Edmonton Oilers Win The West? McDavid 150 Points.
Connor McDavid Hits 150 Points
In the win against the San Jose Sharks on Saturday. He has joined an elite group of players in doing so. He is only the sixth player in NHL history to get to 150 points. Only Wayne Gretzky (nine times), Mario Lemieux (four times), Bernie Nicholls, Steve Yzerman and Phil Esposito. Look at that list of players, crazy to think that McDavid is in the same conversation as those players.
connor mcdavid becomes the sixth player in nhl history to score 150 as he buries his 63rd goal of the season. pic.twitter.com/Vf0dOdBtSF
— zach (@zjlaing) April 8, 2023
Not only is McDavid putting up points he is scoring goals at an excellent clip. Since the 1990-1991 season, there have only been 7 other instances where a player has scored more goals than McDavid this season. Alex Ovechkin is the only active player to do it, when he scored 65 in 2007-2008.
McDavid is currently at 64 so there is a chance that he will even pass Ovechkin’s goal total from that season. Ovechkin is the best goal-scorer of this generation, so the fact that McDavid may have more goals in a single season than him is something to be noted.
The Rest Of The Edmonton Oilers Are Helping
The fact that McDavid plays with the second-best player in the world, Leon Draisaitl, also helps him out. It is not just Draisaitl that is having a good year, Hyman and Nugent-Hopkins are having career years.
All of these players with Bouchard make up the NHL’s best powerplay. Not just this season, but ever. The Edmonton Oilers have scored 87 goals on the powerplay. This powerplay has been really good for the last few seasons, but this year they went to another level.
It is at the point where if the Edmonton Oilers don’t score a powerplay goal in a game it is a disappointment. That is a good thing though, you need every advantage you can get in the playoffs.
One of the biggest advantages the Edmonton Oilers have is having the top two players in every series they play in. They may be less skilled in depth positions, but I don’t care cause the Edmonton Oilers top 6 is arguably the best in the NHL.
With the way the Edmonton Oilers are playing down the stretch, it gets me very excited to see how they play in the playoffs. I understand why they are at the top of the odds to win the cup. They seem unbeatable right now.