It’s Been Twenty Years
The New York Rangers are off to a torrid start to the 2016-17 NHL season, with 65 goals through the first sixteen games of the year. That puts them on pace for 333 goals, which would be the most goals in the past twenty years for any NHL team, let alone the Blueshirts. You have to go back to the 1971-72 season to find a Rangers team with an equivalent goals per game of 4.06.
You have to go back to the 1995-96 Pittsburgh Penguins who amasses a staggering – in today’s terms – 362 goals, or 4.41 goals per game, and that too was before there were shootouts or 3 on 3 overtime to help pad the goal totals. Not that the Rangers have made it to OT yet this season.