wayne gretzky scored the most goals in a single nhl game.
wayne gretzky scored the most goals in a single nhl game.
who scored the most goals in a single nhl game?
wayne gretzky
this is a list of players who have scored five or more goals in a national hockey league (nhl) game. scoring five or more goals in a single game is considered a great feat, as it has only been accomplished 61 times, by 45 players, in the history of the league. the first player to do so was joe malone, with the montreal canadiens, in the first ever nhl game, on december 19, 1917. the most recent player to do so was patrik laine, with the winnipeg jets, in the 101st nhl season of play, on november 24, 2018.
list of players with five or more goals in an nhl game
the heritage classic was an outdoor ice hockey game played on november 22, 2003, in edmonton between the edmonton oilers and the montreal canadiens. it was the second nhl outdoor game and the first regular season outdoor game in the history of the nhl, and was modeled after the success of the "cold war" game between the university of michigan and michigan state university in 2001. the first nhl game to be played outdoors was in 1991 when the los angeles kings played the new york rangers in an exhibition game outside caesars palace in las vegas. the event took place in edmonton's commonwealth stadium in front of a crowd of 57,167, the largest number of people to ever watch a live nhl game, despite temperatures of close to -18 °c, -30 °c (-22 °f) with wind chill. it was held to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the edmonton oilers joining the nhl in 1979. the canadian broadcasting corporation television broadcast also set the record for most viewers of a single nhl game with 2.747 million nationwide. this was the first nhl game broadcast in hdtv on cbc.
2003–04 edmonton oilers season