Predators’ Steven Stamkos becomes 22nd NHLer to score 600 goals
Steven Stamkos has reached a number of major milestones this season, and on the last day of 2025, he achieved another.
The Nashville Predators’ forward scored in the first period of the team’s Wednesday matinee against the Vegas Golden Knights, becoming the 22nd player in NHL history to score 600 regular-season goals.
STEVEN STAMKOS IS A 600-GOAL MAN 🔨
Stamkos now has 18 goals and eight assists for 26 points in 39 games with the Predators this season. Now in his second campaign with the Predators since signing with the club in July 2024, Stamkos has 45 goals and 34 assists for 79 points in 121 regular-season games.
Earlier this month, Stamkos became the sixth active NHLer to record his 1,200th career point. Last week, he played in his 1,200th career regular-season game.
Stamkos now has 600 goals and 616 assists for 1,210 points in 1,200 career games with the Predators and Tampa Bay Lightning. He has twice led the league in goals, winning the Maurice “Rocket” Richard Trophy in 2009-10 with 51 goals and 2011-12 with 60 goals. Stamkos has also posted eight 80-point seasons, five 90-point campaigns and recorded a career-high 106 points in 2021-22.
Stamkos has skated in 128 career playoff games, captaining the Lightning to two Stanley Cup championships in 2020 and 2021, as well as leading the team to a Stanley Cup Final appearance in 2015.
Taken No. 1 overall in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft, Stamkos played two seasons of junior hockey with the OHL’s Sarnia Sting, where he recorded 100 goals and 97 assists for 197 points in 124 games.
Going into Wednesday’s game, Nashville is 17-17-4 with 38 points in 2025-26, fifth in the Central Division and three points out of a wild-card spot in the Western Conference. After they play the Golden Knights, the Predators head to Washington state to take on the Seattle Kraken, then north of the Canada-U.S. border to face the Calgary Flames.