query: is_a_list_of list of career achievements by wayne gretzky
supports: The National Hockey League (NHL) is a professional ice hockey league currently composed of 31 member clubs. Of the 30 clubs currently playing, 23 are in the United States and 7 in Canada. Headquartered in New York City, the NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the end of each season. This is a list of career achievements by Wayne Gretzky in the National Hockey League . Upon his retirement on 18 April 1999 , Gretzky held or shared 61 National Hockey League records . These records include 40 regular season , 15 playoff , and six All - star records . Gretzky set impressive records in both regular season and post-season play , holding the record for most career regular season goals ( 894 ) , assists ( 1,963 ) , points ( 2,857 ) , and hat tricks ( 50 ) . The next closest player in total points for the regular season is sometime teammate Mark Messier at 1,887 -- thus Gretzky had more career assists than any other player has total points . Gretzky 's point total including regular season and playoffs stands at an imposing 3,239 . His 47 playoff points in 1985 and 31 assists in 1988 are still records for a single post-season round , and he holds the record for career playoff goals ( 122 ) , assists ( 260 ) , points ( 382 ) , hat tricks ( 10 ) , and game - winning goals ( 24 ) . Wayne Gretzky Holds 60 Official NHL Records & 113 Un-Official Records for a Total of 173 Records in Pro Hockey . Here is a complete list of official records Gretzky held or shared at the time of his retirement : The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff winner. Originally commissioned in 1892 as the "Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup", the trophy is named for Lord Stanley of Preston, thenGovernor General of Canada, who awarded it to Canada's top-ranking amateur ice hockey club, which the entire Stanley family supported, with the sons and daughters playing and promoting the game. The first Cup was awarded in 1893 to Montreal HC, and subsequent winners from 1893 to 1914 were determined by challenge games and league play. Professional teams first became eligible to challenge for the Stanley Cup in 1906. In 1915, the two professional ice hockey organizations, the National Hockey Association (NHA) and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA), reached a gentlemen's agreement in which their respective champions would face each other annually for the Stanley Cup. After a series of league mergers and folds, it was established as the "de facto" championship trophy of the NHL in 1926 and then the "de jure" NHL championship prize in 1947. Wayne Douglas Gretzky (born January 26, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach. He played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for four teams from 1979 to 1999. Nicknamed "The Great One", he has been called "the greatest hockey player ever" by many sportswriters, players, and the NHL itself. He is the leading scorer in NHL history, with more goals and assists than any other player. He scored more assists than any other player scored total points, and is the only NHL player to total over 200 points in one season  a feat he accomplished four times. In addition, he tallied over 100 points in 16 professional seasons, 14 of them consecutive. At the time of his retirement in 1999, he held 61 NHL records: 40 regular-season records, 15 playoff records, and six All-Star records. As of 2014, he still holds 60 NHL records. The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over a land area of just , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. A global power city, New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term "New York minute". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world.
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