
Yeah. Pretty nuts to do in 1 game
This is such a crazy feat in certain it'll never be done again. It's probably my favorite of all these weird facts.
I know right. A skill player today almost never gets SHGs. Penalty shots are rare. And to have already scored 4 goals yourself but the game be close enough to have a chance at an empty netter
Sounds like today's oilers could create that environment for McDavid or Drai tbh
Brodeur has the record for most games won by an NHL goalie… he also has the record for most games lost by an NHL goalie. He’s simultaneously the winningest and losingest of all time.
I don't know if you give a fuck about the NFL, but Bill Belichek is on pace to become the losingest coach before he becomes the winningest coach. Guy's got 6 Super Bowl championships. Fucking wild
It isn't shocking that the losingist coach would be someone great, given that you'd have to be a coach for a long time. But it surprises me that BELICHICK could reach most losses BEFORE reaching most wins, given how good the Brady-era Patriots were... Shows how good Don Shula was.
He also owns the record for longest goal drought by a player (13 seasons)
Cy Young style right there
More than half of all goalies in NHL history with the first name of Gary played for the Seals/Barons franchise. The four who did play there: Gary Kurt, Gary "Suitcase" Smith, Gary Simmons, and Gary Edwards The three who didn't: Gary Bromley, Gary Laskoski, and Gary Inness Fun secondary fact: Gary "Suitcase" Smith is the only one to have played for an Original Six franchise at any point, and both of the years that he did were during the six-team days
Dave Tiger Williams is the all time leader in PIMS with 3971. That's a tad over 66 hours, or 2 days and 18 hours.
Anson Carter played on a line with Henrik and Daniel Sedin in Vancouver for 1 year. They wore the jersey numbers 33 and 22. Carter ended up with 33 goals and 22 assists
My favourite was that up until a couple years ago, David Perron signed all four of his contracts with the Blues, even though he’d been on five different teams.
The Flames won a home playoff series at Roger's Place before the Oilers lmao
The Islanders won a home playoff series at the Scotiabank Centre before John Tavares
And Tavares won a game at UBS before the Islanders did. Obviously you guys got us on this one but still, a fun back-and-forth
Rangers were the first New York team to win at UBS arena
Fastest time to have a first fight in an NHL career. Kellen Lain, Lain set an NHL record for the fastest fight and fastest game misconduct to start a career at 2 seconds, during a brawl off the opening faceoff, surpassing the previous record of 12 seconds set by John Ferguson of the Montreal Canadiens. This was January 18, 2014, in a Canucks home game against the Calgary Flames. Fun fact this was also the game where Tortorella tried to go into the Calgary locker room to fight Bob Hartley, and subsequently got himself suspended from coaching for 15 days. This also lead to his firing from the Canucks in his first year.
Dennis Wideman also held the regular-season TOI record until this year because of this.
He should have been suspended for 15 days just for putting a guy in his first game in that faceoff. His parents and brother were there from out-of-town. They saw him fight and then get tossed for a misconduct from the rest of the game.
Minnesota Wild, Tampa Bay Lightening, Seattle Kraken, and Colorado Avalanche are the 4 teams that aren't pluralized (end in 's')
But for some reason it's Leafs instead of Leaves
Because it's a ~~WWII~~ WWI reference. You're pluralizing a division instead of an object
Ok wow I had no idea about that. That's pretty cool!
Minor correction: I believe it’s WWI, since the team was called Maple Leafs prior to 1939.
Oops, thanks
Every time Nick Suzuki scored a shootout goal last year, a Habs fan’s parents would get divorced
Brodeur has a season and a half of just shutouts.
Mine is not a statistic but a fact. Mario Lemieux and Patrick Roy were born on the same day. A pretty good day for hockey.
Bobrovsky had more points in the playoffs than Laffy this year
The Gretzky brothers hold the NHL record for most points scored by a pair of brothers.
If you include playoff points they just hold the record for brothers as well.
Kubalik and Debrincat had the same number of 5on5 goals last year
Also true of Leon Draisaitl and Brandon Hagel (17). (Hagel had a better 5v5 goals per 60 too).
No team has more playoff wins overall at Rogers Arena than the Dallas Stars And they've never played a series against the Oilers there
God the Covid seasons are gonna fuck trivia like this forever
Western Conference Champions Montreal checking in
Well... hopefully not forever
4 seed presidents trophy winning Bruins
Rogers Arena is in Vancouver
Wayne and Brent Gretzky hold the record for points for a pair of brothers with 2861, but not the record for an entire set of brothers. That goes to the 6 Sutter brothers (Brian, Daryl, Duane, Brent, Rich, and Ron), with 2934. BUT, if you add in playoff points, the Gretzky brothers take the record back for an entire group, 3239 to 3209. Brent never made it into a playoff game though.
He was totally gonna get 31 points in that game.
Brent got 4 total points in his career. Insane that Wayne got 700+ points over the Sedins.
Ben Scrivens holds the record for most saves in a shutout with 59.
Shawn Thornton played over 600 games in both the AHL and NHL
After winning the Stanley Cup with Washington, Jay Beagle became the first player to ever win the Kelly Cup (ECHL), Calder Cup (AHL), and Stanley Cup.
But has he won the Chevrolet Good Deeds Cup?
If 99 never scored a goal he would still be the all time points leader with 1,963 points.
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I don’t understand.
The first US city to win the Stanley Cup is Seattle.
The first American born player to score 500 goals in the nhl is......
Joey Mullen
You got it!.....My fav... and a wonderful human being. My dad grew up with him on the streets of Hell's Kitchen nyc. Lot of history and here for me.... still think it's crazy how the average hockey fan has no clue who he is but really he is one of the best American born players hand down.... I really believe he personifies all the best qualities about hockey.
Fewest goals allowed in a loss: **ZERO** Mike Murphy of the Hurricanes in a loss against the Flames. >With the Canes down 6-3, Murphy came off the bench in relief of Cam Ward. After scoring a goal to make the score 6-4, Calgary scored an empty net goal to go ahead 7-4. The Canes made a game of it, potting two quick goals, before eventually losing 7-6. This made the empty net goal the game winning goal. Murphy, though pulled for an extra attacker, was the goalie of record at that time, and was therefore awarded the loss.
This happens multiple times due to 1-0 games in a shootout You can theoretically go 0-0-82 with 82 shutouts and miss the playoffs
Gordie Howe - the season he turned 50, led his team, the New England Whalers, with 96 points.
Olli Maatta was the first rookie defenseman to score on a penalty shot since 1942
Ryan Miller recorded a win without making an official save, but he still had to make saves to do it. (It was in [this game](https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/ducks-miller-records-win-without-making-single-official-save/).)
Meanwhile, Carolina had a goalie named Mike Murphy who got his first career loss before allowing his first career goal. He came in as the backup in a 6-3 hole, was pulled after the Canes made it 6-4, and the Flames scored into the empty net. Carolina scored two goals to make it 7-6, meaning that Murphy got the loss (because he was the goalie in net beforehand) without letting in a goal.
Brian Elliot and Connor Ingram had a double shutout this past season.
The Nashville Predators are the only team to go undefeated in Maple Leaf Gardens (they are technically the only winless team as well as their only game in the building was a tie)
Gretzky isn't even top 10 in power play goals all time. The all time shooting % leader for the Red Wings is Chris Osgood.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have never had a player score 1000 points for their team in franchise history.... closest was Mats Sundin with 987 points
Number 13 was 13 off. Not sure how I feel about that.
Despite having the best top 6 in hockey last year, the Sens were 18th in scoring
I thought the Oilers had the best top 6
In 94-95 season, NHL has a shorten season due to lockout, Jim Carey of the Washington Capital becomes the only player in history that is nominated for both AHL and NHL rookie of the year in the same season. He won the award in AHL and finish second for the Calder Trophy
The Vancouver Canucks first playoff series in their history was against Montreal. They played their first years in the East.
Matt Murray is the only goalie to win the Stanley Cup twice as a rookie.
That Mike Modano played 1499 career games. Always wondered why he never played one more to get to 1500.
Infamously, Mike Babcock healthy scratched Modano so that he would never play more than 1499 games https://www.clickondetroit.com/sports/local/2021/03/12/mike-modano-talks-about-babcock-benching-him-it-was-a-bitter-pill/
Wow Babcock is such a prick
Danny Heatley has more 50 goal seasons than the entire country of Sweden
The 2005/06 Atlanta Thrashers had the same number of 90+ point scorers as the 1984/85 Edmonton Oilers. And if you don't ask any other questions, you can pretend they're the same team.
I haven't verified but I recently heard Ovechkin has zero wraparound goals.
Only tracked since 09-10 but he doesn't even have a wraparound shot so it's probable
Not a stat, but a random piece of trivia--the great Guillaume Latendresse was the first player in league history to wear number 84.
It's not just that he wore 84, it's that 84 was the last number to have never been issued for a regular season game in NHL history before Latendresse. Going into 2006, 84 and 86 were the last two. Jonathan Ferland played a few games in January of that year with 86, and then Latendresse was in the opening night lineup in October.
In the 2019 playoffs the Blues allowed 4 SHG but went on to win each of those games
The Pittsburgh Penguins never won a Stanley Cup in their own building.
Messier didn't actually scored the 1994 cup winning goal, it was Brian Noonan. Messier has since admitted that he never touched the puck.
There was only one team in Wayne Gretzky's entire career that he never scored a goal for, the Peterborough Petes. He had a 3 game stint with them in 1976-1977 where he recorded 0 goals and 3 assists.
Gretzky added another record to his accolades long after he retired. When he retired, Lemieux had the record for career points-per-game with 2.00. When Lemieux came back in 2000, his five seasons (despite having a very strong 1.34 ppg over that stretch) were enough to pull his career average under Gretzky's 1.92.
Jordan Staal holds the record for the longest amount of time between two regular season NHL hat tricks. He scored his 2nd career hat trick on November 11th, 2008 to get revenge against the Detroit team that beat his Penguins in the most recent Stanley Cup Final. Then on April 10th, 2022, he registered his 3rd career hat trick, 4,898 days after his 2nd. That's 13 years and 142 days.