When did NHL go to 82 games?

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In fact, the mark is held by the man who gave up No.7 to Esposito when the Bruins retired his number years later. Hall of Famer Ray Bourque never came close to Esposito’s single-season record (his highest total was 390 shots, in 1995-96). But by firing away for 21 seasons, Bourque retired in 2001 with ownership of the career mark for shots on goal with a whopping 6,266.

That’s an incredible 840 more than the runner-up, Marcel Dionne, who holds the mark for forwards with 5,366. He’s followed by Al MacInnis (5,157), Mike Gartner (5,090), Wayne Gretzky (5,089) and Brendan Shanahan, the leader among players active in 2008-09 with 5,086. They are the only players to exceed 5,000 shots for a career.

Plus signs – Bourque was also an impressive plus-528 during his 21 NHL seasons. But that’s only good enough to be a distant second on the all-time list since the stat was first made official in the 1960s. Hall of Famer Larry Robinson is the runaway leader in career plus-minus at plus-730, a mark that’s not likely to be broken anytime soon.

• Besides Bourque, only Gretzky (plus-518) and Bobby Clarke (plus-506) are more than plus-500 for their careers.
• The active leader is Detroit defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom at plus-409.
• Dallas’ Jere Lehtinen is next at plus-159.
• Robinson’s 1976-77 season, in which he was plus-120 for a Montreal team that lost only eight games, is one of two in which a player was more than plus-100 for a full season.

Bobby Orr holds the record with a plus-124 rating in 1970-71. Working overtime – For a couple seasons in the early 1990s, the NHL played an 84-game schedule – 41 home games, 41 away games and two “neutral-site” contests that were played in non-NHL cities.

• The League returned to the 82-game schedule in 1995-96, but not before leaving two men holding a record that will be tough to break unless the schedule gets longer.
• In 1992-93, center Jimmy Carson was traded from Detroit to Los Angeles and wound up setting an NHL record by playing in 86 games.
• The mark was tied in 1993-94 when forward Bob Kudelski split the season between Ottawa (42 games) and Florida (44).

Five players – Bill Guerin, Glenn Anderson, Mark Lamb, Rem Murray and Joe Reekie – are next with 85. Guerin (2000-01) and Murray (2002-03) have played in the most games since the schedule reverted to 82 games. Where did he find the time? – Players who pile up lots of penalty minutes are rarely big scorers – among the 15 most-penalized players in 2008-09, only St.

Louis’ David Backes (31) had more than 20 goals. Nor do today’s players pile up penalty minutes at the rate their predecessors in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s did. Daniel Carcillo, who split the season between Phoenix and Philadelphia, led the NHL in ’08-09 with 254 PIM – and was the only player to exceed 200.

He scored three goals. That’s what makes Al Secord’s performance in 1981-82 all the more remarkable. Secord scored 44 goals in ’81-82, and did it while spending 303 minutes in the penalty box. Secord is the only player to score more than 40 goals and spend more than 300 minutes in the box in the same season.

Dave “Tiger” Williams (35 goals and 343 PIM with Vancouver in 1980-81) is the only other player to score 30 or more goals while spending 300+ minutes in the box. Secord must have learned something about the value of staying out of the box. In 1982-83, he cut his penalty minutes to 180 – and boosted his goal total to 54.

Right place, right time – There have been 85 seasons in NHL history in which a player has scored 10 or more game-winning goals (the single-season record for game-winners is 16, accomplished by Boston’s Phil Esposito in 1970-71 and 1971-72 and matched by Quebec’s Michel Goulet in 1983-84). Firing blanks – Through 2008-09, nearly 1,300 non-goalies have skated in at least one NHL regular-season game without scoring a goal. None had as many chances as Steven Halko, a defenseman who played parts of six seasons with the Carolina Hurricanes from 1997-98 through 2002-03.

Halko had 15 assists in his 155 NHL regular-season games, but never managed to score a goal. That’s the most games played by anyone in NHL history without scoring at least once. Halko was no longer a Hurricane in 2003-04 when Carolina called up a defenseman named Brad Fast for his lone NHL appearance.

Fast made the most of his chance, scoring a goal before being sent back to the minors. He’s one of three players who’ve played only one NHL game and scored a goal – the others are center Rolly Huard (Toronto, 1930-31) and defenseman Dean Morton (Detroit, 1989-90).

Why is NHL season 82 games?

In a typical NHL season, each team plays 82 games. But why? Why not 60? Or 90? Why such an odd number? The answer is twofold. First, 82 games provides a good balance between too many and too few games. Secondly, and more importantly, an 82- game schedule ensures that every team plays every other team at least once at home and once on the road.60 games would be too few – teams would play each other too often, leading to more lopsided results and less excitement.

On the other hand, 90 games would be too many – players would get burnt out, and fans would get bored.82 games is just the right amount. It’s also important that every team plays every other team both at home and on the road. Home-ice advantage is a real thing, and it would be unfair to teams if some got to play more games at home than others.

By ensuring that each team plays every other team an equal number of times at home and on the road, the NHL creates a level playing field. So there you have it: 82 games provides the perfect balance of too many and too few, and ensures that every team has an equal chance to win.

How many games are in a NHL regular season?

But to answer your question there are 82 games in an NHL regular season.

Why did the NHL play 84 games?

Sources: NHL considering 84-game regular-season schedule

• The NHL has discussed expanding its regular season from 82 to 84 games in an effort to create more regional rivalry matchups, sources confirmed to ESPN.
• The league has been considering alternatives to its current schedule after some teams complained about an imbalanced number of divisional games against rivals.
• Currently, each team plays either three or four games against divisional opponents, for a total of 26 games; they play three games against nondivisional teams within their own conference, for a total of 24 games; and they play two games, home and away, against opponents from the other conference for a total of 32 games.

In the Metropolitan Division, for example, the play the rival and only three times each. The Rangers’ Dec.22 game against the Islanders is the last time the teams will meet in the 2022-23 regular season. The addition of two regular-season games would allow the NHL to keep its current schedule format, which sees every team visit every opponent at least once, while giving divisional rivals four games against each other every season.

One theory is that the preseason schedule could be shortened to compensate for the additional games. Games against divisional rivals typically draw larger crowds and bigger audiences on national and local television. “They could play Calgary in Edmonton 10 times and sell them all out. It’s crazy,” said one NHL general manager.

Expansion of the regular season to 84 games is in the discussion stage. The topic wasn’t mentioned at this week’s board of governors meeting in Palm Beach, Florida, but is expected to be discussed at the general managers’ meeting in March 2023.

1. Although NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has steadfastly opposed adding teams to the Stanley Cup playoffs, a source tells ESPN that Bettman might consider expanding the regular season.
2. “I think it’s really the simplest way to go,” said the NHL source.
3. The NHL previously had an 84-game regular season 1992-94, when the league and the NHLPA agreed to add two “neutral site” games to every team’s schedule.

Expanding the regular season is just one solution being considered to add more rivalry games to the schedule. At their meeting in Toronto last month, the NHL’s general managers discussed how to create a schedule that reduces travel and adds more rivalry games – including playing multiple games against an opponent on a road trip, something the NHL implemented during its 2020-21 season, which was limited to 56 games due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

1. The discussion centered around the fact that, for example, Edmonton only plays Calgary this season,” one general manager told ESPN.
2. Why not take advantage of rivalries and save money by scheduling more intradivisional games and more games per stop? The COVID schedule seemed to work.” Sportico first reported on the discussions at the Toronto meeting.

The NHL declined to comment. Any changes to the schedule would need NHLPA approval. Regarding the 84-game season, the CBA restricts teams from playing more than 82 games, so any potential increase would require the players’ approval. : Sources: NHL considering 84-game regular-season schedule

Did NHL always play 82 games?

Regular season – Since the 1995–96 season, each team in the NHL plays 82 regular season games, 41 each of home and road. In all, 1,312 games are scheduled (512 of them inter-conference). For the 2021–22 season the NHL regular season formula was adjusted to account for the addition of the Seattle Kraken,

• Each team plays either three or four games against the other teams in its division (a total of 26 games) as well as playing all non-divisional teams in their own conference three times (24 games).
• The remaining games of the season are inter-conference play (32 games), allowing every team in the league to play every other team twice.

The schedule is structured so that every NHL team plays in every arena at least once per season, which also include regular season games played outside North America and games played in outdoor stadiums, Each team has a mandatory bye week near the midpoint of the season, during which no regular season games take place.

1. The NHL All-Star Game and its accompanying festivities typically occur during the bye week.
2. From 1998 to 2014, every four years in lieu of an All-Star break, there was a break for the Winter Olympic Games,
3. However, the NHL prohibited players from participation in the 2018 Olympics and the 2022 Olympics,

The league also schedules a three-day Christmas break (since 1971) when no regular season games are played on either Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Games are not played on December 26 unless it falls on a Saturday, in which case no games would be played on December 23.

1. The NHL also has a holiday roster freeze between December 18 and 27, in which in most cases, players cannot be traded, waived, or sent to the minor leagues.
2. On the day of the Super Bowl (second Sunday of February), the league avoids scheduling any games that night, and will either have a blank slate that day or have a few afternoon games, usually starting no later than 3:00 p.m.

EST. Two points are awarded for a win (including in overtime or shootout), one point for a loss in overtime or shootout, and no points for a loss in regulation time. If, however, a team pulls their goaltender for an extra attacker during overtime and gives up an empty net goal, the point normally awarded for losing in overtime is forfeited.

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Has anyone played 84 games in a season?

I was playing NBA 2k16’s MyCareer gamemode and I just won MVP (again) in 2020. Looking at my stats, I noticed something. Not that I averaged a 42 point triple double, but that I didn’t play 82 games that season. In fact, I played 83. At first I was confused but I quickly realized how this occurred.

I started the season playing for OKC but I requested a trade to Portland. The timing of the trade resulted in me playing more games than one team plays in an NBA regular season (82 games). For example if a player was on Team A and Team A faced Team B in the NBA regular season opener, that player would have one game played.

Directly after the game, he was traded to Team C, who didn’t play their season opener yet. The player played all 82 games for Team C and would end the season with 83 games played. I was curious and decided to check basketball-reference to see if this has happened before.

And if so, how often? 41 players since 1946 have played over 82 games in an NBA season.20 of them played 83 games, 19 played 84, 6 played 85, 2 played 86, 1 played 87, and Hall of Famer Walt Bellamy played a whopping 88 games in the 1968 season. Playing 83 games in a season is unlikely but possible. However, how the hell did Walt Bellamy manage to play 88 games? In 1968, Bellamy played for the Knicks and played 35 games before being traded to the Detroit Pistons*.

At the point of the trade, the Knicks had played 6 more games than the Pistons. Naturally, the Pistons had to make up those games and after playing all 53 games for Detroit, Bellamy finished the season with 88 total games played. Is it possible that this record will ever be broken? No, not really.

1. Back then, the NBA didn’t have charted flights and the schedule were unbalanced to account for travel.
2. I don’t believe that in today’s league a team would have 6 more games played than another team, although I could be wrong.
3. Between the 1977-78 season and the 2016-2017 season, the most games played by a single player was 85 games played, which occurred three times (Shareef Abdur-Rahim 2003-2004, Theo Ratliff 2003-2004, Chris Gatling 1999-2000).

No player has played over 83 games since Casey Jacobson in the 2004-2005 season. Since then, only three players played over 82 games, all of which are active. Jarrett Jack, Ramon Sessions and most recently Josh Smith in the 2014-2015 season. Anyway, should this record be mentioned when people discuss the most unbreakable records in sports? 88 games played in an 82 game season? Maybe it should.

Why is 0 banned in NHL?

0 or 00 (both of which have been used in the past but play havoc with the NHL’s player stats database) Any number higher than 99 ( because three-digit numbers are considered hard to read, Decimals (e.g.9.5) or fractions (e.g.4 1/2).

Why isn t NHL as popular?

Hockey’s biggest stage isn’t as big as it used to be – The National Hockey League (NHL) has seen a decline in viewership in recent years. One reason for the decline in viewership may be the lack of a national broadcast deal in the United States. Currently, games are split between several different networks, making it harder for fans to access and follow their favourite teams.

Additionally, the start times of games tend to be later in the evening, which can be a deterrent for some viewers. Another factor that may contribute to the decline in viewership is the saturation of live sports on television. The NHL might be getting lost in the shuffle because sports fans have so many options to choose from.

Whatever the real reason for the decline may be, it is obviously very concerning. The good news is, that even though people are watching less, they are actually playing more

Did the NHL have an 84-game season?

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The NHL has discussed expanding its regular season from 82 to 84 games in an effort to create more regional rivalry matchups, sources confirmed to ESPN. The league has been considering alternatives to its current schedule after some teams complained about an imbalanced number of divisional games against rivals.

Currently, each team plays either three or four games against divisional opponents, for a total of 26 games; they play three games against nondivisional teams within their own conference, for a total of 24 games; and they play two games, home and away, against opponents from the other conference for a total of 32 games.

In the Metropolitan Division, for example, the New York Rangers play the rival New York Islanders and Philadelphia Flyers only three times each. The Rangers’ Dec.22 game against the Islanders is the last time the teams will meet in the 2022-23 regular season.

• The addition of two regular-season games would allow the NHL to keep its current schedule format, which sees every team visit every opponent at least once, while giving divisional rivals four games against each other every season.
• One theory is that the preseason schedule could be shortened to compensate for the additional games.

Games against divisional rivals typically draw larger crowds and bigger audiences on national and local television. “They could play Calgary in Edmonton 10 times and sell them all out. It’s crazy,” said one NHL general manager. Expansion of the regular season to 84 games is in the discussion stage.

The topic wasn’t mentioned at this week’s board of governors meeting in Palm Beach, Florida, but is expected to be discussed at the general managers’ meeting in March 2023. Although NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has steadfastly opposed adding teams to the Stanley Cup playoffs, a source tells ESPN that Bettman might consider expanding the regular season.

“I think it’s really the simplest way to go,” said the NHL source. The NHL previously had an 84-game regular season 1992-94, when the league and the NHLPA agreed to add two “neutral site” games to every team’s schedule. Expanding the regular season is just one solution being considered to add more rivalry games to the schedule.

At their meeting in Toronto last month, the NHL’s general managers discussed how to create a schedule that reduces travel and adds more rivalry games – including playing multiple games against an opponent on a road trip, something the NHL implemented during its 2020-21 season, which was limited to 56 games due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The discussion centered around the fact that, for example, Edmonton only plays Calgary this season,” one general manager told ESPN. “Why not take advantage of rivalries and save money by scheduling more intradivisional games and more games per stop? The COVID schedule seemed to work.” Sportico first reported on the discussions at the Toronto meeting.

Do they play all 7 games in NHL?

Traditions and trends – Compared to other major professional sports leagues, playoff upsets are relatively common in the NHL. According to NHL broadcaster Darren Eliot, this is because the style of competition in the playoffs is different from the regular season: instead of playing different teams every night, the goal is to advance through four best-of-seven playoff series,

The Presidents’ Trophy winner may have to go through other playoff clubs who might have a better goaltender, a better defensive team, or other players that pose matchup problems. If the regular season champion’s primary success was only outscoring others, they may be out of luck facing goaltenders that can shut them out.

For the first time, during the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs, all division winners were eliminated in the first round, which also saw the first instance that a Presidents’ Trophy winner was swept 4–0 in the opening round. And although rare, another aspect is that the NHL leads the other leagues in game seven comebacks,

• In four instances an NHL team has been able to come back from being down 0–3 to win a seven-game series: the 1941–42 Toronto Maple Leafs, the 1974–75 New York Islanders, the 2009–10 Philadelphia Flyers, and the 2013–14 Los Angeles Kings,
• There has been only one such “reverse sweep” comeback in MLB postseason (the 2004 Boston Red Sox ) and none in the NBA playoffs,

It is the reality of the sport. If your particular strength happens to be that you’re really good offensively, and you come up against a hot goaltender and a team that is stout defensively, it might not matter that you were good on a nightly basis scoring goals.

1. And that one particular opponent: you’ll have to beat them four times.
2. NHL broadcaster Darren Eliot explaining the lack of success of Presidents’ Trophy winners winning the Stanley Cup.
3. Despite having more American-based teams than Canadian-based ones throughout much of the NHL’s existence (dating back to the Original Six era when it was two Canadian clubs to four American ones, and now 7 to 25 since 2021), there have been only two times in league history where none of the Canadian teams qualified for the postseason: 1970 and 2016,

However, the 1992–93 Montreal Canadiens remain the last Canadian club to win the Stanley Cup, as of 2022. The Stanley Cup playoffs MVP award, the Conn Smythe Trophy is based on the entire NHL postseason instead of just the championship game or series, unlike the playoff MVP awards presented in the other major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada (the Super Bowl MVP, the NBA Finals MVP, and the World Series MVP ), although in its history the trophy has never been given to someone that was not in the finals.

• Doug Gilmour and Peter Forsberg, in 1986 and 1999, respectively, are the only players who have topped the postseason in scoring without making it to the Finals.
• NHL players have often grown beards when their team is in the playoffs, where they do not shave until their team is eliminated or wins the Stanley Cup.

The tradition was started in the 1980s by the New York Islanders, and is often mirrored by the fans, as well. At the conclusion of a playoff series, players and coaches line up and exchange handshakes with their counterparts on the opposing team, and this has been described by commentators as “one of the great traditions in sports”.

However, there have been rare occasions that individual players have refused to participate, such as Gerry Cheevers who left the ice without shaking hands with any of the Flyers in 1978, and Billy Smith who avoided handshakes as he was particularly passionate about losses. More recent examples of players refusing the handshake include the 1996 playoffs when several Detroit Red Wings players protested the dirty hit by the Colorado Avalanche ‘s Claude Lemieux, and in the 2008 playoffs when Martin Brodeur refused to shake Sean Avery ‘s hand after Avery screened him in an earlier game.

It is common among players to never touch or hoist the Prince of Wales Trophy ( Eastern Conference champion) or Clarence S. Campbell Bowl ( Western Conference champion) after they have won the conference finals ; the players feel that the Stanley Cup is the true championship trophy and thus it should be the only trophy that they should be hoisting.

However, there have been many exceptions to this.19 of the conference champions since 1997 have touched the trophy, of which 8 teams went on to win the Stanley Cup – Scott Stevens of the Devils in 2000 and 2003; Sidney Crosby of the Penguins in 2009, 2016, and 2017; Alexander Ovechkin of the Capitals in 2018; and Steven Stamkos of the Lightning in 2020.

In recent years, the captain of the winning team poses (usually looking solemn) with the conference trophy, and sometimes, the entire team poses as well. There are many traditions and anecdotes associated with the championship trophy, the Stanley Cup,

How long is a full NHL season?

Regular season – The league returned to its normal October-to-April, 82-game regular season. The entire schedule was released on July 22, with October 12 planned for opening night.

Who has most goals in NHL history?

500-goal scorers – Wayne Gretzky is the NHL’s all-time leading goal scorer. Alexander Ovechkin is the active leader in goalscoring and second all time. List of members updated as of April 13, 2023. Goals and games played of active players may not be current. Legend Rank – Ranking on all-time goals list Goals – Career regular season goals With team – Team for which the player scored their 500th goal Game no.

Why is 99 banned from NHL?

Certain numbers are synonymous with certain players. When you think of the #23 you think of Michael Jordan and when you think of #99 you think of Wayne Gretzky. Has anybody else worn #99 in hockey? Can you wear #99 in the NHL? No, you cannot wear the number 99 in the NHL.

Why Gretzky 99?

Early years – Wayne Douglas Gretzky was born on January 26, 1961, in Brantford, Ontario, the son of Phyllis Leone (Hockin) and Walter Gretzky, The couple married in 1960, and lived in an apartment in Brantford, where Walter worked for Bell Telephone Canada,

The family moved into a house on Varadi Avenue in Brantford seven months after Wayne was born, chosen partly because its yard was flat enough to make an ice rink in winter. Wayne was joined by a sister, Kim (born 1963), and brothers Keith, Glen and Brent, The family regularly visited the farm of Wayne’s grandparents, Tony and Mary, and watched Hockey Night in Canada together.

By age two, Wayne was trying to score goals against Mary using a souvenir stick. The farm was where Wayne skated on ice for the first time, aged two years, 10 months. Gretzky’s first pair of skates at the Hockey Hall of Fame, worn when he was three years old Walter taught Wayne, Keith, Brent, Glen and their friends hockey on a rink he made in the back yard of the family home, nicknamed the “Wally Coliseum”. Drills included skating around Javex bleach bottles and tin cans, and flipping pucks over scattered hockey sticks to be able to pick up the puck again in full flight.

Additionally, Walter gave the advice to “skate where the puck’s going, not where it’s been”. Wayne was a classic prodigy whose extraordinary skills made him the target of jealous parents. The team Gretzky played on at age six was otherwise composed of 10-year-olds. His first coach, Dick Martin, remarked that he handled the puck better than the 10-year-olds.

According to Martin, “Wayne was so good that you could have a boy of your own who was a tremendous hockey player, and he’d get overlooked because of what the Gretzky kid was doing.” The sweaters for 10-year-olds were far too large for Gretzky, who coped by tucking the sweater into his pants on the right side.

1. Gretzky continued doing this throughout his NHL career.
2. By age 10, Gretzky had scored an astonishing 378 goals and 139 assists in just one season with the Brantford Nadrofsky Steelers.
3. His play attracted media attention beyond his hometown of Brantford, including a profile by John Iaboni in the Toronto Telegram in October 1971.

In the 1974 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament, Gretzky scored 26 points playing for Brantford. By age 13, he had scored over 1,000 goals. His play attracted considerable negative attention from other players’ parents, including those of his teammates, and he was often booed.

According to Walter, the “capper” was being booed on “Brantford Day” at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens in February 1975. When Gretzky was 14, his family arranged for him to move to and play hockey in Toronto, partly to further his career, and partly to remove him from the uncomfortable pressure he faced in his hometown.

The Gretzkys had to legally challenge the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association to win Wayne the right to play in a different area, which was disallowed at the time. The Gretzkys won, and Wayne played Junior B hockey with the Toronto Nationals, in a league that included 20-year-olds.

He earned Rookie of the Year honours in the Metro Junior B Hockey League in 1975–76, with 60 points in 28 games. The following year, as a 15–16-year-old, he had 72 points in 32 games with the same team, renamed the Seneca Nationals. Despite his offensive statistics—scoring 132 points in 60 games in Junior B —two teams bypassed him in the 1977 Ontario Major Junior Hockey League draft of 16-year-olds.

The Oshawa Generals picked Tom McCarthy first, and the Niagara Falls Flyers picked Steve Peters second overall. With the third pick, the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds selected Gretzky, even though Walter Gretzky had told the team Wayne would not move to Sault Ste.

• Marie, a northern Ontario city that inflicts a heavy travelling schedule on its junior team.
• The Gretzkys made an arrangement with a local family they knew and Wayne played for the Greyhounds, at age 16.
• It was with the Greyhounds that Gretzky first wore the number 99 on his jersey.
• He originally wanted to wear number 9—for his hockey hero Gordie Howe —but it was already being worn by teammate Brian Gualazzi.

At coach Muzz MacPherson ‘s suggestion, Gretzky settled on 99.

Why is NHL scoring so high?

For years, scoring in the NHL has been steadily increasing, Teams are now averaging over 3 goals per game, something that hadn’t been done since the early 1990s. The low point was in 2003-2004 when the average was 2.57/game. The question is “why are teams scoring more?” There have been quite a few theories posited as to why goal scoring has been on the rise:

RULE CHANGES & ENFORCEMENT – With the introduction of the salary cap post 2004 lockout, you would expect that teams would be more even and struggle to create against equally as talented rosters. Through the 1990s and early 2000s, the game was relatively slow and lethargic. Defensive hockey was the standard. But starting in the 2005-2006 season, obstruction-related penalties like holding, hooking, cross-checking, etc. were called more closely and there were further rule changes geared toward opening the game up to more skill. MORE SKILL – With less-talented players unable to make up for their deficit by holding, hooking, etc., teams suddenly found themselves with three (or sometimes four) lines that are able to contribute offensively. Looking around the NHL today, you can find plenty of 20-goal scorers even on a team’s third line. LEAGUE EXPANSION – Every expansion dilutes the existing talent base. Given expansion has happened slowly and there are more talented players than ever, this is an unlikely answer, but a theory, nonetheless. MORE POWER PLAYS – Coming out of the 2004-05 lockout, there were way more penalties as the rulebook was called more strictly. But in recent years, the data doesn’t support this, as there have been fewer power plays per game. BETTER POWER PLAYS – While power plays have been decreased per game, power play efficiency has been increasing. Teams were successful around 15-18% of the time and now are successful around 20-23% of the time. MORE OT GOALS – NHL games go to overtime roughly a quarter of the time. Since changing to 3v3 overtime, about half of those games end in overtime instead of a shootout. MORE HIGH DANGER CHANCES – An uptick in high-danger shot attempts can be attributed to the analytics movement. According to data from NaturalStatTrick.com, this season has produced 8.97 high-danger shot attempts per game (20.0% of all shot attempts are from high-danger areas). SHOOTERS CATCHING UP – It’d be easy to say that save percentage dropped after decreasing goalie’s equipment size in 2005, but in fact NHL save percentage peaked in the 2015-16 at 92.5%. While goalies were early adopters when it came to working with specialty coaches, players are increasingly using them. Today, a save percentage above 90% is considered more than serviceable. BETTER TECHNOLOGY – Players have better access to advanced technology, mainly hockey sticks. Gone are the days where a few players hung on to their wooden hockey sticks. Now every player on an NHL roster has a dangerous shot. HIGHLY INVOLVED DEFENSEMEN – While many of these ideas and theories likely have merit, the only one that I’ve been able to find consistent research on showing causation of the increased usage of defensemen being more active in offense creation and scoring more. Top defensemen now are routinely breaking a point per game.

Friend of the Hockey IQ Newsletter, Will Scouch, did research into defensemen scoring rates. This data illustrates the changes in various production metrics since the 2012 lockout. All the data is 5v5 for players with significant ice time. It entails goals, primary assists, points, and individual shot attempts. Note – Will recently started a substack.

• He is an expert on NHL draft eligible prospects.
• If you’re into that then you should subscribe immediately,
• It’s not even limited to those types of ultra-skilled players.
• Most teams give their defensemen permission to take the reins and join the attack.
• Modern hockey has defensemen consistently joining the attack like Roman Josi and Cale Makar,

There are far fewer top defensemen looking like bruisers that resemble Scott Stevens. My best guess is that after calling the rulebook more closely, there were more mobile defensemen joining and succeeding in the NHL. Defensemen were used more traditionally and it wasn’t until more recently that they were unleashed in ways that truly leaned into their skillsets.

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Can NHL still fight?

The fight-filled ’80s – By the 1980s, just about every team looks like those mid-’70s Flyers, with multiple enforcers whose main role is to drop the gloves. The theory espoused by guys like McCarty and Chase — that fear and intimidation is required to keep the game safer — largely rules the day.

• Fighting is at an all-time high, with the league averaging more than one fight per game.
• Through much of the decade, bench-clearing brawls are common.
• That changes in 1987, after a wild pregame brawl between the Flyers and Canadiens leads to the NHL instituting harsh suspensions.
• Still, the one-on-one fights continue.

Many of those fighters can also contribute in other areas, but the enforcer role becomes more specialized. Even rookies know they need to establish a reputation quickly, and it isn’t rare to see the same players square off multiple times in a game. Current Blues coach and journeyman enforcer Craig Berube, on racking up two fights and 26 PIM in his NHL debut : My first NHL game, I was definitely going to make sure I got noticed.

1. Probably went a little overboard.
2. But I wanted to get everybody’s attention.
3. Evason: Dale Hunter and I fought three times in one period,
4. We were checking their line and he was pissed off.
5. And when we came out we were both still mad, so we fought again.
6. And the third was a mutual — well, we might as well get this over with.

Current Wild forward Ryan Reaves, who has 80 career NHL fights : Back then there was brawlers that didn’t really care if they got punched. I’d rather not get punched in the face, so I try to protect myself a little bit more. Ryan Carter, a nine-year NHL veteran who had 25 fights : Ryan Reaves in today’s game, he’d have been a middleweight back in the day.

Evason: There used to be guys who sat on the bench and played one shift. That makes no sense. Berube on his first meeting with legendary Red Wings enforcer Bob Probert: That game was not long after my first game. It was at the Spectrum. I fought Probert, then I fought (Joey) Kocur. And I went to Detroit a day later, we played them again, I fought Probert two more times.

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What is the longest NHL game ever?

Detroit Red Wings 1, Montreal Maroons 0 (6 OT) – Return to menu 1936 Stanley Cup semifinals We have to go back 87 years for the longest game in NHL history, which mercifully ended when Detroit’s Mud Bruneteau scored at 16:30 of the sixth overtime. With 116:30 of overtime, the teams nearly played the equivalent of three full games, beginning on March 24 and ending around 2:30 a.m.

Has there ever been a 0 0 in NHL?

In the NHL, there have been 41 games tied 0-0 after overtime since the introduction of the shootout in 2005 (meaning they would have been recorded as a 0-0 tie in the past), which is 0.25% of games. And there have been 189 0-0 ties in history (dating back to 1924),

There have been 122 games that were 0-0 after regulation only to be ended in overtime (not a shootout), This gives 352 total 0-0 games after regulation. Note that this is just regular season, and not playoffs. In the NFL, there have only been two 0-0 games, The last one occurred in 1943. I couldn’t find any other games that went into overtime tied 0-0 (checked each box score individually), either, which surprises me.

Those 0-0 ties were Detroit against the Chicago Cardinals, and Detroit again against the NY Giants. For the MLB, I was able to find at least 620 games that were tied 0-0 after 9 innings by looking up games where that took extra innings and the losing team had 0 runs.

There appear to be a handful every year by changing the dates. I am not a subscriber, so I cannot verify the total or see more games. This also does not take into account games that were tied 0-0 after 9 innings where the losing team managed at least 1 runs, so there are more. In the top 4 tiers of English soccer, from 1888 through 2014, 13,475 games (7.2% of matches) ended 0-0,

Seems like it’s nearly impossible in the NFL, not too uncommon in the NHL, very common in the MLB, and almost weekly in English soccer.

Has there ever been a 7 hit game?

Crawford sets Giants record with 7 hits MIAMI – did something no player has done in 41 years Monday night. The Giants’ shortstop recorded seven hits, tying a National League record for hits in a game, in San Francisco’s over the Marlins at Marlins Park.To put the feat in perspective, only five players since 1913 have managed to reach the seven-hit mark.

The last to do so was Pittsburgh’s Rennie Stennett in a nine-inning game against the Cubs in 1975.”It doesn’t happen very often that you get eight at-bats in a game,” Crawford said. “I figured probably didn’t happen a whole lot. You don’t think about stuff like that when you’re playing.”Before Crawford and Stennett, the other three players to have at least seven hits since 1913 were Detroit’s Cesar Gutierrez in 1970, Detroit’s Rocky Colavito in 1962 and Cleveland’s Johnny Burnett, who logged nine hits, in 1932.The NL record Crawford tied included Stennett and Baltimore’s Wilbert Robinson, who notched seven hits in 1892.Even more, Crawford set a franchise record with his seven-hit performance.

Considering the Giants have existed for 134 years and have numerous players enshrined in Cooperstown, he was amazed.”It’s crazy to me,” Crawford said. “The history of the Giants with all the great players that have come through here you would think that someone would push across seven hits in one day.

1. That’s pretty crazy to be in that small company.”The franchise’s previous record was six hits in a single game, done eight times in its history.
2. The last to do so was Mike Benjamin in 1995, followed by Jesus Alou (1964), Frankie Frisch (1924), Dave Bancroft (1920), Kip Selbach (1901), George Davis (1895), Jack Glasscock (1890) and Danny Richardson (1887).Crawford actually had more hits Monday than the six he had in his previous 36 at-bats.

But to him, that’s just a part of the game. “I got a couple to drop in and squeak past and then I hit a few balls hard too that found holes,” said Crawford, who was a homer shy of hitting for the cycle. “I felt good. That’s just baseball. One day you feel like you can’t square anything up and the next day you get a couple that squeak through and you barrel a couple up.” : Crawford sets Giants record with 7 hits

Who has the most 70 point games in a season?

Wilt Chamberlain has the most games with 70+ points in a season, with 3 games in 1962-63 and in 1961-62.

When did the NHL switch to 80 games?

NHL League Size And Regular Season Length

Was the NHL ever 84 games?

How Many Games Did The National Hockey League Play? – Source: gannett-cdn.com The National Hockey League (NHL) played 1,230 games in the 2019-20 season. This was down from the 1,271 games played in the 2018-19 season. The NHL is on pace to play 1,217 games in the 2020-21 season. The Montreal Habs finished the regular season with a 51-19-8 record and won the league’s title.

1. The Montreal captain and future Hall-of-Famer Guy Lafleur set a new career high with 66 points (27 goals and 41 assists) in his first season with the team.
2. Following the Flames were the Atlanta Hawks, who went 47-85-9 for a 487-9 record.
3. The Philadelphia Flyer finished fourth in the league with a 44-29-9 record.

The Habs knocked off the Flames in the first round, and then the Philadelphia Phantoms in the second round. The Habs hosted the Philadelphia 76ers in the conference finals for the second time in three years. The Habs won this time, becoming the first team to repeat as Stanley Cup champions in NHL history.

When did the NHL play 84 games?

Has any NHL player played more than 82 games in a season?

When the NHL was founded in 1917, each team participated in 22 regular season games. That total steadily increased over the next century as a result of teams prioritizing ticket revenue as a major source of income and later on, league expansion. Less than a decade after the inaugural season, teams were regularly playing 44 games and by 1950, that amount had increased to 70.

Multiple eras of expansion saw the schedule further grow in the late 1960’s to early 1970’s with an 80-game regular season introduced in 1974. There was a two-year window in the early 1990’s that saw a record 84 game season before the league settled on the 82-game season we know today. The only deviations from this 82-game format include lockout impacts in 1994, 2004 and 2013 and COVID-19 disruptions in 2019 and 2020.

While each team plays an equal number of games, the path each team takes to get to the finish line varies. Some teams have a compressed schedule in the first half of the year allowing for additional rest time in the second half where other teams have the reverse.

Travel can be another key factor in the schedule composition. If you sort the standings by games played at any point in the season, there is likely a gap between the top and bottom of the list amounting to a handful of games. The 2021-22 season provides an interesting wrinkle: COVID-19 has unevenly disrupted the first half of the league’s schedule.

Some teams have had major schedule interruptions while other teams have only faced minor interference. The result is a much wider distribution of games played than one would expect in a typical season at both ends of the spectrum. As of the morning of January 27th, the gap from the most GP (Anaheim Ducks – 45 GP) to least the GP (New York Islanders – 35 GP) is a staggering difference of ten games.

Compared to this same date in 2020, the last normal season before the pandemic halted the completion of the schedule, the gap between most GP (Vegas Golden Knights – 52 GP) and least GP (Nashville Predators & New York Rangers – 48 GP) was only four games. This staggering range in games played amongst the league begs the question: could the NHL single season games played record be broken this year? In a physically demanding sport, players take pride in dressing for every regular season game.

It takes toughness to play through minor injuries, a committed recovery regime and luck for players to make it through a season unscathed. On average, a handful of players on each team are able to accomplish this feat every season. There is a much rarer accomplishment that should get additional praise: players that play in more games than that season’s schedule accounts for.

How could this be possible? A player starts the season with one team playing in their first X games before getting traded (or loaned in the 1920’s) to a team with fewer than X games played. If the player is able to stay in the lineup for the remainder of the season, they have the opportunity to play bonus games (note: in the modern game this would have no impact to a player’s salary as players are paid on a per day basis rather than a per game basis).

View the Master List of Bonus Games Played Leaders via Google Sheets (please download to edit) This feat has been accomplished a total of 92 times in NHL history throughout every decade of league play going back to the 1920’s. Every skater position is represented on this list – forwards represent 70% and defensemen represent the remaining 30%.

Every type of player is included with the list ranging from Hall of Famers (Ron Francis, Marcel Dionne) to power forwards (Claude Lemieux, Mike Foligno) to the league’s greatest iron men (Keith Yandle, Doug Jarvis). With one lone exception (detailed below), every player was traded from one team to another during the course of the season.

It is possible to transfer from one team to another in other ways (waivers, conditional contract buyouts, etc) but players passed through those means likely aren’t playing in every game of the season anyways. The single season games played record is 86, held by Jimmy Carson (splitting the 1992-93 season between Detroit (52) and Los Angeles (34)) and Bob Kudelski (splitting the 1993-94 season between Ottawa (42) and Florida (44)).

Both players posted those marks in an 84-game regular season, skating in two additional games. Carson and Kudelski benefitted from the longest regular season schedule in league history – to determine the true single season games played record holders, we have to factor in the number of regular season games in a given season.

The adjusted single season games played record is four additional games played, accomplished by two players: Adam Brown played 64 games in 1946-47 (60 game season) for Detroit (22 GP) and Chicago (42 GP) and Ross Lonsberry played 82 games in 1971-72 (78 game season) for Los Angeles (50 GP) and Philadelphia (32 GP).

The number of additional games played broken down by frequency: +4 GP (2 occurrences), +3 GP (8 occurrences), +2 GP (29 occurrences), +1 GP (53 occurrences) These players were traded almost evenly throughout the second half of the season. Number of trades broken down by month: October (3 occurrences), November (11 occurrences), December (17 occurrences), January (15 occurrences), February (22 occurrences), March (22 occurrences), April (3 occurrences) Dmitry Yushkevich is the only player on this list to appear with more than two teams. During the 2002-03 season, he dressed in 83 games across three teams as a result of being traded twice in the same season: Florida (23 GP), Los Angeles (42 GP) and Philadelphia (18 GP) Marty Burke was the only player on this list that wasn’t traded from one team to another. He was loaned from the Montreal Canadians (11 GP) to the Pittsburgh Pirates (35 GP) in 1927 to finish with 46 GP in a 44-game season. He rejoined the Canadians at the beginning of the following season

COVID-19 disruptions have paved the way for the single season games played record to be broken this year. Playing in 86 games (+4 additional games) would tie the absolute and adjusted record and playing in 87 games (+5 additional games) would best both marks.

• One complicating factor is the league’s COVID-19 protocol – a positive test requires the player to quarantine and almost guarantees a short-term absence from the lineup.
• Far fewer players will suit up in every regular season this year, limiting the player pool that could potentially break the record.

Additionally, the window of opportunity will be closing soon as the NHL has repurposed the February Olympic break to reschedule all postponed games. Come March, the league gap in games played will be much smaller, likely in line with previous seasons.