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Connor McDavid on the verge of significant career milestone

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Finnegan Frost
September 12, 2024  (1:28 PM)
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Connor McDavid has cemented himself as the best modern day player in the NHL - and the Oilers captain is on the verge of breaking through a significant career milestone.

According to Sportsnet's Josh Beneteau, McDavid is remarkably about to begin his 10th NHL season and every year he keeps getting better.

Connor McDavid - 1000 points

Entering this campaign, the five-time Art Ross Trophy winner is just 18 points shy of 1,000 for his career. Even more impressively, with just 645 games played so far, McDavid will be among the fastest to ever reach the 1,000-point mark.

McDavid, who turns 28 on Jan. 13, will also be among the youngest players to do it.

Only twice in his career has McDavid failed to reach 100 points in a season: His rookie year when he had 48 in 45 games due to injury and in 2019-20, when he had 97 in 64 games before play was halted due to the pandemic.

McDavid trails only Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux and Newsy Lalonde with 1.52 points per game in his career. McDavid has etched his name right next to some the the NHL's greats.

McDavid also broke through Wayne Gretzky's playoff assist record. According to Daniel Nugent-Bowman from the Athletic, McDavid tied and passed The Great One as part of a three-assist, four-point effort in Game 4 - an 8-1 Oilers win to keep their season alive. Gretzky had 31 helpers in 1988, the last of his four Stanley Cup titles in Edmonton.

McDavid will have his eyes set on breaking through 1000 career points, and fans can anticipate this impressive milestone being reached within the first 10 games of the regular season.

Source: The Athletic - Sportsnet
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