Gretzky & Empty Net Goals

[Joe Pelletier]

Does anyone have any listing of the all time empty net goals scored leaders in NHL history?

I'm guessing Gretzky tops the list. In fact, I heard during his 92 goal campaign scored 18 into an empty net. How accurate is that?

In comparison, I was told Brett Hull scored 0 ENs in his 86 goal campaign. How accurate is that?

Joe Pelletier
http://www.greatesthockeylegends.com

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[reckoning]

In other words if you took away all his empty net goals, he still has more goals than anyone else in NHL history.

 

[BM67]

When Gretzky scored 92 goals in 81-82, he scored in 55 games. Of those 55 games 6 were losses and 8 were ties. Assuming he didn't score any ENGs in those games, that would leave him 41 games to do so. Did Gretzky score an ENG in 43.9% of those games? Since 26 of those wins were by 3 or more goals, it seems unlikely. Of course it is possible to score two ENGs in one game.

Stats from The Great Gretzky by Terry Jones, subtitled The Greatest Single Season In Hockey History.

 

[Murphy7]

It felt like he scored hundreds of empty netters.
Actually, he did -- a deke here, a dip there. Goalies around the league were fooled well out of position. And voila, an empty net to tuck the puck into.

 

[Fish on The Sand]

In comparison, I was told Brett Hull scored 0 ENs in his 86 goal campaign. How accurate is that?

Joe Pelletier
http://www.greatesthockeylegends.com

empty net goals are for homos

that about sums up his 86 goal season

 

[Deleted member 3032]

empty net goals are for homos

that about sums up his 86 goal season

Pretty sure that was Al Iafrate who said that.

 

[JSmith81x]

Did not register his first NHL empty-net goal until St. Louis' Jan. 13, 1994, game vs. Edmonton -- his 500th NHL game. Prior to that game, Hull had refused to shoot into an empty net because he didn't want such goals included in his career stats. He was forced to shoot the puck at the empty net on Jan. 13, 1994, because there was nobody else to pass it to

http://www.hockeydraftcentral.com/1984/84117.html

 

[Fish on The Sand]

Pretty sure that was Al Iafrate who said that.

you got me. I always remember that being attributed to the Golden Brett.

 

[Crossfire Hurricane]

Totally off topic, but I Wikipedia'd Brett Hull, and this caught my eye...

He married fellow University of Minnesota-Duluth student Alison Curran in Las Vegas on May 27, 1997. They had seventeen children - Lassie, Jude, Trot Nixon, Manny, Chuck, Kenny, Quentin, Jayde, Cletus, LaToya, Pud, Kathleen, Joey Jeremiah, Flipper, Crosby, Ebeneezer and King Brett Hull the Second - before they divorced.

That had to be vandalism, right?

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Yes that is false. It doesn't have the 18th Hull child, Joey Jo Jo Junior.

 

[Fish on The Sand]

Totally off topic, but I Wikipedia'd Brett Hull, and this caught my eye...



That had to be vandalism, right?

Trot Nixon Hull lol.

 

[Fish on The Sand]

Yes that is false. It doesn't have the 18th Hull child, Joey Jo Jo Junior.

that's the worst name I've ever heard.

 

[Sens Rule]

Empty net goals are important goals. They clinch a game. Gretzky was always on the ice up a goal with a minute left. Brett Hull likely was not so often put into that situation.

 

[Big Phil]

Empty net goals are important goals. They clinch a game. Gretzky was always on the ice up a goal with a minute left. Brett Hull likely was not so often put into that situation.

Defensively Hull was more of a liability. He wouldnt be on the ice late in a game anyways

 

[Bring Back Bucky]

Did not register his first NHL empty-net goal until St. Louis' Jan. 13, 1994, game vs. Edmonton -- his 500th NHL game. Prior to that game, Hull had refused to shoot into an empty net because he didn't want such goals included in his career stats. He was forced to shoot the puck at the empty net on Jan. 13, 1994, because there was nobody else to pass it to

http://www.hockeydraftcentral.com/1984/84117.html

Yeah, passing up the empty net is a brilliant strategy. Patrik Stefan was actually using Hull's set play last year when he cost his team an easy point.

 

[Sensfanman]

that's the worst name I've ever heard.

*goes into corner and sobs*

 

[chooch*]

Yeah, passing up the empty net is a brilliant strategy. Patrik Stefan was actually using Hull's set play last year when he cost his team an easy point.

Every goal Gretzky scored was scored under All Star game conditions. No hitting and only stick checking.

 

[lemieux32*]

Every goal Gretzky scored was scored under All Star game conditions. No hitting and only stick checking.

Still at it chooch?

 

[Bring Back Bucky]

Still at it chooch?

It doesn't get much more original, does it?

 

[reckoning]

You'd think that with all that time off, he could've come up with some new material.

 

[Bring Back Bucky]

You'd think that with all that time off, he could've come up with some new material.

We'll just have to keep whooping it up to the same schtick.

 

[Fish on The Sand]

*goes into corner and sobs*

Joey Jo Jo!

 

[Bring Back Bucky]

Joey Jo Jo!

It's disappointing that he won't recognize Cletus-Bo and Sabrina-Mae-Belle as his offspring.

 

[overnath]

Did not register his first NHL empty-net goal until St. Louis' Jan. 13, 1994, game vs. Edmonton -- his 500th NHL game. Prior to that game, Hull had refused to shoot into an empty net because he didn't want such goals included in his career stats. He was forced to shoot the puck at the empty net on Jan. 13, 1994, because there was nobody else to pass it to

http://www.hockeydraftcentral.com/1984/84117.html

badass

 

[JarkkoRuutu]

Yes that is false. It doesn't have the 18th Hull child, Joey Jo Jo Junior.

I thought it was Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo?