Wayne Gretzky holds the NHL record with 2,857 career points, which is 970 more than former teammate Mark Messier, who ranks second. That means that even if Gretzky never scored any of his 894 goals (also an NHL record), he would still be the league's all-time leading scorer with 1,963 assists.
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Gretzky redirects here. For other people with the same name and other uses, see Gretzky (disambiguation). Wayne Douglas Gretzky CC (/ˈɡrɛtski/; born January 26, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach. He played twenty seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for four teams from 1979 to 1999.
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Wayne Gretzky set an NHL record with 212 points scored during the 1981-82 season. It was the first time that any player had reached the 200-point mark, which Gretzky would do three more times in the next four years.
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Once Gretzky retired, one of Edmonton's busiest inner city highway's that passes by the Oilers arena, Capilano Drive, was renamed to Wayne Gretzky Drive in October of 1999. Similarly, most of Park Road in his hometown of Brantford, Ontario, is now Wayne Gretzky Parkway.
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Published: December 31, 1981. EDMONTON, Alberta, Dec. 30— Wayne Gretzky scored five times against the Philadelphia Flyers tonight to achieve 50 goals in a record-breaking 39 games.
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Wayne Douglas Gretzky, (born January 26, 1961 in Brantford, Ontario) is a retired Canadian-American professional ice hockey. Nicknamed The Great One, Total Hockey: The Official Encyclopedia of the NHL calls Gretzky the greatest player of all time..
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Updated September 30, 2016. Wayne Gretzky holds or shares 61 NHL records: 40 for the regular season, 15 for the Stanley Cup playoffs and six for the NHL All-Star Game. Here's a summary of what is almost certainly the most amazing career record in the history of sports. Most Points: 2,856 (1,485 games, 894 goals, 1,962 assists)
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10 Incredible Facts About Wayne Gretzky. 1 of 11. The name Wayne Gretzky is synonymous with greatness. The Brantford, Ontario native, appropriately nicknamed the Great One, began to re-write the record books when he first stepped onto the ice as an NHL player for the Edmonton Oilers in 1979.
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Gretzky didn't stop scoring after connecting 50 times in the first 39 games in 1981-82, though he did slow down a bit. He had 11 goals in the Oilers' next 11 games to give him 61 through 50 games, a mark he matched two seasons later. Lemieux is next with 54 in 50 games in 1988-89.
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With the Oilers on a power play in the first period, Gretzky got position at the edge of the Flyers' crease and flicked Paul Coffey's rebound past Pete Peeters, the Flyer goalie, at 7 minutes 47 seconds to tie the score at 1-1.
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who did wayne gretzky score most against
Wayne Gretzky scored most against the Philadelphia Flyers.