With his next goal or assist, the Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid will have 1,000 career NHL points in the regular season. After scoring a goal and three assists in Edmonton’s 4-3 overtime victory against the New York Islanders on Tuesday, November 12, McDavid has 999 points.

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The 27-year-old become the fourth youngest player to reach 1,000 points, behind only Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux and Steve Yzerman. McDavid, who played 658 regular season games, will reach 1,000 points in the fourth lowest number of gamesaccording to Gretzky, Lemieux and Mike Bossy.

He will also become the fourth player to record 1,000 points with the Oilers, joining Gretzky, Jari Kurri and Mark Messier. With McDavid about to join Edmonton’s 1,000-point club, here’s a look back at when it happened for each of the other three members:

Wayne Gretzky

On December 19, 1984, “The Great One” reached 1,000 points faster than anyone in NHL history, a benchmark that still stands four decades later.

Edmonton hosted the Los Angeles Kings at Northlands Coliseum in what was Gretzky’s 424^th career game. No. 99 entered the match with 999 points and wasted no time in pushing that total into four figures.

Just 1:41 into the first period, Gretzky passed to Oilers forward Mike Krushelnyski, who placed the puck behind Kings goaltender Darren Eliot. Gretzky was credited with an assist on Krushelnyski’s goal, breaking the record for fewest games to reach 1,000 points. The record was 720 matches, held by Guy Lafleur.

Gretzky was just getting started that night. He then scored twice and had three more assists for a six-point night in a 7-4 victory for the Oilers.

Jari Kurri

In Edmonton’s very first game of the 1990s, Kurri became the first-ever Finnish player to record 1,000 career NHL points in the regular season.

Kurri had totaled 997 points in 715 career games when the Oilers took the ice at St. Louis Arena to face the St. Louis Blues on January 2, 1990. He recorded point No. 998 with a second-period goal , then I got his 999^th point with an assist on a goal from his Finnish compatriot Esa Tikkanen at the start of the third period.

With the Oilers leading 5-4 and just over two minutes remaining, it looked like history might have to wait for another game. But then Blues center Rick Meagher received a high-sticking penalty.

On the ensuing power play in Edmonton, Kurri passed to Tikkanen, who scored at exactly 18:00 of the third period to help his compatriot become the first player from his country to collect 1,000 points. It was a fitting Finnish finish to a 6-4 Oilers victory.

Marc Messier

Messier and Oilers teammate Glenn Anderson entered Edmonton’s game against the Philadelphia Flyers at the Spectrum on Jan. 13, 1991, on the verge of achieving an incredible individual milestone. They would each take their respective place in history on the same coin.

After receiving the puck from Messier, the speedy Anderson scored at 5:25 of the third period, tying the game 3-3. The assist gave Messier 1,000 career points, while the goal was Anderson’s 400th.

Less than five minutes later, Messier and Anderson each contributed on a Tikkanen goal that gave the Oilers a 4-3 lead. Then, at 19:01 of the third period, Tikkanen sealed Edmonton’s victory with an empty-net goal, while Messier and Anderson again had assists.

To date, Anderson, Gretzky and Kurri are the only players to score at least 400 times during the regular season in an Oilers uniform. Messier ranks fourth in franchise history with 392 goals as an Oiler.

McDavid can join the 1,000-point club tonight (November 14), as Edmonton hosts the Nashville Predators at Rogers Place. If that happens, he would become the first Oilers player to score his 1,000^th career point at home since Gretzky nearly 40 years ago.

Otherwise, one of the NHL’s most historic accomplishments will happen in one of its most historic cities: After hosting Nashville, the Oilers will hit the road, where they will face the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday (Nov. 16) and the Montreal Canadiens on Monday (November 18).