It might never have crossed Loui Eriksson's mind that he'd play 1,000 NHL games, let alone having the 1,000th against the team that drafted him, and in that team's building. But that's where Coyotes forward was when he took the ice in Dallas against the Stars Monday night.
The season schedule just happened to work out for Eriksson, who at 36 years old is on the fourth NHL team of his career, to have game No. 1,000 land on Dallas away. He was traded to Arizona from Vancouver in the Oliver Ekman-Larsson-Conor Garland trade before this season, and prior to five seasons with the Canucks, spent three in Boston and the first seven in Dallas.