Gretzky vs Lemieux head-to-head games are now updated with new plus/minus figures from the NHL 100 statistical updates:

		Mario Lemieux				Wayne Gretzky
Date	Result	G	A	PTS	+/-	G	A	PTS	+/-
06-Nov-84	Oilers 3 @ Pens 3		1	1	1	1		1	-1
12-Jan-85	Oilers 3 @ Pens 4	2		2	Even		3	3	Even
26-Jan-85	Pens 3 @ Oilers 6	1		1	-1	3	1	4	2
22-Jan-86	Pens 7 @ Oilers 4		4	4	Even	1	1	2	-2
07-Mar-86	Pens 3 @ Oilers 5		1	1	-1		2	2	2
26-Mar-86	Oilers 8 @ Pens 3		1	1	-2	1	3	4	3
05-Dec-86	Oilers 4 @ Pens 2			0	-2		3	3	2
24-Jan-87	Pens 2 @ Oilers 4		1	1	Even	1	3	4	3
24-Feb-87	Oilers 2 @ Pens 5			0	Even		1	1	-2
20-Nov-87	Pens 1 @ Oilers 4		1	1	-2		2	2	1
19-Feb-88	Pens 3 @ Oilers 7		1	1	Even			0	Even
12-Nov-88	Pens 2 @ Kings 7	1	1	2	-3		1	1	Even
07-Mar-89	Pens 2 @ Kings 3 (OT)	1	1	2	2		2	2	Even
31-Oct-89	Kings 8 @ Pens 4		2	2	-3	3	3	6	4
10-Feb-90	Kings 6 @ Pens 7		1	1	-1		1	1	Even
26-Feb-91	Pens 2 @ Kings 8		1	1	-3		3	3	1
07-Mar-91	Kings 2 @ Pens 3		2	2	2	1	1	2	1
07-Mar-92	Pens 3 @ Kings 5		1	1	-2	1	2	3	3
11-Mar-93	Kings 3 @ Pens 4	1	3	4	2	1	1	2	Even
06-Nov-93	Pens 3 @ Kings 8		2	2	-2		4	4	3
26-Mar-96	Blues 4 @ Pens 8	5	2	7	3		1	1	-2
16-Oct-96	Pens 1 @ NYR 8			0	-2		2	2	2
16-Nov-96	NYR 8 @ Pens 3		1	1	-1	1	1	2	Even
25-Jan-97	NYR 7 @ Pens 4			0	-2		3	3	1
24-Mar-97	Pens 0 @ NYR 3			0	-1	1	1	2	2
	Total	11	27	38	-18	15	45	60	23
	Oilers-era   (11 games)	3	10	13	-7	7	19	26	8
	Post-Oilers (14 games)	8	17	25	-11	8	26	34	15

Gretzky vs Lemieux - Head to Head

I needed a day to start a blog, and as a Wayne Gretzky fan, I think January 7 is a good day. If Wayne Gretzky had stopped playing on January 7, 1984, he would have finished the 1983-84 NHL season with enough points to win the scoring title outright.


He was also on game 42 of a

51-game point streak.

On that day Gretzky picked up his 50^th goal (in his 42^nd game) to complete a hat trick against the Hartford Whalers. That gave him 50 goals, 79 assists and 129 points on the season. Paul Coffey finished the season in second place with 126 points. Technically, Gretzky could have won the Art Ross Trophy on a tiebreaker after January 4, but we'll go with this since I missed that day.



To honour Wayne Gretzky's accomplishment from 27 years ago, here is what I believe to be a complete game-by-game points breakdown of every game Gretzky played against Mario Lemieux. (There are two other games listed further below where Mario may or may not have played.) If anyone has corrections or more information, I welcome your comments: