Patrick Marleau with the San Jose Sharks. Photo NHL.com.
The two men with the most regular season games played in NHL history are now from Saskatchewan.
Monday night Aneroid’s Patrick Marleau passed Mark Messier for second all time on the games played list, in his 1,757th game.
Tonight, we honored Patrick Marleau in-game for climbing into sole possession of 2nd place with 1,757 NHL games played.
The only thing missing was all of YOU!
Reply with your congrats for Patty
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— San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) March 30, 2021
Marleau, 41, entered the league in the 1997/98 season, and has 564 goals and 1,194 points in his storied career, but still chases that elusive first Stanley Cup title.
He also has an iron man streak dating back to April of 2009, that’s grown to 887 consecutive games played, which is fourth all time.
Marleau is just ten games shy of the all time record held by the great Gordie Howe, and could pass him as soon as April 19th against the Vegas Golden Knights.