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The NHL's Highest-Scoring Defensemen: Beard Today, Bear Forever


Brent Burns

Brent Burns

Ray Bourque’s position atop the NHL’s all-time defenseman scoring list is secure for the foreseeable future – and maybe forever. With 1,579 career points, Bourque is nearly 900 points ahead of active leader Brent Burns (694). Everyone in the active top 10 is at least 30 years old – and five of them are at least 35 – so they’re in the sunset of their NHL careers. In fact, it seems more likely that one of the league’s young guns – say, Cale Makar or Quinn Hughes or Miro Heiskanen – eventually reaches 1,000 career points than anyone currently in the active top 10. And if one of them manages to pull off that unlikely feat – only eight defensemen have ever reached 1,000 NHL points ­– they’d still need almost 600 more points to beat Bourque. Don’t poke the bear.



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