Category profile
- Dominance
- 80
- Peak
- 86
- Longevity
- 92
- Honours
- 94
- Statistics
- 86
Career timeline · Points per season
| Season | Points per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 40 | |
| 1956 | 52 | |
| 1957 | 80 | |
| 1958 | 73 | |
| 1959 | 78 | |
| 1960 | 74 | |
| 1961 | 66 | |
| 1962 | 73 | |
| 1963 | 62 | |
| 1964 | 63 | |
| 1965 | 52 | |
| 1966 | 55 | |
| 1967 | 54 | |
| 1968 | 51 | |
| 1969 | 53 | |
| 1970 | 45 | |
| 1971 | 32 | |
| 1972 | 30 | |
| 1973 | 26 | |
| 1974 | 22 |
Data sources
- NHL
- Hockey Reference
- IIHF
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Henri Richard ranks #17 in Ice Hockey
Henri Richard ranks 17th among Ice Hockey athletes on GOAT Rank and 303rd of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 87.3 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 80, Peak 86, Longevity 92, Honours 94, Statistics 86. Those categories are normalised against the full Ice Hockey reference universe of 395 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 1955–1975 with 20 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1957, which sets the Peak component at 86. Honours is the defining strength of the profile at 94 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes stanley cups 11, career points 1046, nhl games played 1256, all-star selections 10.
Immediately ahead sits Bobby Hull on 89.0, a gap of 1.7 points. Directly behind is Vyacheslav Fetisov on 88.9. The position moves whenever the verified record moves: new titles, new seasons or a corrected source all feed straight back into the same formula, and every change is dated on this profile.
Henri Richard GOAT Score explained
- Dominance80/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Richard stood above the field while competing. Scored 80/100 against the full Ice Hockey cohort.
- Peak86/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1957. Scored 86/100.
- Longevity92/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 20 years of competition and 20 recorded seasons. Scored 92/100.
- Honours94/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 94/100.
- Statistics86/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 86/100.
Top Richard comparisons
Henri Richard — frequently asked
- Is Henri Richard the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Henri Richard ranks 17th in Ice Hockey with a GOAT Score of 87.3, behind Wayne Gretzky on 97.8.
- What is Henri Richard's GOAT Score?
- 87.3 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 80 (25%), Peak 86 (20%), Longevity 92 (20%), Honours 94 (20%), Statistics 86 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Henri Richard rank all time?
- 303rd of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 17th within Ice Hockey.
- Henri Richard vs Bobby Hull: who ranks higher?
- Bobby Hull, on 89.0 against Henri Richard's 87.3 — a margin of 1.7 points.