DALLAS, Texas — Captain Jamie Benn reached 1,000 career NHL points on Saturday night at American Airlines Center in Dallas, and his second-period goal held up as the winner in a 2-0 Stars shutout of the Buffalo Sabres.
Benn broke a scoreless tie in the middle period, and the Dallas bench cleared to celebrate with the longest-serving captain in team history. Every one of his 1,000 points has come in a Stars sweater, and the milestone made him only the second player in franchise history to reach that mark.
Goaltender Jake Oettinger stopped all 22 shots he faced, his second shutout of Buffalo this season. The loss left the Sabres at 0-3-1 over their last four games, while the Stars bounced back from an 8-3 home loss to Winnipeg in their previous outing.
The 37-year-old forward is in his 18th NHL season. Only Hall of Famer Mike Modano, with 1,359, has more points for the franchise, which was founded in Minnesota in 1967 as the North Stars before its 1993 move to Texas.
Benn, who grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, was a fifth-round pick in 2007 and cracked the opening night lineup in 2009. He captured the Art Ross Trophy in 2014-15 after topping the league with 87 points, then scored a personal-best 41 goals a season later.
He has now appeared in 1,272 regular-season games, the most by any Stars skater since the move to Dallas and second only to the 1,459 Modano logged for the franchise. Benn missed the opening 20 games of last season after a collapsed lung required surgery just before the season began, then signed a one-year deal with Dallas in July.
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