List of NHL records (individual)
This is a list of individual records recognized by the National Hockey League through the end of the 2018–19 NHL season.
Seasons
- Most seasons: Gordie Howe and Chris Chelios, 26
- Most playoff seasons: Chris Chelios, 24
- Most consecutive playoff seasons: Larry Robinson, and Nicklas Lidstrom,, 20
Games
- Most games: Gordie Howe, 1,767
- Most games, including playoffs: Mark Messier, 1,992
- Most playoff games: Chris Chelios, 266
- Most games played in a single NHL season, not including playoffs: Jimmy Carson and Bob Kudelski, 86
- Most consecutive games: Doug Jarvis, 964
- Most consecutive games by a defenseman: Jay Bouwmeester, 737
- Oldest player to play a game: Gordie Howe, 52 years, 11 days
- Most games by a coach in the Stanley Cup Final: Dick Irvin, Toronto, Montreal ), 77
- Most games played in the Finals: Red Kelly, Toronto ), Henri Richard, 65
- Most games won by a coach in the Stanley Cup Finals: Scotty Bowman, Pittsburgh, Detroit ), 36
- Most games coached by the first coach of an NHL expansion franchise: Barry Trotz, 1196
Stanley Cup
- Most Stanley Cup wins, as a player: Henri Richard Montreal Canadiens, 11
- Most Stanley Cup wins, as a non-player: Scotty Bowman ; Pittsburgh: 1991, 1992 ; Detroit: 1997, 98, 2002, 2008 ; Chicago: 2010, 13, 15 14
- Most Stanley Cup wins, combined player or non-player: Jean Beliveau, Montreal Canadiens, 17
- Player - Jack Marshall and Hap Holmes, 4
- Player/Non-Player - Al Arbour, 4
- Non-Player - Tommy Gorman ; Chicago: 1934 ; Montreal Maroons: 1935 ; Montreal Canadiens: 1944, 1946 and Scotty Bowman ; Pittsburgh: 1991, 1992 ; Detroit: 1997, 98, 2002, 2008 ; Chicago: 2010, 13, 15 4
NHL Awards
- Most Hart Memorial Trophies: Wayne Gretzky, 9
- Most consecutive Hart Memorial Trophies: Wayne Gretzky, 8
- Most Ted Lindsay Awards: Wayne Gretzky, 5
- Most consecutive Ted Lindsay Awards: Wayne Gretzky, 4
- Most Conn Smythe Trophies: Patrick Roy, 3
- Most consecutive Conn Smythe Trophies: Bernie Parent, Mario Lemieux, and Sidney Crosby: 2
- Most James Norris Trophies: Bobby Orr, 8
- Most consecutive James Norris Trophies: Bobby Orr, 8
- Most Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophies: Alexander Ovechkin, 9
- Most consecutive Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophies: Alexander Ovechkin, 4
- Most Art Ross Trophies: Wayne Gretzky, 10
- Most consecutive Art Ross Trophies: Wayne Gretzky, 7
- Most Frank J. Selke Trophies: Bob Gainey and Patrice Bergeron, 4
- Most consecutive Frank J. Selke Trophies: Bob Gainey, 4
- Most Lady Byng Trophies: Frank Boucher, 7
- Most consecutive Lady Byng Trophies: Frank Boucher and Pavel Datsyuk, 4
- Most William M Jennings Trophies: Patrick Roy, Martin Brodeur, 5
- Most consecutive William M Jennings Trophies: Patrick Roy and Brian Hayward, 3
- Most Vezina Trophies: Jacques Plante, 7
- Most consecutive Vezina Trophies: Jacques Plante, 5
- Most Jack Adams Awards: Pat Burns, 3
- Most consecutive Jack Adams Awards: Jacques Demers, 2
Goals
- Most goals career: Wayne Gretzky, 894
- Most goals playoffs career; Wayne Gretzky, 122
- Most goals career, including playoffs: Wayne Gretzky, 1,016
- Most goals, one season: Wayne Gretzky, 92
- Most goals, one season for a Rookie: Teemu Selänne, 76
- Most goals, in playoffs one season: Reggie Leach and Jari Kurri, 19
- Most goals, one season, including playoffs: Wayne Gretzky, 100
- Most goals, one playoff series: Jari Kurri , 12
- Most goals in a Stanley Cup Final: Cyclone Taylor, Frank Foyston, Babe Dye, 9
- Most goals in the Finals, career: Maurice Richard, 34
- Most goals, 50 games from start of season: Wayne Gretzky, 61
- Fastest 50 goals from start of season: Wayne Gretzky, 39 games
- Most goals, one regular season game: Joe Malone, 7
- Most goals, one regular season home game: Joe Malone, 7
- Most goals, one regular season road game: Red Berenson, 6
- Most goals, one playoff game: Newsy Lalonde, Maurice Richard, Darryl Sittler, Reggie Leach, and Mario Lemieux, 5
- Most goals, one home playoff game: Maurice Richard, Darryl Sittler, Reggie Leach, and Mario Lemieux, 5
- Most goals, one road playoff game: Newsy Lalonde, 5
- Most goals, one regular season game for a Rookie in their first game: Auston Matthews, 4
- Most goals scored by a single player in an expansion team's inaugural season: William Karlsson, 43
- Most goals, one period: Max Bentley, Busher Jackson, Clint Smith, Red Berenson, Wayne Gretzky, Grant Mulvey, Bryan Trottier, Tim Kerr, Al Secord, Joe Nieuwendyk, Peter Bondra, Mario Lemieux, and Patrick Marleau, 4
- Most goals, one playoff period: Tim Kerr and Mario Lemieux, 4
- Most goals in one period during the Finals: Busher Jackson, Ted Lindsay, Maurice Richard, Wayne Gretzky, Dirk Graham, and Peter Forsberg, 3
- Most goals in different ways: Mario Lemieux full strength, power-play, short-handed, penalty shot and empty net, 5
- Most game-winning goals in a season: Phil Esposito and Michel Goulet, 16
- Most game-winning goals in playoffs one season: Brad Richards, 7
- Most game-winning goals in a playoff series: Mike Bossy , 4
- Most game-winning goals career: Jaromir Jagr, 135
- Most game-winning goals playoffs career: Wayne Gretzky and Brett Hull, 24
Assists
- Most assists regular season career: Wayne Gretzky, 1,963
- Most assists playoffs career: Wayne Gretzky 260
- Most assists career, including playoffs: Wayne Gretzky, 2,223
- Most assists, one season: Wayne Gretzky, 163
- Most assists, one playoff season: Wayne Gretzky, 31
- Most assists, one season, including playoffs: Wayne Gretzky, 174
- Most assists, playoff series: Rick Middleton , Wayne Gretzky , 14
- Most assists, one game: Billy Taylor and Wayne Gretzky, 7
- Most assists, one home game: Wayne Gretzky, 7
- Most assists, one road game: Billy Taylor and Wayne Gretzky, 7
- Most assists, one playoff game: Mikko Leinonen, and Wayne Gretzky, 6
- Most assists, one playoff home game: Mikko Leinonen, and Wayne Gretzky, 6
- Most assists, one period: Dale Hawerchuk, 5
Points
- Most points regular season career: Wayne Gretzky, 2,857
- Most points playoff career: Wayne Gretzky, 382
- Most points career, including playoffs: Wayne Gretzky, 3,239
- Most points, one season: Wayne Gretzky, 215
- Fastest 100 points from the start of a season: Wayne Gretzky, 34 games
- Most points, one season, including playoffs: Wayne Gretzky, 255
- Most points, one playoff season: Wayne Gretzky, 47
- Most points, one game: Darryl Sittler, 10
- Most points, one home game: Darryl Sittler, 10
- Most points, one road game: Peter Stastny and Anton Stastny,, 8
- Most points, one playoff game: Patrik Sundstrom and Mario Lemieux, 8
- Most points, one playoff home game: Patrik Sundstrom and Mario Lemieux, 8
- Most points, one period: Bryan Trottier, 6
- Most points, one playoff series: Rick Middleton , 19
- Most points, team's first postseason: Reilly Smith, 22
- Most points in the Finals, one series: Wayne Gretzky, 13
- Most points in the Finals, career: Jean Beliveau, 62
Plus/minus
- Best ± rating, regular season career: Larry Robinson, +722
- Best ± rating one season: Bobby Orr, +124
- Best ± rating one game: Tom Bladon, +10
- Worst ± rating, season: Bill Mikkelson, -82
- Worst ± rating, game: Doug Wilson and Chris Butler,, -7
- Worst ± rating, regular season career: Bob Stewart, -257
- Best ± ratings playoffs career: Jari Kurri, +101
- Best ± ratings one playoff season: Wayne Gretzky, +27
- Worst ± rating playoffs career: Tomas Sandstrom, -45
- Worst ± rating one playoff season: Paul Reinhart, -16
Power-play goals
- Most power-play goals, career: Dave Andreychuk, 274
- Most power-play goals, one season: Tim Kerr, 34
- Most power-play goals, one season for a defenseman: Sheldon Souray, 19
- Most power-play goals, career playoffs: Brett Hull 38,
- Most power-play goals, one playoff season: Mike Bossy,, and Cam Neely,, 9
- Most power-play goals, one playoff series: Chris Kontos,, 6
- Most power-play goals, one playoff game: Syd Howe, Sid Smith, Phil Esposito, Johnny Bucyk, Denis Potvin, Tim Kerr, Jari Kurri, Mark Johnson, Dino Ciccarelli and Valeri Kamensky, Jonathan Toews, 3
- Most power-play goals, one playoff game period: Tim Kerr, 3
- Most power-play goals, rookie Joe Nieuwendyk 31
Shorthanded goals
- Most shorthanded goals, career: Wayne Gretzky, 73
- Most shorthanded goals, career playoffs: Mark Messier, 14
- Most shorthanded goals, one season: Mario Lemieux, 13
- Most shorthanded goals, one playoff season: Derek Sanderson, Bill Barber, Lorne Henning, Wayne Gretzky, Wayne Presley, and Todd Marchant, 3
- Most shorthanded goals, one playoff series: Bill Barber and Wayne Presley , 3
- Most shorthanded goals, one game: Theoren Fleury, 3
- Most shorthanded goals, rookie: Jordan Staal, 7
- Most two-man shorthanded goals, career: Mike Richards, 3
Overtime
- Most overtime goals, career: Alexander Ovechkin, 22
- Most playoff overtime goals, career: Joe Sakic, 8
- Most overtime assists, career: Henrik Sedin, 23
- Most playoff overtime assists, career: Brian Skrudland, Doug Gilmour and Joe Sakic, 6
- Most overtime points, career: Patrik Elias, 37
- Most playoff overtime points, career: Joe Sakic, 14
- Most overtime goals, season: Steven Stamkos, Jonathan Toews, Alex Galchenyuk, and Brad Marchand,5
- Most overtime goals by a rookie, season: Shayne Gostisbehere, 4
- Most overtime goals, playoffs season: Mel Hill, Maurice Richard, and Corey Perry 3
- Most overtime goals, one playoff series: Mel Hill, 3
- Most consecutive overtime goals: Andrew Cogliano and Nathan Horton, 3
Goals/assists/points by position
- Most goals by a centre, career: Wayne Gretzky, 894
- Most goals by a centre, one season: Wayne Gretzky, 92
- Most assists by a centre, career: Wayne Gretzky, 1,963
- Most assists by a centre, one season: Wayne Gretzky, 163
- Most points by a centre, career: Wayne Gretzky, 2,857
- Most points by a centre, one season: Wayne Gretzky, 215
- Most goals by a left wing, career: Alexander Ovechkin, 669
- Most goals by a left wing, one season: Alexander Ovechkin, 65
- Most assists by a left wing, career: John Bucyk, 813
- Most assists by a left wing, one season: Joe Juneau, 70
- Most points by a left wing, career: Luc Robitaille, 1,394
- Most points by a left wing, one season: Luc Robitaille, 125
- Most goals by a right wing, career: Gordie Howe, 801
- Most goals by a right wing, one season: Brett Hull, 86
- Most assists by a right wing, career: Jaromir Jagr, 1,155
- Most assists by a right wing, one season: Jaromir Jagr and Nikita Kucherov, 87
- Most points by a right wing, career: Jaromir Jagr, 1,921
- Most points by a right wing, one season: Jaromir Jagr, 149
- Most goals by a defenseman, career: Ray Bourque, 410
- Most goals by a defenseman, one season: Paul Coffey, 48
- Most goals by a defenseman, one game: Ian Turnbull, 5
- Most assists by a defenseman, career: Ray Bourque, 1,169
- Most assists by a defenseman, one season: Bobby Orr, 102
- Most assists by a defenseman, one game: Babe Pratt, Pat Stapleton, Bobby Orr, Ron Stackhouse, Paul Coffey, and Gary Suter,, 6
- Most points by a defenseman, career: Ray Bourque, 1579
- Most points by a defenseman, one season: Bobby Orr, 139
- Most points by a defenseman, one game: Tom Bladon and Paul Coffey, 8
- Most points by a defenseman, one playoff year: Paul Coffey, 37
- Most goals by a goaltender regular season career: Martin Brodeur, 2
- Most goals by a goaltender in the playoffs: Ron Hextall and Martin Brodeur, 1
- Most goals by a goaltender career, including playoffs: Martin Brodeur, 3
- Most assists by a goaltender, one season: Grant Fuhr, 14
- Most assists by a goaltender, regular season career: Tom Barrasso, 48
- Most assists by a goaltender playoffs one season Martin Brodeur, 4
- Most assists by a goaltender, playoffs career: Grant Fuhr, 14
- Most assists by a goaltender, career, including playoffs: Grant Fuhr, 60
- Most assists by a goaltender, one game Jeff Reese, 3
- Most points by a goaltender, one season: Grant Fuhr, 14 - all assists
- Most points by a goaltender regular season career: Tom Barrasso, 48 - all assists
- Most points by a goaltender career, including playoffs Grant Fuhr, 60
- Most points by a goaltender regular season one game: Jeff Reese, 3 - all assists
- Most points by a goaltender playoffs one season Martin Brodeur, 4 - all assists
- Most points by a goaltender, one period: Jeff Reese, 3 - all assists
Records by a rookie
- Most goals by a rookie, one season: Teemu Selanne, 76
- Most goals by a player in his first NHL season, one game: Joe Malone, Howie Meeker and Don Murdoch, 5
- Most goals by a player in his first NHL game: Joe Malone, 5
- Most goals by a rookie in his first NHL game: Auston Matthews, 4
- Most assists by a rookie, one season: Peter Stastny and Joe Juneau, 70
- Most assists by a player in his first NHL season, one game: Wayne Gretzky, 7
- Most assists by a player in his first NHL game: Dutch Reibel, 4
- Most points by a rookie, one season: Teemu Selanne, 132
- Most goals by a rookie, one playoff season: Dino Ciccarelli, 14
- Most assists by a rookie, one playoff season: Marian Stastny and Ville Leino, 14
- Most points by a rookie, one playoff season: Dino Ciccarelli, Ville Leino, and Jake Guentzel, 21
- Most points by a player in his first NHL season, one game: Peter Stastny and Anton Stastny, 8
- Most points by a player in his first NHL game: Al Hill, 5
- Most goals by a rookie defenseman, one season: Brian Leetch, 23
- Most assists by a rookie defenseman, one season: Larry Murphy, 60
- Most points by a rookie defenseman, one season: Larry Murphy, 76
- Longest goal scoring streak in his first NHL Season: Joe Malone, 14 games
- Longest point streak by a rookie, one season: Paul Stastny, 20 games
- Longest point streak by an eighteen-year-old: Nathan MacKinnon, 13 games
- Longest point streak by a rookie defenseman: Shayne Gostisbehere, 15 games
Points/goals/assists per game average
- Highest goals-per-game average, career : Mike Bossy, .762
- Highest goals-per-game average including playoffs, career : Mario Lemieux, .749
- Highest goals-per-game average, one season : Joe Malone, 2.20
- Highest goals-per-game average, one season : Wayne Gretzky, 1.18
- Highest assists-per-game average, career : Wayne Gretzky, 1.320
- Highest assists-per-game average, one season : Wayne Gretzky, 2.04
- Highest points-per-game average, career : Wayne Gretzky, 1.921
- Highest points-per-game average, one season : Wayne Gretzky, 2.77
Milestone goal seasons
- Most 20-or-more goal seasons: Gordie Howe, 22
- Most consecutive 20-or-more goal seasons: Gordie Howe, 22
- Most 30-or-more goal seasons: Mike Gartner, 17
- Most consecutive 30-or-more goal seasons: Mike Gartner Jaromir Jagr and Alexander Ovechkin, 15
- Most 40-or-more goal seasons: Wayne Gretzky, 12
- Most consecutive 40-or-more goal seasons: Wayne Gretzky, 12
- Most 50-or-more goal seasons: Mike Bossy and Wayne Gretzky, 9
- Most consecutive 50-or-more goal seasons: Mike Bossy, 9
- Most 60-or-more goal seasons: Mike Bossy and Wayne Gretzky, 5
- Most consecutive 60-or-more goal seasons: Wayne Gretzky, 4
- Most 70-or-more goal seasons: Wayne Gretzky, 4
- Most consecutive 70-or more goal seasons: Wayne Gretzky, 4
- Most 80-or-more goal seasons: Wayne Gretzky, 2
- Most 90-or-more goal seasons: Wayne Gretzky, 1
Hat trick or better games
- Most three-or-more goal games, career: Wayne Gretzky, 50
- Most three-or-more goal games, playoffs career: Wayne Gretzky, 8
- Most three-or-more goal games, one season: Wayne Gretzky, 10
- Most three-or-more goal games, one playoffs season: Jari Kurri, 4
- Most three-or-more goal games, one playoff series: Jari Kurri, 3
- Most four-or-more goal games, one season: Joe Malone, 5
- Most five-or-more goal games, one season: Joe Malone, 3
Goal/assist/point streaks
- Longest consecutive goal-scoring streak from start of NHL career: Joe Malone, 14 games
- Longest consecutive goal-scoring streak: Punch Broadbent, 16 games
- Longest consecutive goal-scoring streak, one playoff season: Reggie Leach 10 games
- Longest consecutive goal-scoring streak by a defenseman: Mike Green, 8 games
- Longest consecutive assist-scoring streak: Wayne Gretzky, 23 games
- Longest consecutive point-scoring streak: Wayne Gretzky, 51 games
- Longest consecutive point-scoring streak, one playoff season: Bryan Trottier, 18 games
- Longest consecutive point-scoring streak, multiple playoff seasons: Bryan Trottier, 27 games
- Longest consecutive point-scoring streak from start of season: Wayne Gretzky, 51 games
- Longest consecutive point-scoring streak by a defenseman from start of season: John-Michael Liles , 9 games
- Longest consecutive point-scoring streak by a defenseman: Paul Coffey, 28 games
- Longest consecutive point-scoring streak by a rookie forward: Paul Stastny, 20 games
- Longest consecutive point-scoring streak by a rookie defenseman: Shayne Gostisbehere, 15 games
- Longest consecutive point-scoring streak by a teenager: Patrik Laine, 15 games
Fastest goals
- Fastest goal from start of game: Merlyn Phillips, Doug Smail, Bryan Trottier, and Alexander Mogilny, 5 seconds
- Fastest goal from start of game, playoffs: Don Kozak, 6 seconds
- Fastest goal from start of period: Claude Provost, Denis Savard, and James van Riemsdyk, 4 seconds
- Fastest goal from start of period, playoffs: Don Kozak, and Pelle Eklund, 6 seconds
- Fastest goal by a player in his first NHL game: Gabriel Vilardi, 10 seconds
- Fastest two goals from start of game: Mike Knuble, 27 seconds
- Fastest two goals from start of game, playoffs: Dick Duff, 68 seconds
- Fastest two goals from start of period, playoffs: Pat LaFontaine, 35 seconds
- Fastest two goals: Nels Stewart and Deron Quint, 4 seconds
- Fastest two goals, playoffs: Joe Malone, and Norm Ullman, 5 seconds
- Fastest three goals: Bill Mosienko, 21 seconds
- Fastest three assists: Gus Bodnar, 21 seconds
- Fastest regular season overtime goal: Mats Sundin, Alexander Ovechkin, William Nylander, David Legwand, and Andreas Athanasiou, 6 seconds
- Fastest playoff overtime goal: Brian Skrudland, 9 seconds
- Fastest goal after being scored on: Doug Gilmour, and Mikael Granlund, 2 seconds
Shots
- Most shots on goal, career: Ray Bourque, 6,206
- Most shots on goal, playoffs career: Ray Bourque, 812
- Most shots on goal, one season: Phil Esposito, 550
- Most shots on goal, one playoff season: Henrik Zetterberg, 116
- Most shots on goal, one game: Ray Bourque, 19
- Most shots on goal, one playoff game: Daniel Briere, 14
- Most shots on goal, one period: Evander Kane, 10
Hits
- Most hits, one season: Matt Martin, 382
- Most hits, one playoff season: Dustin Brown, 125
- Most hits, regular season career: Dustin Brown, 3,166
- Most hits, playoff career: Brooks Orpik, 499
- Most hits, one regular season game: Gary Roberts and Zdeno Chara 17
- Most hits, one playoff game: Brenden Morrow, 19
Blocked shots
- Most blocked shots, one season: Kris Russell, 283
- Most blocked shots, one playoff season: Anton Volchenkov, 80
- Most blocked shots, career: Dan Girardi, 1846
- Most blocked shots, playoffs career: Chris Pronger, 374
- Most blocked shots, one game: Kris Russell, 15
- Most blocked shots, one playoff game: Richard Matvichuk, 13
Time on Ice
- Most time on ice per game by a defenseman, one season: Chris Pronger, 30:36
- Most time on ice per game by a forward, one season: Pavel Bure, 26:52
- Most time on ice per game by a defenseman, playoff season: Chris Pronger, 35:52
- Most time on ice per game by a forward, playoff season: Boyd Devereaux, 32:46
- Most time on ice by a defenseman, one regular season game: Dennis Wideman, 38:05
- Most time on ice by a forward, one regular season game: Vyacheslav Kozlov, 30:00
- Most time on ice by a defenseman, one playoff game: Sergei Zubov, 63:51
- Most time on ice by a forward, one playoff game: Jaromir Jagr, 59:08
Penalty shots
- Most penalty shot goals, career: Pavel Bure, 7
- Most penalty shot goals, playoffs career: Michael Frolik, 2
- Most penalty shot goals, one season: Pavel Bure, 3
- Most penalty shot attempts, career: Vincent Lecavalier, 13
- Most penalty shot attempts, playoffs career: Mats Sundin and Michael Frolik, 2
- Most penalty shot attempts, one season: Erik Cole, 5
- Most penalty shot attempts, one game: Erik Cole, Max Pacioretty, and Auston Matthews, 2
- Most penalty shots faced by a goaltender, career: Marc-Andre Fleury, 21
- Most penalty shots faced by a goaltender, playoffs career: Dominik Hasek, 5
- Most penalty shots faced by a goaltender, one game: Ben Bishop, Miikka Kiprusoff, Roberto Luongo, and Jonathan Quick, 2
- Most penalty shots stopped by a goaltender, career: Marc-Andre Fleury, 15
- Most penalty shots stopped by a goaltender, playoffs career: Dominik Hasek, 4
- Most penalty shots allowed by a goaltender, career: Tomas Vokoun, 8
Penalties
- Most penalties, one game: Chris Nilan, 10
- Most penalties, one playoff game: Forbes Kennedy, Kim Clackson, and Dale Hunter, 8
- Most penalties, one period: Randy Holt, 9
- Most penalty minutes, career: Tiger Williams, 3,966
- Most penalty minutes, playoffs career: Dale Hunter, 729
- Most penalty minutes, career, including playoffs: Tiger Williams, 4,421
- Most penalty minutes, one season: Dave Schultz, 472
- Most penalty minutes, one playoffs season: Chris Nilan, 141
- Most penalty minutes, one game: Randy Holt, 67
- Most penalty minutes, one playoff game: Billy Coutu, Dave Schultz, and Deryk Engelland, 42
- Most penalty minutes, one period: Randy Holt, 67
- Most penalty minutes, one playoff period: Billy Coutu and Deryk Engelland, 42
- Most penalty minutes, career, in the Stanley Cup Final: Gordie Howe, 94
Goaltending
- Most wins by a goaltender regular season career: Martin Brodeur, 691
- Most wins by a goaltender playoffs career: Patrick Roy, 151
- Most wins by a goaltender career, including playoffs: Martin Brodeur 804
- Best Winning Percentage : Ken Dryden .740 in 397 games played
- Best Winning Percentage : Jacques Plante .610 in 837 games played
- Most wins by a goaltender, one season: Martin Brodeur and Braden Holtby, 48
- Most wins by a goaltender, career, in the Finals: Jacques Plante, 25
- Most wins by a goaltender, expansion team season: Marc-Andre Fleury, 28
- Most wins by a rookie goaltender, single playoffs season: Jordan Binnington, 16
- Most ties, career: Terry Sawchuk, 172
- Most losses by a goaltender regular season career: Martin Brodeur, 397
- Most losses by a goaltender playoffs career: Patrick Roy, 94
- Most losses by a goaltender, one season: Gary Smith, 48
- Most losses by a goaltender, one playoff season: Ron Hextall, Miikka Kiprusoff, Henrik Lundqvist, Ben Bishop, 11
- Most shutouts regular season career: Martin Brodeur 125
- Most shutouts playoffs career: Martin Brodeur 24
- Most shutouts by a goaltender, including playoffs, expansion team season: Marc-Andre Fleury, 9
- Most shutouts, including playoffs career: Martin Brodeur 149
- Most shutouts, one regular season: George Hainsworth, 22
- Most shutouts, one playoff season: Martin Brodeur, 7
- Most games appeared in by a goaltender, career regular season: Martin Brodeur, 1,265
- Most games appeared in by a goaltender, career playoffs: Patrick Roy, 247
- Most games appeared in by a goaltender career, including playoffs Martin Brodeur, 1,470
- Most games appeared in by a goaltender career, in the Finals: Jacques Plante, 41
- Most consecutive complete games by a goaltender: Glenn Hall, 502
- Most games appeared in by a goaltender, one regular season: Grant Fuhr, 79
- Most games appeared in by a goaltender, one playoff season Ron Hextall, Jonathan Quick and Jordan Binnington, 26
- Most minutes played by a goaltender, career: Martin Brodeur, 74,380
- Most minutes played by a goaltender, one season: Martin Brodeur, 4,697
- Least time played by a goaltender, career Jorge Alves Dec 31, 2016, 7.6 sec
- Longest continuous shutout by a goaltender: Alec Connell , 461 minutes, 29 seconds
- Longest continuous shutout by a goaltender at start of NHL career: Matt Hackett, 102 minutes, 48 seconds
- Longest winning streak by a goaltender, one season: Gilles Gilbert, 17 games
- Longest winning streak to start a season: Carey Price, 10 games
- Longest undefeated streak by a goaltender, one season: Gerry Cheevers, 32 games
- Longest undefeated streak by a goaltender in his first NHL season: Grant Fuhr, 23 games
- Longest undefeated streak by a goaltender from start of career: Patrick Lalime, 16 games
- Most 20-or-more win seasons by a goaltender Patrick Roy, 17
- Most consecutive 20-or-more win seasons by a goaltender: Henrik Lundqvist, 13
- Most 30-or-more win seasons by a goaltender: Martin Brodeur and Patrick Roy, 14
- Most consecutive 30-or-more win seasons by a goaltender: Martin Brodeur, 12
- Most consecutive 30-or-more win seasons to start a career: Henrik Lundqvist, 7
- Most 40-or-more win seasons by a goaltender: Martin Brodeur 8
- Most consecutive 40-or-more win seasons by a goaltender: Martin Brodeur and Evgeni Nabokov, 3
- Most consecutive wins by a goaltender in his rookie season: Bill Durnan, 10
- Most consecutive wins by a goaltender in his first NHL season: George Hainsworth, 11
- Most losses by a goaltender regular season career: Martin Brodeur, 397
- Most losses by a goaltender, one season: Gary Smith, 48
- Most home games played by a goaltender, one season: Roberto Luongo, 41
- Most shots faced by a goaltender, in a regular season game: Sam LoPresti, 83
- Most shots faced by a goaltender, in a season: Roberto Luongo, 2,488
- Most shots faced by a goaltender, in a playoff game: Normie Smith, 92
- Most saves by a goaltender career: Martin Brodeur, 28,928
- Most saves by a goaltender playoffs career: Patrick Roy, 6,561
- Most saves by a goaltender, including playoffs career: Martin Brodeur, 33,758
- Most saves by a goaltender, in a regular season game: Sam LoPresti, 80
- Most saves by a goaltender, in a playoff game: Normie Smith, 92
- Most saves by a goaltender, in a playoffs overtime game shutout: Normie Smith, 92
- Most saves by a goaltender, in a regular season shutout: Ben Scrivens, 59
- Most saves by a goaltender, in a season: Roberto Luongo, 2,303
- Most saves by a goaltender, in a playoff run: Tim Thomas, 798
- Most saves by a goaltender, in a Stanley Cup finals series: Tim Thomas, 238
- Highest save percentage, in a regular season: Craig Anderson, .941
- Highest save percentage, playoffs : Jonathan Quick, .946
- Lowest goals-against average in a season : George Hainsworth, 0.92
- Lowest goals-against average playoffs : Frank Brimsek, 1.25
- Highest goals-against average in a season : Frank Brophy, 7.11
- Highest goals-against average playoffs : Murray Bannerman, 4.77
- Most overtime wins: Roberto Luongo, 49
- Most penalty minutes by a goaltender regular season career: Ron Hextall, 584
- Most penalty minutes by a goaltender playoffs career: Ron Hextall, 115
- Most penalty minutes by a goaltender career, including playoffs: Ron Hextall, 699
- Most penalty minutes by a goaltender one season Ron Hextall, 113
- Most penalty minutes by a goaltender one playoff season Ron Hextall, 43
- Youngest goaltender to win 50 regular-season games: Patrick Roy 22 yrs
- Youngest goaltender to win 100 regular-season games: Patrick Roy 23 yrs
- Youngest goaltender to win 200 regular-season games: Martin Brodeur 26 yrs., 1 mos
- Youngest goaltender to win 300 regular-season games: Martin Brodeur 29 yrs., 7 mos.
- Youngest goaltender to win 400 regular-season games: Martin Brodeur 31 yrs., 10 mos.
- Youngest goaltender to win 500 regular-season games: Martin Brodeur 35 yrs., 6 mos.
- Youngest goaltender to win 600 regular-season games: Martin Brodeur 37 yrs., 11 mos.
- Quickest goaltender to win 400 regular-season games: Henrik Lundqvist 727
- Most Stanley Cup finals series played by a goaltender: Jacques Plante ; St. Louis: 2 ), 10
- Most Stanley Cup consecutive finals series played by a goaltender: Jacques Plante, 8
- Fewest saves required in a win: Ryan Miller 11:40 min; Antti Niemi 6:43 min; Richard Bachman 2:32 min; Craig Billington 1:52 min, 0:12 sec; Steve Weeks 0:17 sec 0
Shootout
- Most shootout goals in one season: Ilya Kovalchuk, 11
- Most game-deciding shootout goals in one season: Ilya Kovalchuk, 7
- Most shootout goals career: Jonathan Toews, 50
- Most game-deciding shootout goals career: Frans Nielsen, 23
- Highest shootout percentage : Artemi Panarin, 65%
- Most shootout attempts in a season: Radim Vrbata, 18
- Most shootout attempts career: Zach Parise, 107
- Most shootout games played by a goaltender in a season: Martin Brodeur, 16
- Most shootout games played by a goaltender career: Roberto Luongo, 110
- Most shootout wins by a goaltender in a season: Ryan Miller and Martin Brodeur, Mathieu Garon, and Jonathan Quick, 10
- Most shootout wins by a goaltender career: Henrik Lundqvist, 61
- Most shootout losses by a goaltender in a season: Tomas Vokoun and Tuukka Rask, 9
- Most shootout losses by a goaltender career: Roberto Luongo, 58
- Most goals allowed in a shootout by a goaltender career: Roberto Luongo, 133
- Most saves in a shootout by a goaltender career: Henrik Lundqvist, 290
Age
- Oldest Forward: Gordie Howe, April 11, 1980, 52 years, 11 days
- Oldest Defensemen: Chris Chelios, April 6, 2010, 48 years, 71 days
- Oldest Goaltender: Maurice Roberts, November 25, 1951, 45 years, 345 days
- Oldest Player to play his first NHL game: Connie Madigan, February 6, 1973, 38 years, 94 days
- Oldest Goalie to play his first NHL game: David Ayres, February 22, 2020, 42 years 194 days
- Oldest Goalie to win his regular-season debut: David Ayres, February 22, 2020, 42 years, 194 days, as an emergency backup goaltender for the Carolina Hurricanes in a 6–3 win against the Toronto Maple Leafs
- Youngest Player to play his first NHL game: Bep Guidolin, November 12, 1942, 16 years, 337 days
- Youngest Goalie to play his first NHL game: Harry Lumley, December 23, 1943, 17 years, 42 days
- Oldest Goalie to play in Stanley Cup Finals: Lester Patrick, April 7, 1928, 44 years, 90 days
- Oldest Defensemen to play in the Stanley Cup Finals: Doug Harvey, May 11, 1968, 43 years, 137 days
- Oldest Forward to play in Stanley Cup Finals: Mark Recchi, June 15, 2011, 43 years, 134 days
- Youngest Player to play in the Stanley Cup Finals: Gaye Stewart, April 14, 1942, 18 years, 290 days
- Youngest Player to win the Stanley Cup: Larry Hillman, April 14, 1955 18 years, 68 days
- Oldest Player to win the Stanley Cup: Chris Chelios, June 4, 2008, 46 years, 130 days
- Oldest Goalie to win the Stanley Cup: Lester Patrick April 14, 1928, 44 years, 90 days