Henrik Lundqvist - 30 Stats from No. 30's Hall of Fame Career

Following Wednesday's announcement that Henrik Lundqvist will be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2023, here are 30 stats that help tell the story of why No. 30 will take his place in hockey immortality in November.

1. Lundqvist earned 459 wins and 64 shutouts in his NHL career. He is one of 10 goaltenders in NHL history who have registered at least 400 career wins and at least 60 career shutouts, along with Martin Brodeur, Patrick Roy, Terry Sawchuk, Jacques Plante, Ed Belfour, Tony Esposito, Glenn Hall, Roberto Luongo, and Marc-Andre Fleury. Brodeur, Roy, Sawchuk, Plante, Belfour, Esposito, Hall, and Luongo are all in the Hockey Hall of Fame, while Fleury is still playing in the league. Lundqvist now joins the first eight members of that list as a Hall of Famer.

2. Lundqvist ranks sixth on the NHL's all-time wins list (459) and ninth on the NHL's all-time appearances list (887). In addition, Lundqvist has the most all-time NHL wins and NHL appearances by a goaltender who was born outside of North America.

3. Lundqvist is the only goaltender in NHL history who earned 30 or more wins in each of his first seven seasons in the league (2005-06 - 2011-12).

4. Lundqvist earned at least 30 wins in 11 different seasons in his NHL career, and he is one of three goaltenders in NHL history who have posted at least 11 different 30-win seasons over the course of their career, along with Hall of Famers Martin Brodeur (14) and Patrick Roy (13).

5. Lundqvist posted 20 or more wins in each of his first 13 NHL seasons (his streak of consecutive 30-win seasons was snapped when the NHL had a shortened 48-game season in 2012-13; he earned 24 wins (which was tied for the NHL lead) during the season. Lundqvist is the only goaltender in NHL history to earn 20 or more wins in each of his first 13 seasons in the league.

6. Of the 13 goaltenders who have earned 400 or more career wins in NHL history, Lundqvist required the fewest games to reach the 400-win plateau (727).

7. Lundqvist is also the only goaltender in NHL history to have 13 consecutive 20-win seasons at any point during their career in the league.

8. Lundqvist posted a .920 SV% or better in eight different seasons in his NHL career, including seven consecutive seasons from 2009-10 - 2015-16. Since shots on goal and saves were first tracked in 1955-56, Lundqvist is one of three goaltenders to have eight different seasons with a .920 SV% or better (along with Hall of Famers Dominik Hasek and Roberto Luongo).

9. Since shots on goal and saves were first tracked in 1955-56, Lundqvist is the only NHL goaltender who has posted seven consecutive seasons with a .920 SV% or better.

10. Lundqvist earned six wins in Game 7 of a playoff series in his career (6-2 record, 1.11 GAA, .961 SV%, 1 SO in eight career appearances in a Game 7). Lundqvist's six Game 7 wins are tied for the most in NHL history (along with Hall of Famers Martin Brodeur and Patrick Roy).

11. Lundqvist is the only goaltender in NHL history who earned six consecutive wins in Game 7 of a playoff series, and he posted a 0.81 GAA, a .973 SV%, and 1 SO in those six consecutive Game 7 wins.

12. In 2011-12, Lundqvist won the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's Best Goaltender, and he was also a finalist for the Hart Trophy as the NHL's Most Valuable Player. Lundqvist was at least a finalist for the Vezina Trophy in five different seasons in his career (2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2011-12, 2012-13), and he was named to the NHL's First All-Star Team in 2011-12, the NHL's Second All-Star Team in 2012-13, and the NHL's All-Rookie Team in 2005-06.

13. A native of Are, Sweden, Lundqvist represented his country in three Winter Olympics (2006, 2010, 2014). Lundqvist helped Sweden win a gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy and a silver medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Lundqvist also represented Sweden at the IIHF World Championship on multiple occasions throughout his career, and he helped Sweden win a gold medal in the tournament in 2017.

14. In 15 career appearances in the Olympics, Lundqvist posted a 12-3-0 record, along with a 1.80 GAA, a .926 SV%, and 4 SO. His 12 career wins in the Olympics rank second in Men's Ice Hockey (Vladislav Tretiak - 17).

15. In the years that NHL players participated in the Olympics (1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014), Lundqvist was the only goaltender who appeared in an Olympic Gold Medal Game and a Stanley Cup Final game in the same year (2014).

16. Lundqvist was the face of the Rangers franchise throughout the majority of his tenure with the team. In 15 seasons with the Blueshirts, Lundqvist was named the team's Most Valuable Player nine times (a franchise record), including seven consecutive seasons from 2006-07 - 2012-13 (a franchise record).

17. Over the first 12 seasons of his NHL career, Lundqvist did not appear in a regular season game which the Rangers were already eliminated from playoff contention prior to the start of a game. He was the only NHL goaltender who played in every season from 2005-06 - 2016-17 that did not appear in a game which his team was already eliminated from playoff contention.

18. Throughout Lundqvist's NHL career, the Rangers were not eliminated from playoff contention entering a game in 880 of his 887 regular season appearances.

19. Lundqvist started 129 consecutive postseason games with the Rangers, from Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals against New Jersey on Apr. 26, 2006 to Game 2 of the Qualifying Round against Carolina on Aug. 3, 2020. Lundqvist's streak of 129 consecutive postseason starts was the third-longest by a goaltender in NHL history (trailing only Hall of Famers Martin Brodeur and Patrick Roy).

20. Lundqvist was named one of the game's Three Stars in 342 of his 887 career NHL regular season appearances (38.6%) and in 56 of his 130 postseason appearances (43.1%).

21. In 27 career playoff appearances in which both he and the Rangers faced elimination, Lundqvist posted a 16-11 record, along with a 2.03 GAA, a .935 SV%, and 3 SO. Lundqvist's 16 career wins when facing elimination are the most by a goaltender in NHL history.

22. From Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals against Ottawa in 2012 through Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Final against Tampa Bay in 2015, Lundqvist posted a 15-3 record, along with a 1.47 GAA, a .954 SV%, and 2 SO in 18 playoff games which he and the Rangers faced elimination. The stretch included his six consecutive wins in Game 7 of a playoff series.

23. Lundqvist helped the Rangers win 10 consecutive home games when facing elimination at MSG, a stretch that began with Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals against Pittsburgh in 2008 and ran through Game 7 of the Second Round against Washington in 2015. The 10 consecutive wins when facing elimination at home in the playoffs are an NHL record. Lundqvist posted a 0.96 GAA, a .968 SV%, and 2 SO in those 10 games.

24. In the 61 playoff games that Lundqvist and the Rangers won during his career, Lundqvist posted a 1.27 GAA, a .956 SV%, and 10 SO. He only allowed a total of 81 goals in his 61 career playoff wins, and he allowed one goal or fewer in 40 of the 61 games he won.

25. Lundqvist's first NHL season in 2005-06 was also the first season that the NHL used the shootout to determine the result of games tied at the end of overtime. Lundqvist posted a 61-50 record in 111 shootout appearances, and he made more saves in the shootout than any other NHL goaltender since 2005-06 (293).

26. Lundqvist holds the NHL record for the most consecutive saves made in the shootout by a goaltender (25, from Mar. 27, 2006 to Dec. 7, 2006). On Oct. 7, 2006 against Philadelphia, Lundqvist stopped all 13 shots he faced in the shootout to help the Rangers win the game; it was the most shots a goaltender has faced in one shootout without allowing a goal in NHL history.

27. Lundqvist played in four outdoor games in his NHL career and won all of them; he posted a 4-0-0 record, along with a 1.98 GAA and a .934 SV% in those four games. He has more wins in outdoor games than any other goaltender in NHL history, and he is also the only NHL goaltender to win two outdoor games in the same season (2013-14).

28. Lundqvist started 202 regular season games in his career against a goaltender who had also won the Vezina Trophy either prior to the start of Lundqvist's career or during Lundqvist's career (Ed Belfour, Sergei Bobrovsky, Martin Brodeur, Dominik Hasek, Connor Hellebuyck, Braden Holtby, Miikka Kiprusoff, Olaf Kolzig, Ryan Miller, Carey Price, Tuukka Rask, Pekka Rinne, Tim Thomas, Jose Theodore, and Andrei Vasilevskiy). In those 202 contests, Lundqvist posted a 115-68-19 record, along with a 2.32 GAA, a .921 SV%, and 17 SO.

29. Prior to beginning his NHL career with the Rangers in 2005-06, Lundqvist had a decorated career with Frolunda in the Swedish Elite League (now the Swedish Hockey League). He won the Honken Trophy as the Swedish Goalie of the Year three times, was named the league's Most Valuable Player and Best Player in 2004-05, and he helped Frolunda win the league championship twice (2002-03 and 2004-05).

30. Lundqvist earned more wins (459) and appeared in more games (887) than any other NHL goaltender who only played with one franchise during his career. Lundqvist ranks second among NHL goaltenders in career wins and career regular season appearances with one franchise, trailing only Hall of Famer Martin Brodeur.