Together with his subsequent objective or help, Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid could have 1,000 profession NHL common season factors. After recording a objective and three assists in Edmonton’s 4-3 additional time victory over the New York Islanders on Tuesday (Nov. 12), McDavid is sitting on 999 factors.
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The 27-year-old will change into the fourth-youngest participant to succeed in 1,000 factors, behind solely Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, and Steve Yzerman. McDavid, who has performed 658 common season video games, will get to 1,000 factors within the fourth-fewest variety of video games, after Gretzky, Lemieux, and Mike Bossy.
He’ll additionally change into the fourth participant to report 1,000 factors as a member of the Oilers, alongside Gretzky, Jari Kurri, and Mark Messier. So with McDavid on the verge of becoming a member of Edmonton’s 1,000-point membership, right here’s a glance again in the meanwhile it occurred for every of the opposite three members:
Wayne Gretzky
On Dec. 19, 1984, “The Nice One” reached 1,000 factors faster than anybody else in NHL historical past, a benchmark that also stands 4 a long time later.
Edmonton was internet hosting the Los Angeles Kings at Northlands Coliseum in what was Gretzky’s 424th profession sport. No. 99 got here into the sport with 999 factors and wasted little time pushing that complete into four-digit territory.
Simply 1:41 into the primary interval, Gretzky fed a move to Oilers ahead Mike Krushelnyski, who put the puck behind Kings netminder Darren Eliot. Gretzky was credited with an help on Krushelnyski’s objective, shattering the report for fewest video games to succeed in 1,000 factors. The report had been 720 video games, held by Man Lafleur.
Gretzky was simply getting began that night time. He went on to attain twice and decide up three extra assists for a six-point night time in a 7-4 victory for the Oilers.
Jari Kurri
Throughout Edmonton’s very first sport of the Nineteen Nineties, Kurri turned the very first Finnish participant to report 1,000 profession NHL common season factors.
Kurri had totalled 997 factors in 715 profession video games when the Oilers took the ice at St. Louis Area to tackle the St. Louis Blues on Jan. 2, 1990. He recorded level No. 998 by scoring a objective within the second interval, then picked up his 999th level with an help on a objective by fellow Finn Esa Tikkanen early within the third interval.
With the Oilers main 5-4 and simply over two minutes remaining, it regarded like historical past might need to attend for one more sport. However then Blues centre Rick Meagher took a high-sticking penalty.
On the following Edmonton power-play, Kurri handed to Tikkanen, who scored at precisely 18:00 of the third interval to assist his countryman change into the primary 1,000-point participant from their homeland. It was a fittingly Finnish end to a 6-4 Oilers victory.
Mark Messier
Each Messier and Oilers teammate Glenn Anderson got here into Edmonton’s sport towards the Philadelphia Flyers at The Spectrum on Jan. 13, 1991, on the verge of an unbelievable particular person milestone. They’d every take their respective place in historical past on the identical play.
After receiving the puck from Messier, the speedy Anderson scored at 5:25 of the third interval, tying the sport 3-3. The help gave Messier 1,000 profession factors, whereas the objective was No. 400 for Anderson.
Lower than 5 minutes later, Messier and Anderson every assisted on a objective by Tikkanen that put the Oilers forward 4-3. Then at 19:01 of the third interval, Tikkanen sealed the win for Edmonton by scoring into an empty internet, with Messier and Anderson once more choosing up assists.
To this date, Anderson, Gretzky and Kurri are the one gamers to attain at the very least 400 instances through the common season in an Oilers uniform. Messier sits fourth in franchise historical past with 392 objectives as an Oiler.
McDavid can be part of the 1,000-point membership tonight (Nov. 14), when Edmonton hosts the Nashville Predators at Rogers Place. Ought to that occur, he would change into the primary Oilers participant to attain his 1,000th profession level on dwelling ice since Gretzky almost 40 years in the past.
If not, one of many NHL’s most historic accomplishments will occur in one in every of its most historic cities: After internet hosting Nashville, the Oilers hit the street, the place they are going to play the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday (Nov. 16) and the Montreal Canadiens on Monday (Nov. 18).
