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Stamkos of Lightning scores 500th NHL goal

Forward is 23rd player in League history to reach milestone with one team

https://www.nhl.com/news/steven-stamkos-scores-500th-nhl-goal-for-tampa-bay-lightning/c-340131630

 

Steven Stamkos scored his 500th NHL goal for the Tampa Bay Lightning against the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday.

 

The 32-year-old forward reached the milestone when he scored at 4:40 of the first period from the top of the crease off a pass from Alex Killorn. He then scored No. 501 at 14:35 after Killorn carried the puck out from behind the net and fed him in front.

 

Stamkos is the 47th player in NHL history to score 500 goals and the third active, joining Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin (810) and Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby (538). He is also the 23rd to do so with one NHL team, and the 18th to score 500 goals and get 1,000 points in fewer than 1,000 games (965).

 

Stamkos got his 1,000th point in a 4-1 win at the Philadelphia Flyers on Dec. 1.

 

"It just brings back so many amazing memories, like your parents getting you involved in the game, all that kind of stuff, just kind of flashes back," Stamkos said after that game. "It's one of those things that I don't think hits you till a little later, but just to share that with the guys on the ice, that's something you never dream of as a kid. So, for it to become a reality is pretty awesome."

 

Selected with the No. 1 pick in the 2008 NHL Draft, Stamkos is Tampa Bay's all-time leader in goals, points (1,023), power-play goals (190), power-play points (370), game-winning goals (76) and overtime goals (13). He is second in assists (522), behind Martin St. Louis (588).

 

Stamkos also has 91 points (43 goals, 48 assists) in 117 playoff games, including helping the Lightning win back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2020 and 2021.

 

"That's [15] years of the anticipation of getting your 500th goal," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said Thursday. "It's a pretty exciting time, but I'm sure it can be a little stressful too because you want to get it over with. But eventually it will come, and just like his 1,000th point, when he gets it, he will reflect back and be like, 'Wow, that's a heck of a lot of goals.'"

 

Stamkos has won the Rocket Richard Trophy as the NHL's leader in goals twice, the first coming in in 2009-10, when he tied Crosby with 51 goals, and again in 2011-12, when he scored an NHL career-high 60.

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Steven Stamkos becomes the 47th NHL 500+ Goal-Scorer! More to come later...

 

THE NHL 500+ GOALS CLUB

 

01. 894 – Wayne Gretzky

02. 810 – Alex Ovechkin

03. 801 – Gordie Howe

04. 766 – Jaromir Jagr

05. 741 – Brett Hull

06. 731 – Marcel Dionne

07. 717 – Phil Esposito

08. 708 – Mike Gartner

09. 694 – Mark Messier

10. 692 – Steve Yzerman

11. 690 – Mario Lemieux

12. 684 – Teemu Selanne

13. 668 – Luc Robitaille

14. 656 – Brendan Shanahan

15. 640 – Dave Andreychuk

16. 625 –  Joe Sakic

17. 625 – Jarome Iginla

18. 610 – Bobby Hull

19. 608 – Dino Ciccarelli

20. 601 – Jari Kurri

21. 577 – Mark Recchi

22. 573 – Mike Bossy

23. 566 – Patrick Marleau

24. 564 – Mats Sundin

25. 564 – Joe Nieuwendyk

26. 561 – Mike Modano

27. 560 – Guy Lafleur

28. 556 – Johnny Bucyk

29. 549 – Ron Francis

30. 548 – Michel Goulet

31. 544 – Maurice Richard

32. 541 – Stan Mikita

33. 538 – Sidney Crosby

34. 538 – Keith Tkachuk

35. 533 – Frank Mahovlich

36. 525 – Marian Hossa

37. 524 – Bryan Trottier

38. 522 – Pat Verbeek

39. 518 – Dale Hawerchuk

40. 515 – Pierre Turgeon

41. 513 – Jeremy Roenick

42. 512 – Gilbert Perreault

43. 507 – Jean Beliveau

44. 503 – Peter Bondra

45. 502 – Joe Mullen

46. 502 – Steven Stamkos

47. 500 – Lanny McDonald

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Steven Stamkos joins Frank Mahovlich, Stan Mikita, Wayne Gretzky, Joe Sakic, and Patrick Marleau, all who have scored their 500th career goal against the Vancouver Canucks.

 

Steven Stamkos is also the 8th player in NHL history to score a hat trick in his 500th-goal game. The others are Jean Beliveau, Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Mark Messier, Brett Hull, Jaromir Jagr, Mats Sundin.

 

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So Alex Ovechkin gets the # 800 put next to his picture on the NHL's twitter page, but Steven Stamkos doesn't get the # 500 put next to his picture on the NHL's twitter page? Why's that?

 

 

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