There really is not that many players who have competed in over 1,000 NHL Regular Season Games. Gordie Roberts is in that club but when you throw in the fact that he had another 300 plus in the World Hockey Association, you have a 19-year veteran who had quite the long career in professional hockey.
Easily one of the best defensive forwards for years Michael Peca would finish in the top five in Frank J. Selke Award voting every season from 1996-97 to 2003-04. The first year of that streak was when he