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Milestone Watch: Some significant numbers players can reach during the 2010-11 season

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In the last couple days, I tackled the NHL’s most “unbreakable” records as well as ones that are “off the beaten path.” To complete that leisurely triangle of numbers posts, I thought I’d look at some more attainable feats that could be accomplished during the 2010-11 season. Here is a look at some achievable milestones in the goals, assists and goalie stat categories.

(Hockey-reference.com was a huge help in putting this post together. Keep in mind these won’t always be full lists.)

1,500 Points

Mark Recchi needs 15.

1,000 Points

Three players are within striking distance: Daniel Alfredsson (8), Alex Kovalev (10) and Paul Kariya (11).

400 Goals

Jason Arnott needs 17, Alfredsson needs 25.

300 Goals

Dany Heatley needs 1, Joe Thornton needs 15.

200 Goals

Five players are within 10 goals of this milestone. In order of least goals needed: Pavel Datsyuk (2), Eric Staal (7), Brenden Morrow (7), Brad Richards (8) and Jason Blake (10).

100 Goals

Patrice Bergeron and Jay Pandolfo are within one. There are a lot of others who are just a few goals away.

600 Assists

Kariya needs 13, Kovalev needs 22.

500 Assists

Three players are within 10: Slava Kozlov (3), Marc Savard (9) and Arnott (10).

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Goalies

602 wins, 110 shutouts

Martin Brodeur will attempt to pad his all-time lead in wins and shutouts this season.

The active goalies with the next closest shutout totals are Roberto Luongo (51) and Chris Osgood (50).

1,100 games played

Martin Brodeur needs 24 to increase his all-time games played lead (1,076) over Patrick Roy (1,029).

Nikolai Khabibulin needs 4 GP to hit 700; Tomas Vokoun needs 25 to reach 600; J.S. Giguere needs 8 for 500.

400 wins

Osgood needs 4.

300 wins

Evgeni Nabokov finished his career seven wins short of this milestone.

40 shutouts

Vokoun needs 2

30 shutouts

Jose Theodore needs 1

20 shutouts

Niklas Backstrom needs 1

So, overall, this could be a pretty big year of milestones for Mark Recchi, Chris Osgood, Pavel Datsyuk, Paul Kariya and Alex Kovalev. Numbers like these really put careers in perspective, particularly how peerless Martin Brodeur really has been - at least quantity wise.