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Andrew Cogliano's 830-game consecutive games played streak ended today in Colorado. Cogliano's streak began on Oct. 4, 2007 (Edmonton vs. San Jose). In the major North American sports leagues with extended schedules, there have been 7,151 players in the NHL (2,421), MLB (3,492) and NBA (1,238) to play at least one game in their respective leagues. No other player in any of those three leagues have played in every single game since Cogliano's streak began.

Cogliano's streak also spanned 502 games as a member of the Anaheim Ducks, shattering the previous record of 276 set by Andy McDonald from Oct. 17, 2003-Dec. 12, 2007.
Cogliano's streak was the fourth longest in NHL history (Doug Jarvis played 964 consecutive games from the start of his career). It also marked the third longest in the NHL/NBA/MLB from the start of a career, the second longest in the NHL (Doug Jarvis, 964 NHL games with Montreal, Washington, Hartford from 1975-88, Johnny Kerr, 844 NBA games with Syracuse, Philadelphia and Baltimore from 1954-65). Cogliano's streak of 830 games (890 including playoff games) was the NHL's longest in more than 23 years, since Steve Larmer's 884th consecutive game took place on Apr. 15, 1993.
Prior to the game against the Avalanche, Cogliano spoke with Kent French about his two-game suspension.

On his hit on Adrian Kempe
First and foremost, I probably initiated contacted too late. I've been very open about that with this process, and I made a mistake at that time. As I think about the hit though, I watch it and I still see that my body doesn't change through the process of it. I think my shoulders are low, my elbows are low, my knees are bent and I'm in a pretty set positon and as it evolves, he tries to make a play back across my body which ends up maybe initiating some head contact near my upper back area and that's what I see. I think there's no injury, he came back and played but at the end of the day from what I've seen, it's a situation where we closed the gap on each other a little bit.
On when it was brought to his attention
I was told after the game from Bob [Murray] that I was going to have a hearing or have a call. I was surprised because no one said anything after the game to me otherwise. There was no media talking about or nothing was brought up so I was more surprised about that. Initially I was thinking back on it, wondering what happened and wondering if I did anything bad. Obviously you never want to injure anyone on the ice. That's a fact. I've played 11 years and that's one thing that I have stood behind and I'm glad he played the rest the game. From my end, there's zero intent to do any sort of head contact or hit a person to injure them. I think it was a situation where, like I said, I admitted to initiating contact too late and I think it was something that happened that ended up being very unfortunate for me.
On his 830-game streak
It's something that I don't really talk about too much as I've been going through it because you are in the process of it. It's a tough pill to swallow, I'm not going to lie. I've played hard and I've battled. I'm a professional in that I've played a long time and I've now missed a game.
On the support from his teammates and the organization
I'm probably being too dramatic about it. I'm sorry, just my emotions came for whatever reason. I've had a lot of support I think there has been a lot of people that have reached out and initiated that I have done something special and the more I look back on it, it's pretty cool. I think that playing 830 games in a row, not a lot of guys can say that and I think that's something that I will hold that to my heart. I appreciate all the texts. [Teemu] Selanne has been a big advocate in terms of reaching out. Like I said, I may be making too big of it, but I think when you go through the process and think back about coming to work and playing every single game for 11 straight years, I think it holds some value and holds some value to a lot of the guys in the league. Like I said, this is the last way I wanted it to go out. I'm glad he wasn't injured and I'll take the suspension, move on and come back and help my team.