List of NHL players with 1000 points As of the completion of the 2008 – 09 season — the 91st regular season of the National Hockey League ( NHL ) — a total of 73 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 . Season achievements . 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 . In a sense , Gretzky was the 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 74 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 have had seven players score their 1 , 000th point while playing for the team , and the Toronto Maple Leafs have had six different players score their 1000th point while playing for them . 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 . Active players who are " close " . " ^ : Kariya will be inactive in 2010 - 11 due to injury . " Retired players within 100 points . 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 .