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Who holds the NHL record for the most points in one game?

On February 7, 1976, the Toronto Maple Leafs’ Darryl Sittler racked up an incredible six goals and four assists for 10 points in an 11–4 plastering of the Boston Bruins at Maple Leaf Gardens. That record for points still stands. Centreman Sittler was the first Maple Leaf ever to hit 100 points in a season, achieving that plateau in 1975–76, then did it again in 1977–78 when he got 117.

Who is the only NHL player to win the Art Ross, Hart, and Lady Byng trophies in consecutive seasons?

Czechoslovakia-born Stanislaus Gvoth, better known as Stan Mikita, achieved this distinction in 1967 (the first to do so) and then again in 1968. Mikita played for the Chicago Black Hawks from 1958–59 to 1979–80 and won the Art Ross as scoring leader two other times (1964 and 1965). The scrappy forward had a notorious bad temper, got into numerous fights, and racked up significant penalty minutes in his career, which makes it all the more incredible that he somehow managed to win the Lady Byng twice, an award given out for sportsmanship and gentlemanly play!