10 NHL Records You Won't Believe

In the current era of hockey, every team plays eighty-two games over the course of the season. It is somewhat uncommon for a modern goaltender to play over seventy games in a single season, as a starting goalie is usually expected to play somewhere around sixty games each year. Although some goaltenders, like Martin Brodeur, routinely flirted with playing eighty games in a season, no one has ever been able to accomplish that feat.

The eighty-two game schedule has not always been the norm for a NHL season; before the expansion, each team only played seventy games throughout a campaign. As such, it was possible for a net-minder to play every game for their team.

One goalie that consistently played a seventy game schedule was Glenn Hall. Nicknamed “Mr. Goalie", Hall was a starter in the NHL from 1954 until his retirement in 1971. He played two seasons with the Detroit Red Wings before being traded to the Chicago Blackhawks, where he spent ten years. From 1954-1962, Glenn Hall played every single game for his team, during the regular season and the playoffs.

The streak of consecutive starts came to an end in the 1962-63 season as Hall had some minor back issues. All in all, Mr. Goalie played an amazing 502 consecutive games between Detroit and Chicago over the span of eight seasons.

With the current NHL schedule being what it is today, this is one record that will likely never be broken.