The Skinny on 1600

The Isles will be looking for the 1,600th regular season victory on Thursday when they host the Devils.

Here's a list of their other century mark wins (as well as the number of games it took them to get there)

						Games	Win
3/7/1976	@	Pittsburgh	5	3	W	303	100
4/8/1978	Vs	New York	7	2	W	475	200
11/15/1980	Vs	Buffalo	4	1	W	654	300
10/21/1982	Vs	Washington	6	3	W	804	400
12/3/1984	@	Vancouver	5	4	W	980	500
10/8/1987	@	Los Angeles	4	1	W	1197	600
10/27/1990	Vs	Philadelphia	5	2	W	1446	700
11/6/1993	Vs	Hartford	5	3	W	1694	800
10/16/1997	@	San Jose	5	2	W	1982	900
10/10/2001	@	Pittsburgh	6	3	W	2307	1000
2/3/2004	Vs	Vancouver	5	4	Wot	2521	1100
11/24/2007	Vs	Boston	2	1	W	2734	1200
2/5/2011	Vs	Ottawa	5	3	W	3012	1300
3/29/2014	Vs	New Jersey	2	1	Wso	3246	1400
10/23/2016	Vs	Minnesota	6	3	W	3424	1500

Each of the last five milestone wins have come at home; the fewest games between milestones was the 150 between wins 300 and 400 (100-30-20); not surprisingly the Isles spent that entire period as Stanley Cup Champions. The longest stretch was the 325 games between wins 900 and 1,000 (100-186-39).

Adrian Aucoin has the only overtime goal in a century win (1,100); Frans Nielsen had the shootout winner for win #1,400.

Win #200 was a special win - it clinched the Isles' first (Patrick) division championship.  If they earn win #1,600 on Thursday it will move them within one point of Columbus and Washington for the division lead.

The Thursday game against New Jersey will be game 3,628; the Isles are 99-78-26 since defeating Minnesota for win #1,500.

Forever1940 is the nom de plume of Eric Hornick, statistician on Islander home telecasts since January 21, 1982. Visit my blog: NYISkinny.com and follow me on Twitter @ehornick