Auston Matthews got the most goals by a rookie in 2016-17, with 40 scored.

	NAME	G	SEASON	TM	GP	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Auston Matthews A. Matthews	40	2016-17	TOR	82	29	69	+2	14	8	13	0	0	8	0	279	14.3	530	1,132	46.8	21	61	76	44	17:38
2	Patrik Laine P. Laine	36	2016-17	WPG	73	28	64	+7	26	9	5	0	0	5	1	204	17.6	0	3	0.0	80	33	43	55	17:55
3	Sebastian Aho S. Aho	24	2016-17	CAR	82	25	49	-1	26	6	11	1	1	4	1	214	11.2	17	35	48.6	51	14	40	57	16:47
4	William Nylander W. Nylander	22	2016-17	TOR	81	39	61	-3	32	9	17	0	0	2	0	205	10.7	49	122	40.2	25	16	59	30	16:01
5	Connor Brown C. Brown	20	2016-17	TOR	82	16	36	+3	10	2	4	1	0	4	0	139	14.4	2	8	25.0	50	46	40	25	16:12
6	Mikko Rantanen M. Rantanen	20	2016-17	COL	75	18	38	-25	22	4	6	0	0	2	1	133	15.0	29	50	58.0	29	33	49	32	18:03
7	Ryan Hartman R. Hartman	19	2016-17	CHI	76	12	31	+13	70	1	0	0	0	4	1	170	11.2	25	62	40.3	121	30	36	31	12:46
8	Mitchell Marner M. Marner	19	2016-17	TOR	77	42	61	0	38	4	17	0	0	5	0	176	10.8	14	37	37.8	41	39	67	62	16:49
9	Artturi Lehkonen A. Lehkonen	18	2016-17	MTL	73	10	28	-1	8	2	2	1	0	3	0	158	11.4	2	4	50.0	72	25	25	20	13:52
10	Brayden Point B. Point	18	2016-17	TBL	68	22	40	+4	14	5	7	0	0	2	0	122	14.8	238	532	44.7	39	31	30	19	17:08
11	Anthony Mantha A. Mantha	17	2016-17	DET	60	19	36	+10	53	1	2	0	0	3	2	133	12.8	5	11	45.5	46	33	26	39	15:54
12	Jake Guentzel J. Guentzel	16	2016-17	PIT	40	17	33	+7	10	1	2	0	0	0	0	81	19.8	8	17	47.1	61	18	16	9	15:53
13	Jimmy Vesey J. Vesey	16	2016-17	NYR	80	11	27	-13	26	5	3	0	0	6	0	116	13.8	2	7	28.6	64	37	44	34	13:38
14	Christian Dvorak C. Dvorak	15	2016-17	ARI	78	18	33	+7	22	2	3	0	0	1	0	88	17.0	471	1,006	46.8	72	56	14	15	15:37
15	Brendan Perlini B. Perlini	14	2016-17	ARI	57	7	21	-4	20	3	2	0	0	2	0	92	15.2	1	2	50.0	42	15	8	13	14:50
16	Devin Shore D. Shore	13	2016-17	DAL	82	20	33	-4	14	1	5	0	0	0	0	115	11.3	221	470	47.0	44	71	26	25	14:08
17	Matthew Tkachuk M. Tkachuk	13	2016-17	CGY	76	35	48	+14	105	3	10	0	0	2	0	142	9.2	8	23	34.8	65	22	40	27	14:40
18	Kevin Fiala K. Fiala	11	2016-17	NSH	54	5	16	+1	18	0	0	0	0	1	0	114	9.6	0	0		44	14	39	27	13:31
19	Travis Konecny T. Konecny	11	2016-17	PHI	70	17	28	-2	49	3	1	0	0	0	0	133	8.3	0	5	0.0	92	26	26	28	14:05
20	Zach Werenski Z. Werenski	11	2016-17	CBJ	78	36	47	+17	14	4	17	0	0	1	1	188	5.9	0	0		41	90	27	40	20:55
21	Zach Hyman Z. Hyman	10	2016-17	TOR	82	18	28	+2	30	0	0	4	0	3	0	156	6.4	11	29	37.9	109	43	42	25	16:42
22	Anthony Beauvillier A. Beauvillier	9	2016-17	NYI	66	15	24	+1	10	0	1	0	0	2	0	101	8.9	123	297	41.4	81	26	17	30	13:01
23	Pavel Buchnevich P. Buchnevich	8	2016-17	NYR	41	12	20	+6	13	1	2	0	0	0	0	55	14.5	1	7	14.3	17	8	11	22	13:16
24	Kevin Labanc K. Labanc	8	2016-17	SJS	55	12	20	+9	22	0	2	0	0	2	1	70	11.4	2	4	50.0	19	14	16	27	13:41
25	Stefan Noesen S. Noesen	8	2016-17	TOT	44	2	10	+6	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	63	12.7	26	67	38.8	50	10	11	11	11:08