TORONTO — John Tavares had no idea that he’d joined Wayne Gretzky , Mark Messier and Ron Francis in the NHL history books on Saturday.

The Toronto Maple Leafs forward was too busy dealing with the frustration of having just suffered a 4-3 overtime loss to the Seattle Kraken at Scotiabank Arena, a game the hosts, in his opinion, gave away.

Truth be told, the Maple Leafs likely wouldn’t even have come out of the game securing a single point like they did without the efforts of Tavares, whose two goals on the night gave him 497 for his career, just three shy of the magical 500 milestone.

SEA@TOR: Tavares records 500th point as a Maple Leaf on second goal of the game

In the process, he joined the aforementioned three Hall of Famers as the only players to have ever accrued 500 poin

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