Patrick Kane’s 900th assist arrived Saturday at TD Garden, a cross-ice feed that Anton Frondell one-timed home on the power play for Chicago. Kane is the 21st player in NHL history to reach 900 assists, and Sidney Crosby is the only other active player on that list.
FINAL: Boston Bruins 5, Chicago Blackhawks 4 (OT). Chicago led 4-2 in the third period, Morgan Geekie tied the game with 10 seconds left in regulation, and Elias Lindholm won it for Boston in overtime.
How to watch: Chicago Blackhawks vs Boston Bruins, Saturday, October 31, 2026, at TD Garden in Boston
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Patrick Kane 900th Assist Puts Him In Rare Company
The milestone came early and it came on the man advantage. Boston’s Will Borgen put the puck over the glass for a delay of game penalty, Chicago’s power play moved the puck quickly, and Kane found Frondell open for the one-timer and a 1-0 lead. Connor Bedard picked up the second assist on the play, which meant the goal connected three generations of the Blackhawks rebuild at once: the 37-year-old Kane, the captain in Bedard, and the rookie winger in Frondell. The Blackhawks marked the moment on their official account with a Halloween note for their veteran:
Anton first goal of the game. Kaner 900th assist. Starting Halloween off on a wicked note.
The company Kane joins explains why the number matters. Only 21 players in league history have recorded 900 assists, and among active players only Crosby, now at 1,111, had reached it before Saturday. The Hockey News noted that the only other skaters with a realistic chance to get there any time soon are Connor McDavid and Evgeni Malkin. Kane already owned the record for an American-born player: he passed Phil Housley’s 894 assists on October 16, recorded his 895th on a Bedard power-play goal against the Winnipeg Jets, and added his 896th in an overtime win. Of the 900, 787 have come in a Chicago sweater, across a first stint that brought three Stanley Cups and a second stint that began this summer. Kane’s career totals now sit at 509 goals, 900 assists and 1,409 points.
The building carried its own echo. TD Garden is where Kane won the Stanley Cup with Chicago, one of the great memories of his first run with the team, and it was Frondell’s second goal of the game, scored at 3:21 of the second period when a Tyler Bertuzzi shot went in off him, that kept Chicago in front on the scoreboard while the milestone settled into the record book.
Frondell Scores Twice As Chicago Controls Two Periods
For two periods, this was close to Chicago’s best game of the season. Head coach Jeff Blashill had moved Frondell and his one-timer onto the top power-play unit, and the change paid off on the milestone goal and again in the second period. The Blackhawks outshot Boston 14-7 in the first period and 12-6 in the second, and still could not build the lead their play deserved. David Pastrnak answered the Frondell opener with a breakaway finish that moved him past Patrice Bergeron for the third most goals in Bruins history, its own milestone on a day full of them. In the second, Frondell’s second goal restored the Chicago lead before a rush by James Hagens and Casey Mittelstadt ended with Mittelstadt tying the game 2-2.
The middle period also produced the game’s ugliest moment. Mittelstadt and Alex Vlasic started a brawl in the middle of the ice behind the play, both teams came together, and Boston’s Nikita Zadorov took a 10-minute misconduct for a sucker punch to Vlasic’s face as the scrum broke up. Chicago, which arrived at 4-9-0 after a flat 4-1 loss in Detroit on Thursday, played with a pace and an edge that had been missing, and took the game to a Boston team that came in at 9-4-1.
Bruins Rally From 4-2 Down In The Third
The third period looked settled twice. At 9:38, after Arvid Soderblom made a run of saves on Charlie McAvoy, Ryan Greene carried the puck up the ice and scored his second goal of the season for a 3-2 Chicago lead. Bedard then won a puck battle, broke away and finished for 4-2, and the Blackhawks were one clean finish from a statement road win. Less than a minute later JJ Peterka fed Mason Lohrei to make it 4-3, and the game flipped for good in the final seconds: Geekie ripped a one-timer home with 10 seconds remaining to tie it 4-4.
Overtime gave Chicago chances, including Kane himself, who was robbed by Michael DiPietro on a look that could have made the milestone night a winning one. Lindholm beat Soderblom instead, and Boston’s comeback was complete. Chicago earned a point and played well enough to win, but a team that has struggled to hold third-period leads for two seasons lost another one, this time on the night its veteran winger made history.
What 900 Assists Says About Kane At 37
Kane returned to Chicago in July on a two-year contract after three seasons in Detroit and a brief stint with the New York Rangers, and he came back as the veteran conscience of a young team built around Bedard. The milestone is a measure of how completely that role still fits his game: the goals have slowed, but the passing that defined his prime has not, and 787 of the 900 assists belong to the franchise he rejoined. The next round number, 1,000 assists, would need another hundred, and only 14 players in history sit above that line. For now, 900 is its own statement, reached on a power play, in a building full of his history, on a feed to a rookie who grew up watching him. Chicago’s homestand starts Monday against Colorado, and the record book Kane rewrote on Saturday travels home with him.
