PLAYERS APPROACHING 1,000 GAMES 



Dean McAmmond, free agent        996 

Wade Redden, NY Rangers        994 

Sergei Gonchar, Ottawa        991 

Stephane Yelle, free agent        991 

Craig Conroy, Calgary        991 

Robert Lang, free agent        989 

Ryan Smyth, Los Angeles        987 

Mike Grier, Buffalo        987 

Ed Jovanovski, Phoenix        969 

Jamie Langenbrunner, New Jersey        965 

Cory Stillman, Florida        960 

Patrick Marleau, San Jose        953 

Shean Donovan, free agent        951 

Andrew Brunette, Minnesota        950 

Vaclav Prospal, NY Rangers        949 

Darcy Tucker, free agent        947 

Todd Bertuzzi, Detroit        941 

Petr Sykora, free agent        935 

Adrian Aucoin, Phoenix        933 



PLAYERS APPROACHING 400 GOALS 



Jason Arnott, New Jersey        383 

Daniel Alfredsson, Ottawa        375 

Marian Hossa, Chicago        363 

Miroslav Satan, free agent        363 



PLAYERS APPROACHING 1,000 POINTS 



Daniel Alfredsson, Ottawa        992 

Alex Kovalev, Ottawa        990 

Joe Thornton, San Jose        931 

Jarome Iginla, Calgary        920 



PLAYERS APPROACHING 1,500 POINTS 



Mark Recchi, Boston        1485 

COACHING MILESTONES

• Lindy Ruff (Buf) is coaching in his 13th consecutive season behind the bench of one club, tying Toe Blake (Montreal), Al Arbour (NY Islanders) and Lester Patrick (NY Rangers) for fourth all-time. Ruff also needs 17 wins to become the 16th coach in NHL history to reach 500 and 16 games to reach 1,000.
• Ron Wilson (Tor) needs 18 wins to become the seventh coach in NHL history to reach 600.
• Joel Quenneville (Chi) needs one game to reach 1,000.
• Paul Maurice (Car) needs 23 games to reach 1,000. At 43, Maurice would become the youngest coach to reach the milestone, surpassing the 47-year-old Brian Sutter with Chicago in 2003-04.

MOVING UP TOP 25 ALL-TIME -- GAMES

• Mark Recchi (Bos) needs 41 games to tie Ray Bourque (1,612) for eighth place all-time and 44 games to tie Larry Murphy (1,615) for seventh place.
• Mike Modano (Det) needs 15 games to tie Doug Gilmour (1,474) for 17th place all-time.
• Nicklas Lidstrom (Det) needs four games to tie Al MacInnis (1,416) for 26th place all-time and five games to tie Luke Richardson (1,417) for 25th place.

MOVING UP TOP 25 ALL-TIME -- GOALS

• Teemu Selanne (Ana) needs two goals to tie Dino Ciccarelli (608) for 16th place all-time.
• Mark Recchi (Bos) needs one goal to tie Mats Sundin and Joe Nieuwendyk (564) for 20th place all-time.

MOVING UP TOP 25 ALL-TIME -- ASSISTS

• Mark Recchi (Bos) needs four assists to tie Stan Mikita (926) for 16th place all-time and seven assists to tie Larry Murphy (929) for 15th place.

MOVING UP TOP 25 ALL-TIME -- POINTS

• Mark Recchi (Bos) needs 46 points to tie Paul Coffey (1,531) for 12th place all-time.
• Mike Modano (Det) needs 10 points to tie John Bucyk (1,369) for 22nd place all-time.

MOVING UP TOP 25 ALL-TIME -- GAMES BY A GOALTENDER

• Chris Osgood (Det) needs two games to tie Dominik Hasek (735) for 18th place all-time.

MOVING UP TOP 25 ALL-TIME -- WINS

• Chris Osgood (Det) needs seven wins to tie Grant Fuhr (403) for ninth place all-time and 11 wins to tie Glenn Hall (407) for eighth place.

NEARING FRANCHISE RECORDS

• Shane Doan (Phx) needs 51 games to tie Teppo Numminen (1,098) for first place in franchise history.
• Patrik Elias (NJ) needs 33 goals to tie John MacLean (347) for first place in franchise history.
• Radek Dvorak (Fla) needs 13 games to tie Robert Svehla (573) for first place in franchise history.
• Rick Nash (CBJ) needs 26 games to tie David Vyborny (543) for first place in franchise history.
• Miikka Kiprusoff (Cgy) needs 37 wins to tie Mike Vernon (262) for first place in franchise history.

LOOKING TO EXTEND STREAKS

Longest current streaks of 20+ goal seasons
11 Jarome Iginla
10 Daniel Alfredsson
10 Milan Hejduk
10 Marian Hossa
10 Vincent Lecavalier
10 Joe Thornton
8 Ilya Kovalchuk
7 Mike Knuble
7 Martin St. Louis

Longest current streaks of 30+ goal seasons
9 Jarome Iginla
7 Ilya Kovalchuk
5 Dany Heatley
5 Alex Ovechkin
4 Zach Parise
3 Rick Nash

Longest current streaks of 40+ goal seasons (2 or more)
6 Ilya Kovalchuk
5 Alex Ovechkin

Approaching Regular-Season Team Milestones
Calgary Flames need 60 goals for 10,000; need 40 games for 3,000 regular season (Atlanta & Calgary, inclusive)
Montreal Canadiens need 44 games for 6,000 regular season (Jan. 12 @ Pittsburgh)
New York Islanders need 50 games for 3,000 regular season (Feb. 1 @ Atlanta)
St. Louis Blues need 43 wins for 1,500.
Toronto Maple Leafs need 44 games for 6,000 regular season (Jan. 15 vs. Calgary)
Vancouver Canucks need 133 goals for 10,000.