List of NHL players with 500 goals

For ice hockey players in the National Hockey League (NHL), scoring 500 regular season goals is considered a highly significant achievement.
As of the completion of the 2009-10 season—the 92nd regular season of the National Hockey League—a total of 41 different players have scored at least 500 regular season goals in their NHL career.
A 500 goal career was first achieved in 1957–58, the 41st season of the NHL, when Maurice Richard scored his 500th goal in his 863rd game played.
==Season achievements==
The 2006–07 NHL season saw the largest number of players (five) achieve their 500th goal. A total of four players scored their 500th goal in the 1995–96 season.
Starting with Maurice Richard's achievement in the 1957–58 NHL season, the greatest stretch between 500 goal scorers was the eight seasons between Gordie Howe in the 1961–62 season and Bobby Hull in the 1969–70 season.
==Player achievements==
Of the 41 players to score 500 goals, 32 are Canadian, four are American (Joe Mullen, Mike Modano, Jeremy Roenick, and Keith Tkachuk), two are Finnish (Jari Kurri and Teemu Selänne, one is Czech (Jaromír Jágr), one is Swedish (Mats Sundin), and one is Slovakian (Peter Bondra). Jari Kurri, has the honour of being the first non-Canadian to score fifty goals, as well as the first European to do so. Of note, Stan Mikita was born in Sokolče, Slovakia, (then Czechoslovakia,) but immigrated to Canada when he was young and represented Canada internationally. 
The shortest number of NHL games required to reach the mark was 575, set by Wayne Gretzky. Second quickest was Mario Lemieux, achieving the mark in his 605th game.
Of the 41 players to score at least 500 goals in their career, 17 reached the mark in fewer than 1000 career games played.
Of those on the list, Lanny McDonald came closest to 'not' achieving 500 goals—reaching the mark with only four games remaining in his final NHL season. Similarly, Joe Mullen scored his 500th goal with only ten games remaining in his final season.
Four players have scored their 500th goal on an empty net: Wayne Gretzky, Mike Bossy, Jari Kurri and Keith Tkachuk.
Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender Patrick Roy is the only net minder to 'allow' more than one opponent to tally their 500th career goal: Steve Yzerman in 1996, Joe Mullen in 1997 and Brendan Shanahan in 2002. A contributing factor for this statistical coincidence will be Roy's record for the second-most games played by a goaltender, at 1029.
Mats Sundin scored his 500th goal in overtime, winning the game for the Toronto Maple Leafs. In that one goal, he finished off a hat trick, scored one of his league-leading 15 overtime goals, while his team was short handed, and earned his 500th career NHL goal.
==Team achievements==
A total of 20 different franchises have had a player score their 500th goal while playing for the franchise.
The Detroit Red Wings have had five different players score their 500th goal while playing for the team. The Chicago Blackhawks and Montreal Canadiens both had four players achieve the mark while with the team.
To date no team has had the coincidence of multiple players reaching 500 goals on the same team in the same season. The 2001–02 Detroit Red Wings were the first team to have three 500+ goal scorers on the roster (Steve Yzerman, Brett Hull and Luc Robitaille), and would finish the season with four players in the exclusive club after Brendan Shanahan joined them at the 500-goal plateau. Yzerman, Hull, Robitaille and Shanahan are four of only eleven players with 650 or more goals in NHL history.
==500-goal scorers==
;Legend:
:Team – Team for which the player scored their 500th goal
:Game no. – Number of career games played when 500th goal was scored
:Date – Date of 500th goal
:GP – Career games played
:G – Cahreer goals.
:Active players currently in the NHL are listed in boldface.
(Updated as of April 12, 2010 - the end of the 2009-10 Regular Season)
 	Player	Team 	Game no.	Date	Opposing goaltender	GP 	G
1 	 	Montreal Canadiens 	863 	 	 	978 	544
2 	 	Detroit Red Wings 	1045 	 	 	1767	801
3 	 	Chicago Black Hawks	861 	 	 	1063	610
4 	 	Montreal Canadiens 	1101 	 	 	1125	507
5 	 	Montreal Canadiens 	1105 	 	 	1181	533
6 	 	Boston Bruins 	803 	 	 	1282	717
7 	 	Boston Bruins 	1370 	 	 	1540	556
8 	 	Chicago Black Hawks	1221 	 	 	1394	541
9 	 	Los Angeles Kings 	887 	 	 	1348	731
10	 	Montreal Canadiens 	896 	 	 	1126	560
11	 	New York Islanders 	647 	 	(empty net) 	752 	573
12	 	Buffalo Sabres 	1159 	 	 	1191	512
13	 	Edmonton Oilers 	575 	 	(empty net) 	1487	894
14	 	Calgary Flames 	1107 	 	 	1111	500
15	 	New York Islanders 	1104 	 	 	1279	524
16	 	New York Rangers 	936 	 	 	1432	708
17	 	Chicago Blackhawks 	951 	 	 	1089	548
18	 	Los Angeles Kings 	833 	 	(empty net) 	1251	601
19	 	Detroit Red Wings 	946 	 	 	1232	608
20	 	Pittsburgh Penguins	605 	 	 	915 	690
21	 	New York Rangers 	1141 	 	 	1756	694
22	 	Detroit Red Wings 	906 	 	 	1514	692
23	 	St. Louis Blues 	1103 	 	 	1188	518
24	 	St. Louis Blues 	693 	 	 	1269	741
25	 	Pittsburgh Penguins	1052 	 	 	1062	502
26	 	New Jersey Devils 	1070 	 	 	1639	640
27	 	Los Angeles Kings 	928 	 	 	1431	668
28	 	Detroit Red Wings 	1285 	 	 	1424	522
29	 	Carolina Hurricanes	1533 	 	 	1731	549
30	 	Detroit Red Wings 	1100 	 	 	1524	656
31	 	Colorado Avalanche 	1044 	 	 	1378	625
32	 	New Jersey Devils 	1094 	 	 	1242	559
33	 	Washington Capitals	928 	 	 	1273	646
34	 	Colorado Avalanche 	1229 	 	 	1294	515
35	 	Toronto Maple Leafs	1162 	 	 	1346	564
36	 	Anaheim Ducks 	982 	 	 	1186	606
37	 	Chicago Blackhawks 	1050 	 	 	1081	503
38	 	Pittsburgh Penguins	1303 	 	 	1571	563
39	 	Dallas Stars 	1225 	 	 	1459	557
40	 	San Jose Sharks 	1267 	 	 	1363	513
41	 	St. Louis Blues 	1055 	 	(empty net) 	1201	538
==Active players who are close==
There are no players who have a realistic chance to reach 500 goals during the 2010–11 NHL season. Sergei Fedorov who is still active but no longer playing in the NHL has scored 483 goals in 1248 games primarily with the Detroit Red Wings.
==Retired players who came close==
These are players who are now retired that came within 50 goals of reaching 500 for their career.
;Legend:
:Team – The team for which the player played the most games.
:GP – Career games played
:G – Career goals scored
Player 	Team 	GP 	G
Glenn Anderson 	Edmonton Oilers 	1129	498
Jean Ratelle 	New York Rangers 	1281	491
Norm Ullman 	Detroit Red Wings 	1410	490
Brian Bellows 	Minnesota North Stars	1188	485
Darryl Sittler 	Toronto Maple Leafs 	1096	484
Bernie Nicholls 	Los Angeles Kings 	1127	475
Alexander Mogilny	Buffalo Sabres 	990 	473
Denis Savard 	Chicago Blackhawks 	1196	473
Pat LaFontaine 	New York Islanders 	865 	468
Alex Delvecchio 	Detroit Red Wings 	1549	456
Theoren Fleury 	Calgary Flames 	1084	455
Doug Gilmour 	Toronto Maple Leafs 	1474	450
Peter Stastny 	Quebec Nordiques 	977 	450
==See also==
* List of NHL statistical leaders
* List of NHL players with 1000 games played
* List of NHL players with 1000 points
* List of NHL players with 100 point seasons
* List of NHL players with 50 goal seasons
* List of NHL players with 50 goals in 50 games
==References==
*2005 NHL Official Guide & Record Book ISBN 0-920445-91-8.
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