Oilers captain Connor McDavid has recorded his five hundredth NHL level, helping on Edmonton’s first purpose of the night time towards the Winnipeg Jets on Wednesday.
The star centre slid a fast go to Jesse Puljujarvi 3:45 into the primary interval and the massive Finnish winger snapped a wrist shot previous Connor Hellebuyck to open the scoring.
McDavid now has 171 targets, 329 assists in 369 profession video games. He leads the NHL in factors this season with 9 targets and 22 assists in 18 appearances.
The 24-year-old from Richmond Hill, Ont., is the twenty first participant in NHL historical past to perform the feat earlier than his twenty fifth birthday.
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Picked first total by the Oilers in 2015, McDavid’s career-best season got here in 2018-19 when he amassed 116 factors (41 targets, 75 assists) in 78 video games.
He was awarded the Artwork Ross Trophy because the league’s high scorer in 2016-17 and 2017-18, and was additionally picked by his fellow gamers because the NHL’s most excellent participant in each seasons. He additionally took house the Hart Trophy, awarded to yearly to the league’s most precious participant, in 2016-17.
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McDavid signed an eight-year, $100-million extension with the Oilers in July 2017.
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