ninety - one nhl players have scored 50 goals in a season.
how many nhl players have scored 50 goals in a season?
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while playing for boston in the 1970s, phil esposito scored 50 goals in five consecutive seasons, led by a then-nhl record 76 goals in . by 1980, 24 players had reached the mark. mike bossy of the new york islanders joined richard as the second man in nhl history to score 50 goals in 50 games in . he did so by scoring two goals in the final five minutes of the islanders' 50th game. bossy, who had set a league rookie-scoring record with 53 goals in , surpassed the 50-goal mark in each of his first nine nhl seasons. the 1980s represented one of the highest scoring eras in nhl history: on 76 occasions, a player scored 50 goals in a season. wayne gretzky was responsible for nine of those occasions, including his league-record 92 goals in . in that season, gretzky scored five goals in his 39th game of the season to total 50, bettering richard and bossy by 11 games as the fastest to reach the mark.
list of nhl players with 50-goal seasons