On Monday evening, the Colorado Avalanche notched their sixth win in a row beating the Chicago Blackhawks 3-0 in Denver, but it surely was a private milestone that took the headlines for one of many Avalanche gamers. It could have taken a lot of the sport, however simply 31 seconds into the third interval Artturi Lehkonen tipped in his twenty seventh objective of the season off a Nathan MacKinnon shot.
The MacKinnon help was his 1,000th NHL level – one sport after tallying his a centesimal level on the season towards the Toronto Maple Leafs. Reaching the 1,000-point mark, MacKinnon turns into the a centesimal participant all-time attain the mark and the tenth energetic participant to hitch the membership.
MacKinnon joins Sidney Crosby (1,664), Alexander Ovechkin (1,600), Evgeni Malkin (1,338), Patrick Kane (1,324), Anze Kopitar (1,262), Steven Stamkos (1,178), Claude Giroux (1,106), John Tavares (1,095) and Connor McDavid (1,064) as the one energetic gamers with 1,000 profession factors.
He additionally turns into simply the third participant in Avalanche/Québec Nordiques historical past to succeed in the mark all with the franchise, becoming a member of Joe Sakic (1,641) and Peter Stastny (1,048).
Just below three minutes after tallying his 1,000th profession level, MacKinnon added one other feeding Martin Necas for his twenty second objective of the season giving MacKinnon 1,001 profession factors – simply three factors again of Brian Propp for 99th on the NHL’s all-time checklist.
He now sits second all-time on the Avalanche’s franchise checklist for factors behind Joe Sakic (1,015) and third whenever you add within the Nordiques’ franchise checklist. As for his draft season, MacKinnon is the one participant to succeed in the 1,000-point mark from the 2013 NHL Draft with Aleksander Barkov (771) being a distant second in that draft class.
This season, MacKinnon has 102 factors in simply 65 video games – averaging 1.57 factors per sport. As for his profession he’s averaging 1.17 factors per sport with 1,001 factors in 856 common season video games. Based mostly on his season common, MacKinnon may probably end the season with 1,029 profession factors which might land him tied for ninetieth with Brian Leetch on the NHL’s all-time checklist.
