NHL & WHA Yearly Playoff Leaders and Records for Goals Created Per Game
Active players are listed in bold.
Members of the Hockey Hall of Fame are marked with an asterisk (*).
NHL Leaders
Year | Player | GC/G |
---|---|---|
2023 | Leon Draisaitl | 0.703 |
2022 | Connor McDavid | 0.724 |
2021 | Nathan MacKinnon | 0.606 |
2020 | Nathan MacKinnon | 0.614 |
2019 | Mikko Rantanen | 0.455 |
2018 | Jake Guentzel | 0.695 |
2017 | Leon Draisaitl | 0.464 |
2016 | Nikita Kucherov | 0.489 |
2015 | Corey Perry | 0.474 |
2014 | Ryan Getzlaf | 0.428 |
2013 | David Krejčí | 0.427 |
2012 | Claude Giroux | 0.670 |
2011 | Pavel Datsyuk | 0.457 |
2010 | Johan Franzén | 0.536 |
2009 | Alex Ovechkin | 0.622 |
2008 | Jaromír Jágr | 0.526 |
2007 | Michael Nylander | 0.505 |
2006 | Patrik Eliáš | 0.646 |
2004 | Joe Sakic* | 0.458 |
2003 | Martin St. Louis* | 0.458 |
2002 | Peter Forsberg* | 0.483 |
2001 | Joe Sakic* | 0.496 |
2000 | Jaromír Jágr | 0.578 |
1999 | Steve Yzerman* | 0.583 |
1998 | Steve Yzerman* | 0.369 |
  | Sergei Fedorov* | 0.369 |
1997 | Claude Lemieux | 0.577 |
1996 | Joe Sakic* | 0.646 |
1995 | Theo Fleury | 0.819 |
1994 | Pavel Bure* | 0.542 |
1993 | Dale Hawerchuk* | 0.648 |
1992 | Mario Lemieux* | 0.895 |
1991 | Mario Lemieux* | 0.700 |
1990 | Brett Hull* | 0.780 |
1989 | Mario Lemieux* | 0.771 |
1988 | Wayne Gretzky* | 0.786 |
1987 | Glenn Anderson* | 0.534 |
1986 | Wayne Gretzky* | 0.726 |
1985 | Wayne Gretzky* | 0.971 |
1984 | Wayne Gretzky* | 0.698 |
1983 | Wayne Gretzky* | 0.871 |
1982 | Joe Mullen* | 0.685 |
1981 | Wayne Gretzky* | 0.858 |
1980 | Gilbert Perreault* | 0.616 |
1979 | Jacques Lemaire* | 0.591 |
1978 | Guy Lafleur* | 0.582 |
1977 | Lanny McDonald* | 0.828 |
1976 | Reggie Leach | 0.748 |
1975 | Guy Lafleur* | 0.781 |
1974 | Rick MacLeish | 0.564 |
1973 | Yvan Cournoyer* | 0.664 |
1972 | Phil Esposito* | 0.598 |
1971 | Frank Mahovlich* | 0.577 |
1970 | Phil Esposito* | 0.782 |
1969 | Phil Esposito* | 0.715 |
1968 | Bill Goldsworthy | 0.461 |
1967 | Jim Pappin | 0.505 |
1966 | Norm Ullman* | 0.474 |
1965 | Bobby Hull* | 0.535 |
1964 | Gordie Howe* | 0.549 |
1963 | Gordie Howe* | 0.584 |
1962 | Stan Mikita* | 0.606 |
1961 | Gordie Howe* | 0.475 |
1959 | Marcel Bonin | 0.615 |
1958 | Maurice Richard* | 0.699 |
1957 | Bernie Geoffrion* | 0.802 |
1956 | Jean Béliveau* | 0.855 |
1955 | Gordie Howe* | 0.749 |
1953 | Ed Sandford | 0.489 |
1951 | Maurice Richard* | 0.582 |
1950 | Pentti Lund | 0.419 |
1949 | Gordie Howe* | 0.527 |
1948 | Ted Kennedy* | 0.709 |
1947 | Maurice Richard* | 0.521 |
1946 | Elmer Lach* | 0.777 |
1945 | Joe Carveth | 0.370 |
1944 | Maurice Richard* | 0.906 |
1943 | Carl Liscombe | 0.596 |
1942 | Don Grosso | 0.497 |
1939 | Gordie Drillon* | 0.566 |
1936 | Buzz Boll | 0.596 |
1933 | Cecil Dillon | 0.718 |
1931 | Cooney Weiland* | 1.086 |
1928 | Frank Boucher* | 0.756 |
1919 | Newsy Lalonde* | 1.996 |
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