When Alex Goligoski skates onto the Gila River Arena ice on Monday night, it will be for the 900th game of his 14-year NHL career.
Goligoski, 35, will become just the eighth player from the 2004 NHL Draft to reach the 900-game milestone. The defenseman has missed just 13 games since the end of the 2012-13 season.
His reward for years of dirty work and bruises from hundreds of body blocks of flying pucks Monday in Game No. 900? The high-scoring Colorado Avalanche.
The Avalanche have scored in 14 consecutive periods entering Monday's matchup. They are the only NHL team to score eight or more goals twice this year.