Unbreakable NHL records we would like to see broken

Timo Meier set a San Jose franchise record this week with five goals in the Shark's 6-2 victory over the Los Angeles Kings, two short of Joe Malone's NHL record seven goals in a game. Most hockey fans want to see Alexander Ovechkin surpass Wayne Gretzky's goal scoring record but which other long standing records would we love to see broken.

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JULIAN MCKENZIE: NHL records, some of them are made to be broken. Some of them aren't made to be broken. I think Keith Yandle is not too far from the Iron Man streak of consecutive games played. Timo Meier scored 5 goals the other day and was very close to the all-time record of 7, set by Joe Malone in 1920.

That's like almost 100-- that's like 100 years. Like, that's insane. But so, I thought, like, what if we talk about records that are supposedly, you know, made to never be broken, but we would still love to see challenged or at least broken?

Like, obviously, we're rooting for Alexander Ovechkin to break Wayne Gretzky's goalscoring record. But is there any record out there that you'd like to see broken that so many people think like, oh, man. It's never going to be broken. Like, someone's got to break it.

RAHEF ISSA: I think the-- the goal, like, most goals in a game by Joe Malone, the 7-goal record.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Yeah.

RAHEF ISSA: I think that would be so fun and so exciting to see broken. I mean, with Patrik Laine the player who scored six in a game a couple of years ago. Was it again-- St. Louis?

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Oh, 6?

OMAR: Oh, I think it was 5 against the Panthers in Finland. And then he just like--

RAHEF ISSA: Oh, was it?

OMAR: I think so.

RAHEF ISSA: OK.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Oh, my God.

RAHEF ISSA: Yeah.

OMAR: It might have been.

RAHEF ISSA: I wonder if there's someone who's scored 6 recently. I have some--

SAM CHANG: Same Gagner did.

RAHEF ISSA: I might be wrong.

SAM CHANG: Didn't Sam Gagner.

RAHEF ISSA: I might be wrong.

SAM CHANG: Score 6 goals? Did I make that up?

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Oh, my God.

OMAR: No, I think Sam Gagner had, like, 8 points.

SAM CHANG: 8 points.

OMAR: I think in, like--

RAHEF ISSA: OK.

OMAR: When he was at Edmonton. Well, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if it was Laine. Like, [INAUDIBLE]

JULIAN MCKENZIE: I'm just trying to think now--

RAHEF ISSA: I--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Yeah, go ahead.

RAHEF ISSA: I was going to say, I think it would just be so exciting and such a fun, like, story for the NHL. And I don't believe people who say like, oh, you know, the most exciting games are those 2-1, gritty, you know, slog hockey games.

No, I want to see-- I want to see someone score 7 goals in a game. And I want to-- when-- can we get to, like, a 10-9 game in the NHL? Can we get, like, an explosion--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: I would like that.

RAHEF ISSA: Of goals? So, I think it would be really fun. And that's something I would love to see broken.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: I'm trying to think of-- if anyone ever scored 6 in a game. And I think you have to go all the way back to, like, the '70s. Like, there's a handful of people who've scored 6. It's-- most recent was Darryl Sittler, who also has a record that--

OMAR: (LAUGHING) Recent.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: May or may not be broken. Yeah. Sorry, the most recent one from 1976. That may or may not be the game. I don't know offhand where-- yeah, it is the game where he got 10 points in a game. That's also a record that some people feel may never be broken. I'd like to see that one challenged.

That's my submission. I'd like to see a player go off and just basically do everything for a team and just flat out embarrass the opposition, even if it comes against the team like the Arizona Coyotes or the Montreal Canadiens. Have them win, like, 11-2 or something.

Because at that point, if the player is dominating, we're not watching it for, like, oh, you know, we want a good hockey game to be played. We want to see the player dominate and go for that record. Like, just because the score will be lopsided like that does not mean there isn't a story to be told.

And people will tune in if a record is being-- close to being broken. Like, that's-- that's easy. So, I would like someone to get 11 points in an NHL game. It doesn't have to be Ovechkin. It doesn't have to be Patrik Laine.

For all we know, like, we could just wake up one day and Sean Couturier gets, like, 11 points in a Flyers win or something. That would be like-- maybe that's not the most random player. Especially his style of play, like, that'd be a little surprising. But, like, I would love to see it. Omar, what record would you like to see broken?

OMAR: I have two.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Yes.

OMAR: Will never be touched. One, Gretzky's 50 goals in 39 games, no way. No one's touching that. Absolutely not. Like that's--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Someone has to break it.

OMAR: No way.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: I need someone to break that.

OMAR: Come on. No way. There is no-- there are some people who can't even get 50 goals in a season.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: I feel like Connor McDavid would have been the closest one but, you know, the team [INAUDIBLE]

OMAR: No way. Maybe 50 points-- 50 points in 39 games, maybe.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Yeah.

OMAR: Like, actually, I think I even-- I don't know. Well, yeah, 50 goals in 39 games, probably not. Here's another one. Henri Richard, 11 Stanley Cups as a player. That's not happening.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Yeah--

OMAR: Like right now, [INAUDIBLE]

RAHEF ISSA: Now, no.

OMAR: Yeah, no way.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: That's not happening. That's not happening at all.

OMAR: If you look at Patrick Maroon, who has three, we're like, oh, my God. That's so much.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Whoa.

OMAR: Some player gets one, oh, my God. Right? Like, 11? No way. No way. So those are two, Gretzky's 50 in 39 and Henri Richard getting 11 Stanley Cups as a player, those are the two that will never be touched.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: But you'd like to see them broken? Or are you just going to be like, no one's going to touch them forever?

OMAR: I mean 50 in 39 would be sick. Like, I would follow that. Even if it was a player on, like, a team I didn't even watch, I would follow that. If it's like 30 games in and a player has 25 goals, I'd be like, oh, OK. Like-- OK, maybe I should have said "more," but you know what I'm saying. Like, that would--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Yeah, like 45, 35, or something.

OMAR: Yeah. I would go out of my way to watch-- like, to watch that player and see holy-- or can they actually do it? Kind of the same thing we're doing with Ovechkin. But yeah--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Could it--

OMAR: That's hard.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Well, imagine if it was Auston Matthews, who was doing that. As great of a goal scorer as he is, like, that would be insane.

OMAR: Yo, that would make up for a lot.

RAHEF ISSA: It would be.

OMAR: That'd make up for a lot, man.

SAM CHANG: I hope I Michael Bunting does it.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: That would make up for a lot.

OMAR: Yes.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Oh, my gosh.

OMAR: Yes. Yes, 1,000%. 1,000%.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Don't put that in universe.

OMAR: If you want to throw--

RAHEF ISSA: Don't put that in the universe.

OMAR: You want to throw game 7 at me, Auston Matthews scored 50 goals in 39 games. Oh, but he can't win. Auston Matthews scored 33-- 50 goals in 39 games. That's one thing that may help.

But that would be sick. Like, that would-- come on. That would be disgusting. In today's day and age, that would be-- that would help-- that would help a lot. That would ignore some of the things.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: If it was Michael Bunting doing that, I think Omar would spontaneously combust.

SAM CHANG: It's my dream.

OMAR: Yo, listen, OK? Listen, all right? Y'all called me a mad man for loving Michael James Bunting, OK?

JULIAN MCKENZIE: All right, here go, guys.

OMAR: Michael James Bunting scored another goal.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: It's time for the sermon of the week.

OMAR: I'm just saying, he scored another goal, you know. So, that's all I'm saying, you know. Colder. Anyway.

SAM CHANG: I would want this to happen just so I could watch Omar's reaction.

OMAR: Yeah. [LAUGHS]

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Like we do a "Zone Time" episode, and it's Auston Matthews is two goals away from 50 in 39. How do you feel? [LAUGHS]

OMAR: I would, like--

RAHEF ISSA: Just screaming.

OMAR: Rip my shirt.

RAHEF ISSA: Just scream.

OMAR: [LAUGHS] Yeah, for half it, I would be going nuts. [LAUGHS] Just holding up the stat. Look at the numbers! You see? 48.

RAHEF ISSA: I'd get that tattooed.

SAM CHANG: [LAUGHS]

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Oh, my God. Sam, do you have a record you'd like to see broken?

SAM CHANG: I actually just saw this on Twitter, like, this morning. I think it's from @riotsurvivor. And the record-- it's not nearly as exciting as any of the other records you guys have mentioned. But--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Fair.

SAM CHANG: Glenn Hall has played 502 consecutive games as a goalie.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Yeah.

SAM CHANG: I don't-- I don't know--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: I saw that this morning too. That's insane.

SAM CHANG: Yeah, I don't know--

OMAR: Yeah, that's not happening.

SAM CHANG: That anyone's ever going to do that again.

OMAR: No way.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Nope. Nope.

OMAR: No way.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: No way.

OMAR: That's insane!

JULIAN MCKENZIE: 502--

RAHEF ISSA: And he survived.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Consecutive starts. And that was back in the days when you would see players, like, go out and smoke cigarettes after the game and chain smoke.

OMAR: Yo, man.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: They didn't know anything about conditioning back then.

SAM CHANG: I don't think anyone-- I don't think any goalie is even going to play 82 consecutive games ever.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: No! Absolutely not.

OMAR: Yo, you want to talk about a coach who doesn't believe in their backup? [LAUGHS] It's like, OK, keep going. Keep going. You've been in 40 games? Nope. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. You're our only hope. Keep going. [INAUDIBLE]

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Your hamstring-- your hamstring is messed up? No, you better get your ass in the net.

OMAR: Oh, my God. That's-- that's wild.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: That is real. I-- funny enough, I was, like, looking up different stats to throw up as potential examples, and I saw that, like 502 consecutive starts. Like, we were celebrating Marc-Andrew Fleury for getting 500 wins. Like--

SAM CHANG: Yeah.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: 502 starts? Like--

RAHEF ISSA: That's crazy.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: No.

SAM CHANG: That's crazy.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: There's no way.

RAHEF ISSA: Yeah.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: There's absolutely no way. His--

RAHEF ISSA: OK, here's--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Go ahead.

RAHEF ISSA: Sorry. I was going to say, here's another one that's never going to be broken. And I don't want to see it broken. I think if it's broken--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: OK.

RAHEF ISSA: That's probably bad. But it's the most penalty minutes in a game records by-- set by Randy Holt.

OMAR: Ooh.

RAHEF ISSA: I think-- OK, let me pull it up. I think the number is 67 penalty minutes. And I think to get that many-- that many penalty minutes--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Damn, you pissed--

RAHEF ISSA: In a game--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Damn, Omar left.

RAHEF ISSA: In today's NHL, you need to commit on-ice murder. Like, you need to actually kill someone, I think.

OMAR: 67, of course. Of course, of course, of course.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Oh, oh, oh.

OMAR: Of course.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Oh.

OMAR: Of course.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Oh, OK.

OMAR: Of course.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: I understand--

OMAR: Of course.

RAHEF ISSA: Oh.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: I understand why Omar got up and left. I understand. But once again, you have found a way to make this about the Toronto Maple Leafs. Congratulations.

OMAR: I-- I have-- I have found a way. Julian-- Julian McKenzie, Rahef [INAUDIBLE]

JULIAN MCKENZIE: That is my name.

OMAR: Actually, [INAUDIBLE] Rahef. Rahef understands this. So, the Dallas Cowboys-- football--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: OK.

OMAR: They lost their playoff series. And you know what I was seeing? You know what I was seeing all over--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Yes.

OMAR: All over Twitter? That Dallas Cowboys--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Yes.

OMAR: Are the Toronto Maple Leafs of football.

[LAUGHTER]

JULIAN MCKENZIE: I see the comparison, yeah.

OMAR: So, it's not-- it's not me, Julian. It's not Rahef, Julian. It's the universe, Julian. It's the world, Julian, that-- that likes to do things, Julian, that-- that resonates, Julian, back to the--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Say my name, say my name.

OMAR: The dark history, Julian, that is being a Leafs fan, Julian. And there is-- you know what? There are moments, Julian, where I wish that you can just like hop into either me or Rahef's mind, Julian, so you can understand, Julian. You can understand that when you're watching a game, Julian, and the team that's up--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: I don't know if I want to be in your-- in your head, Omar.

OMAR: And the team is up 3-1, and there's no safety. There's no safety. We will-- we'll watch the-- Rahef, you know what I'm talking about. What happened? St. Louis, they're up 3-1. What happens?

RAHEF ISSA: A couple days ago.

OMAR: What happened to them?

JULIAN MCKENZIE: That happened a few days ago.

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

OMAR: And what happened? It took Ilya Mikheyev to use a Jedi mind trick on Jordan Binnington for us to win the game, Julian. So I'm sorry, Julian, if I can't--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: I'm just going to go get a drink. I'll be back.

OMAR: Find solace, Julian, in Leaf stuff, Julian. Anyway. [SIGHS] I just needed a-- I just needed a--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Are you done?

OMAR: I just needed to get that off my chest.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Are you done?

OMAR: Yeah, yeah.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Are you good?

OMAR: Yeah, I'm good.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Are you all right? Yeah?

OMAR: I'm good. I'm good.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: That's good. That's great. You, at the beginning--

OMAR: So 67--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Of the episode-- yeah, go ahead. Yeah? 67?

OMAR: Yeah, so 67 penalty minutes. Who was that by?

RAHEF ISSA: Randy Holt.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Randy Holt.

OMAR: Geez, I wonder how many--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Yeah.

OMAR: I wonder how many-- is that, like, six fights or-- can you imagine [INAUDIBLE]

RAHEF ISSA: It says-- OK, it says--

JULIAN MCKENZIE: It's a triple-game misconduct, apparently.

RAHEF ISSA: Misconduct, yeah.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: That was in that, yes.

RAHEF ISSA: Yeah. Which is why I say, like, that's never getting repeated. Like, you would have to actually physically kill-- maybe more than one person for that to be awarded. [INAUDIBLE]

SAM CHANG: So it would be Tom Wilson, right? [LAUGHS]

OMAR: That's the first name, I think. [LAUGHS]

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Yeah. I mean, if we're picking, like, likely candidates, yes.

OMAR: Yeah.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: Yeah, like Randy Holt, we'd have to get Rangers/Capitals part 2. Yeah, like, we'd have to get something like that along those lines. And the Rangers will hopefully have bulked up by then, as they tried to do in the offseason to fight off Tom Wilson, who will somehow escape suspension despite getting 70 penalty minutes in that ordeal.

Because that-- if that's a man who can't get-- I mean, that's not completely true. But if that's a man who could avoid significant suspension sometimes, that man. Tom Wilson, absolutely. Maybe not completely true, but you know, just for the sake of the joke, just go with it.

OK, I think we've done enough. I think we've torched the hockey world enough for this week's edition of "Zone Time." Don't get pissy this week, people.