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This Lightning center just reached an illustrious milestone in his 12th season in the NHL

Zemgus Girgensons has joined elite company skating in his 800th career game in the NHL. It came on Saturday night in Miami and was capped off by a Lightning win.

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After 11 and a half years in the National Hockey League, Saturday night’s matchup between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers marked a historic milestone for Tampa Bay’s 31-year old center from Latvia. Zemgus Girgensons has now skated in 800 matches in the NHL.