List of NHL players with 50-goal seasons

Scoring 50 goals in one season is one of the most celebrated individual achievements in the National Hockey League. In, Maurice Richard became the first player to score 50 goals in a season. Bernie Geoffrion became the second player to reach the milestone 16 years later in. Fifty-goal seasons increased in frequency during the 1970s and 1980s as offense increased across the league. By 1980, it had been reached 24 times in NHL history; the plateau was reached 76 times in the 1980s alone.
Wayne Gretzky scored his 50th goal in his 39th game in, the fastest any player has done so. He also shares the record for most 50-goal seasons with Mike Bossy, each having reached the milestone nine times in their careers. A record fourteen players exceeded 50 goals in, after which offence declined across the league, and with it the number of players to reach the total. In, for the first time in 29 years, no player scored 50 goals. Ninety-one unique players have scored 50 goals in any one NHL season, doing so a combined 186 times.

History

scored 44 goals for the Montreal Canadiens in the NHL's inaugural season of —a season with a twenty-game schedule. It was a record that stood nearly 30 years. The introduction of the centre red line and permission of forward passing out of the defensive zone in 1943 increased scoring; six players scored 30 goals in, the first time in league history so many players reached that total in one season. Maurice Richard averaged a goal per game for Montreal in and surpassed Malone's record of 44 late in the season. He was as obsessed with reaching the 50-goal mark as his opponents were with preventing it. Richard faced opponents who repeatedly elbowed, hooked and held him in an effort to prevent him from reaching 50. As a result, he scored only seven goals in his final 13 games. Richard scored his 50th goal, in 50 games, in the third period of Montreal's final game of the season against the Boston Bruins. The league introduced the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy in his honour in 1999, and the Canadiens donated the physical trophy.
Richard's mark stood untouched for 16 seasons until Bernie Geoffrion became the second player to score 50 goals in, also for Montreal, doing so in his 62nd game of the season. Early in the 1960s, Chicago Black Hawks teammates Stan Mikita and Bobby Hull began experimenting with curved blades, noticing that different bends made shots more unpredictable for goaltenders. Mikita led the NHL in scoring four times using a curved blade, while Hull became the third player in NHL history to score 50 goals in. It was the first of five times he would reach the milestone.
While playing for Boston in the 1970s, Phil Esposito scored 50 goals in five consecutive seasons, led by a then-NHL record 76 goals in. By 1980, 24 players had reached the mark. Mike Bossy of the New York Islanders joined Richard as the second man in NHL history to score 50 goals in 50 games in. He did so by scoring two goals in the final five minutes of the Islanders' 50th game. Bossy, who had set a league rookie-scoring record with 53 goals in, surpassed the 50-goal mark in each of his first nine NHL seasons. The 1980s represented one of the highest scoring eras in NHL history: on 76 occasions, a player scored 50 goals in a season. Wayne Gretzky was responsible for nine of those occasions, including his league-record 92 goals in. In that season, Gretzky scored five goals in his 39th game of the season to total 50, bettering Richard and Bossy by 11 games as the fastest to reach the mark.
Bossy and Gretzky are tied for the most
50-goal seasons, with 9 each. Bossy holds the record for most consecutive 50-goal seasons, with 9.
A record 14 players scored 50 goals in, the same season that a record 21 players reached the 100-point plateau. Among the 50-goal scorers that season was Teemu Selanne, who scored 76 goals as a rookie, surpassing Bossy's record for first-year players by 23 goals. The next season,, Brett Hull achieved his fifth 50-goal season, matching father Bobby's five 50-goal seasons three decades earlier; the two are the only father-son pair to each achieve a 50-goal season, let alone achieving it five times each.
As teams shifted their focus to defensive play rather than offensive, scoring rapidly declined in the late 1990s. No player scored 50 in, the first time that had happened in 29 years, excluding the lockout-shortened NHL season.
Only five players reached the 50-goal mark between 1999 and 2004: Pavel Bure, Joe Sakic, Jaromir Jagr, Jarome Iginla, and Milan Hejduk. Following the 2004–05 lockout that cancelled the season, the league introduced numerous rule changes designed to increase scoring. While five players scored 50 in, scoring immediately fell off thereafter, with only 15 marks of 50-goals over the next 12 years. Starting with the minor spike in, the most prolific 50-goal scorer in the past 14 seasons is Alexander Ovechkin, reaching 50 goals in 8 of those seasons, the only player to score 50 in,, and.

Players

;Key

Season	Player	Team			Ref
		Montreal Canadiens	50	50
		Montreal Canadiens	64	50
		Chicago Black Hawks	70	50
		Chicago Black Hawks	65	54
		Chicago Black Hawks	66	52
		Chicago Black Hawks	74	58
		Boston Bruins	78	76
		Boston Bruins	78	51
		Boston Bruins	76	66
		New York Rangers	78	50
		Chicago Black Hawks	78	50
		Boston Bruins	78	55
		Detroit Red Wings	76	52
		Philadelphia Flyers	78	50
		Boston Bruins	78	68
		Buffalo Sabres	78	52
		Detroit Red Wings	76	51
		Boston Bruins	76	50
		Boston Bruins	79	61
		Montreal Canadiens	70	53
		Buffalo Sabres	68	52
		Detroit Red Wings	80	50
		Philadelphia Flyers	80	61
		Montreal Canadiens	80	56
		Pittsburgh Penguins	76	53
		Pittsburgh Penguins	80	52
		Buffalo Sabres	79	50
		Philadelphia Flyers	80	50
		Montreal Canadiens	80	60
		Montreal Canadiens	80	56
		Los Angeles Kings	80	53
		Montreal Canadiens	78	60
		New York Islanders	73	53
		New York Islanders	80	69
		Los Angeles Kings	80	59
		Montreal Canadiens	80	52
		Atlanta Flames	80	50
		Los Angeles Kings	64	56
		Buffalo Sabres	76	56
		Hartford Whalers	80	56
		Los Angeles Kings	80	53
		New York Islanders	75	51
		Edmonton Oilers	79	51
		Montreal Canadiens	73	50
		Montreal Canadiens	74	50
		Philadelphia Flyers	76	50
		New York Islanders	79	68
		Los Angeles Kings	80	58
		Los Angeles Kings	65	56
		Edmonton Oilers	80	55
		Pittsburgh Penguins	80	55
		St. Louis Blues	78	54
		Quebec Nordiques	78	52
		Washington Capitals	80	50
		Edmonton Oilers	80	92
		New York Islanders	80	64
		Washington Capitals	80	60
		Minnesota North Stars	76	55
		Toronto Maple Leafs	77	54
		Hartford Whalers	80	52
		Boston Bruins	75	51
		Los Angeles Kings	78	50
		Edmonton Oilers	78	50
		New York Islanders	80	50
		Edmonton Oilers	80	71
		Calgary Flames	80	66
		New York Islanders	79	60
		Quebec Nordiques	80	57
		Los Angeles Kings	80	56
		Chicago Black Hawks	80	54
		Toronto Maple Leafs	78	51
		Edmonton Oilers	74	87
		Quebec Nordiques	75	56
		Philadelphia Flyers	79	54
		Edmonton Oilers	80	54
		Edmonton Oilers	64	52
		Toronto Maple Leafs	76	52
		New York Islanders	67	51
		Pittsburgh Penguins	76	51
		Edmonton Oilers	80	73
		Edmonton Oilers	73	71
		New York Islanders	76	58
		Quebec Nordiques	69	55
		Detroit Red Wings	79	55
		Philadelphia Flyers	74	54
		Washington Capitals	80	53
		Winnipeg Jets	80	53
		Washington Capitals	80	50
		Edmonton Oilers	78	68
		New York Islanders	80	61
		Philadelphia Flyers	76	58
		Edmonton Oilers	72	54
		Quebec Nordiques	75	53
		Edmonton Oilers	80	52
		Edmonton Oilers	79	62
		Philadelphia Flyers	75	58
		Pittsburgh Penguins	63	54
		Edmonton Oilers	79	54
		Minnesota North Stars	80	52
		Pittsburgh Penguins	77	70
		Pittsburgh Penguins/Edmonton Oilers	80	56
		Los Angeles Kings	80	55
		Los Angeles Kings	80	53
		Calgary Flames	75	51
		Detroit Red Wings	64	50
		Montreal Canadiens	72	50
		Calgary Flames	80	50
		Pittsburgh Penguins	76	85
		Los Angeles Kings	79	70
		Detroit Red Wings	80	65
		Los Angeles Kings	78	54
		Calgary Flames	77	51
		Calgary Flames	79	51
		St. Louis Blues	80	72
		Detroit Red Wings	79	62
		Boston Bruins	76	55
		Minnesota North Stars	80	55
		New York Islanders	74	54
		Los Angeles Kings	80	52
		Montreal Canadiens	75	51
		Toronto Maple Leafs	80	51
		St. Louis Blues	78	86
		Boston Bruins	69	51
		Calgary Flames	79	51
		Detroit Red Wings	80	51
		St. Louis Blues	73	70
		Pittsburgh Penguins	80	54
		Calgary Flames	76	53
		Chicago Blackhawks	80	53
		Buffalo Sabres	77	76
		Winnipeg Jets	84	76
		Pittsburgh Penguins	60	69
		Los Angeles Kings	84	63
		Vancouver Canucks	83	60
		New York Islanders	83	58
		Detroit Red Wings	84	58
		Pittsburgh Penguins	72	55
		St. Louis Blues	80	54
		Buffalo Sabres/Toronto Maple Leafs	83	54
		Buffalo Sabres	84	53
		Philadelphia Flyers	84	53
		St. Louis Blues	71	51
		Chicago Blackhawks	84	50
		Vancouver Canucks	76	60
		St. Louis Blues	81	57
		Detroit Red Wings	82	56
		Toronto Maple Leafs	83	53
		St. Louis Blues	81	52
		Detroit Red Wings	82	52
		New York Rangers	84	52
		Boston Bruins	49	50
		Dallas Stars	76	50
		Pittsburgh Penguins	70	69
		Pittsburgh Penguins	82	62
		Vancouver Canucks	79	55
		Washington Capitals	67	52
		Philadelphia Flyers	82	51
		Colorado Avalanche	82	51
		Winnipeg Jets	76	50
		Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	82	50
		Phoenix Coyotes	81	52
		Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	78	51
		Pittsburgh Penguins	76	50
		Philadelphia Flyers	82	50
		Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	73	52
		Washington Capitals	76	52
		Vancouver Canucks	82	51
		Philadelphia Flyers	82	51
		Florida Panthers	74	58
		Florida Panthers	82	59
		Colorado Avalanche	82	54
		Pittsburgh Penguins	81	52
		Calgary Flames	82	52
		Colorado Avalanche	82	50
		San Jose Sharks	82	56
		New York Rangers	82	54
	*	Atlanta Thrashers	78	52
	*	Washington Capitals	81	52
		Ottawa Senators	82	50
		Tampa Bay Lightning	82	52
		Ottawa Senators	82	50
	*	Washington Capitals	82	65
	*	Atlanta Thrashers	79	52
		Calgary Flames	82	50
	*	Washington Capitals	79	56
	*	Pittsburgh Penguins	81	51
	*	Tampa Bay Lightning	82	51
	*	Washington Capitals	72	50
	*	Anaheim Ducks	82	50
	*	Tampa Bay Lightning	82	60
	*	Pittsburgh Penguins	75	50
	*	Washington Capitals	78	51
	*	Washington Capitals	81	53
	*	Washington Capitals	79	50
	*	Washington Capitals	81	51
	*	Edmonton Oilers	82	50

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