{"id":418684,"date":"2026-01-19T04:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418684\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T04:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:39:08","slug":"oilers-celebrate-nugent-hopkinss-1000th-nhl-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418684\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers celebrate Nugent-Hopkins’s 1,000th NHL game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joining him on the ice for the ceremony was his dad, Roger, mom, Deb, brother, Adam, wife Breanne, and their daughter, Lennon.<\/p>\n

After the montage video played, Nugent-Hopkins\u2019s Oilers teammates presented him with a custom Rolex watch and had flowers for his mom and wife.<\/p>\n

Oilers general manager Stan Bowman presented Nugent-Hopkins with a Tiffany crystal on behalf of the NHL.<\/p>\n

CEO and president of hockey operations Jeff Jackson presented him with the customary silver stick, then Zach Hyman<\/a> gave a mini silver stick to his daughter.<\/p>\n

Hyman presented a second silver stick to the family, for Nugent-Hopkins\u2019s next child, who is due in just a few weeks.<\/p>\n

To cap off the celebration, Nugent-Hopkins got the scoring started for the Oilers late in the first period.<\/p>\n

Nugent-Hopkins came into the league as the No. 1 pick in the 2011 NHL Draft to the Oilers. On Sunday, he became the first player to reach the 1,000-game milestone exclusively with the Oilers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if you can get to this point in your career, play 1,000 games in this league, things have to go right for you and you have stick with a lot of it, and I\u2019m very proud to be able to have done it,\u201d Nugent-Hopkins said. \u201cObviously, coming in as the first pick, there\u2019s a lot of expectations and talk around you, but what I started to learn is that I\u2019m just who I am, and I can\u2019t control the outside things and I\u2019m going to be the player that I\u2019m going to be and try to be the best version of myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

— NHL.com Staff Writer Derek Van Diest contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joining him on the ice for the ceremony was his dad, Roger, mom, Deb, brother, Adam, wife Breanne,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-418684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}