Congratulations go out to Dallas center Mike Modano who broke Phil Housley’s NHL record for career points by an American born player last night with two goals in the opening minutes of the Stars’ 3-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks. The record breaker came when the Sharks were on the power play and Modano scored a short handed goal. If you watch the replay, it almost looks like he fanned on the shot but it slipped past Evgeni Nabokov.
The top 5 now look like this:
# 1 Mike Modano with 1,233 points
# 2 Phil Housley with 1,232 points
# 3 Jeremy Roenick with 1,178 points
# 4 Joe Mullen with 1,063 points
# 5 Pat LaFontaine with 1,013 points
It took Modano 242 fewer regular season games than Housley. Modano has now moved into 35th place on the NHL’s career scoring list. In March of last year, Modano became the American career goal scoring leader. Sitting on the Sharks bench last night to witness this feat was none other than # 3 on the list above JR who is on his own mission for goal # 500 (he is currently at 499). Good luck to JR and continued success to Mike Modano.
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