Nicklas Bäckström is three assists shy of hitting the 500-career-assist milestone.
Alex Ovechkin is eight points shy of hitting the 1000-career-point milestone.
While it might be fitting for them to hit their big milestone together, I'd like to see Bäckström hit his sooner than that... unless Ovi has a really big game!
Karl Alzner has played in 491 consecutive regular season games, nine games shy of joining the 500 club. If he plays in all 82 games this season, his streak will hit 540 games, and he will join a group of 23 other players who have played in 500 or more consecutive games. The consecutive games record is held by Doug Jarvis, who played in 964 consecutive games from the start of his career, and is one of only four in that elite club of players to break the 500 mark to do so in that fashion. (Alzner's career began with a back-and-forth to Hershey, so he will not be in that group, but if he remains healthy, he will join the 500 club this season.
Let's go, Caps!!!
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