These 10 players are about to 1,000 NHL matches in the 2025-26 season

From the About 8,000 players Those in one National Hockey League match have been published since the competition in 1917, have only reached 404 1,000 NHL matches. That is about five percent – a fairly exclusive club within the best Hockey League in the world.

With the NHL season of 2025-26, ten players currently under contract are fewer than 50 games from activating their Silver Stick parties. A handful of others could also reach the milestone before the end of the year.

Here is a further consideration of the players that are closest to the abyss.

Adam Henrique – Edmonton Oilers

• Age: 35
• Drawn up: 2008, Round 3 (82nd)
• Play played: 993

After 15 seasons with three different teams, Henrique could be 1,000 with the Edmonton Oilers before the end of October. A reliable two-way center, Henrique went to the Stanley Cup final with the oilers in the last two seasons. As Rookie in 2011-12 he scored the game 6 Overtime winner against the New York Rangers who spent the New Jersey Devils to the Stanley Cup final.

On the way to 2025-26, nine players from the Henrique 2008 design class have reached 1,000 games. He goes in the last year of a two-year-old deal with Edmonton, who wears a cap hit of $ 3 million.

Tyler Seguin – Dallas Stars

• Age: 33
• Established: 2010, round 1 (2nd)
• Play played: 989

Seguin leads his concept class with 809 career points and will be the third player of the group to hit 1,000 games, after Jeff Skinner and Cam Fowler. He could have hit the milestone earlier, but was limited to only 20 games last season after choosing a hip surgery that prepared him on time for the play -offs with the Dallas stars.

A Stanley Cup winner like Rookie at the Boston Bruins in 2011, Seguin returned to the final with the Bruins in 2013 and with the stars in the 2020 Playoff -Bubbel. He has left for two years to the monster extension that he signed in Dallas in 2018, which has a cap -hit of $ 9.85 million.

Nazem Kadri – Calgary Flames

• Age: 34
• Established: 2009, round 1 (7th)
• Play played: 985

Kadri will be planned on October 6, 35 to become the ninth member of his draft class to reach 1,000 games. Under his group he is fifth in both goals (307) and points (710).

After 10 tumultuous years with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Kadri delivered his best campaign with the Colorado Avalanche in 2021-22, placing 89 points in the regular season and ending by hoisting the Stanley Cup.

He then signed a seven-year-old Free-Agent contract with the Calgary Flames, with a cap hit of $ 7 million per season. In 2024-25, Kadri scored a career-high 35 goals when the reviving flames were short of one point to reach the play-offs.

Marcus Johansson – Minnesota Wild

• Age: 34
• Established: 2009, round 1 (24th)
• Play played: 983

Johansson shares Kadri’s date of birth of 6 October 1990 and enters the new season with two games played. But the Swedish winger played for three more teams than Kadri, and his career 517 points are almost 200 less.

After having spent the first nine years of his career at the Washington Capitals, Johansson was traded to the New Jersey Devils in the summer of 2017, just before the caps broke through with their cup win. From there he bounced to Boston, Buffalo, Minnesota and Seattle before returning to Washington, was then returned to the wild at the Handelsdeadline of 2023.

This fall, Johansson is back in the state of Hockey for a one-year-old deal with a cap hit of $ 800,000.

Jeff Petry – Florida Panthers

• Age: 37
• Drawn up: 2006, round 2 (45th)
• Play played: 981

The newest veteran defender to find a Stanley Cup with the Florida Panthers on a team -friendly contract, Jeff Petry closed a one -year -old deal with GM Bill Zito on 1 July at the minimum of $ 775,000 of this year.

A resident of Ann Arbor, Mich., Spent three seasons at Michigan State University before he became Pro, and did not make his NHL debut with the Edmonton Oilers until a few weeks after his 23rd birthday, on December 28, 2010.

Petry brought back to Michigan with the Detroit Red Wings in the last two seasons, but injuries limited him to 44 games in the 2024-25 season.

Justin Faulk – St. Louis Blues

• Age: 33
• Drawn up: 2010, round 2 (37th)
• Play played: 980

With 14 NHL seasons under his belt in Carolina and St. Louis, Justin Faulk quietly collected an impressive career in a few somewhat under the radar markets.

Making an early NHL debut for a defender at the age of 19 after a year at the University of Minnesota -Duluth, Faulk has been stable and versatile during his career. He has been good for more than 22 minutes per game and more than 100 shot blocks per season, as well as some attack when it is called. A coveted right shot, Faulk hit 15 goals four times in his career and filled with 50 points with the blues in 2022-23.

Arriving in St. Louis as a free agent just after the championship of the team in 2019, Faulk has two years left that deal. It wears a cap -hit of $ 6.5 million.

Brenden Dillon – New Jersey Devils

• Age: 34
• Unguated
• Play played: 974

He only has 212 points in his 974 NHL matches with five different teams, but the approach of Brenden Dillon to 1,000 games is a phenomenal performance for a defender who has never been drawn up by an NHL team.

It is also not as if Dillon developed under the radar. He played four seasons with the WHL’s Seattle Thunderbirds between 2007 and 2011.

While he finished his last junior season with 59 points and 139 penalty minutes, Dillon had grown to 6-foot-3 and 209 pounds. He signed a free-agent contract with the Dallas Stars on March 1, 2011, played his first NHL game just over a year later and locked as a full-time NHL player as soon as the competition resumed the game after the Lockkout 2012-13.

Dillon is now 6-foot-4 and weighs 225 pounds, has built up a reputation as a stubborn, shot-blocating shutdown blueler that has remained sustainable despite his physical playing style. He is planning to join a very small group of unguomed defenders who have been born since 1960 who have overshadowed 1,000 games: Mark Giordano, Jamie Macoun, Steve Duchesne, Dan Boyle, Andy Greene and Grant Ledyard.

Dillon is currently in the second year of his most lucrative contract so far signed a three-year-old deal with a cap-hit of $ 4 million with the New Jersey Devils on July 1, 2024.

Nino Niederreiter – Winnipeg Jets

• Age: 33
• Established: 2010, round 1 (5th)
• Play played: 969

The two in European players on this list both come from Switzerland, and they have played more NHL games than all other players from their home country.

Nino Niederreiter should have a considerable amount of runway after he is also celebrating his 1,000th game this season. The fast wing player entered the NHL in 2011 as an 18-year-old and just celebrated his 33rd birthday on 8 September. He has settled nicely with the Winnipeg-Jets since he was taken over as a trading deadline acquisition in 2023, and is now in the second season of a three-year expansion that a cap-hit of $ 4 million is wearing.

With 480 career points, Niederreiter never came up completely as scouts expected from a fifth every everywhere. More talented Swiss players have joined the competition behind him, but when he retires, it will be one of the best fowards of his era.

Roman Josi – Nashville Predators

• Age: 35
• Drawn up: 2008, round 2 (38th)
• Play played: 962

In the meantime, Roman Josi has set the standard as the best in Swiss-born NHL player so far. With 724 career points, Nashville Predators are a winner of Norris Trophy, triple finalist and fifth in scoring his 2008 design class.

He is also the all -time leader in points and games that are played for the predators, as well as the points leader at the bottom of Switzersen born players.

Josi is said to have been closed at 1,000 games last season, if he had not missed the last 25 games of the year with a concussion, followed by one Pots diagnosis by the end of the year. In an interview outside season with a Swiss media outlet, Josi expressed optimism that he would be healthy before the start of this season and would be able to skate in his second Olympic Games in February in Italy.

Ryan Nugent -Hopkins – Edmonton Oilers

• Age: 32
• Established: 2011, round 1 (1st)
• Play played: 959

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, noted only 171 pounds when he was first set up in 2011, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins jumped directly into the NHL as an 18-year-old and never looked back. For 14 seasons, the versatile attacker added 20 plus pounds to his frame and found manners to contribute while the Edmonton Oilers also changed from a rans to championship candidates.

In 2022-23 he exploded for 104 regular season points, and he was one of the top producers of the oilers during their recent back-to-back runs to the Stanley Cup final.

With a 24-game lead over Brandon Saad from the Vegas Golden Knights, Nugent-Hopkins is in the pole position to become the first player in the 2011 design class that reaches the 1,000 game milestone. It is proof of his sustainability and determination.

The rest

Together with Saad, nine other active NHL players can get 1,000 this season. They each need 50 games or more to get there.

Alex Killorn of the Anaheim Ducks and Charlie Coyle of the Colorado Avalanche are the closest, each with 950 games played. Saad is on 935 and Minnesota Wild Captain Jared Spurgeon is just behind him, at 933.

Three more players are 930 games: attackers Mika Zibanejad of the New York Rangers and Evander Kane of the Vancouver Canucks, and defender Adam Larsson of the Seattle Kraken.

Minnesota defender Zach Bogosian is on 929 games played, Brock Nelson from Colorado is 920 and Reilly Smith van Vegas round the list on 919. With almost no mistake, Smith must appear in 81 of the 82 regular season games of his team to reach 1,000.