Hurricanes’ Taylor Hall plays 1,000th NHL game
The Carolina Hurricanes are squaring off against the Seattle Kraken in the first of two NHL Global Series games in Helsinki, Finland on Thursday afternoon, and it represents a major career milestone for one of their veteran players.
Winger Taylor Hall, the No. 1 overall pick from the 2010 NHL Draft, appeared in his 1,000th career game in the NHL in the midst of his 17th career season. This is Hall’s 122nd game as a member of the Hurricanes after he was acquired from the Chicago Blackhawks in January of 2025.
In the latest chapter of his career, Hall has been an excellent depth scoring piece for Carolina, and he was instrumental for the Hurricanes in capturing the Stanley Cup in 2026, the first of his career.
Hall began his career as a beacon in the middle of the Decade of Darkness for the Edmonton Oilers, where he spent the first six seasons of his NHL career as part of a promising young core looking to turn things around. Just one year after Connor McDavid arrived in Alberta, the Oilers sent Hall to the New Jersey Devils in exchange for Adam Larsson in a trade that was infamously one-for-one.
The Calgary native flourished with the Devils. After a solid but unspectacular 53 points in 72 games in his first season in Newark, Hall pieced together the best year of his career in 2017-18. On a New Jersey team that was largely devoid of offensive talent, Hall racked up 93 points in 76 games played, dragging the team into the Stanley Cup Playoffs and winning the Hart Trophy as the league’s MVP along the way.
The Devils traded Hall to the Arizona Coyotes in the middle of the pandemic-shortened 2019-20 season, beginning a frustrating run for Hall that saw him battle multiple serious injuries and struggle to to carve out a long-term role with any of his teams.
In addition to the Coyotes, Hall also had shorter stints with the Buffalo Sabres, Boston Bruins and Blackhawks during this run before ultimately finding a stable home with the Hurricanes in Raleigh.
Hall reached the 300-goal mark last year, and he’s closing in on a couple other production-focused milestones this season. He’s currently at 303 goals, but at 488, he is 12 away from 500 career assists, and he needs just 7 more points to reach the 800-mark.
