He's also on a thirteen game point streak. His second scoring streak of ten games or more this season.
Passed Draisaitl last night with a 2 point night. If McDavid gets blanked tonight, he will be FIRST
Edit: McDavid in covid protocol I forgot
McDavid, 19GP 14G 22A 36P (155 point pace, most ever)
Ovi, 21GP 18G 18A 36P
Ovechkin has 2 more games played yes. Still, 36 year old Ovechkin going toe to toe with 24yo prime McDavid who is scoring at the best pace of his career is bonkers.
Alternate title: The Caps drafted Ovy in 2004 and didn’t win a Cup for 14 years, or why tanking to draft a superstar doesn’t make sense
Alternate title: Vegas is in first place again, or why tanking to draft a superstar doesn’t make sense
A hockey team has five skaters on the ice at a time (usually). A game is 60 minutes. There are 82 regular-season games. That means, ignoring PKs and empty nets, that an NHL team has about 24,500 skater minutes to distribute every year. A superstar forward, if they’re healthy, might play about 1700 minutes. If you’re lucky. That’s about 7 percent.
Think about that. An NHL superstar only accounts for 7 percent of the team’s ice time. As in, 93 percent left over.
Meanwhile, a healthy fourth-liner who doesn’t get scratched might play 3-4 percent of the team’s ice time. It’s half as much, but, in the grand scheme of things, that’s not that different, is it.
In hockey, a solid top-to-bottom lineup almost always crushes a top-heavy one. The Flyers do not have a superstar problem. They have a team-building problem. They don’t need to tank to find a replacement for G, they need to get with the times and worry about scoring and getting scored on instead of whatever bullshit dinosaur thinking led them to overpay for Risto and lean on Nate Thompson and Keith Yandle for help.
Here’s the good news: they are in a decent position to do that.
Here’s the bad news: the same people that have been doing it wrong are still in charge.
tl;dr: I don’t think anything needs to be blown up, but we’re still fucked.
25 straight regular season games with a point, going back to May 1, 2021. He had 53 points over this run.
Every one who said his run last year was a result of a weak division (that didn't even allow significantly more goals than the other divisions) is looking pretty silly right now. McDavid is straight up on some Gretzky shit right now.
Edit: Draisaitl has 41 points and is pacing 160.
5v5 stats
Conor Garland: 7 G, 9 A1, 3 A2, 19 P, +11 goal differential, 406.1 TOI
Connor McDavid: 8 G, 6 A1, 4 A2, 18 P, +2 goal differential, 451.1 TOI
The next best teammate,
Bo Horvat: 5 G, 5 A1, 1 A2, 11 P, +2 goal differential, 440.0 TOI
Leon Draisaitl: 6 G, 9 A1, 4 A2, 19 P, +8 goal differential, 449.1 TOI
2011-12: McDavid had 77 points in 33 games for the Toronto Marlboros of the GTHL, teammate Josh Ho Sang had 79 in 30.
2012-13: Mcdavid had 66 points in 63 games in his first season with the Erie Otters as a 15 year old, teammate Connor Brown had 69 in 63.
2013-14: McDavid had 99 points in 56 games in his second season with the Otters, teammate Connor Brown had an absurd 128 in 68, Dane Fox also had 107 in 67.
2014-15: McDavid puts up a historic draft season, putting up 120 points in just 47 games in his final OHL season, however, due to injuries, teammate Dylan Strome would lead the Otters with 129 points in 68 games.
2015-2016: McDavid is immediately a star in the NHL, putting up 48 points in 45 games for the Oilers, however, Taylor Hall lead the Oilers with 65 points in 82 games, and Leon Draisaitl also puts up 51 in 72.
It wasn't until 2016-2017 that McDavid would finally lead his team in scoring with 100 points in 82 games, alongside leading the entire NHL in scoring, something that he's done three times since.
He is currently tied with teammate Leon Draisaitl for the team (and league) lead in points.
I just find it hilarious how he always ends up having some other insane elite talent (relative to their competition level) on his team that "overshadows" him in the box score.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laNRPAjKQsM&ab_channel=SPORTSNET
This should be illegal.
Pray for China guys 💀
15gp 10g 19a 29p this season, 5G 16a 21p in 8GP last season
https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/1478763553066819589
