Edmonton Oilers superstar Connor McDavid's record-breaking season continues.
The Edmonton Oilers found themselves in a massive hole down 3-0 in the series to the Florida Panthers for the Stanley Cup. However, Connor McDavid unleashed his wrath onto those pesky cats and helped guide the Oilers to an 8-1 thumping to stay alive.
The ex-Erie Otter recorded four points to increase his playoff points total to 38 points in 22 games. Unsurprisingly, three of his four points were assists, which broke Wayne Gretzky’s record of 31 assists in a single post-season, one that many thought would never get broken.
McDavid earlier this year was the first player in NHL history to record 100 assists in a season since Gretzky in 1990-91. He’s continued to channel his inner Gretzky in the post-season. Also, he holds the NHL record for highest points per game following a playoff loss.
McDavid is no stranger to breaking records. He’s done it his entire career and it started in the OHL with the Erie Otters. The team that struck gold when drafting the exceptional status player in the 2012 OHL Priority Selection.
The Oilers centerman ranks fourth in Erie’s franchise history for most points in a single season. However, he scored 120 points in just 47 games during the 2014-15 season, giving him the highest points per game of 2.55 among all Otters players and placing him 12th in league history.
Since then, the player closest to matching his points-per-game total was Minnesota Wild forward Marco Rossi. The Austrian forward was a star player during his time with the Ottawa 67’s. In 2019-20, he torched OHL competition before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. His 120 points in 56 games, for a points per game total of 2.14, didn’t even sniff close to McDavid’s 2.55.
In the 2015 OHL playoffs, on the way to winning the playoffs MVP, McDavid recorded 28 assists and 49 points in 20 games, despite losing in the finals in five games to Oshawa. These statistics still stand as the most in a single playoffs among all Otters players.
Can Connor McDavid continue his playoff dominance and complete the impossible reverse sweep in the Stanley Cup Finals?