Two NHL players reached 1,000 career points mere minutes apart on Monday night.

Claude Giroux tallied two points in the first period of the Ottawa Senators’ home game against the Carolina Hurricanes to reach 1,000 for his career.

Not long after Giroux got there, Dallas Stars forward Joe Pavelski joined him in accomplishing the same feat.

Giroux entered the night with 998 points, scored the game’s opening goal at 5:51 and notched the primary assist on Tim Stutzle’s goal at the 17:26 mark.

His night wasn’t over. Giroux scored again 9:37 into the third period, which would stand as the game-winning goal of a 3-2 Ottawa victory.

Giroux leapfrogged Pavelski, who entered Monday with 999 career points.

In the Stars’ game at the Detroit Red Wings, Pavelski scored a goal at the 3:37 mark of the second period — a marker that made the score 5-0 Dallas en route to a 6-1 romp.

Giroux and Pavelski became the 10th and 11th active players to reach the 1,000-point plateau. They joined a group featuring Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, Patrick Kane, Evgeni Malkin, Anze Kopitar, Eric Staal, Steven Stamkos, Patrice Bergeron and Nicklas Backstrom.

They were the 96th and 97th players in NHL history to achieve the milestone.

Giroux, 35, notched 900 points in 1,000 career games with the Philadelphia Flyers before being traded to the Florida Panthers midway through last season. Now in his first season with Ottawa, Giroux has played all 81 of the Senators’ games thus far and has accumulated 78 points (34 goals, 44 assists).

Pavelski, 38, spent his first 13 NHL seasons with the San Jose Sharks before joining the Stars in 2019-20. Like Giroux, Pavelski has played in all 80 of his team’s games and moved to 76 points on the season (27 goals, 49 assists).

–Field Level Media