As of the completion of the 2014–15 regular season, 105 different ice hockey players in the National Hockey League (NHL) have scored at least 100 points in a single NHL regular season.
Collectively, these players have achieved this feat on 271 different occasions, playing for 25 different franchises. Including seven franchises that have changed cities, there have been 28 different teams with 100-point players.
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.
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.
The 100-point player became a rarity in the nine seasons from 1996–97 to 2003–04. Only eight unique players, on eleven different occasions, playing for only five different teams, reached the century mark.