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Tuesday, 31 May 2011 12:00

Written by Seth Rorabaugh

If you play 22 seasons in the NHL, you're bound to reach more than a few notable milestones throughout your career. Such is the case with Mark Recchi who has scored 1,533 career points, 12th-most in NHL history.

The Bruins forward and former Penguins all-star has a chance at reaching another milestone which only a handful of elite players can claim.

Should the Bruins win the Stanley Cup, Recchi would become the eighth person in NHL history to win the Cup in three seperate decades as a player. Recchi's previous Stanley Cup wins were in 1991 with the Penguins and 2006 with the Hurricanes.

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(Photo: Joel Auerbach/Getty Images)

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written by agiesbrecht, May 31, 2011 - 12:42 PM

Recchi's feat would also be the longest span from first to last Cup among the players cited above.

And Claude Lemieux shouldn't belong in this list, since 2000 was part of the 20th Century (there was no year 0).

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written by J.S., May 31, 2011 - 02:26 PM

@agiesbrecht, you might be right about year zero, but typically decades are represented in increments that start or end with 0. I believe Seth is using the 0 as the start of the decade, so C. Lemieux's decades of 1980-89, 1990-99, and 2000-09 is correct.

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written by Alexandre Giesbrecht, May 31, 2011 - 02:50 PM

I see the point, but the convention I'm used to (it could be that we have other standards, though, like commas instead of point for decimals and many other examples) is that you refer to 1990-99 when you're talking about "the 1990's", but any time you separate something by decades you use 1991-2000.

Shame on those who didn't know the digit 0 when they started re-enumerating years!

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