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Earlier this year Kris Letang recorded 6 assists in a game - 5 of them in the 2nd period. This tied a record that is shared with Dale Hawerchuk from 1984 for 5 assists in a period. Look, nothing wrong with Letang, but he is older and this just came from nowhere. He even had a minor penalty in the 2nd period, but still got 5 assists, all at even strength. That happens sometimes. There can be a game where a player just has some insane stats that they never get any other time and never do it again. Letang may very well be in the Hall of Fame, we don't know yet, but no one predicted he would have a night with 5 assists in a period!
Other things that come to mind with this:
Jason Spezza on that infamous March 2004 game vs. Philly where they just all kept fighting in the 3rd period (man I miss the days when the NHL had passion and they could hate each other) had the most penalty minutes in the game out of anyone - 35. There are several seasons Spezza played where he had less penalty minutes all season than the 35 in this game.
Adam Deadmarsh in October of 2001 had 5 points early in the 2nd period. He ended up with 5 points in the game, but still I can remember this because they were updating this in the game I was watching that night and I can remember them saying "Adam Deadmarsh has 5 points midway through the 2nd" and there was an insinuation that he could take a crack at Sittler's record. I clearly remember thinking how unusual it was that someone like Deadmarsh had a game like that no matter how freak it was. I guess he did have a career high 62 points that year, but still.
Ray Ferraro not to be outdone had a 5 point 1st period against New Jersey in December of 1989. He too never threatened Sittler's record and ended with 5 points in the game. Ferraro had a better career than Deadmarsh and was more likely to have goal outbursts, but not 5 points in the 1st period. Even Sittler in his 10 point night had just two assists in the 1st period.
Mike Rupp had a goal and two assists in Game 7 of the 2003 Cup final. He was in on all three goals in a 3-0 win. He had 8 career playoff points in 67 games but three of them were in the most important game of his life. On a side note I have no idea how he was the 9th overall pick in the 1998 draft. I know NHL GMs were obsessed about size back then to the point where they sacrificed skill, but 1998 was a good draft and plenty of good players were taken after him. He wasn't even a decent scorer in junior. But he did good the night he won the Cup.
Steve Yzerman had an 11 game point streak at the end of the 2006 season - his last. He had 34 points that year with a bad knee that forced him to retire. This was a longer point streak than anything he did in the 1990 and 1991 seasons.
I liked Martin Gelinas, the Stanley Cup final seemed to follow him around like a bad cold. He managed to be on some teams that went deep. He was serviceable, but he was what he was. But in 2004 he scored the goal that was the game winner in all three series the Flames won, two of them in overtime. They were calling him the "Eliminator".
Mel Hill did a similar thing, but in a more compressed time. Three overtime goals scored in the series vs. the Rangers en route to winning the Cup. It is how he got the nickname Mel "Sudden death" Hill. But it came out of nowhere.
Other things that come to mind with this:
Jason Spezza on that infamous March 2004 game vs. Philly where they just all kept fighting in the 3rd period (man I miss the days when the NHL had passion and they could hate each other) had the most penalty minutes in the game out of anyone - 35. There are several seasons Spezza played where he had less penalty minutes all season than the 35 in this game.
Adam Deadmarsh in October of 2001 had 5 points early in the 2nd period. He ended up with 5 points in the game, but still I can remember this because they were updating this in the game I was watching that night and I can remember them saying "Adam Deadmarsh has 5 points midway through the 2nd" and there was an insinuation that he could take a crack at Sittler's record. I clearly remember thinking how unusual it was that someone like Deadmarsh had a game like that no matter how freak it was. I guess he did have a career high 62 points that year, but still.
Ray Ferraro not to be outdone had a 5 point 1st period against New Jersey in December of 1989. He too never threatened Sittler's record and ended with 5 points in the game. Ferraro had a better career than Deadmarsh and was more likely to have goal outbursts, but not 5 points in the 1st period. Even Sittler in his 10 point night had just two assists in the 1st period.
Mike Rupp had a goal and two assists in Game 7 of the 2003 Cup final. He was in on all three goals in a 3-0 win. He had 8 career playoff points in 67 games but three of them were in the most important game of his life. On a side note I have no idea how he was the 9th overall pick in the 1998 draft. I know NHL GMs were obsessed about size back then to the point where they sacrificed skill, but 1998 was a good draft and plenty of good players were taken after him. He wasn't even a decent scorer in junior. But he did good the night he won the Cup.
Steve Yzerman had an 11 game point streak at the end of the 2006 season - his last. He had 34 points that year with a bad knee that forced him to retire. This was a longer point streak than anything he did in the 1990 and 1991 seasons.
I liked Martin Gelinas, the Stanley Cup final seemed to follow him around like a bad cold. He managed to be on some teams that went deep. He was serviceable, but he was what he was. But in 2004 he scored the goal that was the game winner in all three series the Flames won, two of them in overtime. They were calling him the "Eliminator".
Mel Hill did a similar thing, but in a more compressed time. Three overtime goals scored in the series vs. the Rangers en route to winning the Cup. It is how he got the nickname Mel "Sudden death" Hill. But it came out of nowhere.
