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What NHL player holds the record for the most 50-goal seasons?

Even when single-season scoring tallies started escalating after NHL expansion in 1967– 68, scoring 50 goals in a single season still meant something as a personal plateau, and it continues to. The Montreal Canadiens’ Maurice “Rocket” Richard was the first to do it in 1944–45, and achieved it in 50 games. Teammate “Boom Boom” Geoffrion was the second to hit the mark in 1960–61. The first player to pot more than 50 was the Chicago Black Hawks’ Bobby Hull, who got 54 in 1965–66 (Hull had earlier joined the 50-goal club in 1961–62). As to who’s recorded the most 50-goal seasons in a career, that’s a tie between Mike Bossy and Wayne Gretzky. Both did it nine times. However, Bossy only played 10 seasons in his career (all with the New York Islanders), while the Great One got his nine in 20 seasons with the Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings, St. Louis Blues, and New York Rangers. What’s more, Bossy nabbed his nine in consecutive seasons from 1977–78 to 1985–86, which is also a record, one he doesn’t share with anybody.