It was an enormous night time on a private stage for Dallas Stars’ captain Jamie Benn on Wednesday night time. Whereas his workforce suffered a 5-3 loss by the hands of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Benn suited up in his 1,143rd recreation for the Stars, formally passing Mike Modano because the all-time chief in franchise historical past for video games performed.
Now, this can be a sophisticated record in a means because it doesn’t embrace Modano’s 317 video games performed for the Minnesota North Stars previous to the transfer to Dallas. That mentioned, because the transfer to Dallas, Benn’s 1,143rd recreation tops the 1,142 performed by Modano for that specific franchise.
There’s just one Jamie Benn.
The Captain now holds the document for many video games performed in Dallas Stars historical past. 🫡@JackDaniels_US | #TexasHockey pic.twitter.com/xEyGAdWOko
— Dallas Stars (@DallasStars) December 19, 2024
The 35-year-old Benn was drafted within the fifth spherical, 129th general, in 2007 and debuted for the Stars as a 20-year-old in 2009-10, scoring 22 objectives and 41 factors in 82 video games in his rookie season. He completed seventh in Calder Trophy voting that season and went on to turn into a perennial 20-goal scorer for the franchise.
Simply twice in his profession he’s performed below 65 video games in a season, together with 2012-13 and 2020-21.
Over his profession, he’s racked up 389 objectives and 927 factors in 1,143 profession common season video games — including 27 objectives and 77 factors in 102 playoff video games.
As for his draft 12 months, the one participant who has performed extra profession video games than Benn is Patrick Kane who went first general to the Chicago Blackhawks and is shortly approaching 1,300 profession video games. He additionally ranks second in his draft class in objectives and factors and third in assists behind Kane and Jakub Voracek who was taken seventh general in 2007.
Benn hasn’t proven any indicators of actually slowing down in latest seasons as he’s performed all 82 video games over the previous three seasons together with his lowest level whole being 46 in 2021-22. Since then he’s hit 78 factors and 60 factors over the previous two years with six objectives and 20 factors already this season for the Stars.
At this fee, Benn might match Modano’s mark with each the North Stars and the Stars organizations mixed at 1,459 video games performed. That mentioned, it’s one other three seasons of all 82 video games, so it will likely be fascinating to see the place Benn finally ends up.
