How many 50 goal scorers this season?

[BallardEra]

With a quarter of the season already done, we have 11 players on pace to score 50 goals this season:

Pastrnak
Skinner
Ovechkin
Point
Laine
Forsberg
Atkinson
Landeskog
Tavares
MacKinnon
Pettersson

These three are on pace for 49 goals:

Pavelski
Draisaitl
McDavid


How many 50 goal scorers will we see this season?

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[Sakujo]

Matthews and Tavares

 

[TheStroker]

Maybe 1, 2 if we're lucky.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

yeah like Ovechkin and maybe one other

 

[780il]

Ovi....

Yeah, thats about it

 

[Ridley Simon]

Tavares
Matthews
Marner
Nylander

 

[BallardEra]

I'll say 4 players will hit 50 goals this season.

 

[Mathew Barzal]

Ovechkin and Pastrnak imo.

 

[Demandedace]

Most guys are shooting well above (almost 10%) their career shot %. It's fair to expect some pretty significant regression for them - I would expect 1-2 max to reach 50 goals this year.

 

[Agent Zub]

A couple. Scoring is trending up. I love it.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Four.

 

[Fallschirmyager]

Most guys are shooting well above (almost 10%) their career shot %. It's fair to expect some pretty significant regression for them - I would expect 1-2 max to reach 50 goals this year.

This. It's easy to believe Ovy will get there as it's very familiar territory. The rest of that list combined only has 3 40 goal seasons and while scoring is up this year, it's still difficult to believe anymore than that will make the jump to 50.

 

[SI90]

1-2

 

[the mcdavid era]

I think McDavid will get there. Ovechkin and Laine should as well. That's it imo.

 

[pikkuvaimo]

Ovi....

Yeah, thats about it

IMO this is the correct answer.

 

[Koivu11]

Matthews and Tavares

And Kasperi Kapanen.

 

[OVrocks]

Only Ovechkin

 

[Bounces R Way]

None.

 

[Khomutov]

Since 2012 no one scored 50, except Ovechkin.

 

[CapsJunkie]

Just Ovi

 

[tomi2]

Ovechkin, Laine and Pastrnak

 

[TeddyBare]

I still think Matthews can get there.

 

[JoVel]

I still think Matthews can get there.

When is he supposed to come back? I highly doubt he'll get to 50 with the games he has missed.

 

[Sweetpotato]

McDavid and Ovi.

A lot of maybes but I think so 2 are locks the way they're playing. I also think the more the field falls behind the more Connors going to push for it. I think we'll see him slowly ramp up the goal scoring.

 

[RiverbottomChuck]

Tavares
Matthews
Marner
Nylander

And Anderson, maybe Babcock....