Washington Capitals defenseman John Carlson has reached the milestone of 1,000 NHL video games, and pop singer Vanessa Carlton lent her voice to be a part of the celebration.
Carlton remixed her hit tune “A Thousand Miles” with Carlson-themed lyrics as a part of a collaboration between the staff and the manufacturing firm Contemporary Tape Media.
On Saturday night time in opposition to the Boston Bruins, Carlson turned the 128th defenseman in league historical past to skate in 1,000 regular-season video games. By way of his first 999, the 34-year-old has performed the Forty first-most minutes of any participant within the league since ice time began being tracked formally in 1997-98, totaling slightly below 24,000 minutes — plus 3,005 extra within the playoffs.
“He’s not only a level producer that’s simply taking part in the highest of the ability play and capable of play that for 20 years,” coach Spencer Carbery mentioned. “He’s taking part in that, plus he’s taking part in penalty kill, plus he’s taking part in 5 on 5 when it’s essential defend a lead and when it’s essential rating a purpose. That potential and uniqueness, there’s only a few that log minutes in all these conditions like he has all through his profession.”
Carlson, who’s initially from Natick, Massachusetts, however spent a lot of his childhood in New Jersey, has taken greater than 26,000 regular-season shifts, all with Washington, since getting drafted within the first spherical in 2008 and making his debut in 2009.
“You attempt not to consider it like that,” Carlson mentioned Saturday morning when instructed that stat.
Carlton’s tune remix was launched after the participant with the same sounding final title spoke to reporters following the staff’s morning skate.
Carlson is the eightieth participant to decorate in 1,000 video games with one staff. His milestone comes a few weeks after teammate T.J. Oshie hit 1,000, and going by way of that helped put together Carlson for what to anticipate not solely Saturday night time however subsequent weekend (April 7 vs. Ottawa) when the Capitals maintain a ceremony to honor him.
“You bought a lot happening now, within the now, on this league and the place we’re and simply worrying about what’s at stake on a regular basis,” Carlson mentioned. “Simply making an attempt to not be a distraction to what we have now on our plate proper now and the place we’re.”
The Capitals try to return to the playoffs after lacking final yr for the primary time in Carlson’s professional profession. He was an enormous a part of their 2018 Stanley Cup run, taking part in in all 24 video games and recording 20 factors whereas averaging practically 26 minutes an evening.
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