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Congratulations to Caps center Nicklas Backstrom for his 700th career assist. He got it in the third period against the Bruins when he wrestled the puck out of the corner and Jakub Vrana sniped it home (other than that, the game was awful).
“I lied to you guys before, I said I was going to enjoy it,” Backstrom said in the postgame interview. “And here we are, losing 5-1. I don’t know. It’s tough when you lose a game like this and the way we played, too. Hopefully we can get a win the next game so I can think about it more.”
Among Swedish players, Backstrom is in 5th place on the all-time assist list, behind Daniel Alfredsson (713), Mats Sundin (785), Henrik Sedin (830), and Nicklas Lidstrom (878). He’s also the 54th player of all time to his this milestone.
| Goal scorer | Goals |
| Alex Ovechkin | 266 |
| T.J. Oshie | 66 |
| John Carlson | 43 |
| Alex Semin | 40 |
| Mike Green | 36 |
| Troy Brouwer | 27 |
| Tom Wilson | 22 |
| Mike Knuble | 20 |
| Brooks Laich | 19 |
| Marcus Johansson | 18 |
| Viktor Kozlov | 16 |
| Evgeny Kuznetsov | 14 |
| Tomas Fleischmann | 11 |
| Matt Niskanen | 10 |
| Andre Burakovsky | 7 |
| Jakub Vrana | 7 |
| Joel Ward | 6 |
| Michael Nylander | 6 |
| Eric Fehr | 5 |
| Justin Williams | 5 |
| Jason Chimera | 4 |
| Nate Schmidt | 4 |
| Dennis Wideman | 4 |
| Brian Pothier | 3 |
| Lars Eller | 3 |
| Dmitry Orlov | 3 |
| Karl Alzner | 2 |
| Sergei Fedorov | 2 |
| Kevin Shattenkirk | 2 |
| Matt Hendricks | 2 |
| Tom Poti | 2 |
| Tyler Lewington | 1 |
| Trevor van Riemsdyk | 1 |
| Brendan Morrison | 1 |
| Brett Connolly | 1 |
| Tomas Kundratek | 1 |
| Brooks Orpik | 1 |
| Carl Hagelin | 1 |
| Chandler Stephenson | 1 |
| Christian Djoos | 1 |
| Daniel Winnik | 1 |
| David Steckel | 1 |
| Julien Brouillette | 1 |
| Donald Brashear | 1 |
| Wojtek Wolski | 1 |
| Mikhail Grabovski | 1 |
| Mike Ribeiro | 1 |
| Jack Hillen | 1 |
| Michal Kempny | 1 |
| Matt Pettinger | 1 |
| Jay Beagle | 1 |
| Joe Corvo | 1 |
| Martin Erat | 1 |
| John Erskine | 1 |
| Marco Sturm | 1 |
| Milan Jurcina | 1 |
Someone made this video for his 500th career assist but it’s still relevant:
