Tkachuk had 1,065 points (538 goals, 527 assists) in 1,201 games for the Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes, St. Louis Blues and Atlanta Thrashers from 1991-2010.<\/p>\n
Among players born in the United States, he ranks second in goals in NHL history behind Mike Modano<\/a> (561). He\u2019s sixth in points behind Patrick Kane<\/a> (1,400),\u00a0Modano (1,374), Phil Housley<\/a> (1,232), Jeremy Roenick<\/a> (1,216) and Joe Pavelski<\/a> (1,068).<\/p>\n The power forward also had 2,219 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was a nasty player,\u201d Francis told TSN. \u201c\u2026 You kind of tried to tread lightly around him to get your job done. But he had the complete package of the physicality and the goal-scoring ability.\u201d<\/p>\n Tkachuk represented the United States in four Winter Olympic Games and two World Cups of Hockey. He had six points (five goals, one assist) in seven games in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey, the last best-on-best tournament the Americans won before Brady and Matthew helped Team USA win Olympic gold in Milan in February.<\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t go into your career thinking you\u2019re going to be a Hall of Famer,\u201d he said. \u201cYou don\u2019t play for that. But as you get older, when you get that call, it was truly the biggest honor I could have, and I\u2019m thrilled.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know how I\u2019m going to react in November. It\u2019s going to be overwhelming. But we\u2019re doing this for our families who have sacrificed everything for us, so I\u2019m looking forward to spending that time with my family, my grandkids, my wife, Chantal, who has sacrificed a ton for me, and I\u2019m looking forward to going in representing all the teams that I played for, especially the St. Louis Blues. I\u2019ve been here for a long time, so I\u2019m looking forward to that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tkachuk had 1,065 points (538 goals, 527 assists) in 1,201 games for the Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes, St.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-753977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}