 During the final game of the 2006 – 07 season , Sakic scored his 100th point of the year . This made him , at age 37 , the second oldest player in NHL history , after Gordie Howe , to record 100 points in a regular season . He became the longest active tenured captain in the league , with fifteen seasons leading the Nordiques / Avalanche franchise , after the retirement of Steve Yzerman at the conclusion of the 2005 – 06 regular season . On March 22 , 2008 , against the Edmonton Oilers , Sakic recorded the 1,000th assist of his career , the 11th player to do so . The gloves he wore in the game were later sent to the Hockey Hall of Fame . 
