List of National Hockey League players with 1000 points

As of the completion of the 2006–07 season—the 89th regular season of the National Hockey League (NHL)—a total of 71 different ice hockey players have scored at least 1000 regular season points in their NHL career.

A 1000 point career was first achieved in the 44th year of the NHL (1960–61), when Gordie Howe scored his 1000th point in his 938th lifetime game played.

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The 1997–98 NHL season saw the largest number of players (six) achieve their 1000th point. A total of 5 players scored their 1000th point in the 1990–91 season.

Starting with Gordie Howe's achievement in 1960–61, and ignoring the cancelled (lockout) season of 2004–05, there have been 15 seasons in which no player happened to score their 1000th career point. Of these 15, there were seven seasons between Gordie Howe and the second player, Jean Beliveau, to make it to the 1000 point mark.

Player achievements

The shortest number of NHL games required to reach the mark was 424, set by Wayne Gretzky. Second quickest was Mario Lemieux, achieving the mark in his 513th game. Technically, it could be claimed that Wayne Gretzky was fastest "and" the second fastest—as he scored his second 1000 points (the only player ever to reach 2000 points) only 433 games after scoring his first 1000 points.

Of the 71 players to score at least 1000 points in their career, 51 reached the mark in fewer than 1000 career games played.

Dave Andreychuk came closest to the coincidence of 1000 points in exactly 1000 games, scoring his 1000th point in game number 998.

Of those on the list, Brian Propp came closest to 'not' achieving 1000 points—reaching the mark with only eight games remaining in his final NHL season. Lanny McDonald scored his 1000th point with only ten games remaining in his final season.

Eleven players could have made the list on assists alone. Wayne Gretzky, Ron Francis, Mark Messier, Ray Bourque, Paul Coffey, Adam Oates, Steve Yzerman, Gordie Howe, Marcel Dionne, Mario Lemieux, and Joe Sakic have had at least 1000 regular season assists in their NHL careers.

Team achievements

A total of 21 different franchises have had a player score their 1000th point while playing for the franchise. Including three franchises that have changed cities, there have been 24 different teams that have celebrated a player's 1000th point.

The Detroit Red Wings and the Toronto Maple Leafs have both had six different players score their 1000th point while playing for the team.

Only twice have multiple players reached 1000 points on the same team in the same season. The Washington Capitals had three teammates score their career 1000th point during the 1997–98 season—Adam Oates, Phil Housley and Dale Hunter. The Toronto Maple Leafs had two teammates, Doug Gilmour and Larry Murphy, achieve the mark during the same 1995–96 season.

1000-point scorers

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Hockey Hall of Fame:*Players deemed 'not eligible' have not been retired for the three year minimum waiting period:Game No. – Number of career games played when 1000th point was scored:Date – Date of 1000th point:GP – Career Games Played:G – Career Goals:A – Career Assists:PTS – Career Points;Active players are in boldface

* "† This was Gretzky's 857th game overall, but only his 433rd game after achieving his first 1,000 points."

Retired players who fell short

These are players who are now retired that came within 100 points of reaching 1000 for their career. They are listed with the NHL team for which they played the most games.

ee also

* List of NHL statistical leaders
* List of NHL players with 1000 games played
* List of NHL players with 500 goals
* List of NHL players with 100 point seasons
* List of NHL players with 50 goal seasons
* List of NHL players with 50 goals in 50 games

References

*"2005 NHL Official Guide & Record Book" ISBN 0-920445-91-8