What is the highest-scoring game for a single player in NHL history?
The record of the highest scoring game by a single player in the history of the National Hockey League starting in the early years of the tournament, was established in 1917.
Joe Malone, one of the great strikers of the early 20th century, scored seven goals for the Quebec Bulldogs on January 31, 1920. The Bulldogs defeated Toronto St. Patricks 10-6. Malone’s profile has not been balanced.
Malone also recorded a six-goal game the same season and had three five-match games for Montreal Canadiens in 1917-18.
Known as “Phantom Joe”, Malone won two Stanley Cups with the Bulldogs in the period before NHL and another with Montreal before retiring in 1924.
In the modern era of NHL, two players have come close to Malone’s record by scoring six goals in a match. Red Berenson of St. Louis Blues did it in 1968, and Darryl Sittler of Toronto Maple Leafs in 1976.
Others who scored six goals in a match are:
- Newsy Lalonde of Montreal Canadiens in 1920
- Toronto’s Corb Denneny Pats in 1920
- Cy Denneny of Senator Ottawa in 1921
- Syd Howe of Detroit Red Wings in 1944
Lalonde, known as “Flying Frenchman”, actually set the NHL personal record for most goals in a match when he scored six goals on January 10, 1920, but his record only existed. now shortly. Malone broke the record 21 days later, on January 31, when he had a seven-goal match.
Other scoring records
Lalonde’s feat helped set another NHL scoring record, a record that has never been broken and only once.
That record is the most goals scored in an NHL match. On January 1920, Montreal Canadiens and Toronto St. Lalonde’s Pats combined with 21 goals in a match that Montreal won 14-7. It took nearly 66 years for that record to be set when Edmonton Oilers and Chicago Blackhawks took the tape on December 11, 1985.
The Oilers won 12-9.
In the 1985 match, Oilers’ Wayne Gretzky set the tournament record with seven assists, the most in a single match. Surprisingly, NHL’s top scorer did not score in that match. Gretzky holds the NHL record for most goals in one career (894), most goals in one season (92), most supporting careers (1,963), 40 consecutive seasons (12) , most professional matches with three or more goals (50), And the list goes on and on. It’s no surprise that Gretzky is called “The Great One” and is called the greatest ice hockey player of all time.