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Predators’ Steven Stamkos becomes sixth active player to reach 1,200 points

Hunter Crowther
Dec 2, 2025, 22:13 ESTUpdated: Dec 2, 2025, 22:44 EST
Predators’ Steven Stamkos becomes sixth active player to reach 1,200 points
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Steven Stamkos made history Tuesday night, becoming the 53rd player in NHL history to record 1,200 career regular-season points.

Stamkos achieved the feat during the second period of the Nashville Predators’ game against the Calgary Flames, scoring his seventh of the season and the 589th regular-season goal of his career.

He is now the sixth active player to hit the 1,200-point mark, joining Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Alex Ovechkin, Anze Kopitar and Patrick Kane.

Through his first 26 games of the 2025-26 season, Stamkos has seven goals and three assists for 10 points. Now in his second season with the Predators since signing with the club in July 2024, Stamkos has 34 goals and 29 assists for 63 points in 107 regular-season games.

Stamkos has 589 goals and 611 assists for 1,200 points in 1,190 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 Tuesday night’s game, the Predators are 8-13-4 with 20 points, which puts them last in the Central Division, Western Conference and the entire league. Forward Ryan O’Reilly leads the team in points with 18, while teammate Filip Forsberg has a team-leading nine goals and winger Luke Evangelista has 13 assists.