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Wayne Gretzky scored 2,857 points in the NHL

He is the only player to pass 2,000 career points

Wayne Gretzky finished his NHL career in 1999 with 894 goals and 1,963 assists, a total of 2,857 points. No other player has reached 2,000 points. Gretzky also holds the record for assists, and his total of assists alone exceeds the total points of every other player.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: He is the only player to pass 2,000 career points. The figure is taken from Hockey Hall of Fame, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.