Key Highlights
- No threats to leave when things got rough—and things got really rough.
- So when his 1000th NHL game arrived Sunday night, the hockey gods apparently decided he deserved something special. They delivered. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementNugent-Hopkins didn't just reach 1,000 games—he became the first Oiler ever to play that many entirely with the franchise.
- And in case that wasn't poetic enough, he scored the opening goal in what became a dominant 5-0 win over the St.
- Louis Blues.
- Connor Ingram got a shutout.