List of players with five or more goals in an NHL game

This is a list of games in which a player has scored five or more goals in a National Hockey League game. Scoring five or more goals in a single game is considered a great feat, and only 43 players in the history of the league have achieved this accomplishment. The most recent player to do so was Marian Gaborik of the Minnesota Wild, who scored five goals on December 20, 2007, in a game against the New York Rangers. This was the first time a player had achieved the feat in 11 years.
Scoring five goals in a single NHL game is an extremely rare feat which has only been accomplished 59 times. One player—Joe Malone—has scored seven goals in a game, seven players have scored six goals in a game, and 39 have scored five goals in a game. Only two players have scored six goals or more after 1967. Joe Malone—ranked second for most career goals of any player in major hockey's first half-century—scored five goals in a game on five separate occasions, of which one was a six-goal game, and another an NHL-record seven-goal game.
Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux each attained the feat four times while five other players have also had multiple five-goal game. There have been exactly five instances of five goals being scored in a playoff game. Mario Lemieux is the only player in history to score five goals in five different ways during a game. On December 31, 1988, he scored an even-strength goal, a power-play goal, a short handed goal, a penalty shot goal and an empty net goal.
==Scorers==
 
;Legend
Name	Nationality	Team 	Date 	Goals
 	 	Montreal Canadiens 	align="right"	
 	 	Montreal Wanderers 	align="right"	
 	 	Montreal Canadiens 	align="right"	
 	 	Montreal Canadiens 	align="right"	
 	 	Montreal Canadiens 	align="right"	
 	 	Montreal Canadiens 	align="right"	
 	 	Quebec Bulldogs 	align="right"	
 	 	Toronto St. Pats 	align="right"	
 	 	Quebec Bulldogs 	align="right"	
 	 	Toronto St. Pats 	align="right"	
 	 	Montreal Canadiens 	align="right"	
 	 	Ottawa Senators 	align="right"	
 	 	Toronto St. Pats 	align="right"	
 	 	Hamilton Tigers 	align="right"	
 	 	Toronto St. Pats 	align="right"	
 	 	Montreal Maroons 	align="right"	
 	 	Montreal Canadiens 	align="right"	
 	 	Montreal Canadiens 	align="right"	
 	 	Toronto Maple Leafs 	align="right"	
 	 	Montreal Canadiens 	align="right"	
 	 	Detroit Red Wings 	align="right"	
 	 	Montreal Canadiens 	align="right"	
 	 	Montreal Canadiens 	align="right"	
 	 	Toronto Maple Leafs 	align="right"	
 	 	Montreal Canadiens 	align="right"	
 	 	Montreal Canadiens 	align="right"	
 	 	St. Louis Blues 	align="right"	
 	 	Montreal Canadiens 	align="right"	
 	 	Toronto Maple Leafs 	align="right"	
 	 	Toronto Maple Leafs 	align="right"	
 	 	Philadelphia Flyers 	align="right"	
 	 	New York Rangers 	align="right"	
 	 	Toronto Maple Leafs 	align="right"	
 	 	New York Islanders 	align="right"	
 	 	Minnesota North Stars	align="right"	
 	 	New York Islanders 	align="right"	
 	 	Edmonton Oilers 	align="right"	
 	 	Edmonton Oilers 	align="right"	
 	 	Chicago Black Hawks 	align="right"	
 	 	New York Islanders 	align="right"	
 	 	Winnipeg Jets 	align="right"	
 	 	New York Rangers 	align="right"	
 	 	Edmonton Oilers 	align="right"	
 	 	Washington Capitals 	align="right"	
 	 	Edmonton Oilers 	align="right"	
 	 	Edmonton Oilers 	align="right"	
 	 	Buffalo Sabres 	align="right"	
 	 	Edmonton Oilers 	align="right"	
 	 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	align="right"	
 	 	Calgary Flames 	align="right"	
 	 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	align="right"	
 	 	Quebec Nordiques 	align="right"	
 	 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	align="right"	
 	 	Washington Capitals 	align="right"	
 	 	Quebec Nordiques 	align="right"	
 	 	Winnipeg Jets 	align="right"	
 	 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	align="right"	
 	 	Detroit Red Wings 	align="right"	
 	 	Minnesota Wild 	align="right"	
==References==
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5 goals in a game
Category:National Hockey League statistical records