page_title: List of NHL players with 50-goal seasons
section_title: Players
hierarchical_section_title: List of NHL players with 50-goal seasons / Players
caption_attribution_description: English: Pavel Bure, an NHL ice hockey player, playing for the Vancouver Canucks at a game in Vancouver.
context_page_description: Scoring 50 goals in one season is one of the most celebrated individual achievements in the National Hockey League. In 1944–45, 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 1960–61. 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 1981–82, 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 1992–93, after which offence declined across the league, and with it the number of players to reach the total. In 1998–99, 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.
context_section_description: Key
   Player is active in the NHL in 2018–19
  (#) Denotes the number of times a player with multiple 50-goal seasons reached that total
caption: Pavel Bure topped 50 goals with both Vancouver and Florida.
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