Who Holds The Most NHL Records?

In this blog post, we’ll take a look at some of the NHL’s most impressive records and the players who hold them.

Wayne Gretzky

Wayne Gretzky holds or shares 61 individual NHL records. These include most goals (894), most assists (1,963), and most points in a career (2,857). He also holds the record for the most goals in a single season, scoring 92 goals during the 1981-82 season.

Most goals in a season

Wayne Gretzky, “The Great One”, is the NHL player with the most goals in a single season. Gretzky achieved this record by scoring 92 goals during the 1981-82 NHL regular season.

Most goals in a career

Gretzky holds the record for most goals in a career with 894. He scored his first NHL goal against the Vancouver Canucks on October 14, 1979, and his last against the New York Islanders on April 18, 1999.

Most assists in a season

In the 1985–86 NHL season, Gretzky had 163 assists, which stood as an NHL record until 1993–94 when fellow “Great One” teammate MacInnis had 165.

Most assists in a career

Wayne Gretzky holds the NHL record for the most assists in a career with 1,963.

Bobby Orr

Bobby Orr is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest players of all time. Orr used his skating speed, scoring, and play-making abilities to revolutionize the position of defenceman. He is the only defenceman to have won the Art Ross Trophy as the league’s leading scorer and the only player to have won the Hart Trophy, Stanley Cup, and Conn Smythe Trophy in the same year.

Most goals by a defenseman in a season

In the 1970–71 NHL season, Bobby Orr of the Boston Bruins scored 46 goals and 134 points, becoming the first – and as of 2019, only – defenseman to lead the league in scoring. He set a then-record for most goals by a defenseman in a season, and his point total remains the highest by a defenseman in a single campaign.

Most goals by a defenseman in a career

Bobby Orr of the Boston Bruins holds the record for the most goals by a defenseman in a career, with 270. He also holds the records for the most assists by a defenseman in a career, with 915, and the most points by a defenseman in a career, with 1,185.

Most assists by a defenseman in a season

In the 1974–75 season, Orr assisted on 102 goals, which remains the NHL record for most assists by a defenseman in a season, and is also the overall league record for assists by a defenseman in a single season.

Most assists by a defenseman in a career

Bobby Orr holds the record for the most assists by a defenseman in a career with 1,068. He also holds the record for the most goals by a defenseman in a season with 46, which he set in the 1974-75 season.

Gordie Howe

Gordie Howe is a former professional ice hockey player. He played 26 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and six seasons in the World Hockey Association (WHA). He ranks seventh all-time in NHL scoring with 1,850 points. Howe is the only player to have competed in the NHL in five different decades.

Most points in a season

The Great One holds the record for most points in a season by an NHL player. He achieved this remarkable feat in 1985-86, when he racked up an astounding 175 points (52 goals and 123 assists) in just 80 games. This incredible total still stands today, more than three decades later.

Most points in a career

Gordie Howe holds the NHL record for the most points in a career with 1,850. He played 26 seasons in the NHL and his last season was in 1980 at the age of 52.

Most games played

Gordie Howe played 26 seasons in the NHL, winning six Stanley Cups and holding numerous league records at the time of his retirement. He continued playing professionally in the World Hockey Association (WHA) until he was 52 years old. Howe retired from professional hockey in 1980, but made a brief comeback two years later, playing one final season with his sons Mark and Marty on the Houston Aeros.

Howe is considered one of the greatest players of all time. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1972, and his jersey number 9 was retired by the Detroit Red Wings in 1991. He is the only player to have competed in the NHL in five different decades (1940s-80s).

In 2017, Howe was posthumously inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame.

Most seasons played

Gordie Howe played 26 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), from 1946 to 1980. He holds numerous records for his career, including most regular season games played (1,767), most goals (801), and most points (1,850). Howe is the only player to have competed in the NHL in five different decades.

Martin Brodeur

Martin Brodeur is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender and the assistant general manager of the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played in the NHL for 21 seasons, spending his entire career with the New Jersey Devils, with whom he won three Stanley Cup championships and five Eastern Conference championships. Brodeur is widely regarded as one of the greatest goaltenders of all time.

Most wins in a season

In the 2006-2007 NHL season, Martin Brodeur led the New Jersey Devils to the playoffs with an impressive 48 wins. He also managed to rack up 12 losses and 6 overtime losses, for a total of 66 games played. This was good enough to break Bernie Parent’s 1974-1975 record of 47 wins in a season.

Most wins in a career

Martin Brodeur is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender and the assistant general manager of the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played 22 seasons in the NHL between 1992 and 2015. During that time, he won four Stanley Cup championships with the New Jersey Devils and is one of only three goaltenders to win the Stanley Cup more than once with multiple teams, along with Chris Osgood and Patrick Roy. Brodeur also holds numerous regular season goaltending records, including most wins, most shutouts, most completed seasons, resulting in him being known as “the greatest goaltender in NHL history”.[1][2][3][4]

In 2014, Brodeur was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, and in 2017, he was named one of the “100 Greatest NHL Players” in history.

Most shutouts in a season

In the 2006–07 season, he recorded 12 shutouts to tie Terry Sawchuk’s single-season record. The following season, he surpassed Sawchuk’s record with his 13th shutout of the year. He has recorded four or more shutouts in a season eight times, more than any other goaltender in NHL history.

Most shutouts in a career

Martin Brodeur holds the NHL record for most shutouts in a career with 124.

Terry Sawchuk

Terry Sawchuk was a professional ice hockey goaltender who played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League. Sawchuk played for the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Angeles Kings, and New York Rangers. He is considered one of the greatest goaltenders of all time. Sawchuk holds many NHL records, including most shutouts in a career, most wins in a season, and most games played by a goaltender.

Most shutouts in a season

In the early days of the NHL, goaltenders played all 60 minutes of every game. When teams began to use backup goalies in the 1930s, it became more common for starters to share shutouts. The modern era record for most shutouts in a season is held by Terry Sawchuk of the Detroit Red Wings, who had 15 shutouts during the 1952–53 NHL season.

Most shutouts in a career

Terry Sawchuk holds the NHL record for most shutouts in a career with 103. He played for the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs.