Connor McDavid Enters Elite Group of NHLers at a Record Pace: Is He in the GOAT Conversation?
Hockey legend Connor McDavid surpassed 1000 career points last night as he lead the team to a 3-2 overtime victory, pulling off an incredible move even by his standards to secure the game.
McDavid became the 4th fastest player in NHL history to hit the 1000 point mark last night. Only Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, and Mike Bossy did it quicker. Gretzky, of course, holds the record at a minuscule 424 games.
McDavid came into tonight with 999 career points. Given his prolific scoring ability, we all knew he would hit four digits tonight and sure enough, he tied the game on a feed from Leon Draisaitl in the 2nd period for 1000.
It is fitting that it was Draisaitl who made the pass as he just called McDavid the greatest player of all time. Yes, even greater than the great one himself.
McDavid was not done though. The game was still only tied and there was work to be done. Two points to be earned. Eventually, the game went to overtime tied at 2 and he pulled out one of his best moves with a no-look spin-o-rama pass to Darnell Nurse, who buried it for the game and the extra point.
With point 1001, McDavid is now just 999 points away from joining the elusive 2000-point club. In fact, Gretzky is the only one in that club with 2,857 points. Jaromir Jagr, the 2nd leading scorer of all time has 1,921 points, still nearly 1000 points behind. But if any player could ever get there, it would be McDavid.
After the game, McDavid was asked about the moment and he admitted it was emotional.
He even joked about it given his reputation for never showing emotion. Perhaps that narrative will start to change as he gets older, as he says.
Hopefully this is just the beginning for McDavid. If he can play another decade of hockey like this he would truly separate himself even from many of the other top players of all time.
Perhaps he could even get to a place where the consensus is that he genuinely was better than Gretzky. The possibilities are certainly quite exciting.
| POLL | ||
NOVEMBRE 15 | 102 ANSWERS Connor McDavid Enters Elite Group of NHLers at a Record Pace: Is He in the GOAT Conversation? How many points do you think Connor McDavid will have by the end of his career? | ||
| <1600 | 8 | 7.8 % |
| 1600-1700 | 14 | 13.7 % |
| 1700-1800 | 21 | 20.6 % |
| >1800 | 59 | 57.8 % |
| LIST OF POLLS | ||
| G | A | PTS | ||
| Zachary Werenski | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Sean Monahan | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Jesper Bratt | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Frederick Gaudreau | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Jack Hughes | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Nikita Kucherov | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Mackenzie Weegar | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Kent Johnson | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Alexander Wennberg | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Mitchell Chaffee | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Anthony Cirelli | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Matthew Coronato | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Marcus Foligno | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Nick Foligno | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Conor Geekie | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Brandon Hagel | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Stefan Noesen | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Corey Perry | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Igor Sharangovich | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Dmitry Voronkov | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Complete stats | ||||
| STANDINGS 2024-2025 | ||||||
TOP 10 | GP | W | L | OL | PTS | |
Jets | 19 | 16 | 3 | - | 32 | |
Wild | 19 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 29 | |
Hurricanes | 19 | 14 | 5 | - | 28 | |
Devils | 22 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 28 | |
Capitals | 19 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 27 | |
Golden Knights | 20 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 26 | |
Maple Leafs | 20 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 26 | |
Rangers | 18 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 25 | |
Panthers | 20 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 25 | |
Flames | 20 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 25 | |
| Conference | Cumulative | ||||||