Jack Gunston, Paul Puopolo and Ben Stratton are one, two and four games away from their 150th milestones respectively.

James Frawley and Cyril Rioli will reach their 200^th game milestones mid-season.

Tom Mitchell is edging towards the 100 games mark, while youngsters James Sicily and Tim O'Brien are due to raise the bat for their half centuries in the coming weeks.

These moments are highly anticipated times throughout the season, likely circled on the calendars of such players as motivation to get through a gruelling pre-season.

So if you were to look at Shaun Burgoyne’s calendar, there would be a lot of circles.    

The four-time premiership hero is in-line to reach an array of career highlights in 2018.

Here are just a few milestones our beloved ‘Silk’ might expect to tick off this year.

●  Burgoyne is set to play his 350^th game in Round 9 against the Brisbane Lions. He will become just the 16^th player in the history of the game to reach the mark, with Michael Tuck the only other Hawk in an illustrious list of the game’s champions.

● It must be remembered that Burgoyne has not played all his career in the brown and gold, although he has surpassed his games tally of 157 matches at Port Adelaide. Burgoyne’s 184 games as a Hawk see him within reach of his 200^th match as a Hawthorn player this year. If he is to reach this mark, he will become the first indigenous player to play 200 games for the club.

● Not since 2007 has Burgoyne kicked at least 24 goals in a season. But if the second JLT Series game against Carlton on Saturday gave any indication, the superstar may spend more time forward in 2018. If he is able to boot 24 goals this year, he will reach 300 career goals, a feat that only 179 players in the history of the game have achieved before the midfielder-defender!

● Another reason to be in awe of Burgoyne is his durability. Having played in each of the Hawks’ last 105 games, Burgoyne is now eyeing off the longest consecutive games streak of any current player. As it stands, he sits in fourth place behind Adelaide’s Sam Gibson (130 games), Geelong’s Zach Tuohy (115) and Richmond’s Brandon Ellis (106). Indeed, Burgoyne still has a ways to go to topple the all-time record, set by Jim Stynes with an incredible 244 games in a row.

● Burgoyne will be the oldest player in the competition in season 2018. When he runs out against the Pies in Round 1, he will be 35 years and 152 days old, 46 days senior of Fremantle star Aaron Sandilands. Although the Hawks champ still has some work ahead of him if he is interested in the milestone of the oldest player to have ever played the game. That record is held by St Kilda’s Vic Cumberland, who was 43 years old in his final year of footy in 1920.

● It may not be possible this year, but one thing Hawks fans can keep in mind is that, if Burgoyne does choose to go round again beyond this year, the all-time indigenous games record, currently held by Sydney’s Adam Goodes, would be in the Hawks star’s sights. Goodes played 372 games for the Swans over a glittering 17-year career. But with Burgoyne sitting at 341 games ahead of this season, could there be more milestone material in the making?