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The fewest 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.In a sense, Gretzky was the fastest and the second fastest, as he scored his second 1,000 points (the NHL's only player ever to score 2,000 points in regular-season play) only 433 games after scoring his first 1,000 points.
This is a list of individual records recognized by the National Hockey League (NHL) ... Most points by a player, first NHL Season Wayne Gretzky (1979–80), 137;
Note that the record book gives Gretzky the record for most assists and points in a game as a first year player, but not the season totals. Most 200-or-more point seasons: 4. Gretzky owns the official record for most 100 point seasons. He is the only player to reach 200 points in a season. Most consecutive 200 point seasons: 3
He would wear it for most of the rest of his career until his final season in Boston, where he wore 74. Coffey played four and a half seasons with Pittsburgh. On December 22, 1990, Coffey became the second defenceman to record 1,000 points, doing so in a record-breaking 770 games. Coffey won a fourth Stanley Cup in 1990–91 with Pittsburgh.
Robitaille also became the second player in NHL history to record 1,000 points after being drafted as low as the ninth round. [ citation needed ] The Kings honored his playing career by retiring his number during a pre-game ceremony on January 20, 2007.
No NHL player surpassed 1,000 games before Gordie Howe on November 26, 1961, against the Chicago Black Hawks. Only 17 players in the top 100 started their careers before the expansion era , and only two players— Red Kelly and Bill Gadsby —played in more than 1,000 games and finished their careers before the expansion era.
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He was the ninth player to reach 1,000 career points, with 358 goals and 688 assists in 1,256 games. His 1,256 regular-season games played in a Canadiens uniform are a franchise record. Henri won the Stanley Cup 11 times as a player, the most in NHL history.