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We all know that Al Iafrate does not like empty net goals. The story goes that Iafrate was in clear but elected to shoot the puck in the corner rather than into the open net and when asked about it afterwards was quoted as saying:
"empty net goals are for [sissies/pansies/wussies/losers/and some other terms that are more likely to be the actual quote but I will refrain from posting so I don't get banned]"
(does anyone have the actual video of this game and the interview?)
In any case I also think that in general empty net goals are cheap. Sure there are exceptions and some empty net goals are actually pretty impressive and certainly a goalie scoring an empty net goal is almost always cool (and I certainly wouldn't call Ron Hextall for example a "sissy" or whatever) and also empty net goals may be good indicators that a coach trusts a player to protect a lead at the end of the game but in general I do not think they are a good indicator of offensive performance at all.
So I always remove empty net goals from player stats in my (offensive) evaluations. The NHL website makes this easy in their stats page by having a column for empty net goals in their goals by type report (NHL.com - Stats).
But what about assists on empty net goals? Not every hockey player does the honorable thing like Brett Hull and make sure other players don't get cheap empty net assists. I think these in general are even cheaper than empty net goals and I would expect them to be more common than empty net goals just like assists in general.
Despite these issues I was unaware of empty net assists being tracked anywhere and so it was definitely a goal of mine to ensure I tracked empty net assists when gathering boxscore data. As I continue to work on that project recently I stumbled upon the goal finder from Hockey Reference and noticed it allows you to explicitly search for empty net goals which shows not only the goal scorer but also who assisted on the goal among other information (Goal Finder | Hockey-Reference.com). While the data only goes back to the 1979-1980 season and there is some missing data (for example Mario Lemieux scored 69 goals in 1995-1996 but the Hockey Reference goal finder only has 68 goals for him that season) it is still a good basis for starting on Iafrate points.
Iafrate points are simply points excluding empty net points named in honor of Al Iafrate for his principled stance. Let us refer to empty net points as simply cheap points for the purposes this forum. Please note that I did not attempt to correct for any issues in actually granting cheap points (there is data where a goalie is actually present for a empty net goal and I know from going through the NHL statsapi that there are goals with no goalie but that are still not marked as empty net goals)
There were 6707 empty net goals recorded from 1979-1980 to 2017-2018 and 2270 players had a cheap point in that time frame
Highest career cheap points 1979-1980 to 2017-2018
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I cut it off at 20 because it simply got too unwieldy to go further. Some real good players are sadly on this list. Yet another record for Wayne Gretzky which he has a large margin of victory but there likely isn't much pride in this one. Some active players have probably already moved up as this table does not account for cheap points from the current season.
Highest career cheap assists 1979-1980 to 2017-2018
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Gretzky is probably happy to let Ron Francis have this record. 1415 cheap goals were left unassisted.
Highest cheap points in a season 1979-1980 to 2017-2018
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I cut it off at the 20 seasons of 8 or more cheap points as there were 40 seasons of 7! Jaromir Jagr is the only player with double digit cheap points in a season (from 1979-1980 to 2017-2018).
Season by season cheap points leaders 1979-1980 to 2017-2018
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Iafrate point leader different from scoring leader
Technically speaking Guy Chouinard and Steve Shutt scored more points in the time frame without scoring a cheap point but since their careers predate 1979-1980 I cannot give them such an honor without confirming
Al Iafrate himself unfortunately scored 3 cheap points
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I bet the goal is an error in scorer transcription and I can only imagine what happened in the locker room after the game after the other two empty net goals were scored
No excuse for these cheap points
I know some of you will come at me with the talk that cheap points are valuable for ensuring the win. Well these guys don't even have that going for them. These are the empty net goals (not at weird times discussed below) that didn't win the game in regulation (four empty net goals were actually scored in games where the player's team lost but they were all at weird times):
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Empty net goals due to brilliant coaching (brought to you by Patrick Roy)
Coaches having been pulling the goalie earlier in recent seasons but I remember that Patrick Roy was on another level at doing this and even though it worked sometimes it seemed to backfire just as much and I never understood why (maybe he was still traumatized by a game where he felt he should have been pulled earlier
). So here are the empty net goals at really weird times (not in the last 5 minutes of the third):
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Some are likely own goals and I'd imagine the overtime ones were due to pulling the goalie to try and win for playoff positioning but yeah...
Wouldn't a shooter tutor be better than a goalie who lets in empty net goals?
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This is either scorer transcription error or perhaps they are now starting to call it a goal against the goalie and an empty net goal when the goalie is out of the net but hasn't made it to the bench but it must suck to be a goalie that lets in empty net goals.
ALL OF THIS IS JUST JOKES AND INTERESTING STATS NO OFFENSE TO ANY PLAYERS OR ANYONE :]
"empty net goals are for [sissies/pansies/wussies/losers/and some other terms that are more likely to be the actual quote but I will refrain from posting so I don't get banned]"
(does anyone have the actual video of this game and the interview?)
In any case I also think that in general empty net goals are cheap. Sure there are exceptions and some empty net goals are actually pretty impressive and certainly a goalie scoring an empty net goal is almost always cool (and I certainly wouldn't call Ron Hextall for example a "sissy" or whatever) and also empty net goals may be good indicators that a coach trusts a player to protect a lead at the end of the game but in general I do not think they are a good indicator of offensive performance at all.
So I always remove empty net goals from player stats in my (offensive) evaluations. The NHL website makes this easy in their stats page by having a column for empty net goals in their goals by type report (NHL.com - Stats).
But what about assists on empty net goals? Not every hockey player does the honorable thing like Brett Hull and make sure other players don't get cheap empty net assists. I think these in general are even cheaper than empty net goals and I would expect them to be more common than empty net goals just like assists in general.
Despite these issues I was unaware of empty net assists being tracked anywhere and so it was definitely a goal of mine to ensure I tracked empty net assists when gathering boxscore data. As I continue to work on that project recently I stumbled upon the goal finder from Hockey Reference and noticed it allows you to explicitly search for empty net goals which shows not only the goal scorer but also who assisted on the goal among other information (Goal Finder | Hockey-Reference.com). While the data only goes back to the 1979-1980 season and there is some missing data (for example Mario Lemieux scored 69 goals in 1995-1996 but the Hockey Reference goal finder only has 68 goals for him that season) it is still a good basis for starting on Iafrate points.
Iafrate points are simply points excluding empty net points named in honor of Al Iafrate for his principled stance. Let us refer to empty net points as simply cheap points for the purposes this forum. Please note that I did not attempt to correct for any issues in actually granting cheap points (there is data where a goalie is actually present for a empty net goal and I know from going through the NHL statsapi that there are goals with no goalie but that are still not marked as empty net goals)
There were 6707 empty net goals recorded from 1979-1980 to 2017-2018 and 2270 players had a cheap point in that time frame
Highest career cheap points 1979-1980 to 2017-2018
| cheap points | player |
| 85 | Wayne Gretzky |
| 60 | Marian Hossa |
| 56 | Jarome Iginla |
| 55 | Joe Thornton |
| 53 | Eric Staal |
| 51 | Ron Francis |
| 50 | Jaromir Jagr |
| 48 | Mark Messier |
| 45 | Mark Recchi |
| 44 | Mario Lemieux |
| 42 | Teemu Selanne |
| 41 | Bryan Trottier |
| 40 | Patrice Bergeron |
| 40 | Sidney Crosby |
| 40 | Steve Yzerman |
| 39 | Keith Tkachuk |
| 39 | Ray Bourque |
| 38 | Alex Ovechkin |
| 37 | Daniel Alfredsson |
| 37 | Henrik Zetterberg |
| 36 | Brendan Shanahan |
| 36 | Mike Modano |
| 35 | Blake Wheeler |
| 35 | David Backes |
| 35 | Henrik Sedin |
| 35 | Pavel Datsyuk |
| 34 | Gary Roberts |
| 34 | Ilya Kovalchuk |
| 34 | Jari Kurri |
| 34 | Nicklas Backstrom |
| 34 | Zach Parise |
| 33 | Doug Gilmour |
| 33 | Mike Bossy |
| 33 | Patrick Kane |
| 33 | Rick Nash |
| 33 | Rod Brind'Amour |
| 32 | David Legwand |
| 32 | Evgeni Malkin |
| 32 | Patrick Marleau |
| 31 | Anze Kopitar |
| 31 | Jonathan Toews |
| 31 | Max Pacioretty |
| 31 | Pavel Bure |
| 31 | Rick Tocchet |
| 31 | Ryan Kesler |
| 30 | Brad Marchand |
| 30 | Craig Conroy |
| 30 | Daniel Sedin |
| 30 | Olli Jokinen |
| 29 | Guy Carbonneau |
| 29 | John Tavares |
| 29 | Jordan Staal |
| 29 | Justin Williams |
| 29 | Mike Ridley |
| 29 | Shane Doan |
| 29 | Theoren Fleury |
| 29 | Tomas Plekanec |
| 28 | Doug Weight |
| 28 | Dustin Brown |
| 28 | Jeremy Roenick |
| 28 | Joe Pavelski |
| 28 | Kelly Miller |
| 28 | Mikko Koivu |
| 28 | Patrik Elias |
| 27 | Alexandre Burrows |
| 27 | Brent Sutter |
| 27 | Joe Sakic |
| 27 | Martin St. Louis |
| 27 | Ray Whitney |
| 27 | Sergei Fedorov |
| 27 | Trevor Linden |
| 26 | Al Macinnis |
| 26 | Antoine Vermette |
| 26 | Chris Kelly |
| 26 | Jamie Langenbrunner |
| 26 | Keith Primeau |
| 26 | Michael Grabner |
| 26 | Michal Handzus |
| 26 | Mike Fisher |
| 26 | Milan Lucic |
| 26 | Peter Stastny |
| 26 | Radim Vrbata |
| 26 | Scott Stevens |
| 26 | Todd Marchant |
| 26 | Zdeno Chara |
| 25 | Brandon Dubinsky |
| 25 | Brian Rolston |
| 25 | Chris Pronger |
| 25 | Dale Hunter |
| 25 | Mats Sundin |
| 25 | Nicklas Lidstrom |
| 25 | Patrick Sharp |
| 25 | Saku Koivu |
| 25 | Tony Amonte |
| 25 | Vincent Damphousse |
| 25 | Vincent Lecavalier |
| 24 | Alex Kovalev |
| 24 | David Krejci |
| 24 | Dino Ciccarelli |
| 24 | Jason Spezza |
| 24 | Marian Gaborik |
| 24 | Paul Coffey |
| 24 | Paul Kariya |
| 23 | Adam Oates |
| 23 | Ed Olczyk |
| 23 | Jeff Carter |
| 23 | Loui Eriksson |
| 23 | P.J. Axelsson |
| 23 | Paul Stastny |
| 23 | Tom Fitzgerald |
| 23 | Troy Murray |
| 22 | Alex Steen |
| 22 | Dave Poulin |
| 22 | Daymond Langkow |
| 22 | Glenn Anderson |
| 22 | Logan Couture |
| 22 | Miroslav Satan |
| 22 | Murray Craven |
| 22 | Rob Niedermayer |
| 21 | Andrew Cogliano |
| 21 | Chris Chelios |
| 21 | Corey Perry |
| 21 | Drew Doughty |
| 21 | John Maclean |
| 21 | Mike Gartner |
| 21 | Radek Bonk |
| 21 | Rick Middleton |
| 21 | Steve Kasper |
| 21 | Steve Larmer |
| 20 | Brett Hull |
| 20 | Brian Gionta |
| 20 | Claude Lemieux |
| 20 | Denis Savard |
| 20 | Duncan Keith |
| 20 | Jamie Benn |
| 20 | Jason Pominville |
| 20 | Joel Ward |
| 20 | Jussi Jokinen |
| 20 | Kelly Buchberger |
| 20 | Michael Peca |
| 20 | Mike Grier |
| 20 | Peter Forsberg |
| 20 | Ryan Callahan |
| 20 | Ryan O'Reilly |
| 20 | Tyler Seguin |
| 20 | Valtteri Filppula |
I cut it off at 20 because it simply got too unwieldy to go further. Some real good players are sadly on this list. Yet another record for Wayne Gretzky which he has a large margin of victory but there likely isn't much pride in this one. Some active players have probably already moved up as this table does not account for cheap points from the current season.
Highest career cheap assists 1979-1980 to 2017-2018
| cheap assists | player |
| 31 | Ron Francis |
| 29 | Wayne Gretzky |
| 28 | Jaromir Jagr |
| 28 | Joe Thornton |
| 26 | Mark Recchi |
| 26 | Patrice Bergeron |
| 24 | Jarome Iginla |
| 24 | Nicklas Backstrom |
| 23 | Craig Conroy |
| 23 | Eric Staal |
| 23 | Henrik Zetterberg |
| 23 | Mark Messier |
| 23 | Pavel Datsyuk |
| 23 | Sidney Crosby |
| 22 | Paul Coffey |
| 22 | Ray Bourque |
| 21 | Chris Pronger |
| 21 | Rod Brind'Amour |
| 20 | Anze Kopitar |
| 20 | Jari Kurri |
| 20 | Marian Hossa |
| 19 | Al Macinnis |
| 19 | David Legwand |
| 19 | Drew Doughty |
| 19 | Duncan Keith |
| 19 | Henrik Sedin |
| 19 | Joe Pavelski |
| 19 | Ryan Kesler |
| 19 | Zdeno Chara |
| 18 | Adam Oates |
| 18 | Chris Chelios |
| 18 | Dale Hunter |
| 18 | Jonathan Toews |
| 18 | Michal Handzus |
| 18 | Mike Bossy |
| 18 | Mike Modano |
| 18 | Mikko Koivu |
| 18 | Sergei Fedorov |
| 18 | Steve Yzerman |
| 17 | Brandon Dubinsky |
| 17 | Brendan Shanahan |
| 17 | Bryan Trottier |
| 17 | Daniel Sedin |
| 17 | Doug Gilmour |
| 17 | Loui Eriksson |
| 17 | Mike Fisher |
| 17 | Olli Jokinen |
| 17 | Ryan Suter |
| 17 | Saku Koivu |
| 17 | Scott Niedermayer |
| 17 | Scott Stevens |
| 17 | Teppo Numminen |
| 16 | Blake Wheeler |
| 16 | Brent Sutter |
| 16 | David Krejci |
| 16 | Jordan Staal |
| 16 | Keith Tkachuk |
| 16 | Ray Whitney |
| 16 | Ryan O'Reilly |
| 16 | Teemu Selanne |
| 16 | Thomas Steen |
| 16 | Todd Marchant |
| 15 | Alex Kovalev |
| 15 | Brent Seabrook |
| 15 | Jason Spezza |
| 15 | Jeremy Roenick |
| 15 | Kelly Miller |
| 15 | Murray Craven |
| 15 | Nicklas Lidstrom |
| 15 | P.J. Axelsson |
| 15 | Patrick Kane |
| 15 | Tomas Plekanec |
| 15 | Vincent Lecavalier |
Gretzky is probably happy to let Ron Francis have this record. 1415 cheap goals were left unassisted.
Highest cheap points in a season 1979-1980 to 2017-2018
| player | season | cheap points |
| Jaromir Jagr | 2000-2001 | 10 |
| Wayne Gretzky | 1986-1987 | 9 |
| Mike Ridley | 1992-1993 | 9 |
| Keith Tkachuk | 1996-1997 | 9 |
| Mario Lemieux | 1996-1997 | 9 |
| Pavel Bure | 1999-2000 | 9 |
| Jamie Benn | 2015-2016 | 9 |
| Eric Staal | 2016-2017 | 9 |
| Craig Ramsay | 1979-1980 | 8 |
| Wayne Gretzky | 1988-1989 | 8 |
| Theo Fleury | 1997-1998 | 8 |
| Mike Modano | 2002-2003 | 8 |
| Alex Ovechkin | 2008-2009 | 8 |
| Eric Staal | 2009-2010 | 8 |
| Olli Jokinen | 2011-2012 | 8 |
| Joe Thornton | 2014-2015 | 8 |
| Jean-Gabriel Pageau | 2015-2016 | 8 |
| Patrick Kane | 2016-2017 | 8 |
| Sidney Crosby | 2017-2018 | 8 |
| Vincent Trocheck | 2017-2018 | 8 |
I cut it off at the 20 seasons of 8 or more cheap points as there were 40 seasons of 7! Jaromir Jagr is the only player with double digit cheap points in a season (from 1979-1980 to 2017-2018).
Season by season cheap points leaders 1979-1980 to 2017-2018
| season | player(s) | cheap points |
| 1979-1980 | Craig Ramsey | 8 |
| 1980-1981 | Bryan Trottier Mike Bossy Wayne Gretzky | 7 |
| 1981-1982 | Mike Bossy | 7 |
| 1982-1983 | Paul Coffey Ron Francis | 5 |
| 1983-1984 | Wayne Gretzky | 7 |
| 1984-1985 | Dwight Foster | 6 |
| 1985-1986 | Murray Craven Troy Murray Wayne Gretzky | 6 |
| 1986-1987 | Wayne Gretzky | 9 |
| 1987-1988 | Denis Savard | 6 |
| 1988-1989 | Wayne Gretzky | 8 |
| 1989-1990 | Brent Sutter | 7 |
| 1990-1991 | Ray Bourque | 7 |
| 1991-1992 | Mike Ridley Wayne Gretzky | 7 |
| 1992-1993 | Mike Ridley | 9 |
| 1993-1994 | Brendan Shanahan | 6 |
| 1994-1995 | Dino Ciccarelli Keith Primeau | 4 |
| 1995-1996 | Keith Tkachuk | 7 |
| 1996-1997 | Keith Tkachuk Mario Lemieux | 9 |
| 1997-1998 | Theo Fleury | 8 |
| 1998-1999 | Alexei Yashin Chris Pronger Craig Conroy Tony Amonte | 5 |
| 1999-2000 | Pavel Bure | 9 |
| 2000-2001 | Jaromir Jagr | 10 |
| 2001-2002 | Bryan Smolinski | 6 |
| 2002-2003 | Mike Modano | 8 |
| 2003-2004 | Jason Blake Mike Peca | 6 |
| 2005-2006 | Michal Handzus Vinny Prospal | 5 |
| 2006-2007 | Jarome Iginla | 7 |
| 2007-2008 | Evgeni Malkin | 6 |
| 2008-2009 | Alex Ovechkin | 8 |
| 2009-2010 | Eric Staal | 8 |
| 2010-2011 | Nicklas Backstrom Patrice Bergeron | 7 |
| 2011-2012 | Olli Jokinen | 8 |
| 2012-2013 | Blake Wheeler | 5 |
| 2013-2014 | Andrew Cogliano Jarome Iginla Max Pacioretty | 6 |
| 2014-2015 | Joe Thronton | 8 |
| 2015-2016 | Jamie Benn | 9 |
| 2016-2017 | Eric Staal | 9 |
| 2017-2018 | Sidney Crosby Vincent Trocheck | 8 |
Iafrate point leader different from scoring leader
- 1979-1980 (was tied): Wayne Gretzky 134 (Marcel Dionne 132)
- 1994-1995 (was tied): Eric Lindros 68 and Jaromir Jagr 68
- 2000-2001: Joe Sakic 116 (Jaromir Jagr 111)
- 2002-2003: Markus Naslund 104 and Peter Forsberg 104
- 2014-2015: Jamie Benn 84 and John Tavares 84
Technically speaking Guy Chouinard and Steve Shutt scored more points in the time frame without scoring a cheap point but since their careers predate 1979-1980 I cannot give them such an honor without confirming
Al Iafrate himself unfortunately scored 3 cheap points
| date | team | opponent | goal | first assist | second assist | period | time | situation |
| 12/15/87 | toronto maple leafs | washington capitals | ed olczyk | al iafrate | tom fergus | 3rd | 19:51 | ev |
| 2/18/92 | washington capitals | san jose sharks | al iafrate | dale hunter | kelly miller | 3rd | 19:25 | ev |
| 12/5/92 | washington capitals | new york islanders | mike ridley | dale hunter | al iafrate | 3rd | 19:52 | ev |
I bet the goal is an error in scorer transcription and I can only imagine what happened in the locker room after the game after the other two empty net goals were scored
No excuse for these cheap points
I know some of you will come at me with the talk that cheap points are valuable for ensuring the win. Well these guys don't even have that going for them. These are the empty net goals (not at weird times discussed below) that didn't win the game in regulation (four empty net goals were actually scored in games where the player's team lost but they were all at weird times):
| date | team | opponent | location | result | goal | first assist | second assist | period | time |
| 12/30/88 | minnesota north stars | st louis blues | road | tie | marc habscheid | neal broten | brian maclellan | 3rd | 19:27 |
| 11/24/08 | new york islanders | montreal canadiens | road | win (so) | bill guerin | 3rd | 15:13 | ||
| 4/4/10 | vancouver canucks | minnesota wild | home | win (ot) | alexander edler | 3rd | 19:05 |
Empty net goals due to brilliant coaching (brought to you by Patrick Roy)
Coaches having been pulling the goalie earlier in recent seasons but I remember that Patrick Roy was on another level at doing this and even though it worked sometimes it seemed to backfire just as much and I never understood why (maybe he was still traumatized by a game where he felt he should have been pulled earlier
). So here are the empty net goals at really weird times (not in the last 5 minutes of the third):| date | team | opponent | result | goal | first assist | second assist | period | time |
| 11/28/79 | new york islanders | colorado rockies | loss | billy smith | 3rd | 4:50 | ||
| 11/29/87 | new york rangers | new york islanders | win | david shaw | 2nd | 8:59 | ||
| 3/27/88 | new jersey devils | new york rangers | win | pat conacher | randy velischek | claude loiselle | 3rd | 14:43 |
| 4/1/89 | st louis blues | toronto maple leafs | win (ot) | gino cavallini | bernie federko | greg paslawski | ot | 4:10 |
| 4/2/89 | pittsburgh penguins | philadelphia flyers | win (ot) | mario lemieux | troy loney | ot | 3:38 | |
| 4/16/92 | winnipeg jets (1979) | san jose sharks | win | ed olczyk | 2nd | 19:46 | ||
| 4/12/93 | washington capitals | montreal canadiens | win (ot) | mike ridley | bob carpenter | kevin hatcher | ot | 4:12 |
| 11/2/93 | detroit red wings | boston bruins | win | paul coffey | 2nd | 3:30 | ||
| 12/4/97 | new jersey devils | pittsburgh penguins | win | bob carpenter | kevin dean | 3rd | 8:44 | |
| 11/25/98 | toronto maple leafs | vancouver canucks | win | dmitry yushkevich | 3rd | 10:58 | ||
| 12/29/98 | montreal canadiens | edmonton oilers | win | mark recchi | 1st | 5:56 | ||
| 1/2/99 | ottawa senators | new jersey devils | win | damian rhodes | 1st | 8:14 | ||
| 2/15/00 | new jersey devils | philadelphia flyers | win | martin brodeur | 3rd | 9:43 | ||
| 4/7/00 | edmonton oilers | vancouver canucks | win | rem murray | ot | 4:01 | ||
| 3/25/03 | columbus blue jackets | los angeles kings | win (ot) | andrew cassels | ot | 4:12 | ||
| 12/31/05 | mighty ducks of anaheim | st louis blues | win (so) | vitaly vishnevski | 2nd | 7:27 | ||
| 4/15/06 | nashville predators | phoenix coyotes | win | chris mason | 3rd | 10:47 | ||
| 1/16/08 | chicago blackhawks | st louis blues | win | patrick kane | robert lang | brent seabrook | 3rd | 14:38 |
| 3/21/09 | phoenix coyotes | vancouver canucks | win | viktor tikhonov | 2nd | 10:30 | ||
| 1/12/14 | edmonton oilers | chicago blackhawks | loss | boyd gordon | 2nd | 11:29 | ||
| 3/29/14 | buffalo sabres | tampa bay lightning | loss (ot) | cory conacher | 3rd | 8:14 | ||
| 11/28/14 | vancouver canucks | columbus blue jackets | win | brad richardson | nick bonino | 3rd | 14:38 | |
| 12/20/14 | vancouver canucks | calgary flames | win (ot) | yannick weber | 1st | 4:40 | ||
| 2/19/15 | washington capitals | winnipeg jets (2011) | win | troy brouwer | 3rd | 13:33 | ||
| 2/24/15 | nashville predators | colorado avalanche | win | eric nystrom | roman josi | 3rd | 8:28 | |
| 3/17/15 | st louis blues | calgary flames | win | david backes | 3rd | 14:25 | ||
| 1/26/16 | san jose sharks | colorado avalanche | win | paul martin | brent burns | 3rd | 8:21 | |
| 2/4/16 | florida panthers | detroit red wings | win | vincent trocheck | reilly smith | jussi jokinen | 3rd | 14:19 |
| 2/21/16 | minnesota wild | chicago blackhawks | win | erik haula | 3rd | 13:49 | ||
| 2/21/16 | vancouver canucks | colorado avalanche | win | chris tanev | henrik sedin | daniel sedin | 3rd | 11:37 |
| 3/22/16 | dallas stars | chicago blackhawks | win | cody eakin | jamie benn | 3rd | 13:48 | |
| 3/26/16 | minnesota wild | colorado avalanche | win | mikael granlund | erik haula | 3rd | 11:06 | |
| 4/9/16 | ottawa senators | boston bruins | win | jean-gabriel pageau | 3rd | 11:33 | ||
| 4/9/16 | ottawa senators | boston bruins | win | zack smith | jean-gabriel pageau | 3rd | 14:29 | |
| 10/15/16 | calgary flames | vancouver canucks | loss (so) | troy brouwer | 1st | 9:14 | ||
| 12/13/16 | dallas stars | anaheim ducks | win | radek faksa | jordie benn | 3rd | 13:57 | |
| 1/5/17 | nashville predators | tampa bay lightning | win | colton sissons | calle jarnkrok | 3rd | 14:02 | |
| 1/14/17 | st louis blues | san jose sharks | win | alex steen | jaden schwartz | kevin shattenkirk | 3rd | 14:37 |
| 2/9/17 | ottawa senators | dallas stars | win | chris kelly | 1st | 17:55 |
Some are likely own goals and I'd imagine the overtime ones were due to pulling the goalie to try and win for playoff positioning but yeah...
Wouldn't a shooter tutor be better than a goalie who lets in empty net goals?
| date | team | opponent | goal | first assist | second assist | goalie | period | time |
| 10/14/16 | edmonton oilers | calgary flames | leon draisaitl | milan lucic | darnell nurse | brian elliott | 3rd | 18:40 |
| 11/30/16 | new york islanders | pittsburgh penguins | nikolai kulemin | casey cizikas | matt murray | 3rd | 19:36 | |
| 1/16/17 | san jose sharks | winnipeg jets (2011) | joe thornton | michael hutchinson | 3rd | 19:50 | ||
| 2/4/17 | pittsburgh penguins | st louis blues | sidney crosby | jake allen | 3rd | 19:42 | ||
| 11/3/17 | nashville predators | anaheim ducks | p.k. subban | pekka rinne | austin watson | john gibson | 3rd | 19:42 |
| 11/21/17 | dallas stars | montreal canadiens | tyler seguin | alexander radulov | charlie lindgren | 3rd | 19:33 | |
| 12/1/17 | winnipeg jets (2011) | vegas golden knights | kyle connor | mark scheifele | blake wheeler | maxime lagace | 3rd | 18:52 |
| 12/14/17 | columbus blue jackets | new york islanders | josh anderson | thomas greiss | 3rd | 19:59 | ||
| 12/22/17 | florida panthers | minnesota wild | jonathan huberdeau | aleksander barkov | alex stalock | 3rd | 19:54 | |
| 2/2/18 | minnesota wild | vegas golden knights | eric staal | mathew dumba | jonas brodin | devan dubnyk | 3rd | 18:31 |
| 2/16/18 | new york islanders | carolina hurricanes | john tavares | cam ward | 3rd | 19:28 | ||
| 2/24/18 | washington capitals | buffalo sabres | lars eller | alex chiasson | matt niskanen | robin lehner | 3rd | 17:48 |
| 3/8/18 | san jose sharks | st louis blues | tomas hertl | brent burns | jake allen | 3rd | 19:45 |
This is either scorer transcription error or perhaps they are now starting to call it a goal against the goalie and an empty net goal when the goalie is out of the net but hasn't made it to the bench but it must suck to be a goalie that lets in empty net goals.
ALL OF THIS IS JUST JOKES AND INTERESTING STATS NO OFFENSE TO ANY PLAYERS OR ANYONE :]
