Kings’ Corey Perry becomes fourth active NHLer to play 1,400 games

Corey Perry made history Tuesday night, skating in his 1,400th career NHL regular-season game as the Los Angeles Kings defeated the Winnipeg Jets 3-0.

Perry, 40, joins Brent Burns, Alex Ovechkin and his Kings’ teammate Anze Kopitar as the fourth active player to hit the 1,400-game mark. Ryan Suter has also played in 1,400-plus games, but he is currently not signed with an NHL club.

Through eight games in 2025-26, Perry has five goals and three assists for eight points. The Kings are now 6-4-4 with 16 points in their first 14 games.

Last season with the Edmonton Oilers, Perry scored 19 goals and 11 assists for 30 points in 71 games. He also scored 10 goals and four assists for 14 points in 22 Stanley Cup Playoff games during the Oilers’ Stanley Cup Final run.

Through 1,400 NHL games, Perry has 453 goals and 490 assists for 943 points with the Oilers, Chicago Blackhawks, Tampa Bay Lightning, Montreal Canadiens, Dallas Stars and Anaheim Ducks. In 237 career Stanley Cup Playoff games, Perry has 64 goals and 77 assists for 141 points.

Perry won the Stanley Cup with the Ducks in 2007, then made five more Stanley Cup Final appearances with the Stars in 2020, the Canadiens in 2021, the Lightning in 2022, then the Oilers in 2024 and 2025.

Perry’s best season came in 2010-11, when he scored 50 goals and 48 assists for 98 points, leading the Ducks to the playoffs and winning both the Maurice “Rocket” Richard Trophy and the Hart Trophy.

Taken with the No. 28 overall pick in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft, Perry had a season for the ages with the OHL’s London Knights in 2004-05, scoring 40 goals and 73 assists for 113 points in 66 regular-season games. In the playoffs, he scored seven goals and 15 assists for 22 points, leading the team to an OHL Championship and a Memorial Cup title.

Internationally, Perry won Olympic gold medals in 2010 and 2014, the World Cup of Hockey in 2016, the World Championship in 2016 and the World Junior Championship in 2005.