High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of ice hockey players who have played at least 1000 regular-season games in the National Hockey League (NHL) through the end of the 2011–12 NHL regular season. 279 players (through the end of the 2011-12 season) have played at least 1,000 NHL games, varying in amounts between Bernie Federko`s 1000 to Gordie Howe`s 1767 games played.