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Sittler scored 10 points in one NHL game.

Darryl Sittler scored six goals and four assists for Toronto against Boston on Feb. 7, 1976. That is 10 points in one game, still the NHL record. The closest anyone has come since is eight points in a game.

Even Gretzky and Lemieux never got past eight in one game.

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Source: NHL.com. The NHL.com 50th anniversary piece gives the 10 points, six goals and four assists, and calls it a mark that has endured.

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Most points in one NHL game?

Darryl Sittler scored six goals and four assists for Toronto against Boston on Feb. 7, 1976. That is 10 points in one game, still the NHL record. The closest anyone has come since is eight points in a game. Even Gretzky and Lemieux never got past eight in one game. Source: NHL.com. The NHL.com 50th anniversary piece gives the 10 points, six goals and four assists, and calls it a mark that has endured.

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