<P> The first NHL season in which a player scored 100 points was the 1968 -- 69 season : on March 2 , 1969 , Phil Esposito scored his hundredth point of the season . Esposito finished the season with 126 points , and two other players achieved 100 points that season : Bobby Hull , who finished with 107 points , and Gordie Howe , who finished with 103 points . ( All three scored goals to reach the milestone . ) The first ( of only five ) defencemen to reach the 100 - point mark in the NHL was Bobby Orr , in the 1969 -- 70 season . </P>
<P> The first NHL season in which a player scored 100 points was the 1968 -- 69 season : on March 2 , 1969 , Phil Esposito scored his hundredth point of the season . Esposito finished the season with 126 points , and two other players achieved 100 points that season : Bobby Hull , who finished with 107 points , and Gordie Howe , who finished with 103 points . ( All three scored goals to reach the milestone . ) The first ( of only five ) defencemen to reach the 100 - point mark in the NHL was Bobby Orr , in the 1969 -- 70 season . </P>
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Phil Esposito
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