TheHockeyTOONS #027
Oilers' McDavid Hits 1,000-Point Mark: NHL Superstar Continues To Add To Legacy
Oilers captain Connor McDavid reached the 1,000-point plateau on Thursday. He's asserting himself as one of the NHL's best players ever, but he's missing something.
Adam Proteau • Nov 14th, 2024
When NHL superstar Connor McDavid reached the 1,000-point plateau against the Nashville Predators Thursday night, he joined an exclusive club.
He became the 99th player ever to get 1,000 points and did so at the very young age of 27 after less than nine seasons in hockey’s top league. The way he did that in only 659 regular-season games is even more impressive, making him the fourth-fastest player to achieve that milestone.
McDavid has been one of the most consistent elite players in hockey history, posting at least 30 goals in every 82-game season after his rookie year of 2015-16. McDavid has also never generated fewer than 63 assists and 97 points after his rookie campaign – and those low-mark numbers came in 2019-20, when he appeared in only 64 games before the pandemic ended the regular season early.
McDavid’s points-per-game average of 1.51 puts him in third place all-time in that department, ahead of the late Mike Bossy (1.50) and Bobby Orr (1.39) and behind only Mario Lemieux (1.88) and Wayne Gretzky (1.92). Both Lemieux and Gretzky played in an era where offense was much easier to come by than it is at present. McDavid came into the league heralded as a potential all-time great, and he’s more than lived up to that status.