On January 27th, against the Calgary Flames, Tyler Bozak laced up his skates for the 800th time in his NHL career. He became just the 85th active NHL player to do so. The road to an NHL career wasn’t easy for the native of Regina, Saskatchewan, as he was unable to crack any rosters in the Western Hockey League so he had to settle for playing in the lower tier British Columbia Hockey League. He would spend three seasons with the Victoria franchise and in his third year, he had a breakout year as he recorded 128 points (45 goals and 83 assists.