<P> As of the completion of the 2017--18 regular season, 109 ice hockey players in the National Hockey League (NHL) have scored at least 100 points in a single NHL regular season . </P> <P> Collectively, these players have achieved this feat on 276 occasions, playing for 25 franchises . Including seven franchises that have changed cities, there have been 28 teams with 100 - point players . </P> <P> The first NHL season in which a player scored 100 points was the 1968--69 season: on March 2, 1969, Phil Esposito scored his hundredth point of the season . Esposito finished the season with 126 points, and two other players achieved 100 points that season: Bobby Hull, who finished with 107 points, and Gordie Howe, who finished with 103 points . (All three scored goals to reach the milestone .) The first (of only five) defencemen to reach the 100 - point mark in the NHL was Bobby Orr, in the 1969--70 season . </P> <P> Since 1968--69, there have only been seven seasons without a 100 - point player . No player achieved 100 points during the lockout years of 1994--95, 2004--05 (which was cancelled outright), and 2012--13 . In addition, no player achieved 100 points in the full seasons of 1999--2000, 2001--02, 2003--04, and 2014--15 . </P>

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