document_title: English Poor Laws

question_text: what key aspect of the welfare state was established in britain in 1948

text: English Poor Laws

text: History[edit]

text: Medieval Poor Laws[edit]

text: The earliest medieval Poor Law was the Ordinance of Labourers which was issued by King Edward III of England on 18 June 1349, and revised in 1350.[11] The ordinance was issued in response to the 1348–1350 outbreak of the Black Death in England,[12] when an estimated 30–40% of the population had died.[13] The decline in population left surviving workers in great demand in the agricultural economy of Britain.[12] Landowners had to face the choice of raising wages to compete for workers or letting their lands go unused. Wages for labourers rose, and this forced up prices across the economy as goods became more expensive to produce.[13] An attempt to rein in prices, the ordinance (and subsequent acts, such the Statute of Labourers of 1351) required that everyone who could work did; that wages were kept at pre-plague levels and that food was not overpriced.[14] Workers saw these shortage conditions as an opportunity to flee employers and become freemen, so Edward III passed additional laws to punish escaped workers.[15]  In addition, the Statute of Cambridge was passed in 1388[16] and placed restrictions on the movement of labourers and beggars.[11]

text: Tudor Poor Law[edit]

text: The origins of the English Poor Law system can be traced back to late medieval statutes dealing with beggars and vagrancy but it was only during the Tudor period that the Poor Law system became codified. Prior to the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the Tudors Reformation, monasteries had been the primary source of poor relief, but their dissolution resulted in poor relief moving from a largely voluntary basis to a compulsory tax that was collected at a parish level.[17] Early legislation was concerned with vagrants and making the able-bodied work, especially while labour was in short supply following the Black Death.

text: Tudor attempts to tackle the problem originate during the reign of Henry VII. In 1495, Parliament passed the Vagabonds and Beggars Act ordering that "vagabonds, idle and suspected persons shall be set in the stocks for three days and three nights and have none other sustenance but bread and water and then shall be put out of Town. Every beggar suitable to work shall resort to the Hundred where he last dwelled, is best known, or was born and there remain upon the pain aforesaid."[18]  Although this returned the burden of caring for the jobless to the communities producing more children than they could employ, it offered no immediate remedy to the problem of poverty; it was merely swept from sight, or moved from town to town. Moreover, no distinction was made between vagrants and the jobless; both were simply categorised as "sturdy beggars", to be punished and moved on.[19]

text: In 1530, during the reign of Henry VIII, a proclamation was issued, describing idleness as the "mother and root of all vices"[20] and ordering that whipping should replace the stocks as the punishment for vagabonds. This change was confirmed in the 1531 Vagabonds Act the following year, with one important change: it directed the justices of the peace to assign to the impotent poor an area within which they are to beg. Generally, the licences to beg for the impotent poor were limited to the disabled, sick, and elderly.[21] An impotent person begging out of his area was to be imprisoned for two days and nights in the stocks, on bread and water, and then sworn to return to the place in which he was authorized to beg. An able-bodied beggar was to be whipped, and sworn to return to the place where he was born, or last dwelt for the space of three years, and there put himself to labour. Still no provision was made, though, for the healthy man simply unable to find work. All able-bodied unemployed were put into the same category. Those unable to find work had a stark choice: starve or break the law. In 1535, a bill was drawn up calling for the creation of a system of public works to deal with the problem of unemployment, to be funded by a tax on income and capital. A law passed a year later allowed vagabonds to be whipped.[22]

text: In London, there was a great massing of the poor, and the Reformation threatened to eliminate some of the infrastructure used to provide for the poor. As a result, King Henry VIII consented to re-endow St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1544 and St. Thomas’ Hospital in 1552 on the condition that the citizens of London pay for their maintenance.[23] However, the city was unable to raise enough revenue from voluntary contributions, so it instituted the first definite compulsory Poor Rate in 1547 which replaced Sunday collections in Church with a mandatory collection for the poor.[24] In 1555, London became increasingly concerned with the number of poor who could work, but yet could not find work, so it established the first House of Correction (predecessor to the workhouse) in the King’s Palace at Bridewell where poor could receive shelter and work at cap-making, feather-bed making, and wire drawing.[25]

text: For the able-bodied poor, life became even tougher during the reign of Edward VI. In 1547, the Vagabonds Act was passed that subjected vagrants to some of the more extreme provisions of the criminal law, namely two years servitude and branding with a "V" as the penalty for the first offence and death for the second. Justices of the Peace were reluctant to apply the full penalty.[26]  in 1552, Edward VI passed a poor act which designated a position of "Collector of Alms" in each parish and created a register of licensed poor. Under the assumption that parish collections would now relieve all poor, begging was completely prohibited.[27]

text: The government of Elizabeth I, Edward VI's successor after Mary I, was also inclined to severity. An Act passed in 1572 called for offenders to be burned through the ear for a first offence and that persistent beggars should be hanged. However, the Act also made the first clear distinction between the "professional beggar" and those unemployed through no fault of their own. Early in her reign, Elizabeth I also passed laws directly aimed at providing relief for the poor. For example, in 1563, her Act for the Relief of the Poor required all parish residents with ability to pay to contribute to poor collections.[28] Those who “of his or their forward willful mind shall obstinately refuse to give weekly to the relief of the poor according to his or their abilities” could be bound over to justices of the peace and fined £10.[29] Additionally, the 1572 Vagabonds Act further enabled Justices of the Peace to survey and register the impotent poor, determine how much money was required for their relief, then assess parish residents weekly for the appropriate amount.[30] Her 1575 Poor Act required towns to create “a competent stock of wool, hemp, flax, iron and other stuff” for the poor to work on and houses of correction for those who refused to work where recalcitrant or careless workers could be forced to work and punished accordingly.[31]

text: The first complete code of poor relief was made in the Act for the Relief of the Poor 1597 and some provision for the "deserving poor" was eventually made in the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601. The more immediate origins of the Elizabethan Poor Law system were deteriorating economic circumstances in sixteenth-century England. Historian George Boyer has stated that England suffered rapid inflation at this time caused by population growth, the debasement of coinage and the inflow of American silver.[2] Poor harvests in the period between 1595 and 1598 causing the numbers in poverty to increase while charitable giving decreased after the dissolution of the Monasteries and religious guilds.[32]

text: A new colonial solution[edit]

text: In the early 1580s, with the development of English colonization schemes, initially in Ireland and later in North America, a new method to alleviate the condition of the poor would be suggested and utilized considerably over time.  Merchant and colonization proponent, George Peckham noted the then-current domestic conditions; "there are at this day great numbers which Hue in such penurie & want, as they could be content to hazard their Hues, and to serue one yeere for meat, drinke and apparell only, without wages, in hope thereby to amend their estates." With this, he may have been the first to suggest what became the institution of  indentured service.[33]  At the same time Richard Hakluyt, in his preface to Divers Voyages, likens English planters to "Bees...led out by their Captaines to swarme abroad"; he recommends "deducting" the poor out of the realm. Hakluyt also broadens the scope and additionally recommends to empty the prisons and send them off to the New World.[34] By 1619 Virginia's system of indentured service would be fully developed, and subsequent colonies would adopt the method with modifications suitable to their different conditions and times.[33] English penal transportation would be implemented soon afterwards, and evolve into a subsidized government endeavor with the Transportation Act 1717.

text: Old Poor Law[edit]

text: The Elizabethan Poor Law[17] of 1601 formalized earlier practices of poor relief contained in the Act for the Relief of the Poor 1597 yet is often cited as the beginning of the Old Poor Law system.[37] It created a system administered at parish level,[38] paid for by levying local rates on rate payers.[39] Relief for those too ill or old to work, the so-called 'impotent poor', was in the form of a payment or items of food ('the parish loaf') or clothing also known as outdoor relief. Some aged people might be accommodated in parish alms houses, though these were usually private charitable institutions. Meanwhile, able-bodied beggars who had refused work were often placed in Houses of Correction or even subjected to beatings to mend their attitudes. Provision for the many able-bodied poor in the workhouse, was relatively unusual, and most workhouses developed later. The 1601 Law said that parents and children were responsible for each other, elderly parents would live with their children.[40]

text: The Old Poor Law was a parish based system,[41] there were around 15,000 such parishes based upon the area around a parish church. The system allowed for despotic behavior from the Overseers of the Poor[42] but as Overseers of the Poor would know their paupers they were considered able to differentiate between the deserving and undeserving poor making the system both more humane and initially more efficient.[42] The Elizabethan Poor Law operated at a time when the population was small enough for everyone to know everyone else, therefore people's circumstances would be known and the idle poor would be unable to claim on the parishes' poor rate. The system provided social stability yet by 1750 needed to be adapted to cope with population increases,[43] greater mobility and regional price variations.

text: The 1601 Act sought to deal with 'settled' poor who had found themselves temporarily out of work—it was assumed they would accept indoor relief or outdoor relief. Neither method of relief was at this time in history seen as harsh. The act was supposed to deal with beggars who were considered a threat to civil order. The Act was passed at a time when poverty was considered necessary as fear of poverty made people work. In 1607 a House of Correction was set up in each county. However, this system was separate from the 1601 system which distinguished between the settled poor and 'vagrants'. There was much variation in the application of the law and there was a tendency for the destitute to migrate towards the more generous parishes, usually situated in the towns.[38] This led to the Settlement Act 1662 also known as the Poor Relief Act 1662, this allowed relief only to established residents of a parish; mainly through birth, marriage and apprenticeship. Unfortunately the laws reduced the mobility of labour and discouraged paupers from leaving their parish to find work.[44] They also encouraged industry to create short contracts (e.g. 364 days) so that an employee could not become eligible for poor relief.[38]

text: A pauper applicant had to prove a settlement. If they could not they were removed to the parish that was nearest to their place of birth, or where they might prove some connection; some paupers were moved hundreds of miles. Although the parishes they passed through en route had no responsibility for them, they were supposed to supply food and drink and shelter for at least one night. In 1697 an act was passed requiring those who begged to wear a "badge" of red or blue cloth on the right shoulder with an embroidered letter "P" and the initial of their parish.[45] However, this practice soon fell into disuse.[46]

text: The workhouse movement began at the end of the 17th century with the establishment of the Bristol Corporation of the Poor, founded by Act of Parliament in 1696.[47] The corporation established a workhouse which combined housing and care of the poor with a house of correction for petty offenders. Following the example of Bristol, some twelve further towns and cities established similar corporations in the next two decades. As these corporations required a private Act, they were not suitable for smaller towns and individual parishes.

text: Starting with the parish of Olney, Buckinghamshire in 1714 several dozen small towns and individual parishes established their own institutions without any specific legal authorization. These were concentrated in the South Midlands and in the county of Essex. From the late 1710s the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge began to promote the idea of parochial workhouses. The Society published several pamphlets on the subject, and supported Sir Edward Knatchbull in his successful efforts to steer the Workhouse Test Act through parliament in 1723.[48] The act gave legislative authority for the establishment of parochial workhouses, by both single parishes and as joint ventures between two or more parishes. More importantly, the Act helped to publicise the idea of establishing workhouses to a national audience. By 1776 some 1,912 parish and corporation workhouses had been established in England and Wales, housing almost 100,000 paupers. Perhaps one million people were receiving some kind of parish poor relief by the end of the century.[49] Although many parishes and pamphlet writers expected to earn money from the labour of the poor in workhouses, the vast majority of people obliged to take up residence in workhouses were ill, elderly, or children whose labour proved largely unprofitable. The demands, needs and expectations of the poor also ensured that workhouses came to take on the character of general social policy institutions, combining the functions of creche, and night shelter, geriatric ward and orphanage. In 1782, Thomas Gilbert finally succeeded in passing an Act[50] that established poor houses solely for the aged and infirm and introduced a system of outdoor relief for the able-bodied. This was the basis for the development of the Speenhamland system, which made financial provision for low-paid workers. Settlement Laws were altered by the Removal Act 1795 which prevented non-settled persons from being moved on unless they had applied for relief.[2] An investigation of the history and current state of the Poor Laws was made by Michael Nolan in his 1805 Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor. The work would go on to three subsequent editions in Nolan's lifetime (Nolan was elected an MP for Barnstaple in 1820), and stoked the discussion both within and outside of Parliament.

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During the Napoleonic Wars it became difficult to import cheap grain into Britain which resulted in the price of bread increasing.[3]
As wages did not also increase, many agricultural labourers were plunged into poverty. Following peace in 1814, the Tory government of Lord Liverpool[51] passed the Corn Laws[52] to keep the price of grain artificially high. 1815 saw great social unrest[53] as the end of the French Wars[54] saw industrial and agricultural depression and high unemployment. Social attitudes to poverty began to change after 1815 and overhauls of the system were considered. The Poor Law system was criticized as distorting the free market and in 1816 a Parliamentary Select Committee looked into altering the system[55] which resulted in the Sturges-Bourne Acts being passed. 1817 also saw the passing of the Poor Employment Act, "to authorise the issue of Exchequer Bills and the Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund, to a limited Amount, for the carrying on of Public Works and Fisheries in the United Kingdom and Employment of the Poor in Great Britain".[56] By 1820, before the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act workhouses were already being built to reduce the spiraling cost of poor relief.[55] Boyer suggests several possible reasons for the gradual increase in relief given to able-bodied males, including the enclosure movement and a decline in industries such as wool spinning and lace making.[2] Boyer also contends that farmers were able to take advantage of the poor law system to shift some of their labour costs onto the tax payer.[57]

text: The Royal Commission on the Poor Law[edit]

text: The 1832 Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws[58] was set up following the widespread destruction and machine breaking of the Swing Riots.[59] The report was prepared by a commission of nine, including Nassau William Senior,[60] and served by Edwin Chadwick as Secretary.[61] The Royal Commission's primary concerns were with illegitimacy (or "bastardy"), reflecting the influence of Malthusians, and the fear that the practices of the Old Poor Law were undermining the position of the independent labourer.[62]  Two practices were of particular concern: the "roundsman" system,[63] where overseers hired out paupers as cheap labour, and the Speenhamland system, which subsidised low wages without relief.[58] The report concluded that the existing Poor Laws undermined the prosperity of the country by interfering with the natural laws of supply and demand, that the existing means of poor relief allowed employers to force down wages, and, that poverty itself was inevitable.[64][65]

text: The Commission proposed the New Law be governed by two overarching principles:

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"less eligibility": that the pauper should have to enter a workhouse with conditions worse than that of the poorest free labourer outside of the workhouse.[66]
the "workhouse test", that relief should only be available in the workhouse.[1]  The reformed workhouses were to be uninviting, so that anyone capable of coping outside them would choose not to be in one.

text: When the Act was introduced however it had been partly watered down. The workhouse test and the idea of "less eligibility" were never mentioned themselves and the recommendation of the Royal Commission that outdoor relief (relief given outside of a workhouse)[67] should be abolished – was never implemented. The report recommended separate workhouses for the aged, infirm, children, able-bodied females and able-bodied males. The report also stated that parishes should be grouped into unions in order to spread the cost of workhouses and a central authority should be established in order to enforce these measures. The Poor Law Commission set up by Earl Grey took a year to write its report, the recommendations passed easily through Parliament support by both main parties the Whigs and the Tories. The bill gained Royal Assent in 1834. The few who opposed the Bill were more concerned about the centralisation which it would bring rather than the underpinning philosophy of utilitarianism.[68]

text: New Poor Law[edit]

text:
The Poor Law Amendment Act[69]
was passed in 1834 by the government of Lord Melbourne and largely implemented the findings of the Royal Commission which had presented its findings two years earlier.[70] The New Poor Law is considered to be one of the most "far-reaching pieces of legislation of the entire Nineteenth Century"[3] and "classic example of the fundamental Whig-Benthamite reforming legislation of the period".[70] The Act aimed to reduce the burden on rate payers and can be seen as an attempt by the Whig government to win the votes of the classes enfranchised by the Great Reform Act. Despite being labelled an "amendment act" it completely overhauled the existing system[55] and established a Poor Law Commission to oversee the national operation of the system.[71]  This included the forming together of small parishes into Poor Law Unions[72] and the building of workhouses in each union for the giving of poor relief. Although the aim of the legislation was to reduce costs to rate payers, one area not reformed was the method of financing of the Poor Law system which continued to be paid for by levying a "poor rate"[73] on the property owning middle classes.

text: Although the Poor Law Amendment Act did not ban all forms of outdoor relief,[74] it stated that no able-bodied person was to receive money or other help from the Poor Law authorities except in a workhouse. Conditions in workhouses were to be made harsh to discourage people from claiming. Workhouses were to be built in every parish and, if parishes were too small, parishes could group together to form Workhouse Unions. The Poor Law Commissioners were to be responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Act.

text: For various reasons it was impossible to apply some of the terms of the Act. Less eligibility was in some cases impossible without starving paupers and the high cost of building workhouses incurred by rate payers meant that outdoor relief continued to be a popular alternative. Despite efforts to ban outdoor relief, parishes continued to offer it as a more cost-effective method of dealing with pauperism. The Outdoor Labour Test Order[75] and Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Order[76] were both issued to try to prevent people receiving relief outside of the workhouse.

text: When the new Amendment was applied to the industrial North of England (an area the law had never considered during reviews), the system failed catastrophically as many found themselves temporarily unemployed, due to recessions or a fall in stock demands, so called 'cyclical unemployment' and were reluctant to enter a Workhouse, despite its being the only method of gaining aid.     Nottingham also was allowed an exemption from the law and continued to provide outdoor relief[77]

text: The abuses and shortcomings of the system are documented in the novels of Charles Dickens and Frances Trollope and later in People of the Abyss [1]  by Jack London. Despite the aspirations of the reformers, the New Poor Law was unable to make the Workhouse as bad as life outside. The primary problem was that in order to make the diet of the Workhouse inmates "less eligible" than what they could expect outside, it would be necessary to starve the inmates beyond an acceptable level.[66]  It was for this reason that other ways were found to deter entrance to the Workhouses. These measures ranged from the introduction of prison style uniforms to the segregation of 'inmates' into yards – there were normally male, female, boys' and girls' yards.

text: In 1846, the Andover workhouse scandal,[78] where conditions in the Andover Union Workhouse were found to be inhumane and dangerous, prompted a government review and the abolition of the Poor Law Commission which was replaced with a Poor Law Board which meant that a Committee of Parliament was to administer the Poor Law, with a cabinet minister as head. Despite this another scandal occurred over inhumane treatment of paupers in the Huddersfield workhouse.[79]

text: After the New Poor Law[edit]

text: After 1847 the Poor Law Commission was replaced with a Poor Law Board.[5] This was because of the Andover workhouse scandal and the criticism of Henry Parker who was responsible for the Andover union as well as the tensions in Somerset House caused by Chadwick's failure to become a Poor Law Commissioner. The Poor Law had been altered in 1834 because of increasing costs. The Workhouse Visiting Society which formed in 1858 highlighted conditions in workhouses[80] and led to workhouses being inspected more often.[81] The Union Chargeability Act was passed in 1865[82] in order to make the financial burden of pauperism be placed upon the whole unions rather than individual parishes. Most Boards of Guardians were middle class and committed to keeping Poor Rates as low as possible. After the Reform Act 1867 there was increasing welfare legislation. As this legislation required local authorities' support the Poor Law Board was replaced with a Local Government Board in 1871.[83] The Local Government Board led a crusade against outdoor relief supported by the Charity Organisation Society, an organization which viewed outdoor relief as destroying the self-reliance of the poor.[2] The effect of this renewed effort to deter outdoor relief was to reduce claimants by a third and to increase numbers in the work house by 12–15%.[2] County Councils were formed in 1888, District Councils in 1894. This meant that public housing, unlike health and income maintenance, developed outside the scope of the Poor Law. Poor Law policy after the New Poor Law concerning the elderly, the sick and mentally ill and children became more humane.[84] This was in part due to the expense of providing "mixed workhouses"[84] as well as changing attitudes regarding the causes and nature of poverty.[85]

text: Decline and abolition[edit]

text: The Poor Law system began to decline with the availability of other forms of assistance. The growth of friendly societies provided help for its members without recourse to the Poor Law system. Some trade unions also provided help for their members. The Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act 1885 meant that people who had accessed medical care funded by the poor rate were no longer disqualified from voting in elections. In 1886 the Chamberlain Circular encouraged the Local Government Board to set up work projects when unemployment rates were high rather than use workhouses. In 1905 the Conservatives passed the Unemployed Workman Act which provided for temporary employment for workers in times of unemployment.[86]

text: In 1905 a Royal Commission was set up to investigate what changes could be made to the Poor Law.[87] The Commission produced two conflicting reports but both investigations were largely ignored by the Liberal government when implementing their own scheme of welfare legislation. The welfare reforms of the Liberal Government[88]  made several provisions to provide social services without the stigma of the Poor Law, including Old age pensions and National Insurance, and from that period fewer people were covered by the system.[89] From 1911, the term "Workhouse" was replaced by "Poor Law Institution".[90] Means tests were developed during the inter-war period, not as part of the Poor Law, but as part of the attempt to offer relief that was not affected by the stigma of pauperism. According to Lees by slowly dismantling the system the Poor Law was "to die by attrition and surgical removals of essential organs".[91]

text: During the First World War there is evidence that some workhouses were used as makeshift hospitals for wounded servicemen.[92][93][94] Numbers using the Poor Law system increased during the interwar years and between 1921 and 1938 despite the extension of unemployment insurance to virtually all workers except the self-employed.[95] Many of these workers were provided with outdoor relief. One aspect of the Poor Law that continued to cause resentment was that the burden of poor relief was not shared equally by rich and poor areas but, rather, fell most heavily on those areas in which poverty was at its worst. This was a central issue in the Poplar Rates Rebellion led by George Lansbury and others in 1921.[96] Lansbury had in 1911 written a provocative attack on the workhouse system in a pamphlet entitled "Smash Up the Workhouse!".[97]

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Poverty in the interwar years (1918–1939) was responsible for several measures which largely killed off the Poor Law system. The Board of Guardians (Default) Act 1926 was passed in response to some Boards of Guardians supporting the Miners during the General Strike.[98] Workhouses were officially abolished by the Local Government Act 1929,[99] and between 1929 and 1930 Poor Law Guardians, the "workhouse test" and the term "pauper" disappeared. The Unemployment Assistance Board was set up in 1934 to deal with those not covered by the earlier 1911 National Insurance Act passed by the Liberals, and by 1937 the able-bodied poor had been absorbed into this scheme. By 1936 only 13% of people were still receiving poor relief in some form of institution.[100]
In 1948 the Poor Law system was finally abolished with the introduction of the modern welfare state and the passing of the National Assistance Act.[1] The National Health Service Act 1946 came into force in 1948 and created the modern day National Health Service.[101]

text: Opposition[edit]

text: Opposition to the Poor Law grew at the beginning of the 19th century. The 1601 system was felt to be too costly[38] and was considered in academic circles as encouraging the underlying problems.[102] Jeremy Bentham argued for a disciplinary, punitive approach to social problems, whilst the writings of Thomas Malthus focused attention on overpopulation, and the growth of illegitimacy.[103] David Ricardo argued that there was an "iron law of wages". The effect of poor relief, in the view of the reformers, was to undermine the position of the "independent labourer".[104]

text: In the period following the Napoleonic Wars, several reformers altered the function of the "poorhouse" into the model for a deterrent workhouse. The first of the deterrent workhouses in this period was at Bingham, Nottinghamshire. The second was Becher's workhouse in Southwell, now maintained by the National Trust.  George Nicholls, the overseer at Southwell, was to become a Poor Law Commissioner in the reformed system. The 1817 Report of the Select Committee on the Poor Laws condemned the Poor Law as causing poverty itself.[105]

text: The introduction of the New Poor Law also resulted in opposition. Some who gave evidence to the Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws suggested that the existing system had proved adequate and was more adaptable to local needs.[106] This argument was strongest in the industrial North of England and in the textile industries[38] where outdoor relief was a more effective method of dealing with cyclical unemployment as well as being a more cost-effective method. Poor Law commissioners faced greatest opposition in Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire where in 1837 there was high unemployment during an economic depression. The New Poor Law was seen as interference from Londoners with little understanding of local affairs.[107] Opposition was unusually strong because committees had already been formed in opposition to the Ten Hours Movement,[108] leaders of the Ten Hours campaign such as Richard Oastler,[109][110] Joseph Rayner Stephens and John Fielden[111] became the leaders of the Anti-Poor Law campaign. The Book of Murder was published and was aimed at creating opposition to the workhouse system.[112] and pamphlets were published spreading rumour and propaganda about Poor Law Commissioners and alleged infanticide inside of workhouses.[113] Opposition to the Poor Law yielded some successes in delaying the development of workhouses, and one workhouse in Stockport was attacked by a crowd of rioters.[114] As many Boards of Guardians were determined to continue under the old system, the Poor Law Commission granted some boards the right to continue providing relief under the Old Poor Law. However, the movement against the New Poor Law was short-lived, leading many to instead turn towards Chartism.[107]

text: Scotland and Ireland[edit]

text: The Poor Law systems of Scotland and Ireland were distinct from the English Poor Law system covering England and Wales although Irish legislation was heavily influenced by the English Poor Law Amendment Act.[115] In Scotland the Poor Law system was reformed by the 1845 Scottish Poor Law Act.[116] In Ireland the Irish Poor Law Act of 1838 was the first attempt to put control of the destitute and responsibility for their welfare on a statutory basis.[117] Due to exceptional overcrowding, workhouses in Ireland stopped admissions during the Irish Potato famine and increasingly resorted to outdoor relief.[118] Emigration was sometimes used by landlords as a method of keeping the cost of poor relief down and removing surplus labour.[118]  Reforms after the Irish War of Independence resulted in the abolition of Boards of Guardians in the jurisdiction of the Irish Free State and their replacement by County Boards of Health.[119]

text: Historiography[edit]

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The historiography of the Poor Laws has passed through several distinct phases.[120] The "traditionalist" or "orthodox" account of the Poor Laws focuses upon the deficiencies of the Old Poor Law.[121] This early historiography was influential in successfully overhauling the system. Blaug presents the first revisionist analysis of the Poor Law in “The Myth of the Old Poor Law and the making of the New”, arguing that the Old Poor Law did not reduce the efficiency of agricultural workers, lower wages, depress rents or compound the burden on rate payers.[122] Instead Blaug argues that Old Poor Law was a device "for dealing with the problems of structural unemployment and substandard wages in the lagging rural sector of a rapidly growing but still underdeveloped
economy".[122] Other areas of Poor Law which have concerned historians include the extent to which the Second Great Reform Act contributed to the Poor Law Amendment Act[123] and the extent to which outdoor relief was abolished following the New Poor Law.[124]


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Skaters

All-time leaders
Regular season: Points
Regular season: Points per Game
Regular season: Goals
Regular season: Goals per Game
Regular season: Powerplay Goals
Regular season: Short-handed Goals
Regular season: Game-winning Goals
Regular season: Overtime Goals
Regular season: Assists
Regular season: Assists per game
Regular season: Games Played
Regular season: Penalty Minutes
Regular season: Plus-Minus
Regular season: Shots on Goal
Regular season: Shooting percentage
Playoff points
Playoff points per game
Playoff goals
Playoff goals per game
Playoff powerplay goals
Playoff short-handed goals
Playoff game-winning goals
Playoff overtime goals
Playoff assists
Playoff games played
Playoff penalty minutes
Playoff plus-minus
Playoff shots on goal
Playoff shooting percentage

Active leaders
Regular season points
Regular season points per game
Regular season goals
Regular season goals per game
Regular season powerplay goals
Regular season short-handed goals
Regular season game-winning goals
Regular season overtime goals
Regular season assists
Regular season assists per game
Regular season games played
Regular season penalty minutes
Regular season plus-minus
Regular season shots on goal
Regular season shooting percentage
Playoff points
Playoff points per game
Playoff goals
Playoff goals per game
Playoff powerplay goals
Playoff short-handed goals
Playoff game-winning goals
Playoff overtime goals
Playoff assists
Playoff games played
Playoff penalty minutes
Playoff plus-minus
Playoff shots on goal
Playoff shooting percentage

Goaltenders

All-time leaders
Regular season wins
Regular season shutouts
Regular season goals against average
Regular season save percentage
Playoff wins
Playoff shutouts

Active leaders
Regular season wins
Regular season shutouts
Regular season goals against average
Regular season save percentage
Playoff wins
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Coaches

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Regular season games coached
Regular season coaching wins
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PPG

1

Wayne Gretzky
EDM, LAK, STL, NYR
1,487
2,857
1.92

2

Jaromir Jagr
PIT, WSH, NYR, PHI, DAL, BOS, NJD, FLA, CGY
1,733
1,921
1.11

3

Mark Messier
EDM, NYR, VAN
1,756
1,887
1.07

4

Gordie Howe
DET, HFD
1,767
1,850
1.05

5

Ron Francis
HFD, PIT, CAR, TOR
1,731
1,798
1.04

6

Marcel Dionne
DET, LAK, NYR
1,348
1,771
1.31

7

Steve Yzerman
DET
1,514
1,755
1.16

8

Mario Lemieux
PIT
915
1,723
1.88

9

Joe Sakic
QUE/COL
1,378
1,641
1.19

10

Phil Esposito
CHI, BOS, NYR
1,282
1,590
1.24

11

Ray Bourque
BOS, COL
1,612
1,579
0.98

12

Mark Recchi
PIT, PHI, MTL, CAR, ATL, TBL, BOS
1,652
1,533
0.93

13

Paul Coffey
EDM, PIT, LAK, DET, HFD, PHI, CHI, CAR, BOS
1,409
1,531
1.09

14

Stan Mikita
CHI
1,394
1,467
1.05

15

Teemu Selanne
WPG, ANA, SJS, COL
1,451
1,457
1.00

16

Joe Thornton
BOS, SJS
1,493
1,427
0.96

17

Bryan Trottier
NYI, PIT
1,279
1,425
1.11

18

Adam Oates
DET, STL, BOS, WSH, PHI, ANA, EDM
1,337
1,420
1.06

19

Doug Gilmour
STL, CGY, TOR, NJD, CHI, BUF, MTL
1,474
1,414
0.96

20

Dale Hawerchuk
WPG, BUF, STL, PHI
1,188
1,409
1.19

21

Jari Kurri
EDM, LAK, NYR, ANA, COL
1,251
1,398
1.12

22

Luc Robitaille
LAK, PIT, NYR, DET
1,431
1,394
0.97

23

Brett Hull
CGY, STL, DAL, DET, PHX
1,269
1,391
1.10

24

Mike Modano
MNS/DAL, DET
1,499
1,374
0.92

25

Johnny Bucyk
DET, BOS
1,540
1,369
0.89

26

Brendan Shanahan
NJD, STL, HFD, DET, NYR
1,524
1,354
0.89

27

Guy Lafleur
MTL, NYR, QUE
1,127
1,353
1.20

28

Mats Sundin
QUE, TOR, VAN
1,346
1,349
1.00

29

Dave Andreychuk
BUF, TOR, NJD, BOS, COL, TBL
1,639
1,338
0.82

30

Denis Savard
CHI, MTL, TBL
1,196
1,338
1.12

31

Mike Gartner
WSH, MNS, NYR, TOR, PHX
1,432
1,335
0.93

32

Pierre Turgeon
BUF, NYI, MTL, STL, DAL, COL
1,294
1,327
1.03

33

Gilbert Perreault
BUF
1,191
1,326
1.11

34

Jarome Iginla
CGY, PIT, BOS, COL, LAK
1,554
1,300
0.86

35

Alex Delvecchio
DET
1,549
1,281
0.83

36

Al MacInnis
CGY, STL
1,416
1,274
0.90

37

Jean Ratelle
NYR, BOS
1,281
1,267
0.99

38

Peter Stastny
QUE, NJD, STL
977
1,239
1.27

39

Phil Housley
BUF, WPG, STL, CGY, NJD, WSH, CHI, TOR
1,495
1,232
0.82

40

Norm Ullman
DET, TOR
1,410
1,229
0.87

41

Jean Beliveau
MTL
1,125
1,219
1.08

42

Larry Murphy
LAK, WSH, MNS, PIT, TOR, DET
1,615
1,216
0.75

43

Jeremy Roenick
CHI, PHX, PHI, LAK, SJS
1,363
1,216
0.89

44

Bobby Clarke
PHI
1,144
1,210
1.06

45

Bernie Nicholls
LAK, NYR, EDM, NJD, CHI, SJS
1,127
1,209
1.07

46

Vincent Damphousse
TOR, EDM, MTL, SJS, COL
1,378
1,205
0.87

47

Dino Ciccarelli
MNS, WSH, DET, TBL, FLA
1,232
1,200
0.97

48

Rod Brind'Amour
STL, PHI, CAR
1,484
1,184
0.80

49

Sergei Fedorov
DET, ANA, CBJ, WSH
1,248
1,179
0.94

50

Bobby Hull
CHI, WPG, HFD
1,063
1,170
1.10

text: Regular season: Points per game[edit]

text:
Wayne Gretzky, 1.921
Mario Lemieux, 1.883
Mike Bossy, 1.497
Bobby Orr, 1.393
Marcel Dionne, 1.314
Sidney Crosby, 1.292
Peter Stastny, 1.268
Peter Forsberg, 1.250
Kent Nilsson, 1.241
Phil Esposito, 1.240
Guy Lafleur, 1.202
Joe Sakic, 1.191
Dale Hawerchuk, 1.186  Evgeni Malkin, 1.186
Pat LaFontaine, 1.171
Steve Yzerman, 1.159
Eric Lindros, 1.138
Bernie Federko, 1.130
Denis Savard, 1.119  Alexander Ovechkin, 1.119
Jari Kurri, 1.118
Bryan Trottier, 1.114
Gilbert Perreault, 1.113
Pavel Bure, 1.110
Jaromir Jagr, 1.108

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text: Regular season: Goals[edit]

text:
Wayne Gretzky, 894
Gordie Howe, 801
Jaromir Jagr, 766
Brett Hull, 741
Marcel Dionne, 731
Phil Esposito, 717
Mike Gartner, 708
Mark Messier, 694
Steve Yzerman, 692
Mario Lemieux, 690
Teemu Selanne, 684
Luc Robitaille, 668
Brendan Shanahan, 656
Dave Andreychuk, 640
Joe Sakic, 625  Jarome Iginla, 625
Bobby Hull, 610
Dino Ciccarelli, 608
Alexander Ovechkin, 607
Jari Kurri, 601
Mark Recchi, 577
Mike Bossy, 573
Joe Nieuwendyk, 564  Mats Sundin, 564
Mike Modano, 561
Guy Lafleur, 560
Johnny Bucyk, 556
Ron Francis, 549
Michel Goulet, 548
Maurice Richard, 544
Stan Mikita, 541
Keith Tkachuk, 538
Patrick Marleau, 535
Frank Mahovlich, 533
Marian Hossa, 525
Bryan Trottier, 524
Pat Verbeek, 522
 Dale Hawerchuk, 518
Pierre Turgeon, 515
Jeremy Roenick, 513
Gilbert Perreault, 512
Jean Beliveau, 507
Peter Bondra, 503
Joe Mullen, 502
Lanny McDonald, 500
Glenn Anderson, 498
Jean Ratelle, 491
Norm Ullman, 490
Brian Bellows, 485
Darryl Sittler, 484
Sergei Fedorov, 483

text: Regular season: Goals per Game[edit]

text:
Mike Bossy, 0.762
Cy Denneny, 0.756
Mario Lemieux, 0.754
Babe Dye, 0.742
Pavel Bure, 0.623
Alexander Ovechkin, 0.605
Wayne Gretzky, 0.601
Brett Hull, 0.584
Bobby Hull, 0.574
Tim Kerr, 0.565
Rick Martin, 0.561
Phil Esposito, 0.559
Maurice Richard, 0.556
Cam Neely, 0.544
Marcel Dionne, 0.542
Pat LaFontaine, 0.541
Steven Stamkos, 0.524
Ilya Kovalchuk, 0.511
Rick Vaive, 0.503
Michel Goulet, 0.503
Nels Stewart, 0.498
Guy Lafleur, 0.497
Mike Gartner, 0.494
Dino Ciccarelli, 0.493
Howie Morenz, 0.493

text: Regular season: Power Play Goals[edit]

text:
Dave Andreychuk, 274
Brett Hull, 265
Teemu Selanne, 255
Phil Esposito, 249
Luc Robitaille, 247
Brendan Shanahan, 237
Mario Lemieux, 236
Marcel Dionne, 234
Dino Ciccarelli, 232
Alexander Ovechkin, 229
Mike Gartner, 217  Jaromir Jagr, 217
Joe Nieuwendyk, 215
Keith Tkachuk, 212
Joe Sakic, 205
Wayne Gretzky, 204
Steve Yzerman, 202
Mark Recchi, 200
Brian Bellows, 198
Jarome Iginla, 197
 Pierre Turgeon, 190
 Ron Francis, 188
Pat Verbeek, 186
Jeremy Roenick, 184
Dale Hawerchuk, 182

text: Regular season: Short-handed goals[edit]

text:
Wayne Gretzky, 73
Mark Messier, 63
Steve Yzerman, 50
Mario Lemieux, 49
Butch Goring, 40
Dave Poulin, 39
Jari Kurri, 37
Sergei Fedorov, 36
 Theoren Fleury, 35  Dirk Graham, 35
 Pavel Bure, 34  Derek Sanderson, 34  Marian Hossa, 34
 Brian Rolston, 33
Peter Bondra, 32  Guy Carbonneau, 32  Bobby Clarke, 32  Joe Sakic, 32
 Bill Barber, 31  Mats Sundin, 31
 Martin St. Louis, 29  Russ Courtnall, 29  Craig MacTavish, 29  Mike Modano, 29  Esa Tikkanen, 29

text: Regular season: Game-winning goals[edit]

text:
Jaromir Jagr, 135
Phil Esposito, 118
Brett Hull, 110  Teemu Selanne, 110
Brendan Shanahan, 109
Patrick Marleau , 103
Alexander Ovechkin, 102
Jarome Iginla, 101
Guy Lafleur, 97
Mats Sundin, 96
Steve Yzerman, 94
Sergei Fedorov, 93  Joe Nieuwendyk, 93
 Mark Messier, 92  Mike Modano, 92  Jeremy Roenick, 92
 Wayne Gretzky, 91  Mark Recchi, 91
 Mike Gartner, 90
Luc Robitaille, 89
Joe Sakic, 86  Pierre Turgeon, 86  Daniel Sedin, 86
 Glenn Anderson, 85  Marian Hossa, 85

text: Regular season: Overtime goals[edit]

text: If a game is tied after regulation time (which lasts three 20-minutes periods), there will be a period of "overtime" to decide the winner. The player who scores during this extra five minutes is given the overtime goal. All overtime in the NHL is sudden death—meaning the first team to score is the winner—so the player who scores in overtime also has the game-winning goal.

text:
Alexander Ovechkin, 22
Jaromir Jagr, 19
Patrik Elias, 16  Daniel Sedin, 16
Mats Sundin, 15  Sergei Fedorov, 15  Marian Hossa, 15
Ilya Kovalchuk, 14
Scott Niedermayer, 13  Olli Jokinen, 13  Jeff Carter, 13  Steve Thomas, 13  Sidney Crosby, 13
Daniel Briere, 12  Brendan Shanahan, 12  Brett Hull, 12  Brad Marchand, 12  Nels Stewart, 12  Brent Burns, 12  Evgeni Malkin, 12
Shane Doan, 11  Marian Gaborik, 11  Theoren Fleury, 11  Pierre Turgeon, 11  Glen Murray, 11   Frank Finnigan, 11  John Tavares, 11  Mario Lemieux, 11

text: Regular season: Assists[edit]

text:
Wayne Gretzky, 1,963
Ron Francis, 1,249
Mark Messier, 1,193
Ray Bourque, 1,169
Jaromir Jagr, 1,155
Paul Coffey, 1,135
Adam Oates, 1,079
Steve Yzerman, 1,063
Gordie Howe, 1,049
Marcel Dionne, 1,040
Mario Lemieux, 1,033
Joe Thornton, 1,030
Joe Sakic, 1,016
Doug Gilmour, 964
Mark Recchi, 956
Al MacInnis, 934
Larry Murphy, 929
Stan Mikita, 926
Bryan Trottier, 901
Phil Housley, 894
Dale Hawerchuk, 891
Nicklas Lidstrom, 878
Phil Esposito, 873
Denis Savard, 865
Bobby Clarke, 852
Henrik Sedin, 830
Alex Delvecchio, 825
Gilbert Perreault, 814
Johnny Bucyk, 813  Mike Modano, 813
 Pierre Turgeon, 812
Jari Kurri, 797
Guy Lafleur, 793
Peter Stastny, 789
Mats Sundin, 785
Brian Leetch, 781
Jean Ratelle, 776
Vincent Damphousse, 773  Teemu Selanne, 773
 Chris Chelios, 763
Bernie Federko, 761
Doug Weight, 755
Larry Robinson, 750
Denis Potvin, 742
Norm Ullman, 739
Bernie Nicholls, 734
Rod Brind'Amour, 732
Luc Robitaille, 726
Daniel Alfredsson, 713
Jean Beliveau, 712  Scott Stevens, 712

text: Regular season: Assists per game[edit]

text:
Wayne Gretzky, 1.320
Mario Lemieux, 1.129
Bobby Orr, 0.982
Peter Forsberg, 0.898
Sidney Crosby, 0.816
Peter Stastny, 0.808
Adam Oates, 0.807
Paul Coffey, 0.806
Marcel Dionne, 0.772
Kent Nilsson, 0.763
Bernie Federko, 0.761
Dale Hawerchuk, 0.750
Bobby Clarke, 0.745
Craig Janney, 0.741
Joe Sakic, 0.737
Mike Bossy, 0.735
Ray Bourque, 0.725
Nicklas Backstrom, 0.724
Denis Savard, 0.723
Ron Francis, 0.722
Evgeni Malkin, 0.714
Bryan Trottier, 0.705
Guy Lafleur, 0.704
Steve Yzerman, 0.702

text: Regular season: Games played[edit]

text:
Gordie Howe, 1,767
Mark Messier, 1,756
Jaromir Jagr, 1,733
Ron Francis, 1,731
Mark Recchi, 1,652
Chris Chelios, 1,651
Dave Andreychuk, 1,639
Scott Stevens, 1,635
Larry Murphy, 1,615
Ray Bourque, 1,612
Patrick Marleau, 1,575
Nicklas Lidstrom, 1,564
Jarome Iginla, 1,554
Alex Delvecchio, 1,549
Johnny Bucyk, 1,540
Brendan Shanahan, 1,524
Steve Yzerman, 1,514
Mike Modano, 1,499
Phil Housley, 1,495
Joe Thornton, 1,493
Wayne Gretzky, 1,487
Rod Brind'Amour, 1,484
Doug Gilmour, 1,474
Shane Doan, 1,456
Glen Wesley, 1,457
Teemu Selanne, 1,451
Tim Horton, 1,446

text: Regular season: Penalty minutes[edit]

text:
Tiger Williams, 3,971
Dale Hunter, 3,565
Tie Domi, 3,515
Marty McSorley, 3,381
Bob Probert, 3,300
Robert Ray, 3,207
Craig Berube, 3,149
Tim Hunter, 3,146
Chris Nilan, 3,043
Rick Tocchet, 2,972
Pat Verbeek, 2,905
Chris Chelios, 2,891
Dave Manson, 2,792
Scott Stevens, 2,785
Donald Brashear, 2,634
Willi Plett, 2,572
Gino Odjick, 2,567
Matthew Barnaby, 2,562
Gary Roberts, 2,560
Joe Kocur, 2,519
Kenneth Daneyko, 2,516
Brendan Shanahan, 2,489
Scott Mellanby, 2,479
Chris Neil, 2,459
Basil McRae, 2,457

text: Regular season: Plus-minus[edit]

text:
Larry Robinson, +722
Bobby Orr, +582
Ray Bourque, +527
Wayne Gretzky, +520
Bobby Clarke, +507
Serge Savard, +462
Denis Potvin, +456
Nicklas Lidstrom, +450
Bryan Trottier, +449
Guy Lafleur, +446
Brad McCrimmon, +444
Mark Howe, +400
Scott Stevens, +395
Steve Shutt, +394
Mike Bossy, +380
Al MacInnis, +371
Brad Park, +363
Chris Chelios, +351
Jacques Lemaire, +344
Guy Lapointe, +329  Stan Mikita, +329
Craig Ramsay, +324
Jaromir Jagr, +322
Bill Hajt, +321
Dallas Smith, +318

text: Regular season: Shots on goal[edit]

text:
Ray Bourque, 6,209
Jaromir Jagr, 5,637
Marcel Dionne, 5,363
Phil Esposito, 5,166
Al MacInnis, 5,157
Mike Gartner, 5,090
Wayne Gretzky, 5,088
Brendan Shanahan, 5,086
Alexander Ovechkin, 4,896
Brett Hull, 4,876
Jarome Iginla, 4,759
Joe Sakic, 4,621
Steve Yzerman, 4,602
Bobby Hull, 4,577
Dave Andreychuk, 4,556
Teemu Selanne, 4,540
Stan Mikita, 4,482
Paul Coffey, 4,389
Mike Modano, 4,273
Marian Hossa, 4,229
Mark Messier, 4,221
Mats Sundin, 4,015
Patrick Marleau, 4,001
Sergei Fedorov, 3,985
Luc Robitaille, 3,961

text: Regular season: Shooting percentage[edit]

text: Shooting percentage is the percentage of shots on goal which result in a goal.

text:
Craig Simpson, 23.66%
Charlie Simmer, 22.34%
Paul MacLean, 21.41%
Mike Bossy, 21.18%
Yvon Lambert, 19.85%
Rick Middleton, 19.69%
Blaine Stoughton, 19.52%
Darryl Sutter, 19.42%
Rob Brown, 19.41%
Mike Ridley, 19.30%
Steve Vickers, 19.28%
Kent Nilsson, 19.21%
Tom McCarthy, 19.16%
Jari Kurri, 19.13%
Johnny Bucyk, 19.09%
Mario Lemieux, 18.99%
Peter Stastny, 18.96%
Ray Ferraro, 18.85%
Mark Hunter, 18.78%
Tim Kerr, 18.77%

text: Playoff: Points[edit]

text:
Wayne Gretzky, 382
Mark Messier, 295
Jari Kurri, 233
Glenn Anderson, 214
Jaromir Jagr, 201
Paul Coffey, 196
Brett Hull, 190
Doug Gilmour, 188  Joe Sakic, 188
 Steve Yzerman, 185  Sidney Crosby, 185
Bryan Trottier, 183  Nicklas Lidstrom, 183
Ray Bourque, 180
Jean Beliveau, 176  Sergei Fedorov, 176
 Denis Savard, 175
Mario Lemieux, 172
Peter Forsberg, 171
Evgeni Malkin, 165
Denis Potvin, 164
 Mike Bossy, 160  Gordie Howe, 160  Al MacInnis, 160  Bobby Smith, 160

text: Playoff: Points per game[edit]

text:
Wayne Gretzky, 1.837
Mario Lemieux, 1.608
Barry Pederson, 1.529
Mark Messier, 1.250
Bobby Orr, 1.243
Mike Bossy, 1.240
Jari Kurri, 1.165
Sidney Crosby, 1.156
Gilbert Perreault, 1.144
Peter Forsberg, 1.133
Peter Stastny, 1.129
Bernie Federko, 1.110
Pavel Bure, 1.094
Joe Sakic, 1.093
Jean Beliveau, 1.086
Bobby Hull, 1.084
Eric Lindros, 1.076
Toe Blake, 1.069
Ken Linseman, 1.062
Phil Esposito, 1.054
Guy Lafleur, 1.047
Evgeni Malkin, 1.044
Denis Savard, 1.036
Doug Gilmour, 1.033
Kevin Stevens, 1.029

text: Playoff goals[edit]

text:
Wayne Gretzky, 122
Mark Messier, 109
Jari Kurri, 106
Brett Hull, 103
Glenn Anderson, 93
Mike Bossy, 85
Joe Sakic, 84
Maurice Richard, 82
Claude Lemieux, 80
Jean Beliveau, 79
Jaromir Jagr, 78
Mario Lemieux, 76
Dino Ciccarelli, 73
Esa Tikkanen, 72  Patrick Marleau, 72
Bryan Trottier, 71
Steve Yzerman, 70
Gordie Howe, 68
 Joe Nieuwendyk, 66  Denis Savard, 66  Sidney Crosby, 66
 Yvan Cournoyer, 64  Peter Forsberg, 64  Brian Propp, 64  Bobby Smith, 64

text: Playoff goals per game[edit]

text:
Mario Lemieux, 0.710
Mike Bossy, 0.659
Barry Pederson, 0.647
Jake Guentzel, 0.622
Maurice Richard, 0.621
Cam Neely, 0.613
Wayne Gretzky, 0.587
Pavel Bure, 0.547
Craig Simpson, 0.537
Jari Kurri, 0.530
Bobby Hull, 0.521
Gordie Drillon, 0.520
Dino Ciccarelli, 0.518
Brett Hull, 0.510
Steve Shutt, 0.505
Alexander Ovechkin, 0.504
Reggie Leach, 0.500  Rick Vaive, 0.500  Vladimir Tarasenko, 0.500
 Tim Kerr, 0.494
Steve Payne, 0.493
Joe Sakic, 0.488  Jean Beliveau, 0.488
 Rick MacLeish, 0.474
Darryl Sutter, 0.471

text: Playoff Power Play goals[edit]

text: When a team is given a penalty for committing an infraction (such as tripping another player), the offending player must sit in the penalty box, and his team must play with one fewer player on the ice. The penalized team is said to be "short-handed", while the other team has a "powerplay". If a player scores while his team is on the powerplay, this is recorded as a powerplay goal.

text:
Brett Hull, 38
Mike Bossy, 35  Wayne Gretzky, 35
Dino Ciccarelli, 34
Nicklas Lidstrom, 30
Mario Lemieux, 29
Denis Potvin, 28
Brian Propp, 27  Joe Sakic, 27  Steve Yzerman, 27
 Al MacInnis, 26  Evgeni Malkin, 26  Jean Beliveau, 26
Jari Kurri, 25  Cam Neely, 25  Daniel Alfredsson, 25
 Jaromir Jagr, 24  Mike Modano, 24  Denis Savard, 24  Bobby Smith, 24  Patrick Marleau, 24  Bobby Hull, 24  Mark Messier, 24
 Joe Nieuwendyk, 23  Brian Bellows, 23

text: Playoff short-handed goals[edit]

text: When a team is given a penalty for committing an infraction (such as tripping another player), the offending player must sit in the penalty box, and his team must play with one fewer player on the ice. The penalized team is said to be "short-handed", while the other team has a "powerplay". If a player scores while his team is short handed, this is recorded as a short-handed goal.

text:
Mark Messier, 14
Wayne Gretzky, 12
Jari Kurri, 10
Hakan Loob, 8  Ed Westfall, 8
 Mario Lemieux, 7
Dave Poulin, 6  Wayne Presley, 6  Brian Rolston, 6  Derek Sanderson, 6  Dave Keon, 6  Guy Carbonneau, 6  Paul Coffey, 6
 Bill Barber, 5  Bob Bourne, 5  Sergei Fedorov, 5  Lorne Henning, 5  Anders Kallur, 5  Kirk Maltby, 5  Kelly Miller, 5

text: Playoff game-winning goals[edit]

text:
Wayne Gretzky, 24  Brett Hull, 24
 Claude Lemieux, 19  Joe Sakic, 19
 Maurice Richard, 18
Glenn Anderson, 17  Mike Bossy, 17  Chris Drury, 17
 Jaromir Jagr, 16  Patrick Marleau, 16
 Mike Modano, 15  Yvan Cournoyer, 15  Jean Beliveau, 15
 Peter Forsberg, 14  Jari Kurri, 14  Guy Lafleur, 14  Joe Nieuwendyk, 14  Mark Messier, 14  Bernie Geoffrion, 14
 Daniel Briere, 13  Dino Ciccarelli, 13  Doug Gilmour, 13  Stephane Richer, 13  Bobby Smith, 13

text: Playoff overtime goals[edit]

text: If a game is tied after regulation time (which lasts three 20-minutes periods), there will be as many 20-minute periods of "overtime" as necessary during the playoffs to determine a winner. The player who scores during this extra time is given the overtime goal. All overtime in the NHL is sudden death—meaning the first team to score is the winner—so the player who scores in overtime also has the game-winning goal.

text:
Joe Sakic, 8
Maurice Richard, 6
Glenn Anderson, 5  Patrick Kane, 5
 Wayne Gretzky, 4  Nicklas Backstrom, 4  Chris Drury, 4  Dale Hunter, 4  Jaromir Jagr, 4 Jamie Langenbrunner, 4  Kirk Muller, 4  Joe Murphy, 4  Bob Nystrom, 4  Corey Perry, 4 Stephane Richer, 4  Jeremy Roenick, 4  Esa Tikkanen, 4  Martin St. Louis, 4  Patrick Marleau, 4

text: Playoff assists[edit]

text:
Wayne Gretzky, 260
Mark Messier, 186
Ray Bourque, 139
Paul Coffey, 137
Nicklas Lidstrom, 129
Doug Gilmour, 128
Jari Kurri, 127
Sergei Fedorov, 124
Jaromir Jagr, 123
Glenn Anderson, 121,  Al MacInnis, 121
 Sidney Crosby, 119
Larry Robinson, 116
Larry Murphy, 115  Steve Yzerman, 115
 Adam Oates, 114
Chris Chelios, 113
Bryan Trottier, 112
Denis Savard, 109
Denis Potvin, 108
Peter Forsberg, 107
Joe Sakic, 104
Evgeni Malkin, 103
Jean Beliveau, 97  Ron Francis, 97  Marian Hossa, 97

text: Playoff games played[edit]

text:
Chris Chelios, 266
Nicklas Lidstrom, 263
Mark Messier, 236
Claude Lemieux, 234
Scott Stevens, 233
Guy Carbonneau, 231
Larry Robinson, 227
Glenn Anderson, 225
Kris Draper, 222
Bryan Trottier, 221
Mike Keane, 220
Larry Murphy, 215
Ray Bourque, 214  Kevin Lowe, 214
 Wayne Gretzky, 208  Jaromir Jagr, 208
 Marian Hossa, 205
Brett Hull, 202  Scott Niedermayer, 202
 Jari Kurri, 200
Steve Yzerman, 196
Paul Coffey, 194
Craig MacTavish, 193
Mark Recchi, 189
Dale Hunter, 186  Esa Tikkanen, 186

text: Playoff penalty minutes[edit]

text: A penalty is given to a player for committing an infraction during the game. The length of the penalty varies depending on the severity of the offence. The amount of penalty minutes recorded for statistical purposes are:

text:
minor – 2 minutes
double minor – 4 minutes
major – 5 minutes
misconduct – 10 minutes
game misconduct – 10 minutes

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text:
Dale Hunter, 731
Chris Nilan, 541
Claude Lemieux, 529
Rick Tocchet, 471
Willi Plett, 466
Tiger Williams, 455
Glenn Anderson, 442
Tim Hunter, 426
Chris Chelios, 423
Dave Schultz, 412
Duane Sutter, 405
Scott Stevens, 402
Jim Peplinski, 382  Al Secord, 382
 Marty McSorley, 374
Andre Dupont, 352
Basil McRae, 349
Dave Manson, 343
Terry O'Reilly, 335
Gary Roberts, 332

text: Playoff plus-minus[edit]

text: Plus-minus is a statistic that indicates the relative goal differential when a player is on the ice. If the player is on the ice when his team scores even-strength or short-handed, he is given +1; if he is on the ice when the opposing team scores even-strength or short-handed, he is given -1.

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Jari Kurri, +101
Larry Robinson, +100
Charlie Huddy, +98
Wayne Gretzky, +91
Randy Gregg, +81
Denis Potvin, +64
Glenn Anderson, +63
Nicklas Lidstrom, +61
Bobby Orr, +60
Jacques Lemaire, +54  Peter Forsberg, +54
 Paul Coffey, +53
Mark Messier, +52
Guy Lafleur, +50
Steve Smith, +49  Ken Linseman, +49
 Kevin Lowe, +48  Jimmy Watson, +48  Chris Chelios, +48
 Serge Savard, +47
Steve Shutt, +46
Scott Stevens, +44
Dallas Smith, +43  Carol Vadnais, +43
 Brian Rafalski, +42  Mark Howe, +42

text: Playoff shots on goal[edit]

text:
Ray Bourque, 812
Brett Hull, 803
Claude Lemieux, 730
Marian Hossa, 712
Wayne Gretzky, 699
Jaromir Jagr, 682
Mark Messier, 671
Al MacInnis, 663
Nicklas Lidstrom, 656
Brendan Shanahan, 622
Paul Coffey, 616
Sergei Fedorov, 603
Chris Chelios, 587
Steve Yzerman, 584
Joe Sakic, 582
Denis Potvin, 578
Glenn Anderson, 554
Evgeni Malkin, 546  Alexander Ovechkin, 546
 Phil Esposito, 535
Bobby Hull, 531
Jari Kurri, 527
Jacques Lemaire, 521
Henrik Zetterberg, 514
Mike Modano, 507

text: Playoff shooting percentage[edit]

text:
Craig Simpson, 33.64%
Jake Guentzel, 26.74%
Peter Stastny, 21.71%
Darryl Sutter, 21.62%
Andrew Brunette, 21.25%  Thomas Gradin, 21.25%
 Barry Pederson, 21.15%
Rick Middleton, 20.74%
Jari Kurri, 20.11%
Steve Vickers, 20.00%
Cam Neely, 19.79%
Tim Kerr, 19.70%
Mike Bossy, 19.50%
Paul MacLean, 19.44%
Ray Ferraro, 19.27%
Bernie Federko, 19.13%
Jussi Jokinen, 19.10%
Tom Fergus, 19.09%
Mario Lemieux, 18.91%
Kevin Dineen, 18.85%
Peter Forsberg, 18.13%
Steve Shutt, 18.05%
Orest Kindrachuk, 18.02%  Anton Stastny, 18.02%
 Johnny Bucyk, 18.01%

text: Active leaders (skaters)[edit]

text: Regular season points (active)[edit]

text:
Joe Thornton, 1,427
Patrick Marleau, 1,129
Alexander Ovechkin, 1,122
Sidney Crosby, 1,116
Henrik Sedin, 1,070
Daniel Sedin, 1,041
Henrik Zetterberg, 960
Evgeni Malkin, 930
Eric Staal, 922
Jason Spezza, 888
Ryan Getzlaf, 875
Patrick Kane, 828  Anze Kopitar, 828
 Marian Gaborik, 815
Rick Nash, 805
Nicklas Backstrom, 799
Corey Perry, 766
Thomas Vanek, 753
Phil Kessel, 741
Patrice Bergeron, 734

text: Regular season points per game (active)[edit]

text:
Sidney Crosby, 1.292
Evgeni Malkin, 1.186
Alexander Ovechkin, 1.119
Patrick Kane, 1.007
Steven Stamkos, 1.006
Nicklas Backstrom, 0.980
Joe Thornton, 0.956
Ryan Getzlaf, 0.954
John Tavares, 0.928
Claude Giroux, 0.917
Anze Kopitar, 0.898  Jason Spezza, 0.898
 Jamie Benn, 0.894
Henrik Zetterberg, 0.887
Tyler Seguin, 0.856
Jonathan Toews, 0.852
Eric Staal, 0.844
Erik Karlsson, 0.826
Phil Kessel, 0.811
Henrik Sedin, 0.805

text: Regular season goals (active)[edit]

text:
Alexander Ovechkin, 607
Patrick Marleau, 535
Rick Nash, 437
Sidney Crosby, 411
Marian Gaborik, 407
Joe Thornton, 397
Eric Staal, 395
Daniel Sedin, 393
Evgeni Malkin, 370
Corey Perry, 366
Thomas Vanek, 357
Jeff Carter, 352
Steven Stamkos, 348
Henrik Zetterberg, 337
Zach Parise, 333
Phil Kessel, 330
Scott Hartnell, 327
Jason Spezza, 324
Joe Pavelski, 317
Patrick Kane, 312

text: Regular season goals per game (active)[edit]

text:
Alexander Ovechkin, 0.605
Steven Stamkos, 0.524
Sidney Crosby, 0.476
Evgeni Malkin, 0.472
Rick Nash, 0.412
John Tavares, 0.407
Marian Gaborik, 0.393
Jeff Carter, 0.389
Tyler Seguin, 0.388
Corey Perry, 0.382  Zach Parise, 0.382
 Jamie Benn, 0.381
Patrick Kane, 0.380
Brad Marchand, 0.375
James Neal, 0.374
Thomas Vanek, 0.370
Jonathan Toews, 0.369
Logan Couture, 0.366
Eric Staal, 0.361  Phil Kessel, 0.361  Max Pacioretty, 0.361

text: Regular season Power Play goals (active)[edit]

text:
Alexander Ovechkin, 229
Patrick Marleau, 165
Daniel Sedin, 138
Joe Thornton, 137
Thomas Vanek, 133  Evgeni Malkin, 133
 Steven Stamkos, 126
Sidney Crosby, 124
Eric Staal, 120
Rick Nash, 111
Marian Gaborik, 110
Scott Hartnell, 109  Jason Spezza, 109  Joe Pavelski, 109
 Mike Cammalleri, 105
Jeff Carter, 104
Corey Perry, 101
Henrik Zetterberg, 100
Zach Parise, 98
Radim Vrbata, 96

text: Regular season short-handed goals (active)[edit]

text:
Brad Marchand, 23
Antoine Vermette, 22  Rick Nash, 22
 Tomas Plekanec, 20
Matt Cullen, 19  Eric Staal, 19  Andrew Cogliano, 19  Frans Nielsen, 19
 Alex Burrows, 17  Jordan Staal, 17  Jeff Carter, 17  Patrick Sharp, 17  Patrick Marleau, 17
 Michael Grabner, 15  Mike Fisher, 15
 Cal Clutterbuck, 14  Jonathan Toews, 14  Adam Henrique, 14
 Zack Smith, 13
Ryan Kesler, 12  Patrice Bergeron, 12  Jamie Benn, 12

text: Regular season game-winning goals (active)[edit]

text:
Patrick Marleau, 103
Alexander Ovechkin, 102
Daniel Sedin, 86
Jeff Carter, 75
Rick Nash, 73
Marian Gaborik, 71
Henrik Zetterberg, 64  Zach Parise, 64
 Corey Perry, 63  Evgeni Malkin, 63
 Joe Thornton, 62
Patrice Bergeron, 59  Eric Staal, 59
 Jonathan Toews, 58
Sidney Crosby, 57
Thomas Vanek, 55  Phil Kessel, 55
 Scott Hartnell, 54  Joe Pavelski, 54
 Mike Cammalleri, 53  Patrick Kane, 53

text: Regular season overtime goals (active)[edit]

text: If a game is tied after regulation time (which lasts three 20-minutes periods), there will be a period of "overtime" to decide the winner. The player who scores during this extra time is given the overtime goal. All overtime in the NHL is sudden death—meaning the first team to score is the winner—so the player who scores in overtime also has the game-winning goal.

text:
Alexander Ovechkin, 22
Daniel Sedin, 16
Jeff Carter, 13  Sidney Crosby, 13
 Brad Marchand, 12  Brent Burns, 12  Evgeni Malkin, 12
 John Tavares, 11  Marian Gaborik, 11
 Sean Monahan, 10  Max Pacioretty, 10  Taylor Hall, 10  Jonathan Toews, 10  Claude Giroux, 10  Patrick Marleau, 10
 Vladimir Tarasenko, 9  Mike Green, 9  Loui Eriksson, 9  Jakub Voracek, 9  Joe Thornton, 9

text: Regular season assists (active)[edit]

text:
Joe Thornton, 1,030
Henrik Sedin, 830
Sidney Crosby, 705
Daniel Sedin, 648
Ryan Getzlaf, 628
Henrik Zetterberg, 623
Patrick Marleau, 594
Nicklas Backstrom, 590
Jason Spezza, 564
Evgeni Malkin, 560
Anze Kopitar, 538
Eric Staal, 527
Patrick Kane, 516
Alexander Ovechkin, 515
Mikko Koivu, 466
Claude Giroux, 463
Matt Cullen, 452
Duncan Keith, 451
Patrice Bergeron, 445
Justin Williams, 444

text: Regular season assists per game (active)[edit]

text:
Sidney Crosby, 0.816
Nicklas Backstrom, 0.724
Evgeni Malkin, 0.714
Joe Thornton, 0.690
Ryan Getzlaf, 0.685
Patrick Kane, 0.628
Claude Giroux, 0.627
Erik Karlsson, 0.625
Henrik Sedin, 0.624
Anze Kopitar, 0.584
Henrik Zetterberg, 0.576
Jason Spezza, 0.570
John Tavares, 0.522
Jakub Voracek, 0.518
Paul Stastny, 0.517
David Krejci, 0.515
Alexander Ovechkin, 0.514
Jamie Benn, 0.513
Mikko Koivu, 0.504
Kris Letang, 0.500

text: Regular season games played (active)[edit]

text:
Patrick Marleau, 1,575
Joe Thornton, 1,493
Matt Cullen, 1,445
Zdeno Chara, 1,423
Henrik Sedin, 1,330
Daniel Sedin, 1,306
Scott Hartnell, 1,249
Justin Williams, 1,162
Jason Chimera, 1,107
Jay Bouwmeester, 1,106
Mike Fisher, 1,104
Eric Staal, 1,093
Henrik Zetterberg, 1,082
Rick Nash, 1,060
Radim Vrbata, 1,057
Antoine Vermette, 1,046
Dustin Brown, 1,045
Marian Gaborik, 1,035
Dan Hamhuis, 1,031
Brent Seabrook, 1,004

text: Regular season penalty minutes (active)[edit]

text:
Zdeno Chara, 1,839
Scott Hartnell, 1,809
Cody McLeod 1,563
Derek Dorsett, 1,314
Jared Boll,  1,298
Dion Phaneuf, 1,292
Joe Thornton, 1,194
Alex Burrows, 1,134
Kevin Bieksa, 1,124
David Backes, 1,091
Corey Perry, 1,083
Dustin Byfuglien, 1,025
Milan Lucic, 981
Chris Thorburn, 968
Wayne Simmonds, 958
Brooks Orpik, 940
Jason Chimera, 892
Ryan Kesler, 876
Brandon Dubinsky, 869
Matt Martin, 853

text: Regular season plus-minus (active)[edit]

text: Plus-minus is a statistic that indicates the relative goal differential when a player is on the ice. If the player is on the ice when his team scores even-strength or short-handed, he is given +1; if he is on the ice when the opposing team scores even-strength or they score a goal while he is on the powerplay, he is given -1.

text:
Zdeno Chara, +240
Joe Thornton, +197
Jonathan Toews, +193
Chris Kunitz, +191
Brad Marchand, +181
Henrik Sedin, +165  Sidney Crosby, +165  Ryan Getzlaf, +165
 Henrik Zetterberg, 160
Patrice Bergeron, +155
Daniel Sedin, +147
Duncan Keith, +143
Ryan McDonagh, +142
Marc-Edouard Vlasic, +138
Paul Martin, +126
Johnny Boychuk, +124
Nicklas Backstrom, +118
T.J. Oshie, +117
Brent Seabrook, +116
Joe Pavelski, +112  Justin Williams, +112

text: Regular season shots on goal (active)[edit]

text:
Alexander Ovechkin, 4,896
Patrick Marleau, 4,001
Rick Nash, 3,624
Eric Staal, 3,525
Daniel Sedin, 3,474
Henrik Zetterberg, 3.455
Marian Gaborik, 3,207
Radim Vrbata, 3,103
Zdeno Chara, 3,086
Phil Kessel, 3,042
Jeff Carter, 3,028
Justin Williams, 3,011
Zach Parise, 2,932
Sidney Crosby, 2,843
Patrice Bergeron, 2,842
Joe Thornton, 2,834
Corey Perry, 2,811
Scott Hartnell, 2,777
Dustin Brown, 2,736
Patrick Sharp, 2,706

text: Regular season shooting percentage (active)[edit]

text:
Steven Stamkos, 16.67%
Brad Marchand, 15.85%
Adam Henrique, 15.49%
Sean Monahan, 14.85%
Anders Lee, 14.61%
Sidney Crosby, 14.46%
Nikita Kucherov, 14.31%
Thomas Vanek, 14.27%
Jonathan Toews, 14.07%
Joe Thornton, 14.01%
Tyler Bozak, 13.84%
Evgeni Malkin, 13.77%
Troy Brouwer, 13.76%
Milan Lucic, 13.73%
Jaden Schwartz, 13.66%
T.J. Oshie, 13.51%
Benoit Pouliot, 13.44%
Jamie Benn, 13.42%
Jordan Eberle, 13.40%
Patrick Marleau, 13.37%

text: Playoff points (active)[edit]

text:
Jaromir Jagr, 201
Sidney Crosby, 164
Evgeni Malkin, 157
Marian Hossa, 149
Patrick Kane, 123  Joe Thornton, 123
Patrick Marleau, 120  Henrik Zetterberg, 120
Ryan Getzlaf, 118
Jonathan Toews, 110
Justin Williams, 94

text: Playoff points per game (active)[edit]

text:
Sidney Crosby, 1.180
Evgeni Malkin, 1.099
Claude Giroux, 1.070
Jaromir Jagr, 0.985
Patrick Kane, 0.983
Alexander Ovechkin, 0.972
Ryan Getzlaf, 0.969
Daniel Briere, 0.935
Jason Spezza, 0.929
Henrik Zetterberg, 0.901

text: Playoff goals (active)[edit]

text:
Jaromir Jagr, 78
Patrick Marleau, 68
Evgeni Malkin, 58
Henrik Zetterberg, 57  Sidney Crosby, 57
 Marian Hossa, 52
Patrick Kane, 50
Patrick Sharp, 47
Alexander Ovechkin, 46
Joe Pavelski, 42

text: Playoff goals per game (active)[edit]

text:
Alexander Ovechkin, 0.504
Vladimir Tarasenko, 0.500
Jarome Iginla, 0.457
Sidney Crosby, 0.430
Daniel Briere, 0.427
Henrik Zetterberg, 0.424
Evgeni Malkin, 0.416
Patrick Kane, 0.414
Patrick Marleau, 0.408
Claude Giroux, 0.404
Marian Gaborik, 0.400
Johan Franzen, 0.393
Jaromir Jagr, 0.386
Vincent Lecavalier, 0.357
Corey Perry, 0.356
Simon Gagne, 0.339

text: Playoff power play goals (active)[edit]

text: When a team is given a penalty for committing an infraction (such as tripping another player), the offending player must sit in the penalty box, and his team must play with one fewer player on the ice. The penalized team is said to be "short-handed," while the other team has a "powerplay." If a player scores while his team is on the powerplay, this is recorded as a powerplay goal.

text:
Jaromir Jagr, 24
Patrick Marleau, 22  Evgeni Malkin, 22
 Henrik Zetterberg, 21  Alexander Ovechkin, 21
Marian Hossa, 18
Joe Pavelski, 17

text: Playoff short-handed goals (active)[edit]

text:
Patrick Marleau, 4
Marian Hossa, 3  Brian Gionta, 3  Jarome Iginla, 3  Mike Fisher, 3  Dave Bolland, 3  Jonathan Toews, 3

text: Playoff game-winning goals (active)[edit]

text:
Jaromir Jagr, 16  Patrick Marleau, 16
 Marian Hossa, 12  Johan Franzen, 12
 Patrick Kane, 11  Joe Pavelski, 11
 Jonathan Toews, 10  Evgeni Malkin, 10
 Sidney Crosby, 9
Henrik Zetterberg, 8  Brian Gionta, 8  Joe Thornton, 8
 Pavel Datsyuk, 7  David Krejci, 7  Jarome Iginla, 7  Tyler Johnson, 7

text: Playoff overtime goals (active)[edit]

text:
Patrick Kane, 5
Jaromir Jagr, 4  Patrick Marleau, 4
 Patrice Bergeron, 3  Alex Burrows, 3  Joe Pavelski, 3  Devin Setoguchi, 3  Nick Bonino, 3  Nicklas Backstrom, 3  Brent Seabrook, 3

text: Playoff assists (active)[edit]

text:
Jaromir Jagr, 123
Sidney Crosby, 107
Evgeni Malkin, 99
Marian Hossa, 97
Joe Thornton, 96
Ryan Getzlaf, 81
Patrick Kane, 73
Jonathan Toews, 70
Chris Kunitz, 65
Henrik Zetterberg, 63,  Duncan Keith, 63
Justin Williams, 58
Valtteri Filppula, 55,  Henrik Sedin, 55
Corey Perry, 53
Patrick Marleau, 52
Kris Letang, 50
Nicklas Backstrom, 49
David Krejci, 48
Daniel Sedin, 46

text: Playoff games played (active)[edit]

text:
Jaromir Jagr, 208
Marian Hossa, 205
Patrick Marleau, 177
Chris Kunitz, 161
Joe Thornton, 160
Valtteri Filppula, 152
Evgeni Malkin, 149
Sidney Crosby, 148
Zdeno Chara, 147
Patrick Sharp, 142

text: Playoff penalty minutes (active)[edit]

text:
Chris Neil, 192
Zdeno Chara, 186
Jaromir Jagr, 159
Milan Lucic, 155
Scott Hartnell, 146

text: Playoff plus-minus (active)[edit]

text:
Henrik Zetterberg, +41
Milan Lucic, +38
Duncan Keith, +37  Zdeno Chara, +37
 Nathan Horton, +31
Jaromir Jagr, +30  Patrice Bergeron, +30
 Marian Hossa, +29  Justin Williams, +29
 David Krejci, +28
Niklas Hjalmarsson, +26  Johan Franzen, +26
 Niklas Kronwall, +25
Anze Kopitar, +24
Bryan Bickell, +21

text: Playoff shots on goal (active)[edit]

text:
Marian Hossa, 697
Jaromir Jagr, 682
Alexander Ovechkin, 546
Henrik Zetterberg, 514
Evgeni Malkin, 463
Patrick Marleau, 445

text: Playoff shooting percentage (active)[edit]

text:
Tyler Johnson, 20.2%
Nikita Kucherov, 19.8%
Vladimir Tarasenko, 19.4%
Jussi Jokinen, 19.1%
Chris Kreider, 17.5%
Mike Cammalleri, 17.0%
Ondrej Palat, 16.9%
Nathan Horton, 16.7%
Claude Giroux, 16.5%
Joel Ward, 15.7%

text: Goaltenders[edit]

text: The statistics listed include the 2015–16 NHL regular season and 2016 playoffs.

text: All-time leaders (goaltenders)[edit]

text: Active goaltenders (during 2015–16 NHL season) are listed in boldface.

text: Regular season wins[edit]

text:
Martin Brodeur, 691
Patrick Roy, 551
Ed Belfour, 484
Roberto Luongo, 467
Curtis Joseph, 454
Terry Sawchuk, 447
Jacques Plante, 437
Henrik Lundqvist , 430
Tony Esposito, 423
Glenn Hall, 407
Marc-Andre Fleury, 404
Grant Fuhr, 403
Chris Osgood, 401
Dominik Hasek, 389
Mike Vernon, 385
John Vanbiesbrouck, 374
Tom Barrasso, 369
Ryan Miller, 366
Rogie Vachon, 355
Evgeni Nabokov, 353
Gump Worsley, 335
Nikolai Khabibulin, 333
Harry Lumley, 330
Sean Burke, 324
Miika Kiprusoff, 319

text: Regular season shutouts[edit]

text: A goaltender achieves a shutout when he does not allow a goal against him, and plays the full game.

text:
Martin Brodeur, 125
Terry Sawchuk, 103
George Hainsworth, 94
Glenn Hall, 84
Jacques Plante, 82
 Dominik Hasek, 81  Alex Connell, 81  Tiny Thompson, 81
 Ed Belfour, 76  Tony Esposito, 76
 Roberto Luongo, 73
 Harry Lumley, 71
Roy Worters, 67
Patrick Roy, 66
Turk Broda, 62
Henrik Lundqvist, 61
Evgeni Nabokov, 59
John Ross Roach, 58
Clint Benedict, 57
Eddie Giacomin, 54  Bernie Parent, 54
 Curtis Joseph, 51  Dave Kerr, 51  Rogie Vachon, 51  Tomas Vokoun, 51

text: Regular season goals against average[edit]

text: Goals against average is the average number of goals a goaltender allows over a 60-minute period (the regulation length of a game). It is calculated by multiplying the goals against by 60 minutes, then dividing by the total minutes played.

text:
Alec Connell, 1.912
George Hainsworth, 1.933
Chuck Gardiner, 2.024
Lorne Chabot, 2.039
Tiny Thompson, 2.077
Dave Kerr, 2.149
Dominik Hasek, 2.202
Martin Brodeur, 2.230
Tuukka Rask, 2.230
Ken Dryden, 2.235
Roy Worters, 2.273
Roman Turek, 2.306
Clint Benedict, 2.315
Henrik Lundqvist, 2.32
Pekka Rinne, 2.350
Gerry McNeil, 2.355
Bill Durnan, 2.356
Marty Turco, 2.357
Jacques Plante, 2.379
Evgeni Nabokov, 2.400
Manny Legace, 2.410
Niklas Backstrom, 2.422
Carey Price, 2.440
Miikka Kiprusoff, 2.452
John Ross Roach, 2.456
Cristobal Huet, 2.457

text: Regular season save percentage[edit]

text: Save percentage is the percentage of shots on goal that a goaltender stops. It is calculated by dividing the number of saves by the number of shots on goal.

text:
Tuukka Rask, .923
Dominik Hasek, .9223
Tim Thomas, .9214
Henrik Lundqvist, .920
Pekka Rinne, .9195
Roberto Luongo, .9193
Jonas Hiller, .9178
Niklas Backstrom, .9177
Tomas Vokoun, .9168
Carey Price, .9160
Ryan Miller, .91474
Ilya Bryzgalov, .91471
Jonathan Quick, .9146
Kari Lehtonen, .9141
Miikka Kiprusoff, .9136
Cristobal Huet, .9134
Craig Anderson, .9133
Mike Smith, .9132
Martin Brodeur, .91299
Jean-Sebastien Giguere, .91297
Evgeni Nabokov, .9124
Manny Fernandez, .9120
Manny Legace, .9116
Cam Ward, .9104
Martin Biron, .9102

text: Playoff wins[edit]

text:
Patrick Roy, 151
Martin Brodeur, 113
Grant Fuhr, 92
Ed Belfour, 88  Billy Smith, 88
 Ken Dryden, 80
Mike Vernon, 77
Marc-Andre Fleury, 75
Chris Osgood, 74
Jacques Plante, 71
Andy Moog, 68
Dominik Hasek, 65
Curtis Joseph, 63
Tom Barrasso, 61  Henrik Lundqvist, 61
Turk Broda, 60
Terry Sawchuk, 54
Gerry Cheevers, 53
Glenn Hall, 49
Corey Crawford, 48

text: Playoff shutouts[edit]

text:
Martin Brodeur, 24
Patrick Roy, 23
Curtis Joseph, 16
Chris Osgood, 15
Ed Belfour, 14  Dominik Hasek, 14  Jacques Plante, 14  Marc-Andre Fleury, 14
 Turk Broda, 13
Terry Sawchuk, 12
Ken Dryden, 10 Henrik Lundqvist, 10
 Jonathan Quick, 9  Clint Benedict, 9  Mike Richter, 9
 Gerry Cheevers, 8  George Hainsworth, 8  Dave Kerr, 8  Felix Potvin, 8
 Harry Lumley, 7  Evgeni Nabokov, 7  John Ross Roach, 7  Tiny Thompson, 7

text: Active leaders (goaltenders)[edit]

text: Regular season wins (active)[edit]

text:
Roberto Luongo, 453
Henrik Lundqvist, 405
Marc-Andre Fleury, 375
Ryan Miller, 358
Kari Lehtonen, 295
Cam Ward, 295
Carey Price, 270
Pekka Rinne, 269
Jonathan Quick, 260
Craig Anderson, 238
Antti Niemi, 227

text: Regular season shutouts (active)[edit]

text:
Roberto Luongo, 73
Henrik Lundqvist, 61
Marc-Andre Fleury, 44
Jonathan Quick, 44
Pekka Rinne, 43
Jaroslav Halak, 41
Ryan Miller, 39  Carey Price, 39
Craig Anderson, 38
Kari Lehtonen, 37
Brian Elliott, 36
Antti Niemi, 35

text: Coaches[edit]

text: The statistics listed include the 2015–16 NHL season.

text: All-time leaders (coaches)[edit]

text: Active coaches (during 2015–16 NHL season) are listed in boldface.

text: Regular season games coached[edit]

text:
Scotty Bowman, 2,141
Al Arbour, 1,607
Joel Quenneville, 1,600
Dick Irvin, Sr., 1,449
Ron Wilson, 1,401
Pat Quinn, 1,400
Mike Keenan, 1,386
Lindy Ruff, 1,329
Ken Hitchcock, 1,322
Jacques Martin, 1,294
Barry Trotz, 1,278
Jacques Lemaire, 1,262
Bryan Murray, 1,239
Paul Maurice, 1,201
Marc Crawford, 1,151
Darryl Sutter, 1,121
Billy Reay, 1,102
Brian Sutter, 1,028
Claude Julien, 1,024
Pat Burns, 1,019

text: Regular season coaching wins[edit]

text:
Scotty Bowman, 1,244
Joel Quenneville, 851
Ken Hitchcock, 785
Al Arbour, 782
Lindy Ruff, 736
Barry Trotz, 717
Dick Irvin, Sr., 692
Pat Quinn, 684
Mike Keenan, 672
Ron Wilson, 648
Darryl Sutter, 634
Bryan Murray, 620
Jacques Lemaire, 617
Alain Vigneault, 615
Jacques Martin, 613
Mike Babcock, 602
Paul Maurice, 600
John Tortorella, 575
Claude Julien, 554
Marc Crawford, 549
Billy Reay, 542

text: Regular season coaching points percentage[edit]

text: Points percentage is determined by the number of points a team earns (equal to the number of ties and overtime losses, plus twice the number of wins) divided by the total possible points (equal to twice the number of games).

text:
Tom Johnson, .738
Dan Bylsma, .668
Bruce Boudreau, .663
Scotty Bowman, .657
Claude Ruel, .648
Todd McLellan, .637
Toe Blake, .634
Mike Babcock, .627
Floyd Smith, .626
Joel Quenneville, .614
Fred Shero, .612
Claude Julien, .611
Ken Hitchcock, .605
Gerry Cheevers, .6037
Dave Lewis, .6036
Glen Sather, .602
Don Cherry, .601
Mike Sullivan, .600
Tommy Ivan, .599
Alain Vigneault, .592
Jimmy Skinner, .591

text: Playoff games coached[edit]

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Scotty Bowman, 353
Al Arbour, 209
Joel Quenneville, 204
Dick Irvin, Sr., 190
Pat Quinn, 183
Mike Keenan, 173
Darryl Sutter, 165
Pat Burns, 149
Ken Hitchcock, 148
Mike Babcock, 144
Glen Sather, 127
Alain Vigneault, 122
Toe Blake, 119
Jacques Lemaire, 117  Billy Reay, 117

text: Playoff coaching wins[edit]

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Scotty Bowman, 223
Al Arbour, 123
Joel Quenneville, 115
Dick Irvin, 100
Mike Keenan, 96
Pat Quinn, 94
Glen Sather, 89
Darryl Sutter, 88
Toe Blake, 82  Mike Babcock, 82
 Pat Burns, 78
Ken Hitchcock, 76
Fred Shero, 63
Jacques Lemaire, 61  Claude Julien, 61  Alain Vigneault, 61

text: Playoff coaching win percentage[edit]

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Glen Sather, .705
Toe Blake, .689
Tom Johnson, .682
Claude Ruel, .667
Scotty Bowman, .632
Mike Sullivan, .625
Jean Perron, .625
Hap Day, .613
Tommy Gorman, .600
Larry Robinson, .596
Al Arbour, .589
Mike Milbury, .575
Fred Shero, .573
Mike Babcock, .569
Bob Hartley, .568
Craig MacTavish, .567

text: Stanley Cups[edit]

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Scotty Bowman, 9
Toe Blake, 8
Hap Day, 5
Al Arbour, 4  Punch Imlach, 4  Dick Irvin, 4  Glen Sather, 4
 Jack Adams, 3  Pete Green, 3  Tommy Ivan, 3  Joel Quenneville, 3

text: Active leaders (coaches)[edit]

text: Active Leaders section updated to end of 2012-13 season, not 2014-15 season like the All Time section above.

text: Regular season games coached (active)[edit]

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Joel Quenneville, 1,211
Lindy Ruff, 1,165
Ken Hitchcock, 1,158
Barry Trotz, 1,114
Paul Maurice, 1,119
Darryl Sutter, 957
Alain Vigneault, 806
Mike Babcock, 786  Dave Tippett, 786
 Bob Hartley, 698

text: Regular season coaching wins (active)[edit]

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Joel Quenneville, 801
Ken Hitchcock, 700
Alain Vigneault, 614
Lindy Ruff, 612
John Tortorella, 575
Barry Trotz, 503
Mike Babcock, 500
Paul Maurice, 478
Darryl Sutter, 434
Dave Tippett, 404
Peter Laviolette, 366

text: Regular season coaching points percentage (active)[edit]

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Todd McLellan, .657
Bruce Boudreau, .651
Mike Babcock, .639
Dave Tippett, .617
Joel Quenneville, .604

text: Playoff games coached (active)[edit]

text:
Joel Quenneville, 163
Darryl Sutter, 139
Ken Hitchcock, 136
Mike Babcock, 131
Barry Trotz, 113
Lindy Ruff, 101

text: Playoff coaching wins (active)[edit]

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Joel Quenneville, 107
Mike Babcock, 78
Ken Hitchcock, 72  Darryl Sutter, 72
 Lindy Ruff, 57

text: Stanley Cups (active)[edit]

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Joel Quenneville, 3
Mike Sullivan, 2
Darryl Sutter, 2
Mike Babcock, 1  Dan Bylsma, 1  Ken Hitchcock, 1  Claude Julien, 1  Peter Laviolette, 1  John Tortorella, 1  Barry Trotz, 1

text: Notes[edit]

text: Jump up ^ A player is not eligible for induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame until he has been fully retired for three calendar years or is deceased; player was not eligible for induction upon the commencement of the 2014-15 NHL season.