Stamkos became the 53rd player in NHL history, and sixth active, to reach the mark when he gave the Predators a 2-0 lead at 5:04 of the second period on a wraparound pass from Luke Evangelista. Ryan O’Reilly led a 2-on-1 rush with Evangelista, who went around the net and found Stamkos on Devin Cooley’s blocker side.
It was Stamkos’ 589th career goal, the fifth most in League history at the time of the milestone point behind Brett Hull (656), Alex Ovechkin (653), Mike Gartner (636) and Dino Ciccarelli (608).
Michael Bunting had a goal and an assist, and Juuse Saros made 27 saves for the Predators (9-13-4), who have won three of their past four. Reid Schaefer and Ozzy Wiesblatt each scored his first NHL goal.
Morgan Frost scored for the Flames (9-15-4), who have lost three of their past four (1-2-1). Cooley allowed four goals on 16 shots before he was replaced after two periods by Dustin Wolf, who made 11 saves.
Schaefer gave Nashville a 1-0 lead at 6:24 of the first period on a rebound of a shot attempt from Fedor Svechkov.
Jonathan Marchessault extended it to 3-0 at 14:25 of the second on a wrist shot from the slot. He had missed the previous two games because of a lower-body injury.
Wiesblatt pushed it to 4-0 at 15:32 on a redirection of a pass from Bunting.
Bunting made it 5-0 at 2:59 of the third period on a rebound of a deflection off Frost’s stick.
Frost’s power-play goal cut it to 5-1 at 13:39 with a one-timer from the slot on a backhand pass from Nazem Kadri.
Stamkos gets 1,200th NHL point, Predators cruise past Flames
