Non-Hall of Fame players who had amazing scoring streaks

The Panther

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Title is self-explanatory.

Jimmy Carson
-- 93 NHL goals as a teenager (99 if you include playoffs)
-- In the calendar year 1988 (aged 19-20), between L.A. and Edmonton, he scored 68 goals in 84 games (RS and playoffs). 1988 thus accounts for one quarter of his career goals (he played 681 NHL games).

Chris Kontos
-- Brought back by the Kings from the Swiss League late in 1988-89, he managed 1 assist in his first five games back. Then, he scored 11 goals in his next 10 games (nine of those in the playoffs).
-- After bouncing around international hockey and the IHL/AHL, expansion Tampa Bay signed him for the 1992-93 season. He scored 18 goals in his first 18 games. Four months later he played his last NHL game.

Dave Lumley
-- Had scored 3 goals in his previous 39 games, before scoring 18 goals in 14 games (and 36 points!) in November/December of 1981, including goals in twelve consecutive games. Then, they took him off Gretzky's line...

Rob Brown
-- 1988-89, obviously: scored 24 points in his first 10 games, ending up with 115 points in 68 games (that's a pace for 135 points) riding shotgun with Mario. (He got 80 points the next season, and after that was basically a third-liner.)

Bernie Nicholls
-- Like Carson, he was a really super-talented player... unlike Carson, he had a long, productive career, producing big for a long time. Nevertheless, it's his final 137 games for L.A. from 1988-1990 that dazzle. In this 137 games (including 11 playoff games), Nicholls scored 241 points, including 104 goals.

John Druce
-- Had a decent NHL career for about a decade, but he'll forever be remembered for the 1990 playoffs with Washington, when he scored 14 goals in 15 games (actually 14 in 14, but he failed to score the night the Caps were eliminated). For the rest of his playoff career, he scored 3 goals in 38 games, and in the regular season he broke the 20-goal barrier once in ten years.

Blaine Stoughton
-- ex-WHA regular came back to the NHL with Hartford in 1979-80. Scored 196 goals in Hartford's first four season, including 33 goals in his final 41 games of 1979-80.

Brent Sutter
-- known more for gritty two-way play than outright scoring, Sutter had a statistically big year in 1984-85 (partly due to centering Mike Bossy). Scored 31 points in his first 11 games of the season (!), ending up with 102 at season's end.



Who else??
 

Michael Farkas

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Ok, so not actual streaks, just periods of hot, hot heat.

Claude Lemieux had a 6 goal, 19 point season in 1995...he had a 13 goal, 16 point playoffs in less than half as many games.

In 1997 with Colorado, he had another 45-game season that netted just 11 goals...he went onto to lead the 1997 playoffs in goals as well, with 13...
 

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432010-01-05VANCBJW303302010
442010-01-07VANPHXW303303001
452010-01-09VANCGYL-SO011000000
462010-01-11VANNSHL2021161100
472010-01-13VAN@MINL101-141000
482010-01-16VANPITW101220010
492010-01-20VAN@EDMW101020100
502010-01-21VANDALW101100010
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522010-01-25VANBUFW011200000
532010-01-27VANSTLW000000000
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^ last two columns are SH and GWG

totals—

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131572217269241
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monsieur alex burrows, four shorthanded goals in a calendar month
 

brachyrynchos

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1992-93 Pierre Turgeon:
started the season with a 12 game point streak (6-14-20), ended the season with a 14 game point streak (13-9-22).
Never went more than 2 consecutive games that season without a point and had at least a point in 71 of his 83 games (36/42 at the halfway mark, 35/41 the second half).
 

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the brief period when todd bertuzzi was the best player in the league, bar none—

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Charlie Simmer comes to mind. In 1979-80, he set the modern NHL record for longest goal-scoring streak, with goals in 13 consecutive games.
 

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Tony Currie in the 1981 playoffs....

He has the St Louis Blues record for consecutive playoff games with a point (same season) at 9 games

Currie has the record for most consecutive playoff games with multiple points at 7 games.

Currie still shares the Blues playoff record for consecutive games with an assist as well at 7 games
 

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Bronco Horvath scored 33 points in 22 games in 1960, the longest point streak until Guy Lafleur broke it over 15 years later.

Horvath finished tied for 1st in NHL goals (with Hull), 2nd in points (1 point behind Hull), playing for a non-playoff Bruins squad whose only other HHOF forward was young Bucyk. Two years prior, Horvath had led the NHL in regular season even strength goals, quite a feat given powerhouses Habs and Wings.
 
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YEM

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Mikael Renberg had 1 point in his first 6 games in 95-96
he had 56 points in the next 40 games, 26 of them goals
 

Normand Lacombe

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Mikael Renberg had 1 point in his first 6 games in 95-96
he had 56 points in the next 40 games, 26 of them goals

Slight correction. Renberg recorded 7 points in his first 6 games of 95-96. It was the season before that he produced 1 point in 6 games.
 

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Loob in the closing 16 games of the 87–88 season had 33 points. But I feel everyone has these kinda streaks, at least everyone with upper echelon potential. Even Thomas Vanek streaked for the Ross at one time. This is why Henrik Sedin (along with Anze Kopitar) got mocked on these very boards when he lead (and later won) the scoring race in 09–10.

I remember when Michael Grabner was hot like thousand burning suns, but now when I look back on it on hockey-reference.com it only lasted 6 games (13 points, of which 10 were goals). He had a mini streak two weeks or so prior though with 5 goals in 4 games.
 

Big Phil

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Fernando Pisani comes to mind in the 1996 playoffs.

Saku Koivu where he was leading the NHL in points into December before he got hurt in 1996-'97. Nothing remotely close to that afterwards.
 

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Fernando Pisani comes to mind in the 1996 playoffs.

Saku Koivu where he was leading the NHL in points into December before he got hurt in 1996-'97. Nothing remotely close to that afterwards.
Saku did, though, lead the '98 Olympics and '06 Olympics in scoring, as well as the '99 World Championships.
 

sr edler

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Saku did, though, lead the '98 Olympics and '06 Olympics in scoring, as well as the '99 World Championships.

And the 94–95 Liiga season with 19 points over the next guy despite playing 4–5 games less than the next few top scoring guys.
 

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The longest winning streak ever for a goaltender in an NHL regular season was by Gilles Gilbert, who backstopped a Don-Cherry-coached Bruins team to 17 consecutive wins in their divisional title winning 1975-76 season, led in scoring by HHOFers Ratelle and Bucyk (Orr played just 10 games that season, Esposito 12).

Gilles Gilbert.

Go figure.
 

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Rick Middleton's 1983 playoffs

11-22-33 in 17 games, including an incredible 19 points in 7 games against Buffalo.

still holds the record for most points and assists in a playoff series (19 and 14 respectively) from that Buffalo series
 

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Real "Buddy" Cloutier, the WHA's other young star not named Grezky actually led the NHL in points in the 81-82 season through the fist 11 games.

NHL.com - Stats

2 things come to mind with Cloutier for me

1) what would have happened had the WHA not exisited as he was an outstanding junior star basically putting up Lafleur type of stats in junior.

2) Quebec was only able to keep him when they entered the NHL by giving the Chicago Black Hawks(which had drafted him 9th overall in 1976 and owned his NHL rights) their first round pick which turned out to be Denis Savard.

Think about how the Montreal media would have gone even more mad by the Habs taking Wickenheiser and their new provincial rivals snagging spin-o-rama Savard and the Nordiques have a 1-2 punch of Stastny and Savard for a decade?
 
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In 2009-2019, Tom Gilbert had 2 goals and 15 points in the first 71 games of the season. In the final 11 games of the season he had 3 goals and 16 points.
 

vadim sharifijanov

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Patrick Lalime of Pittsburgh went 14-0-2 in his first 16 starts in the NHL in 1996-97. The 16 game unbeaten streak was the longest unbeaten streak to start an NHL career.

which reminds me, in the 2002-'03 season giguere had not one but two of the most ridiculous goaltending streaks i've ever seen.

there is this of course—

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22003-04-12DETW23634.944060:00
32003-04-14DETW13736.973060:00
42003-04-16DETW23432.941066:53
52003-04-24DALW36360.9520140:48
62003-04-26DALW23129.935061:42
72003-04-28DALL23230.938059:48
82003-04-30DALW028281.000160:00
92003-05-03DALL31916.842040:00
102003-05-05DALW32926.897060:00
112003-05-10MINW039391.000188:06
122003-05-12MINW024241.000160:00
132003-05-14MINW035351.000160:00
142003-05-16MINW12524.960059:58
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but there was also this—

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262002-12-11WSHW026261.000160:00
272002-12-15PITW019191.000160:00
282002-12-18STLW24644.957060:00
292002-12-19LAKL53631.861058:57
302002-12-22PHXW024241.000159:57
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and then the next season there was brian boucher—

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92003-12-31LAKW021211.000159:55
102004-01-02DALW035351.000160:00
112004-01-04CARW026261.000159:55
122004-01-07WSHW027271.000160:00
132004-01-09MINW021211.000160:00
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brachyrynchos

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Rick Middleton's 1983 playoffs

11-22-33 in 17 games, including an incredible 19 points in 7 games against Buffalo.

still holds the record for most points and assists in a playoff series (19 and 14 respectively) from that Buffalo series
Yeah, Middleton was on a totally different level that postseason and ridiculously consistent...only 2 games without a point (gm 6: 5-3 loss at Buffalo which ended his 9 game playoff point streak, and game 3 at the Coliseum vs the Isles, 7-3 loss), 15/17.
Middleton finished that '82-83 season with points in his last 3, which puts his streak at 12 games. He had a point in 8 of his last 9 regular season games. He was fantastic with Pederson. Cheers.
 

billybudd

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This isn't a streak, per se, but Brian Savage scored at about a 40 goal pace on his career in the month of October (he was a little over half that, if you include every other month). Many seasons, he'd end the first month of the season as a top 3-5 point scorer, which is something I often took advantage of in fantasy hockey leagues.
 

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