The top point scoring number per NHL franchise

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  1. Pat Maroon carried a lot of weight… for #7

    Blues #7:
    Red Berenson 1968-1971
    Garry Unger 1971-1979
    Don Laurence 1980
    Joe Mullen 1980-1986
    Cliff Ronning 1986-1991
    Dan Quinn 1991
    Nelson Emerson 1992-1993
    Alexei Kasatonov 1994
    Greg Gilbert 1995-1996
    Ricard Persson 1998-2000
    Keith Tkachuk 2001-2010
    Mike Van Ryn 2001
    Pat Maroon 2019

  2. These are so random

    Often the highest scoring players wont have the highest scoring number because their numbers are retired 

    Would also be interesting to show how many players wore the number 

  3. It’s weird to see a Jets 2.0 player with such a high number, compared to other teams that have been around longer than us.

  4. It took me way too long to figure out what this graphic meant. They should have said jersey number

  5. 11’s been good to us, with Claude Larose (first stint), Yvon Lambert, Ryan Walter, Kirk Muller, Saku Koivu and Brendan Gallagher among others.

  6. Players for Red Wings wearing #14.

    * Metro Prystai 1951
    * Glen Skov 1951-1952
    * Reg Sinclair 1953
    * Dutch Reibel 1954-1955
    * Real Chevrefils 1956
    * Lorne Ferguson 1956-1958
    * Jack McIntyre 1958-1959
    * Claude Laforge 1959
    * Gerry Melnyk 1960-1961
    * Ed Litzenberger 1962
    * Len Lunde 1962
    * Larry Jeffrey 1963-1965
    * Billy McNeill 1963
    * Butch Paul 1965
    * Billy Harris 1966
    * Parker MacDonald 1966-1967
    * Craig Cameron 1967
    * Murray Hall 1967
    * Réal Lemieux 1967
    * Doug Roberts 1967-1968
    * Nick Libett 1968-1979
    * Gary Marsh 1968
    * Alex Pirus 1980
    * Dennis Sobchuk 1980
    * Mike Blaisdell 1981
    * Mal Davis 1981
    * Don Murdoch 1982
    * Stan Weir 1983
    * Lane Lambert 1984-1986
    * Doug Shedden 1986-1987
    * Brent Ashton 1987-1988
    * Miroslav Fryčer 1989
    * Randy McKay 1989
    * Torrie Robertson 1989-1990
    * Brent Fedyk 1991-1992
    * Jim Hiller 1993
    * Andrew McKim 1995
    * Brendan Shanahan 1997-2006
    * Aaron Ward 1997
    * Derek Meech 2008-2010
    * Gustav Nyquist 2012-2019
    * Robby Fabbri 2020-20

  7. As far as I can tell, Gretzky (99) and Stamkos (91) will be the only two out of all these players to be the *only* guys to ever wear that number for that ~~team~~ franchise.

  8. For us it’s 21 players who wore 9, Tony Tanti (470), Don Lever (407) and JT Miller (368) have the most pts and wore the number the longest. The other 18 guys combined 680 pts. Most were in Vancouver for one or two seasons max.

    Even that bozo Brendan Leipsic wore number 9 for one season for us

  9. No. 9 for NJ:

    Kirk Muller

    Zach Parise

    Taylor Hall

    Devils players to hit 90+ points in a season, which has been done 5 times… Patrik Elias, Jack Hughes – Kirk Muller, Zach Parise, Taylor Hall.

  10. The habs #11

    Jack McDonald 1918-1922

    Billy Bell 1919

    Fred Doherty 1919

    Harry Cameron 1920

    Cully Wilson 1921

    Dave Ritchie 1925

    Calum MacKay 1951-1955

    Gene Achtymichuk 1952

    Lorne Davis 1952

    Paul Masnick 1952-1953

    Bob Turner 1956-1961

    Jean Gauthier 1962-1970

    Ted Harris 1964

    Wayne Hicks 1964

    Claude Larose 1964-1968

    Jude Drouin 1969

    Garry Monahan 1969

    Réjean Houle 1970

    Phil Roberto 1970

    Bobby Sheehan 1970

    Marc Tardif 1970-1973

    Yvon Lambert 1974-1981

    Ryan Walter 1983-1991

    Kirk Muller 1992-1995

    Saku Koivu 1996-2009

    Scott Gomez 2011-2012

    Brendan Gallagher 2013-2024

  11. If anyone was as curious as I was, only 2 other players have warn #99. Wilf Palement TOR and Rick Dudley AZ according to hockey reference stats.

  12. Mostly just a question for the original six teams, but did they only take data from 1951 onwards? Hockey reference only has numbers back until that year for those teams, so for the Rangers for example you don’t see the Cook brothers for #5 and #6, or #7 for Frank Boucher on the numbers page for that franchise. Not sure if there is a good database of numbers players wore prior to that year.

  13. It’s odd that #9 was the number the big goal scorers got for many years because it was Hull and Howe’s number (hence Gretzky’s 99), but neither Hull nor Howe lead their teams … in large part because the teams retired the number so there are no successors in Chicago or Detroit adding to the totals.

  14. Detroit retired #9 in 1972. Who knows how high that number would be if a player could have worn it in the past 50 years?

  15. 12 is certainly not the number I would have thought of for the Flyers, but I guess it makes sense in a weird way.

  16. 19 for the Senators

    Alexi Yashin – 1993-2001 491 points

    Petr Schastlivy 2002-2004 25 points

    Jason Spezza 2005-2014 611 points

    Derick Brassard 2016-2018 77 points

    Drake Batherson 2019-present 189 points

    For some reason hockey reference also lists Zachary Senyshyn as having worn 19 with Ottawa, except Drake Batherson was also playing in those games and Senyshyn wore 56 with Ottawa.

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