The number one overall draft pick from 2015 reflected on his achievement afterwards: “You spend your whole life playing hockey and loving the game and just wanting to play and make the NHL. One thousand points later, playing for 10 years, it’s pretty special.”
Remarkably, McDavid got to the 1,000-point mark in just 659 games. The ultra-speedy 27-year-old centre becomes the fourth-fastest player in NHL history to reach that milestone after Wayne Gretzky (424 games), Mario Lemieux (513 games), and Mike Bossy (656 games). In a whimsical twist, McDavid becomes the 99th player in NHL history to record 1,000 points, the number 99 being forever associated with Gretzky.
International hockey fans could see this coming. As a teenager, “McJesus,” as Oilers fans like to call him, racked up a ton of IIHF wins.
At 16, the Richmond Hill, Ontario native was tournament MVP and the leading scorer when Canada won the gold medal at the 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship. At 17, he cracked the tournament all-star team as the Canadians captured home-ice gold in Ottawa at the 2015 IIHF World Junior Championship. And at 19, the number one overall pick in the 2015 NHL Draft scored the winning goal when Canada beat Finland 2-0 for gold at the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship.
Since then, McDavid’s NHL legacy has ballooned.
Most recently, when the Oilers lost Game Seven of the Stanley Cup finals to the Florida Panthers in June, McDavid led the post-season with 42 points. That was the fourth-highest total in playoff history after Gretzky (47, 1985; 43, 1988) and Lemieux (44, 1991). In a rarity for a player from the losing team, McDavid won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
It was the latest addition to the five-time NHL First Team All-Star’s packed trophy case. McDavid also owns three Hart Trophies as NHL MVP, five Art Ross Trophies as the league’s leading scorer, and one Rocket Richard Trophy as the NHL’s top goals-getter, among other honours.
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