What are some funny and mind blowing NHL facts?

[Michel Beauchamp]

Ken Dryden won the Conn Smythe before he won the Calder...

 

[Michel Beauchamp]

The St Louis Blues made it to the Stanley Cup finals their fist 3 years in existence.

You really should add a bit of context to that one.

One of the six expansion had to be in the Finals during those three seasons.

 

[Michel Beauchamp]

The blues have made the playoffs in 42 of 50 seasons in the NHL, made the scf their first 3 seasons in the NHL and the bruins haven't missed the playoffs in 3 straight years since 1958-1960.

They missed the playoffs in 8 consecutive seasons in the 60s...

 

[Michel Beauchamp]

Here's one for the "lol rebuilding since 1967" crowd.
The Leafs simply didn't lose enough games from 1967-2008 to have anything resembling a rebuild with top tier picks.
2007-8 was the first time since the 1927-28 season that they missed the playoffs more than two seasons in a row.
This includes the horror that were the Ballard years, where the team was practically sabotaged by ownership.
Always being within striking distance of the playoffs meant being a team more likely to retool than rebuild.

Another urban legend.

The Leafs made the playoffs with some awful records in the 1980s.

25-48-7 in 1985-86 and 21-49-10 in 1987-88 come to mind.

 

[Analyst365]

It takes 2542 games and 6 months to determine the seedings for the season before it begins in April.

 

[Beville]

Mats Sundin is the only other player outside of Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux to have a scoring streak of 30+ games.

I thought all star Heatley did this too?

 

[Eisen]

Jahangir Khan is the most dominant athlete in history. His dominance over the sport of squash throughout the 1980s cannot be matched. From 1981 to 1986 he went unbeaten, which is an incredible achievement given the regularity of squash matches. In that time, he was undefeated in 555 matches, a record which stands in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sport. Kahn won the World Open six times and the British Open ten times. Jahangir Kahn once won the World Championships without dropping a single game, an indication of his sheer dominance.

Winning 555 squash matches in a row does not have an equivalent in any sport period. The closest my mind can get in regards to hockey would be if a player went on a 3 season point streak.

There are a couple of freak athletes like that out there. Edwin Moses, "The Experiment" Karelin, Don Bradman etc. They were all the very peak of their sports. To me it's impossible to just declare one the absolute best athlete over all sports ever.

 

[Ben Matlock]

Patrick Roy career save %
Regular season: .912
Playoffs: .918

Mike Smith career save %
Regular season: .913
Playoffs: .945

 

[Hennessy]

Wayne and Brent Gretzky are the highest scoring brothers in NHL history. Brent had 4 career points.

Not only that, they are also the 3rd highest-scoring family behind the Hulls and Sutters and ahead of the Stastnys and Howes.

 

[NotProkofievian]

Marc Bergevin is still employed as a GM in the NHL.

 

[TomasHertlsRooster]

I didn't know this but found out the NHL doesn't own the Stanley Cup.

In the event of a lock out season, the Trustees of the Cup can award the trophy to a non NHL team. Whether they would or not is another matter but it appears there is a legal path to do so.

Of all of the posts in this thread, this is my absolutely favorite, and the coolest tidbit of "new information that I wasn't aware of", in my opinion.

 

[Habby Gilmore]

It’s crazy to think that if Gretzky had never scored a single NHL goal he’d still be the highest scoring player ever. That’s just nuts!

 

[triggrman]

Top 3 teams in the West are all in the Central.

 

[LordNeverLose]

Edmonton Gretzky had 1669 points, which would be good for 8th all time (behind only Jagr, Messier, Howe, Francis, Dionne, Yzerman, and Lemieux)

LA/STL/NY Gretzky had 1188 points, which would be good for 47th all time (ahead of guys like Fedorov, Bobby Hull, and Bossy)



You could cut his career in half, and each half would be a HOF worthy career on its own. Mind-blowing.

 

[brachyrynchos]

Tom Barrasso has the most career assists (48) by a goaltender. 777 games
Grant Fuhr is second with 47 helpers, 868 games
Martin Brodeur holds the record for the most goals ever scored by a goalie. 2 in the regular season, and 1 in the playoffs. EDIT- his 2nd goal is the only game winning goal by a goalie.

 

[brachyrynchos]

Grant Fuhr has the most career playoff assists (14), 150 games, by a goalie
Brodeur is 2nd, with 12. 205 games.

 

[brachyrynchos]

Ron Hextall and Martin Brodeur share the lead for playoff goals scored by a goalie, 1 each.

 

[Tom Hanks]

Brooks Laich married Julieanne Hough.

 

[NORiculous]

Brett Hull scored 741 goals in his career (1269 games). But it took him 500 games before he scored an empty net goal.

 

[Tofveve]

Theo Fleury's Flame record for plus/minus in a game of +9 is only good for the second best to Tom Bladon who had a +10 on Dec. 11th, 1977 which wasn't the game Darryl set the single-game point record in.

I hadn't heard of Tom Bladon either. Also, shameless plug of Theo Fleury yet again by me.

 

[NORiculous]

Tony Twist needed 6 seasons to score his first (NHL) goal.

 

[Tofveve]

Paul Coffey isn't a drink at Starbucks.

Eddie Beers isn't a hoppy pint.

 

[Tofveve]

There have been several 50 goal scorers throughout the NHL history but no one line has produced three 50 goal scorers in a single season.

That almost happened in '92-'93 with the Buffalo Sabres as Alexander Mogilny and Pat Lafontaine each scored over 50 goals and David Andreychuk was trending that way however he was traded mid-season to the Maple Leafs (where he finished with over 50 goals).

We came so close in 87/88

Calgary Flames 1987-88 roster and scoring statistics at hockeydb.com

Niewendyk 51, Loob 50, Bullard 48

 

[NewLife]

-30 C = -22 F
-30 F = -34 C

So he is colder either way

Fahrenheit breaks my brain.

 

[Tofveve]

Craig Simpsons sister, TV personality Christine Simpson, was formerly married to a man also named Craig Simpson.

The strangest part is he was her brother.

Spoiler

j/k