{"id":229914,"date":"2026-02-23T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/the-most-nhl-goals-by-an-american-quiz\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T05:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:00:35","slug":"the-most-nhl-goals-by-an-american-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/the-most-nhl-goals-by-an-american-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Most NHL goals by an American&#8217; quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In the Olympic quarterfinals against Sweden, it was Quinn Hughes who scored the game-winner in overtime to send Team USA to the semifinals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>In the gold-medal round, it was his brother Jack\u00a0<\/span>\u2014<span>\u00a0minus some teeth\u00a0<\/span>\u2014<span>who scored in OT to secure the Americans their first men\u2019s hockey gold medal since the &#8220;Miracle on Ice&#8221; in 1980 with a 2-1 win over Canada. But after the game, Hughes refused to talk about himself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Unbelievable game by [goalie Connor] Hellebuyck, he was our best player tonight by a mile,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/players\/jack_hughes\/640940\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Hughes<\/a> told NBC\u2019s Kathryn Tappen.  <span>&#8220;Unreal game by our team. That\u2019s just a ballsy, gutsy win.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to today\u2019s quiz. Hughes was the NHL\u2019s top overall draft pick in 2019, has two All-Star games, a 40-goal season and now an Olympic gold medal to his name. With that being said, can you name the American-born NHL players with the most goals in one season?<\/p>\n<p><span>Good luck!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Did you like this quiz? Are there any quizzes you\u2019d like to see us make in the future? Let us know your thoughts at quizzes@yardbarker.com, and make sure to subscribe to our Quiz of the Day Newsletter for daily quizzes sent right to your email!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/articles\/the_most_nhl_goals_by_an_american_quiz\/s1__43502881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Olympic quarterfinals against Sweden, it was Quinn Hughes who scored the game-winner in overtime to send Team USA to the semifinals.\u00a0 In the gold-medal round, it was his brother Jack\u00a0\u2014\u00a0minus some teeth\u00a0\u2014who scored in OT to secure the Americans their first men\u2019s hockey gold medal since the &#8220;Miracle on Ice&#8221; in 1980 with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-229914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}