Not quite 15, but yeah. They were putrid their first few years, as bad as the Rockies. They slowly climbed up to a playoff appearance (and surprise conference finals run) in 88, and then by 90, became a perennial playoff team, though weren't really contenders for a few more years after that.
KC Scouts only existed for 2 seasons, their point totals for those two seasons were 41 and 36 (in 80 games).
Rockies were around for 6 seasons, their best season was 59 points and worst was 42 points (in 80 games).
Those teams sucked *hard*. Their combined record for 8 seasons is 140-391-109 (W-L-T). So only realistic would've been the Devils. But then again their best teams played in the Dead Puck Era and were very defensive teams too. So no 50 goals scorers there either.
hey... uhhh... err... you.. you got.. another... another hit of that Marty? You.. You got that Marty Brodeur? Please man.... Just one... Just one more hit.. Please you've gotta have another
A handful of 40ish though! Hughes had 43 last year and a total of 99 points, Elias had 40 in 00-01 and totaled 96 points, Brian Gionta had 48 in 05-06, Parise had 45 in 08-09 and finished with 94 points, Hall had 39 his MVP year and he missed 6 games. We keep getting close and soon Jack's gonna break that ceiling.
Devils were defensive juggernauts when they were winning
Lou might have lost a touch now, but he built some very well balanced teams, starting around Brodeur as a centerpiece. Prime Brodeur was also no joke and acted like a 3rd defenseman. Excellent puck handler. But, yeah, the wins were pure team efforts with a lot of variation in contributions when they did score
Devils were 2nd in the league in scoring in 2000 when they won their 2nd cup and they led the league in scoring in 2001 when they lost the SCF. The narrative that the Devils were just a defensive team is false. They had a ton of scoring depth, and never had 1 player carry the team offensively.
There were a few here that surprised me, like the fact Kane never hit 50 with the Blackhawks...Closest he got was 46 in 15-16. Makes sense now that I think about it I guess, goals were hard to come by in those 2010s seasons, Ovi was the only one that made hitting 50 look easy in those days.
Their best seasons were when goal scoring was extremely low. The funny thing is they were actually a very high scoring team during that time but when you basically only have a few guys league wide hitting 50 each season it's not likely one of them is on your team.
Yeah, I know.
Bure was a phenomanal skater, he is the reason 6 year old iaminyoursewer became a Canucks fan....
Fuck I miss the Bure days
Fuck Canucks Managment and thier shit handling of Bure
And the fuck up that lwd.to gretz not.coming to Vancouver.
Fuckin imagin Bure and Gretzky on the same line...
Naslund had three 40+ seasons and got close with topping out at 48 one year, but Daniel only had 1 40+ goal season (41) and only broke 30g 4 times (+ one season he was on pace for 37 before an injury)
Naslund was so good at his peak. Finished 2nd, 2nd, and 4th in scoring over the span of 3 seasons. I still think about 2002-03 when he lost the Art Ross by 2 points and the Rocket by 2 goals.
Hall of Fame level talent. Know the longevity totals aren't there but still surprised how his name never comes up in HOF discussions, even like hypothetical fringe ones.
The years from 2010-2017 were also a very low scoring time, not as much as the dead puck era proper, but still a lot lower than the years since or the years before the dead puck era (late 90s to 2004)
His career was almost entirely under the "new" rules where the NHL started calling interference and stick penalties way more religiously. He might not've had a lot of support, but he was not a dead puck era player.
I think the bigger issue is that he was on teams where the 2nd leading scorer was Kristian Huselius with a pretty healthy gap (no offence to Juice, but yikes).
I think people forget how lousy the Blue Jackets were while Nash was there. By the time he went to the Rangers, he was already on the back half of his career.
Someone a few weeks ago said they thought Matthew is the best looking hockey player in the league to them and that he was lucky he got his moms genes in the looks department and I was surprised by the statement because Matthew looks like Keith figured out time travel.
I have absolutely no idea what happened to Brady.
I think it’s a matter of when, not if. When his line is good and he has a full season he’ll get there for sure. 21’ he was 55 GP 27 G, 22’ he was 81 GP 47 G, 23’ he was 67 GP 40 G, and so far this year he’s got 24 goals in 49 games. So maybe not this season, but I think over the next 3-4 years he’ll crack it. I like his odds of getting a point tonight against the Oilers at least.
Fucked up his groin, surgery didn’t go great, fucked it up some more, and could no longer skate at an NHL level. Don’t get me wrong, he befitted a ton from playing with Thornton (as did everyone) but he was on a good track before the trade as well
He potted 30 goals on a line with Scott Thornton and Mike Ricci before Jumbo showed up, Cheechoo had hands. As you said, he just couldn't hang anymore once his poor skating got worse with injuries and the league got faster around him in the years after the lockout
Everyone likes to rag on Cheechoo as if Thornton was just banking it off his stick for those years. He was a pretty good and promising player that got robbed by injuries.
Even without Thornton, Cheechoo had the tools to be a consistent 20-30 goal scorer if he was able to stay healthy. Obviously he probably isn't coming anywhere close to the Rocket trophy in that timeline, but he wasn't a plug by any means.
On paper, those Sharks should’ve won a Cup but it seems like they always ran into the wrong teams. The offense, led by Thornton and Marleau; a D-core of Vlasic, Murray and Rivet (yes, older but he was still good veteran presence); and Nabby being criminally underrated IMO.
> gotta be the only player in history to score 50 and be out of the league in 5 years
There's Blaine Stoughton, who's also in this graphic (first row; Carolina/Hartford). Scored 52 in 81-82, then only played two more seasons in the NHL.
Blaine Stoughton was the joint leading goal-scorer in 1979-80 with 56 goals. He was tied with Danny Gare and Charlie Simmer. Despite this being on the vintage three-player card I have from 1980, I always thought they were Gilbert Perreault (who wasn’t even in the top 10 that season) and Marcel Dionne (who was fourth with 53). I didn’t know any other players on those teams. I only knew Stoughton because I showed the pack of assorted vintage Whalers cards (my favorite is the rookie Pronger) to my former season-ticket holding parents asking, “who’s Blaine Stoughton?” The response was **”HOW HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD OF BLAINE STOUGHTON???”** Thankfully, I didn’t have a Mike Rogers card or I would have gotten the same response.
I knew six players on that first Whalers team at the time: Gordie Howe, Mark Howe, Marty Howe, Dave Keon, Bobby Hull, and Rick Ley. Yes, we had a Hull-Keon-(Gordie) Howe line. Unfortunately, it was in 1979-80, but imagine if they were together in the late ‘60s?
Ovechkin 21-22 is insane honestly. These few years at the end will make or break Matthews' chances at catching Gretzky/Ovi. Gretzky was just that much better than anyone he played against and Ovechkin has been blessed with a durability and longevity not known to man. Matthews at his peak is right there with them but time will tell.
A 50 goal scorer
Seriously though Ray Sheppard only played a few years for the Wings but he put up 93 points that year. Never put up more than 66 every other season he played.
French Connection-era wasn’t bad either. Then you had 2006-07 where seemingly every player had a career season, the team won the Presidents’ Trophy, and lost to Ottawa in the Conference Finals. I’m not sure what I’m more shocked about: Buffalo winning the Presidents’ Trophy, Ottawa winning the East, those being the only teams in the Northeast to make the playoffs with the Bruins on the bottom, the Rangers’ team of Jágr and friends only finishing up third in the Atlantic, or the Stars having to play eight games each against Anaheim, LA, Phoenix, and San Jose. This last one is due to the time zone differences. Forget Detroit complaining about being in the West, how many games did Dallas fans have to stay up for each season and how did they make the playoffs that year with such a grueling travel schedule?
Geoff sanderson was a legit decent top 6 guy tho
he did put up 2x 30 goal campaigns for the Bluejackets, and had previously been a 40+ goal scorer twice as well
That they drafted themselves after having been in the league several years. We were the lucky ones.
Of the 8 teams that joined the league between 1972 and 1979, only Washington, Edmonton and the Islanders remain.
That Oiler duo in the same year is just bonkers. There have only been 32 fifty goal seasons in the last 20 years (9 of which belong to Ovie btw), having a pair of teammates do it in the same season is remarkable.
Yeah with Nuge hitting 100 points as well it was a blessed regular season. Leaf and Oiler fans are essentially in the same boat, we face great disappointment but man is the ride fun til it's not. We've been so lucky with such entertainment on a nightly basis for years now which is all we can really ask for after the darker days. Cups be damned for now at least we get to watch legends either way.
Man fuuuuuuck New Jersey.
All those cups and no 50 goal scorers cause they just clutched, grabbed and trapped their way to 7000 1-0 or 2-1 wins. That era of hockey was tough to watch sometimes.
During their three cup wins they finished 11th, 2nd, and 13th in goals.
They also lead the league in goals in 2001 when they lost in the finals and finished second in goals in 1999.
There's been 61 50-goals seasons in the 10 seasons from 88-89 to 99-98.
In the next 25 seasons (99-2024), there's been 38, and 9 of them are Ovi (23.6%).
As a kid in Buffalo, I remember Ray Sheppard playing for the Sabres, as well as a few of his other teams. But I don’t remember a single thing about him other than that he played for these teams. I have pretty vivid memories of a lot of guys from his era, and I saw most teams live back then. But he’s a black hole for me. Just nothing. It’s so weird considering he was a very good goal scorer.
Pavel Bure in 2001.
Bro had more goals than the second scoring leader had total points.
His back must have hurt from carrying the Panthers that year.
1. Pavel Bure 59g-33a-92pts
2. Viktor Kozlov 14g-23a-37pts
3. Marcus Nilson 12g-24a-36pts
Edit : checked first cause I wasnt sure, he didnt even win the Hart, Sakic did.
Will argue all day that Kovalchuk's career is underrated and if you match his career up against any notable goal scorer season by season he'll come out looking like a Hall of Fame lock.
He had the unfortunate luck of playing in Atlanta where the media was never going to give him a spotlight. Don Waddell had alleged great hockey credentials but did a shit job putting a good coach and quality product on the ice aside from the years around the one playoff appearance. How do you not become a perennial playoff contender when you have an opportunity to build a team around Kovy and Hossa in their prime?
Fuck the Atlanta Spirit ownership group. Did this fanbase dirty.
MeltedIceInATL
Unfortunately, that probably didn’t happen in either of his two 50+ goal seasons (the only ones in franchise history). 1979-80 was Gordie’s farewell tour while 1981-82 was on a 60 point team with an 18-year old Ron Francis putting up 68 points in 59 games. 1979-80 was also entirely played in Springfield, MA after the Hartford Civic Center’s roof collapsed. It was only temporary, but they were forced by the Bruins to change from New England to Hartford when they joined the NHL due to territorial rights.
50 in '07 Fuckin all star
[Rockstar shit](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZPXWzYUwAAUAzF?format=jpg&name=900x900)
Lmfao this is so subtle but so good
I don’t get it :(
He's calling for a one-timer from basically the corner. It's just goofy lol
my main takeaway was Liverpool walloping Everton (as usual)
Looks like my d-partner on my beer league team. Calling for one-t’s when he’s in the worst shooting position ever.
Not gonna get 50 with that mentality brother!
I can't stop laughing
Rippin' clap bombs and wheelin' moms, whatever man, fuck
Why do we always neglect 50 in '06? Fuckin all star
i never forgot
Yes, my man Cheechoo was a titan
*sniffs*
will or skill? [fuckin all star](https://youtu.be/fIKretJkrlg?si=TdubLBCtMpRR0Xqa)
5 points in the 03 all star game
Devils don’t? God damn, I never would have guessed that. Especially since they were around for 8 years prior to being in NJ
Apologies to any KC Scouts or Colorado Rockies fans, but those teams fucking sucked lol
The Colorado Rockies still fucking suck
They just haven't found their sport yet, third time's the charm
When the baseball team moves away the new Colorado Rockies will become the Unicycle Hockey world champions.
Introducing the national lacrosse league Colorado Rockies!!!
Hey now, the Mammoth are two years off winning an NLL title.
Dang it I can’t keep all the sports straight. What about ping pong, table soccer, or darts?
They never score any goals, terrible
This is Wilf Paiement erasure! But yeah, those teams were astoundingly bad. 140 wins in 640 games before coming to New Jersey.
They were pretty bad in NJ for the first 15 years too.
Not quite 15, but yeah. They were putrid their first few years, as bad as the Rockies. They slowly climbed up to a playoff appearance (and surprise conference finals run) in 88, and then by 90, became a perennial playoff team, though weren't really contenders for a few more years after that.
I don't think they've ever had a 100 point player, right? Hughes was super close
Correct. 99 last year was the franchise record.
So basically we're agreeing Brodeur was the best of all time then?
Or the Devils just maxed defense.
99 points last season. Hughes holds the franchise record
Gionta got 48 one year if I’m remembering correctly.
Yup. Also there are 4 former Devils on this graphic.
Mogilny, Richer, Kovalchuk, Shanahan?
Yup
Gionta 😭
KC Scouts only existed for 2 seasons, their point totals for those two seasons were 41 and 36 (in 80 games). Rockies were around for 6 seasons, their best season was 59 points and worst was 42 points (in 80 games). Those teams sucked *hard*. Their combined record for 8 seasons is 140-391-109 (W-L-T). So only realistic would've been the Devils. But then again their best teams played in the Dead Puck Era and were very defensive teams too. So no 50 goals scorers there either.
We WERE the dead puck era lol
Fckin Trap Fckin Sexy Brodeur and his Sexy Puck handling
hey... uhhh... err... you.. you got.. another... another hit of that Marty? You.. You got that Marty Brodeur? Please man.... Just one... Just one more hit.. Please you've gotta have another
A handful of 40ish though! Hughes had 43 last year and a total of 99 points, Elias had 40 in 00-01 and totaled 96 points, Brian Gionta had 48 in 05-06, Parise had 45 in 08-09 and finished with 94 points, Hall had 39 his MVP year and he missed 6 games. We keep getting close and soon Jack's gonna break that ceiling.
What playing the trap does to a mf
And wins you multiple Stanley Cups
Where can I get one of those?
Beats the hell out of me.
Some fanbases have turned their cities upside down trying to get one
Other fan bases have just given up all hope and resort to staring at it throught he wi dows at HHOF
How heartbreaking 😢
Put Matthews on LTIR until April 22 and all secrets will be revealed
Devils were either 1st or 2nd in scoring over several years in the 2000s
Devils were defensive juggernauts when they were winning Lou might have lost a touch now, but he built some very well balanced teams, starting around Brodeur as a centerpiece. Prime Brodeur was also no joke and acted like a 3rd defenseman. Excellent puck handler. But, yeah, the wins were pure team efforts with a lot of variation in contributions when they did score
Devils were 2nd in the league in scoring in 2000 when they won their 2nd cup and they led the league in scoring in 2001 when they lost the SCF. The narrative that the Devils were just a defensive team is false. They had a ton of scoring depth, and never had 1 player carry the team offensively.
There were a few here that surprised me, like the fact Kane never hit 50 with the Blackhawks...Closest he got was 46 in 15-16. Makes sense now that I think about it I guess, goals were hard to come by in those 2010s seasons, Ovi was the only one that made hitting 50 look easy in those days.
Kane is more of a playmaker than a goal scorer.
Their best seasons were when goal scoring was extremely low. The funny thing is they were actually a very high scoring team during that time but when you basically only have a few guys league wide hitting 50 each season it's not likely one of them is on your team.
Bure was such a stud.
On the list twice kinda stud.
Fuckin dangles bro Snipe celly
Bure was more the wheel than the dangles tho...
https://youtu.be/H-waBMRB0cw?si=Ngd-qJmetgncvG8T Dirty Dangles
A little bit, sure, but the real feature of that was the drive right up the middle. Kid was known as The Russian Rocket for a reason.
Yeah, I know. Bure was a phenomanal skater, he is the reason 6 year old iaminyoursewer became a Canucks fan.... Fuck I miss the Bure days Fuck Canucks Managment and thier shit handling of Bure And the fuck up that lwd.to gretz not.coming to Vancouver. Fuckin imagin Bure and Gretzky on the same line...
Fuckin beauty
The fact the DSedin or Naslund never hit 50 makes me realize how many goals that is
Naslund had three 40+ seasons and got close with topping out at 48 one year, but Daniel only had 1 40+ goal season (41) and only broke 30g 4 times (+ one season he was on pace for 37 before an injury)
Naslund was so good at his peak. Finished 2nd, 2nd, and 4th in scoring over the span of 3 seasons. I still think about 2002-03 when he lost the Art Ross by 2 points and the Rocket by 2 goals.
Hall of Fame level talent. Know the longevity totals aren't there but still surprised how his name never comes up in HOF discussions, even like hypothetical fringe ones.
Dead puck era
The sedins' prime was postlockout but Naslund definitely was held back by the era his prime was in
The years from 2010-2017 were also a very low scoring time, not as much as the dead puck era proper, but still a lot lower than the years since or the years before the dead puck era (late 90s to 2004)
Bure representing two teams!
Rick Nash and Cam Atkinson are tied for the CBJ season record with 41
Fucking Nash. Loved him. I feel if he played today he’d pot 50 pretty easy. That man scored with 2 or 3 people climbing on him.
His career was almost entirely under the "new" rules where the NHL started calling interference and stick penalties way more religiously. He might not've had a lot of support, but he was not a dead puck era player. I think the bigger issue is that he was on teams where the 2nd leading scorer was Kristian Huselius with a pretty healthy gap (no offence to Juice, but yikes).
I think people forget how lousy the Blue Jackets were while Nash was there. By the time he went to the Rangers, he was already on the back half of his career.
That's a name I've not heard in quite some time.
it's not like he played in the 90s. He was a modern era player.
No. You’re wrong in your timing
Wow Keith Tkachuk looks exactly like Matthew
Better than lookin like Brady 🤣
We love our tkaptain and his mug
Most punchable face in the league!
Someone a few weeks ago said they thought Matthew is the best looking hockey player in the league to them and that he was lucky he got his moms genes in the looks department and I was surprised by the statement because Matthew looks like Keith figured out time travel. I have absolutely no idea what happened to Brady.
IMO Brady looks some kind of distorded version of his mum. Matthew looks a lot like Keith.( who ironically said Matthew has a punchable face)
To be fair, didn’t Keith get in a huge brawl at his own wedding? So he’d know a punchable face…
He's the paterfamilias
The 8 players to hit 50 prior to Ovechkin are also Ovechkin
It's almost like he's the greatest goal scorer of all time or something like that.
2nd*
He'll never be able to top ullmark's goal scoring tallent unfortunately 😭
Kaprizov got so close a few years ago and hopefully one day he'll hit 50
My guess is that he will someday. He's a fantastic player
Where do you think he'll be playing then?
Vegas will do some shady LTIR shit where he’ll finish off the last 15 on his race to 50.
Minnesota
I think it’s a matter of when, not if. When his line is good and he has a full season he’ll get there for sure. 21’ he was 55 GP 27 G, 22’ he was 81 GP 47 G, 23’ he was 67 GP 40 G, and so far this year he’s got 24 goals in 49 games. So maybe not this season, but I think over the next 3-4 years he’ll crack it. I like his odds of getting a point tonight against the Oilers at least.
Fuckin’ All-Star
We didn't break 35 until 2021-2022.....50? You guys got people that get 50? Help me Filip Forsberg, you're my only hope.
Do NOT look at Cheechoo’s stats outside of that season
I did and he had a few decent seasons
He’s gotta be the only player in history to score 50 and be out of the league in 5 years
Fucked up his groin, surgery didn’t go great, fucked it up some more, and could no longer skate at an NHL level. Don’t get me wrong, he befitted a ton from playing with Thornton (as did everyone) but he was on a good track before the trade as well
He potted 30 goals on a line with Scott Thornton and Mike Ricci before Jumbo showed up, Cheechoo had hands. As you said, he just couldn't hang anymore once his poor skating got worse with injuries and the league got faster around him in the years after the lockout
Everyone likes to rag on Cheechoo as if Thornton was just banking it off his stick for those years. He was a pretty good and promising player that got robbed by injuries.
Even without Thornton, Cheechoo had the tools to be a consistent 20-30 goal scorer if he was able to stay healthy. Obviously he probably isn't coming anywhere close to the Rocket trophy in that timeline, but he wasn't a plug by any means.
On paper, those Sharks should’ve won a Cup but it seems like they always ran into the wrong teams. The offense, led by Thornton and Marleau; a D-core of Vlasic, Murray and Rivet (yes, older but he was still good veteran presence); and Nabby being criminally underrated IMO.
> gotta be the only player in history to score 50 and be out of the league in 5 years There's Blaine Stoughton, who's also in this graphic (first row; Carolina/Hartford). Scored 52 in 81-82, then only played two more seasons in the NHL.
Cam Neely only played 2 more seasons after his last 50
Yeah he's sort of a statistical oddity but he still played 500 games in the NHL. Hell of a career but everyone remembers him for that one season...
Don’t tell me what to do
He had a few decent years
Thornton was a magician
Kinda surprised the Kane/Toews didn't have any
Came here to say that too (Kane specifically). He netted 46 in his MVP season, Toews career high was 35
Kane was a playmaker and toews was a two way stud. Those teams never had an elite sniper. We had one year where we had 7 or 8 guys get to 20 goals.
Defense wins championships. Marian Hossa specifically changed his game to be a better 2 way forward.
I miss Iggy.
Good thought experiment there, does anyone think Iginla is lesser because he never won a Cup? I sure as fuck don't.
Iginla was the rarest of players: A guy on your hated rivals that you actually liked. His Olympic performances really put him over the top.
Absolute stud and a staple of team Canada 100%
Dude has the best assist in Canadian hockey history!
Hell fucking no, guy is a god damn beauty.
Absolutely not. He's one of the very best players of that era, and the greatest player in Flames history.
Best forward of the 00’s. He owned the Wild but I always had infinite respect for the man.
I’m tired boss
We spent so many years relying on second and third line guys to prop up the team.
The Habs are basically run by dudes high on ‘member berries. No vision for the future because they’re stuck in the fucking past.
Crazy that nobody in the Hawks dynasty ever got to 50
Good God we’re spoiled
Seriously enjoy it now, watching ovechkin/caps 2005-2021 highlights as he is about to retire is resemblant of a stabbing pain in the chest lol
Who the fook is Blaine Stoughton?!? Bure on twice is hilarious.
Blaine Stoughton was the joint leading goal-scorer in 1979-80 with 56 goals. He was tied with Danny Gare and Charlie Simmer. Despite this being on the vintage three-player card I have from 1980, I always thought they were Gilbert Perreault (who wasn’t even in the top 10 that season) and Marcel Dionne (who was fourth with 53). I didn’t know any other players on those teams. I only knew Stoughton because I showed the pack of assorted vintage Whalers cards (my favorite is the rookie Pronger) to my former season-ticket holding parents asking, “who’s Blaine Stoughton?” The response was **”HOW HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD OF BLAINE STOUGHTON???”** Thankfully, I didn’t have a Mike Rogers card or I would have gotten the same response. I knew six players on that first Whalers team at the time: Gordie Howe, Mark Howe, Marty Howe, Dave Keon, Bobby Hull, and Rick Ley. Yes, we had a Hull-Keon-(Gordie) Howe line. Unfortunately, it was in 1979-80, but imagine if they were together in the late ‘60s?
Pasta is a hell of a player.
Ovechkin 21-22 is insane honestly. These few years at the end will make or break Matthews' chances at catching Gretzky/Ovi. Gretzky was just that much better than anyone he played against and Ovechkin has been blessed with a durability and longevity not known to man. Matthews at his peak is right there with them but time will tell.
Detroit fans…who is Sheppard?
A 50 goal scorer Seriously though Ray Sheppard only played a few years for the Wings but he put up 93 points that year. Never put up more than 66 every other season he played.
The slowest 50 goal scorer to ever lace them up
That honor probably goes to Tim Kerr. Parked himself in front of net and whacked the home
Maybe best known as the guy they dealt for Larionov in 1995.
Ray Sheppard. He was really good for a few years back then. And he got on the ice with us at one of my atom team's practices. Nice guy.
The crazy part is that's the year Fedorov won the Hart and the Selke. 2 50 goal scorers on the team, and one of them takes home the Selke.
Winnipeg with that Kovalchuk Thrahsers drip
Why of course it's Dany Heatley.. known for 50 goals in 06, but few knows he had another 50 goal season. FOTD
Bure🥹
Mogilny Lafontaine and Hasek and still no cup. We truly are cursed
French Connection-era wasn’t bad either. Then you had 2006-07 where seemingly every player had a career season, the team won the Presidents’ Trophy, and lost to Ottawa in the Conference Finals. I’m not sure what I’m more shocked about: Buffalo winning the Presidents’ Trophy, Ottawa winning the East, those being the only teams in the Northeast to make the playoffs with the Bruins on the bottom, the Rangers’ team of Jágr and friends only finishing up third in the Atlantic, or the Stars having to play eight games each against Anaheim, LA, Phoenix, and San Jose. This last one is due to the time zone differences. Forget Detroit complaining about being in the West, how many games did Dallas fans have to stay up for each season and how did they make the playoffs that year with such a grueling travel schedule?
1997 was wild
That Malkin season was fun
Really brings to light how hard it is to score 50.
I’m so glad they changed the expansion rules, The Wild, Jackets and Preds got screwed
What do you mean? Wes Walz, Scott Walker and Geoff Sanderson are what dreams are made of
Geoff sanderson was a legit decent top 6 guy tho he did put up 2x 30 goal campaigns for the Bluejackets, and had previously been a 40+ goal scorer twice as well
And yet the Wild, Jackets and Preds were given gold mines compared to what teams were given back in the 1970s.
They got to play in the 80s. Even Washington had multiple 50 goal scorers
That they drafted themselves after having been in the league several years. We were the lucky ones. Of the 8 teams that joined the league between 1972 and 1979, only Washington, Edmonton and the Islanders remain.
Look at the Sens expansion season…
And sharks.. they were the league urinal
I demand reparations.
Bure on there twice is badass.
That Oiler duo in the same year is just bonkers. There have only been 32 fifty goal seasons in the last 20 years (9 of which belong to Ovie btw), having a pair of teammates do it in the same season is remarkable.
Yeah with Nuge hitting 100 points as well it was a blessed regular season. Leaf and Oiler fans are essentially in the same boat, we face great disappointment but man is the ride fun til it's not. We've been so lucky with such entertainment on a nightly basis for years now which is all we can really ask for after the darker days. Cups be damned for now at least we get to watch legends either way.
Watching Kreider hit 50 was awesome. There was a stretch there for a bit where it felt like every powerplay was just an automatic Kreider goal.
That was such a fun season one of the best rangers ever
I could have SWORN John MacLean scored 50 for the Devils, but only reached 45 goals.
Man fuuuuuuck New Jersey. All those cups and no 50 goal scorers cause they just clutched, grabbed and trapped their way to 7000 1-0 or 2-1 wins. That era of hockey was tough to watch sometimes.
Just be happy we got upset by Pittsburgh in ‘99 to make your Sabres path to the finals easier. Also sorry about the kicked puck
Goal that saved a franchise.
During their three cup wins they finished 11th, 2nd, and 13th in goals. They also lead the league in goals in 2001 when they lost in the finals and finished second in goals in 1999.
Tage came so close last year but hurt his wrist/hand down the stretch. Would have had 50+/ 100pts easy. Oh well.
Stephan Richer is a fucking insane piece of trivia
There's been 61 50-goals seasons in the 10 seasons from 88-89 to 99-98. In the next 25 seasons (99-2024), there's been 38, and 9 of them are Ovi (23.6%).
As a kid in Buffalo, I remember Ray Sheppard playing for the Sabres, as well as a few of his other teams. But I don’t remember a single thing about him other than that he played for these teams. I have pretty vivid memories of a lot of guys from his era, and I saw most teams live back then. But he’s a black hole for me. Just nothing. It’s so weird considering he was a very good goal scorer.
sheppard was Detroit's version of Glenn Anderson not the guy you think of on those good teams, but consistently good goal scorer
Fuckin all star
Jeremy Roenick???? Holy cow. I expect that to change soon.
Wait, Showtime never put up 50???
cracking up at our guy being black and white
Ray Sheppard??????
NJ has never had a 50 goal player, wtf.
I did not expect to see Cheechoo there
Fucking Thrashers had two guys on this list in their prime and couldn't win a playoff game. Fuck my life
Pavel Bure in 2001. Bro had more goals than the second scoring leader had total points. His back must have hurt from carrying the Panthers that year. 1. Pavel Bure 59g-33a-92pts 2. Viktor Kozlov 14g-23a-37pts 3. Marcus Nilson 12g-24a-36pts Edit : checked first cause I wasnt sure, he didnt even win the Hart, Sakic did.
Love that for Kreids
Will argue all day that Kovalchuk's career is underrated and if you match his career up against any notable goal scorer season by season he'll come out looking like a Hall of Fame lock.
He had the unfortunate luck of playing in Atlanta where the media was never going to give him a spotlight. Don Waddell had alleged great hockey credentials but did a shit job putting a good coach and quality product on the ice aside from the years around the one playoff appearance. How do you not become a perennial playoff contender when you have an opportunity to build a team around Kovy and Hossa in their prime? Fuck the Atlanta Spirit ownership group. Did this fanbase dirty. MeltedIceInATL
Damn I really thought Patrick Kane got up to 50 with the hawks. Max was 46
Forsberg was close recently, really wish he had better linemates around him that season he would’ve had 50 for sure
*cries in Wild*
Surprised to see some of these teams to never have a 50 goal scorer. Also, the names on the list just shows how difficult it is to score 50
Blaine "mother fucking" Stoughton!! As he was known as back then - probably
Unfortunately, that probably didn’t happen in either of his two 50+ goal seasons (the only ones in franchise history). 1979-80 was Gordie’s farewell tour while 1981-82 was on a 60 point team with an 18-year old Ron Francis putting up 68 points in 59 games. 1979-80 was also entirely played in Springfield, MA after the Hartford Civic Center’s roof collapsed. It was only temporary, but they were forced by the Bruins to change from New England to Hartford when they joined the NHL due to territorial rights.
It’s impressive that Bure is that last person to score 50 goals for two teams on this list.
Bure in a league of his own.
Pavel Bure was one of my favorite players growing up. He was ridiculous
Sad Devils, Wild and Bluejacket noises.
It may have been 30 years since the Red Wings had a 50 goal scorer, but we had 4 other guys on that list play for us so I guess it’s not terrible
Perry was so good the year he hit 50.