Talk:List of NHL players with 500 consecutive games played

Source for active ironman streaks
Does anyone have a reliable source to confirm this is the complete list of NHL players that have played at least 500 consecutive regular season games? I am also hoping this same source will list players that are close to reaching the same 500-game cut-off mentioned. Thanks.Juve2000 (talk) 04:25, 12 September 2018 (UTC)


 * I found this article dated Tuesday, January 25, 2022, the day Philadelphia played the NY Islanders and Keith Yandle played his 965th consecutive game, breaking Doug Jarvis's all-time iron-man streak at that time. It lists the current active ironman streaks at that time. Clayton Keller was the closest to 500 at 331.[] Juve2000 (talk) 00:55, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Additions to list
On December 27, 2018, Antoine Vermette,Jarome Iginla and J. P. Parisé were added to the list based on this webpage [], which is full of errors. I have done an initial check to see if these three players played the consecutive games listed on the chart. Although all have had significant ironman streaks, none have passed 500 games. I will be removing all three players. I also suspect that some of the game totals for the remaining players are incorrect. I know for a fact that Karl Alzner's consecutive games played was not 624, and I have recently changed it to 622. There may be other errors.Juve2000 (talk) 04:08, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Vermette shows up on the scratches list after a trade and Iginla before, but Parise is harder to tell. He was traded twice during the streak listed on nhl.com. He was traded Jan. 5, 1975 from Minnesota (38gp at the time of the trade) to the Islanders (39gp), so it makes sense why he is 1 game short of 80 for that season. The second was Jan. 10, 1978 from the Islanders (they played their 40th game on that date without Parise in the lineup) to Cleveland (40gp). Since he only played 39 games for New York that season, it depends on if he was traded before or after that game. --75.88.89.194 (talk) 12:29, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * This implies the trade happened before the game. --75.88.89.194 (talk) 12:41, 26 November 2021 (UTC)


 * I made the same analysis you just did and came to the exact same conclusions. The issue is with the second trade that took place on January 10, 1978, but let's recap the streak.

Here is a snapshot of the NY Islanders schedule: Cleveland just had 2 games in that span, the ones with the NY Islanders.
 * it started on February 16, 1972. He played the final 21 games of that season which coincided with the final 21 games for the Minnesota North Stars
 * in both 72-73 and 73-74 he played complete 78-game seasons
 * for the 74-75 season, he was traded from Minnesota to the NY Islanders on January 5, 1975. He played all 38 games for Minnesota to January 4, 1975 against Boston (next game would have been January 6 at Kansas City). He played his first game for the NY Islanders on January 7, 1975, against Toronto. The previous game for the Islanders was on January 4 when Parise was still with Minnesota (and playing that night). Counting the January 7 game to the end of the NY Islanders season, there were 41 games, and he played them all.
 * in both 75-76 and 76-77 he played complete 80-game seasons
 * 77-78 is the season of the second trade, from NY Islanders to Cleveland on January 10, 1978
 * Game 39 - January 7 - vs Cleveland
 * Game 40 - January 10 - vs Colorado
 * Game 41 - January 11 - at Cleveland
 * His last game with the NY Islanders was on January 7, game 39 for both him and the team.
 * The January 11 game, Parise's first with Cleveland, was game 41 for the team. He played all 40 possible games with Cleveland.
 * For 78-79, he started the season with Minnesota and played in the first 17 games. Then the streak ended.
 * The key is the January 10 game against Colorado. If he was traded before the game, then his streak would have continued. If he was still a NY Islander when the game started, then the streak would have ended there as he did not play that game. Can we get proof that he was scratched for that game?Juve2000 (talk) 05:07, 28 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Here’s another news article from newspapers.com saying the trade was announced earlier in the day. Even though the Islanders won the game 7-4, this and the NY Times article speaks of the players playing in an emotional daze and “not having their minds on the game” because of the trade. --75.88.89.194 (talk) 22:46, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Yandle
I know it's almost certain he'll break the record tomorrow (25th), but as it stands Yandle is tied for #1. WP:Crystal 155.190.33.5 (talk) 02:23, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Image?
Time to add a image of Yandle, as the current record holder (I'm not sure how to do it, nor if te one from his article is allowable)? 155.190.33.5 (talk) 02:03, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Made a bold edit and added a pic, hope I did it correctly. 155.190.33.5 (talk) 02:25, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
 * That should be fine. A pity there's nothing of him from the past 10 years though. Kaiser matias (talk) 03:06, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Hot Dogs Eaten
Phil Kessel has also eaten more Hot Dogs in his Active (2022) NHL Iron Man Streak, then all of the players currently playing in the league. 128.147.28.1 (talk) 20:14, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Free agent = streak ended?
Why does the article say Kessel's streak ended while a FA when the Ducks played, when Marleau, as mentioned in his entry, missed the start of the 19-20 season as a FA? Seems a contradiction. 155.190.13.13 (talk) 03:23, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Reverted the edits, which seem to be from one person. 155.190.13.13 (talk) 03:35, 31 October 2023 (UTC)