@@timdecoursey287 Don't forget Joe played on a team of 6 players and a goalie so he was on for almost the whole game. The year after he retired the rosters went up to 12 players so everyone's ice time was cut basically in half. But kudos to him for being the only one to do it in his 7 year career under those circumstances of playing 50+ minutes per game.
The fact that Joe Malone was in the Top 15 from 1917 till the '73-'74 season is utterly INSANE given how the game advanced on all fronts in that 55+ year period!
@@nillejoslin a big part is the length of the seasons that they played in, at the start of the league the seasons were only 20 ish games long, and even throughout the Gordie Howe era the seasons were only 70 games long (playoffs are separate stats) so there was a lot less opportunity to score, and in the case of Joe Malone much of his career was played before the NHL was founded and in 126 games he had 143 goals, if you include his time in the NHA as well in 249 games he scored 322 goals
Given Connor McDavid got 64 goals last year, it isn't so out of the question now. Auston Matthews is also on pace for close to 70 this year, and Connor Bedard may yet reach that in a few years, especially if Chicago's rebuild coincides with his peak offensive years :D
Did you mean my comment, or the original one? Haha! He definitely choked last few games of the season, but 69 goals is no joke! And the only multiple 60-goal scorer in the past 30 years or so, not bad!
You should be showing all the top scoring seasons. Gretzky had four seasons over 70 goals. Brett Hull had three seasons with 70+ goals. Lemieux had two seasons with 70+ and two more at 69. I think your top 15 would have ended with Mario Lemieux at 69 goals
Well, Stan Mikita was born in current day Slovakia, but moved to Canada as an 8-year old kid. He learned to play hockey in Canada, has canadian citizenship and represented Team Canada internationally. First true non-canadian in this list is Jari Kurri.
Obviously. Outside of a few real exceptions (Borje Salming, kinda Stan Mikita), NHL was essentially all Canadians until 1980s, when more Americans, Swedes, and Finns began to appear, and especially until 1990s, after the fall of the Iron Curtain. There is nothing especially surprising or exceptional about this fact.
He fought through so many injuries, like 13 surgeries, and losing his wife. He's so underrated and it's a shame he's forgotten about. He could've had maybe 7 or 8 - 50 goal seasons.
Because its human nature to imagine that what you have actually witnessed is more impressive than what you didnt, even if its actually less impressive.
Wayne's 92 goals I think is set in stone ! Hell players have a hard enough time just getting 92 points in a season now ? 200 + point season's , NEVER going to happen , unless they change some rules , PERIOD !
@@mlfoons9571 So, do you think they could stop those scorers back then ? Mario, Steve Y & B. Hull and Wayne , I think NOT . Also the pads look MUCH bigger now days to me for the Goalies ?
A guy named Stan Mikita curved his stick to get a little extra control of the puck and suddenly the goalies needed masks for all the pucks coming in high. That is why the goals exploded in the 1960s and never looked back, RIP Stan, a true Blackhawks legend.
In 1958-59 there were 5.8 goals scored per game. In 63-64 there were 5.5 goals scored and in 68-69 there were 5.97 goals per game which dropped the following season. At which point of the 60's did goals explode?
Let Phil Esposito stand in front of any goalie today, and brush aside 2 or 3 "defensemen", to gain control of the crease....he'd have 100 goals every year.
Oh, gee, why not just go for the obvious: Let any player stand in front of an open net with no opposition... hed have 1,000,000 goals every year. Unless that player was Patrick Stefan!!
Of all those players, only five scored 50 goals in the first 50 games of a season: Richard, Bossy, Gretzky, Lemieux, Hull. A few players came close (e.g. Charlie Simmer, 49 in 50) but it's a very short list, only achieved eight times. Esposito's 1970 season was the first Gretzky-type season ever. It wasn't just 76 goals, he had 76 assists (152 points) in 78 games. Nobody would match that until Gretzky appeared. Reggie Leach's 1975 season is notable for winning the Conn Smythe Trophy (playoffs MVP). Five times the Conn Smythe winner played on the losing team in the Stanley Cup Finals. Leach was the only MVP winner who was NOT a goaltender (19 goals in the playoffs).
@@timmcinnes2594 The NHL played a 70 game season in 1960-1961. Geoffrion scored his fiftieth in the team's 68th game. wikipedia : org/wiki/1960%E2%80%9361_NHL_season hockey reference : com/teams/MTL/1961_games.html
@@guessundheit6494 You're right. I thought they played 50 games well into the 1960's, until expansion, anyway. I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong.
No one however had ever scored 50 goals in less than 50 games…until Gretzky came along. And then Gretzky goes and does it not just once, but THREE times (in four seasons lol). Gretzky is the only player in NHL history who could make 50 goals in 42 games (in his 1983/84 season) seem like an afterthought (even though no one else has ever even done that before or since).
They played less games. Plus look at who’s up in these stats. No one spent more time in the penalty box the Gordie and he still has 801 goals….. amazing
The same year, Red Kelly had 19 as a defenseman and Gordie had 49 as a winger going into the Wings last game. Near the end of the game, Howe had a clear path to goal but selflessly passed to Kelly so he might get his 20th. Sadly, Kelly was unable to convert and they both fell short!
It's kind of weird. The list isn't the top seasons of all time. For example, Gretzky not only had a 92 goal season, but also an 87 goal season, which doesn't show up here. So it shows just one season per player. If a player beats their best season, the year changes and their bar grows, rather than having a second bar show up.
@@dannycarlow8204 players with over 85 assists in a season :50+ players, players with over 85 goals in a season: 2 players. So, no, your statement is demonstratably false. Goal scorers are rarer.
If only Mario could have a played a full season when he had 69 goals in only 60 games. It was a 84 games season and he was on pace for the record. Yet another Mario stat to speculate further.
@@hermitsama3701 Yet at the same time, the truth. Just so you know, Wayne was on pace to break his own goals record as well but only scored 87 because he missed 6 games which gave him a gpg of 1.17 where Wayne's record season and Mario's 92-93 season were both 1.15 gpg. But Wayne didn't break his own record so we don't say that he might have if he played all the games because he didn't. He got 87 goals in 74 games and that's it. No whining that he could have gotten more because he didn't. I wish some other player's fans would have the same thoughtfulness.
Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware of that. It's all speculation and that goes in both directions of course. But it's not just about Gretzky being too good for Mario as 66 was on the very same level.
That Gretzky scored less than 8% of the 50 goal seasons in his career and Ovi scored something like 30% of the 50 goal seasons in his career is truly an amazing statistic.
What does that mean? They each have 9 fifty goal seasons. Actually, Ovi has 8 fifty goal seasons and 1 sixty goal season. Wayne has 4 fifty goal seasons, 1 sixty, 2 seventy, 1 eighty and 1 ninety goal season. That seems to be an even more amazing statistic.
@@smorgdonkey So why wasn't Gordie Howe and Bobby Hull scoring more than Gretzky and Lemieux? What exactly made it so much easier for Wayne's era to score than the one before them?
@@dannycarlow8204 because Wayne was a generational player who entered the NHL in the time of a huge expansion and before goal tending was revolutionized. Hull 80. Mogilny and Selanne 76. So many 50+ goal scorers.
@@smorgdonkey Yes, a lot of 50 goal scorers. A lot of great players. More than in this current generation. Why was scoring not affected as much after a six team expansion in 1967 as the four team expansion you're talking about. It mostly only affected one specific team, not the whole league as it did in 1979. From 1998-2000 the league added 4 teams with no spike either.While there were a few 50 goal scorers before 1974, we started to get a lot more when they went to 80 games. If you look at all the 50 goal scorers of the 80's and 90's, most just made it with 50-55 goals. It's not like everyone was scoring 70-80 goals per season. Just a select few, just like 50 goal scorers in the 60's and early 70's. The expansion argument only works if the same rang true for all the major expansions. Gretzky being a generational talent didn't help players from other teams have 50 goal seasons. When exactly would you say the goaltending revolution happened?
People need to approach those kind of records like cinema box office records, aka accounting for inflation. Dont get me wrong, 92 in one season is impressive, but in todays hockey reality even Gretzky in his prime probably wouldnt make it close to that number.
Selänne scoring 76 in his first NHL season isn't talked about enough.
Because he and Mogilny sucked after that season.
@@robloxvids2233 He had an incredible career but okay?
@@naedot.9779 They both did but they didn't live up to the 76 goal years.
@@robloxvids2233 doesn't mean they sucked☠️
He played top level Finnish hockey for 3 seasons before that. And Mogilny that year had 76 in 77 games...
The craziest stat about Joe Malone was that his record of 44 goals was achieved in only 20 games
You should see his game logs for that year. He scored 4+ goals five times that year!
On goalies that were fined 2 dollars if they went down to their knees to try to make a save. An incredible achievement indeed.
On goalies that were fined 2 dollars if they went down to their knees to try to make a save. An incredible achievement indeed.
@@dannycarlow8204 It was such a great achievement that no one else did it for a while. So yes, that's pretty good.
@@timdecoursey287 Don't forget Joe played on a team of 6 players and a goalie so he was on for almost the whole game. The year after he retired the rosters went up to 12 players so everyone's ice time was cut basically in half. But kudos to him for being the only one to do it in his 7 year career under those circumstances of playing 50+ minutes per game.
This isn't actually the 15 best seasons of all time. It's the 15 best without counting 2 seasons by a player. Still an interesting video though. The actual top 15 looks like this.
1. Gretzky - 92
2. Gretzky - 87
3. Brett Hull - 86
4. Lemieux - 85
5. Mogilny - 76
6. Esposito - 76
7. Selanne - 76
8. Gretzky - 73
9. Brett Hull - 72
10. Kurri - 71
11. Gretzky - 71
12. Brett Hull - 70
13. Lemieux - 70
14. Nicholls - 70
15. Lemieux - 69
Good post! Everyone please note that Gretzkys name appears four times in the top ten on this list, and Ovechkins not even once.
The fact that Joe Malone was in the Top 15 from 1917 till the '73-'74 season is utterly INSANE given how the game advanced on all fronts in that 55+ year period!
Looking at Joe Malone’s stats, and thinking about the era he was in, he is up there with Gretzky and Ovechkin for all time greatest scorers
What would make it harder to score in the old days? The fact that Ovechkin is the only active player in the list tells how hard it is nowadays.
@@nillejoslin a big part is the length of the seasons that they played in, at the start of the league the seasons were only 20 ish games long, and even throughout the Gordie Howe era the seasons were only 70 games long (playoffs are separate stats) so there was a lot less opportunity to score, and in the case of Joe Malone much of his career was played before the NHL was founded and in 126 games he had 143 goals, if you include his time in the NHA as well in 249 games he scored 322 goals
@@Mdcusin975 Thanks! That explains your point.
He still holds 2 records. Goals per game & most goals in a game.
Lol Ovi with the Soviet Union flag
aged well
The flag was placed at the place of birth, and it is the Soviet Union.
I can see someone getting into the 60's again even next season, but 70+ isn't happening anytime soon let alone 80 or more.
Given Connor McDavid got 64 goals last year, it isn't so out of the question now. Auston Matthews is also on pace for close to 70 this year, and Connor Bedard may yet reach that in a few years, especially if Chicago's rebuild coincides with his peak offensive years :D
Matthews now at 63 with Toronto having 7 games left, he can definitely do it!
This aged like milk
Did you mean my comment, or the original one? Haha! He definitely choked last few games of the season, but 69 goals is no joke! And the only multiple 60-goal scorer in the past 30 years or so, not bad!
@@lawrencemcstephens308 idk why but when anyone replies to the original comment all the other people that replied will get a notification
You should be showing all the top scoring seasons. Gretzky had four seasons over 70 goals. Brett Hull had three seasons with 70+ goals. Lemieux had two seasons with 70+ and two more at 69. I think your top 15 would have ended with Mario Lemieux at 69 goals
kurri and nichols had 70 plus hmmm???
nowadays goalie equipments are all blocking the hole net
It amazed me that nobody from outside Canada makes the list until 1963
Well, Stan Mikita was born in current day Slovakia, but moved to Canada as an 8-year old kid. He learned to play hockey in Canada, has canadian citizenship and represented Team Canada internationally.
First true non-canadian in this list is Jari Kurri.
Obviously. Outside of a few real exceptions (Borje Salming, kinda Stan Mikita), NHL was essentially all Canadians until 1980s, when more Americans, Swedes, and Finns began to appear, and especially until 1990s, after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
There is nothing especially surprising or exceptional about this fact.
Tim Kerr honorable mention 58 goals/ season twice in his career.
He fought through so many injuries, like 13 surgeries, and losing his wife.
He's so underrated and it's a shame he's forgotten about. He could've had maybe 7 or 8 - 50 goal seasons.
Bure should be here injuries damn
Stan Mikita wasnt Czech but Slovak
He was born on the territory of Czechoslovakia, and the official flag was considered to be exactly the one in the video.
@@Nick_Koreshkov still he was a Slovak player (his father was furious when they talked about him as a Czech player)
Why you got ovecheckin in this pic when he's 10 or more down???
Huh
Because its human nature to imagine that what you have actually witnessed is more impressive than what you didnt, even if its actually less impressive.
but only one was rookie
Wayne's 92 goals I think is set in stone ! Hell players have a hard enough time just getting 92 points in a season now ? 200 + point season's , NEVER going to happen , unless they change some rules , PERIOD !
Yeah because the goalies nowadays can actually tend the goal
@@mlfoons9571 So, do you think they could stop those scorers back then ? Mario, Steve Y & B. Hull and Wayne , I think NOT . Also the pads look MUCH bigger now days to me for the Goalies ?
Or add more games
True, stats were more fun to watch during 80s-90s. NHL would have to ban checking to get those stat totals again 😂🤔
@@robertd.7060 - These young bloods are so convinced about the superiority of today's game....there is so much that they are missing....
I see Ovechkin only made it to #12 overall, and people think he’s the greatest goal scorer of all time????
Esposito: beat that record guys.
Gretzky: hold my beer.
Punch Broadbent and Dit Clapper are the greatest hockey names ever
They should do a porno with Dick Moore
My vote goes to Bronco Horvath -
Demande a Ron, il va le confirmer
Uwe Krupp
Right? And then we have Sprague and Odie Cleghorn, Fred Sasakamoose, Cal Clutterbuck, Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond, the list just goes on....
A guy named Stan Mikita curved his stick to get a little extra control of the puck and suddenly the goalies needed masks for all the pucks coming in high. That is why the goals exploded in the 1960s and never looked back, RIP Stan, a true Blackhawks legend.
In 1958-59 there were 5.8 goals scored per game. In 63-64 there were 5.5 goals scored and in 68-69 there were 5.97 goals per game which dropped the following season. At which point of the 60's did goals explode?
I think that Ovechkin scoring 65 in 2007 is the most impressive.
How tf
Richard's 50 in 50?
Gretzky 92, and 87?
Lemieux getting 69 goals in 60 games after two back operations and having cancer that year?
No. Gretzkys 92 in a season will always be the most impressive until someone beats it...which will likely never happen.
Holy crap! 446 shots that season! You take that many shots on net, some are bound to go in. Kurri had 267 shots scoring 71.
How dare you put Espo in that awful Rangers kit, when he had his best seasons in Boston.
The top players occupied more top spots but you don't show that . Boo.
Only one season/player, not the best season's...
I love that almost all of them are Canadian
What’s with the sinister music
1980- why do I hear boss music?
Let Phil Esposito stand in front of any goalie today, and brush aside 2 or 3 "defensemen", to gain control of the crease....he'd have 100 goals every year.
"Get into the slot, take your lumps, and put it in the net."
Oh, gee, why not just go for the obvious: Let any player stand in front of an open net with no opposition... hed have 1,000,000 goals every year. Unless that player was Patrick Stefan!!
@@pathfinder1273 - Reee-tard
Im 325th like
Of all those players, only five scored 50 goals in the first 50 games of a season: Richard, Bossy, Gretzky, Lemieux, Hull. A few players came close (e.g. Charlie Simmer, 49 in 50) but it's a very short list, only achieved eight times.
Esposito's 1970 season was the first Gretzky-type season ever. It wasn't just 76 goals, he had 76 assists (152 points) in 78 games. Nobody would match that until Gretzky appeared. Reggie Leach's 1975 season is notable for winning the Conn Smythe Trophy (playoffs MVP). Five times the Conn Smythe winner played on the losing team in the Stanley Cup Finals. Leach was the only MVP winner who was NOT a goaltender (19 goals in the playoffs).
What about Boom Boom Geoffrion in 1960? It says he scored 50 goals in what I assume was a 50 game season.
@@timmcinnes2594 The NHL played a 70 game season in 1960-1961. Geoffrion scored his fiftieth in the team's 68th game.
wikipedia : org/wiki/1960%E2%80%9361_NHL_season
hockey reference : com/teams/MTL/1961_games.html
@@guessundheit6494 You're right. I thought they played 50 games well into the 1960's, until expansion, anyway. I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong.
No one however had ever scored 50 goals in less than 50 games…until Gretzky came along. And then Gretzky goes and does it not just once, but THREE times (in four seasons lol). Gretzky is the only player in NHL history who could make 50 goals in 42 games (in his 1983/84 season) seem like an afterthought (even though no one else has ever even done that before or since).
Give an honorable to Neely 50 in 44 (44 games for him but not the team)
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Mikita was Slovak!
It is impressive that from 1917 to 1963 and 1970 to 1983 all of the all-time season goal leaders were canadian! Go Canada!
Stan Mikita with wrong flag man…..unsubsrcibe
that is not a good aplication of this patern, you can also jsut share the last image to get the same effect.
So this list only allows a player to be represented one time. Interesting.
Suppose we don't need the statistics to know that Canadian players rule!
Gordie got so close to 50!
They played less games. Plus look at who’s up in these stats. No one spent more time in the penalty box the Gordie and he still has 801 goals….. amazing
The same year, Red Kelly had 19 as a defenseman and Gordie had 49 as a winger going into the Wings last game. Near the end of the game, Howe had a clear path to goal but selflessly passed to Kelly so he might get his 20th. Sadly, Kelly was unable to convert and they both fell short!
This needs an updated one :D
Why isn't Gretzky's 87 goal season on this list?
Because it's most goals in a season lol
For the life of me, I can't figure out the logic for how the table is moving in this video.
It's kind of weird. The list isn't the top seasons of all time. For example, Gretzky not only had a 92 goal season, but also an 87 goal season, which doesn't show up here. So it shows just one season per player. If a player beats their best season, the year changes and their bar grows, rather than having a second bar show up.
Only one player has scored more goals in a season than Brett Hull.
Garth Butcher.
Yet never had 50 assists in a season.
@@dannycarlow8204 Goal scorers are rarer than assist bean-counters.
@@smithryansmith Great passers are just as rare.
@@dannycarlow8204 players with over 85 assists in a season :50+ players, players with over 85 goals in a season: 2 players. So, no, your statement is demonstratably false. Goal scorers are rarer.
If only Mario could have a played a full season when he had 69 goals in only 60 games. It was a 84 games season and he was on pace for the record. Yet another Mario stat to speculate further.
I always love the Mario comments that start off with "If only". If only Wayne wasn't so good, Mario might have had a chance.
@@dannycarlow8204 if only people wouldn't take "if only" comments too serious ;) still, "might have had a chance"? Sorry but that's bollocks.
@@hermitsama3701 Yet at the same time, the truth. Just so you know, Wayne was on pace to break his own goals record as well but only scored 87 because he missed 6 games which gave him a gpg of 1.17 where Wayne's record season and Mario's 92-93 season were both 1.15 gpg. But Wayne didn't break his own record so we don't say that he might have if he played all the games because he didn't. He got 87 goals in 74 games and that's it. No whining that he could have gotten more because he didn't. I wish some other player's fans would have the same thoughtfulness.
Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware of that. It's all speculation and that goes in both directions of course. But it's not just about Gretzky being too good for Mario as 66 was on the very same level.
@@hermitsama3701 The speculation does not go both ways. The speculation comes from one side only. The other side does not need to speculate.
Jari Kurri and Bernie Nicholls are on that list thanks to Gretzky's passing...
Canada eh
Alex Ovechkin USSR flag? Really?
He was born in the Soviet Union, that's right, that's why the author put such a flag.
@@Nick_Koreshkov Ok. Then why Jagr have Czech flag if he was born in Czechoslovakia?
@@Rybr2 Czechoslovakia's flag was exactly the same as the Czech Republic's flag
@@Rybr2 You are dense
are there even good American hockey players
Dustin Brown was solid for a majority of his career
No. USA sucks.
Mike Modano
Auston Matthews
Is there any good baseball or basketball or football players from Canada????
That Gretzky scored less than 8% of the 50 goal seasons in his career and Ovi scored something like 30% of the 50 goal seasons in his career is truly an amazing statistic.
What does that mean? They each have 9 fifty goal seasons. Actually, Ovi has 8 fifty goal seasons and 1 sixty goal season. Wayne has 4 fifty goal seasons, 1 sixty, 2 seventy, 1 eighty and 1 ninety goal season. That seems to be an even more amazing statistic.
@@dannycarlow8204 It's pretty simple: it means that it was aay easier to score that much back then...many people were scoring 50 in that era.
@@smorgdonkey So why wasn't Gordie Howe and Bobby Hull scoring more than Gretzky and Lemieux? What exactly made it so much easier for Wayne's era to score than the one before them?
@@dannycarlow8204 because Wayne was a generational player who entered the NHL in the time of a huge expansion and before goal tending was revolutionized.
Hull 80. Mogilny and Selanne 76. So many 50+ goal scorers.
@@smorgdonkey Yes, a lot of 50 goal scorers. A lot of great players. More than in this current generation. Why was scoring not affected as much after a six team expansion in 1967 as the four team expansion you're talking about. It mostly only affected one specific team, not the whole league as it did in 1979. From 1998-2000 the league added 4 teams with no spike either.While there were a few 50 goal scorers before 1974, we started to get a lot more when they went to 80 games. If you look at all the 50 goal scorers of the 80's and 90's, most just made it with 50-55 goals. It's not like everyone was scoring 70-80 goals per season. Just a select few, just like 50 goal scorers in the 60's and early 70's. The expansion argument only works if the same rang true for all the major expansions. Gretzky being a generational talent didn't help players from other teams have 50 goal seasons. When exactly would you say the goaltending revolution happened?
This just shows that Hockey is Canada's game!!!!
People need to approach those kind of records like cinema box office records, aka accounting for inflation.
Dont get me wrong, 92 in one season is impressive, but in todays hockey reality even Gretzky in his prime probably wouldnt make it close to that number.
Woulda, shoulda, coulda... pure bullshit, buddy. He excelled at exceeding expectations at every stage of his career.