Eleven seasons removed from Daryl Sittler setting the point-streak record, Eddie Olczyk managed to match it in the 1989-90 campaign.
Olczyk’s streak began with an assist during a 7-4 loss to the Calgary Flames on December 2nd, 1989, ending on January 10th, 1990 with the New York Islanders keeping him off the scoresheet at Maple Leaf Gardens that night.
He didn’t quite stack as high of a point total as Sittler during his 18-game span, tallying 10 goals and 18 assists, including a hat-trick against the Montreal Canadiens, for a total of 28 points during his streak.
Given that this season and the one prior were ultimately the pinnacle of his career in terms of his season point totals, it shouldn’t be at all surprising that there was a decent streak involved. In fact, his 28 points represented just shy of one-third of his points for the whole 1989-90 season.
The Toronto Maple Leafs team that season was to that point the most offensively potent Toronto Maple Leafs team in franchise history with 337 goals and featured three further 30-goal scorers (Gary Leeman, Vincent Damphousse and Daniel Marois) in addition to Eddie Olczyk.
But this in an era that was a lot higher-scoring with the league-average team goals sitting well up there at 295 goals and the Toronto Maple Leafs themselves averaging 4.21 goals per game.
However, much like the season of Daryl Sittler’s streak, the Toronto Maple Leafs ultimately bowed out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs in just five games to the St. Louis Blues.
Certainly, Eddie Olczyk isn’t held in the same regard among Leafs fans as Sittler and by the time he’s done, I doubt he’s in the same category as Mitch Marner either.
This isn’t to belittle the fact that he jointly holds this record for a point-scoring streak right now either. Fewer fans are as likely to bemoan Marner passing Olczyk than they are of Sittler, such are their respective standings among Leafs Nation.