Oilers could go deep they have 4 point a game players and that’s because of mcdavid he’s the most impressive player to almost ever play the game of hockey

The craziest thing to me is that it’s February. Like, under 60 games? That’s the craziest part. He was going to get 100 points. It was a question of how fast and the answer is unbelievably fast.

As an Erie Otters season ticket holder we knew in 2013-14-15 he was incomparable.

McDavid is first in points but the crazy part is, he has a 20 point lead over the 2nd place guy which just happens to be Leon, 3rd place Kucherov has 78 points which means McDavid has a 23 point lead over the next non Oiler player lol. Its insane!

Im still super shocked we won, down 4-1 at the end of the first, to a 5-4 shootout win. Crazy game.

Crosbys 120 point in 79 was pretty crazy tho

Been watching the NHL since the late 70's, and 100+ points has ALWAYS been a great achievement!!! Everyone loves to denigrate the "high scoring 80's", as if everyone was scoring high numbers, but that's NOT the case! I don't remember any single season, wherein a guy scoring over 100 did not put him in the elite category...

Me: alex lafreniere Johnny: alex lafreniere *with Rizz*

1984 Oilers ... Wayne Gretzky 51 game point streak .... 61 Goals 92 Assists for 153 Total Points in 51 Games !

I started watching hockey back when the Jets were in Atlanta, which is why my favorite team is now well away from where I live. I remember the fact that basically the only players that could score were Ovi, Crosby, and the still playing hockey today, Jagr.

Been watching hockey since Gretzky was on the Rangers.. man those were the days. Bure was a beast. Lindros was good... times were so different, but yes ever since the late 90s, seeing McDavid today is one of the craziest things i can remember in all that time. Besides Ovechkins absolute rampage scoring 65 goals in 08, this McDavid is the most dominant player i remember watching.

as a oilers fan and that lives in Canada Edmonton we are very lucky to have such a beast of a player that is Connor McDavid without him we would be significantly weaker of a team and what is truly Shocking to me is he isn't worth the most in the league...

I agree, seeing how much the scoring totals have changed over a relatively short period has been an adjustment - I was shocked to see how many players scored over 90 pts last season

Thank you for these videos. Your content is amazing!!

I realized how good mcdavid was in his first year not mentioning juniors…what shocked me always was why doesn’t he shoot more? Why isn’t he more selfish? Well he’s being more “selfish” this year…with out actually being selfish 😂 he’s on his own in this league it’s actually pretty crazy, just like Gretzky was in his time. Just on another level

As a Montrealer in my mid-thirties, I can honestly say that I started following the Habs from the Bell Center era (1996) - I don't remember much of the Forum era. In 1996-97, we had Damphousse at 81 and Recchi at 80 points. Then in 2007-08 Kovalev reached 84 points. The last 100pts Habs was Mats Naslund in 1985-86. I can only agree with you that we have to stop pretending that it's not an incredible feat.

It's like 80's NHL but the goalies and defensemen aren't terrible. I love it. Unfortunately, as we all know, everything changes come playoff time.

For me Karlsson with 73 pts already is crazier. He will finish with 100 pts. What a time to be alive

As a Flames fan I had to laugh when you mentioned Huberdeau. Huber who? The guy has literally vanished.

Net sizes are bigger, and goalie pads are smaller to increase scoring in the league. Go back 10 years, scoring wasn't as high as it is now.

I got to go to an Oilers game a couple months ago. It's absolutely wild to see in person. He does shit that you've never seen before and it doesn't even look like he's trying.

Had a feeling we'd comeback to win it. All the signs were there when I began watching at the start of the 2nd period.

No one gonna talk about the 2020-2021 season 😐

Never heard the 2000s as the dead puck era. I grew up through the 90s when the new jersey trap was the winning model - Gretzky was on a downturn and a point per game just was not happening anymore.

Great video!

I grew up watching Gretzky and the 80s dynasty team. Oilers were fun to watch with their fast offensive game back then and it is sure fun to watch them play with McDavid now! Go Oilers, we need a Stanley Cup!

I thought the same thing when I saw the headline, The first thing I thought was oh another one for McDavid.🤔Then it set in that we just past the half way point of the season not that long ago.

Jamie Benn won the Art Ross on the last game of the season with 2 EN points(one of them a secondary assist).

Both 1994-95 and 1995-96 had very good scoring numbers, some actually say the dead puck era started after the 94 lockout. IMO, the dead puck era began in 1996-97 following the elimination of the tag-up offsides rule. The rationale was for defensemen to make more skill plays rather than firing the puck back into the zone and continuing the forecheck. The unintended consequence was that teams had to completely clear the zone and wait for the puck to leave, so they just set up defensively in the neutral zone. Honestly though, the 95/96 panthers were a perfect example of a dead puck era team with no real talent only succeeding because of the trap. I started watching in like 94-95, so i pretty much grew up with the trap era/ dead puck era.

I'm telling ya', I'm an old school guy who played in the old school days and I'm getting a little worried someone, somewhere is going to start taking the stars out just so they can compete again. It all goes in cycles, but I sure hope teams don't start going dirty.

Need a Johnny Hawkey vid on the ROR to TOR trade

Great video

1. He does it every season so the luster kind of wears off when it becomes expected 2. They keep shrinking goalie equipment to make it easier to score 3. Superstars aren't getting absolutely obliterated on the ice by goons anymore There's your answer.

Connor 1.85 pts/game, draisaitl 1.53, kuch 1.42, Chucky 1.37, Pastr 1.38 , Karlsson 1.31, petterson 1.34, Thompson 1.34, Hughes 1.33... There's an obvious layer of separation with 97... And it's not even close.

As an Edmontonian and half ass Oilers fan I must admit McDavid is the only reason I watch the Oilers regularly.

As a french Canadian (Quebecois) I was impressed with your pronunciation of Lafreniere....do you speak french at all?

im a die hard ranger fan.. and when that was shown i was happy for the guy.. hes top tier, hes amazing to watch. hes an amazing player and guy.. top class in the league. happy for him and the oilers fans.

Aaaaand we turn into the godamn maple leafs choking a 4-1 lead

We are definitely not back to the ridiculous scoring of the 80s but maybe we are entering a similar scoring era to the mid 90s where guys like Jagr and Lemieux are leading the league with 140 - 160 pts, guys like Ron Francis and Sakic with 120 pts and 12 players had over 100 pts.

I know McDavid is an absolute stud nowadays, but …those of us in Gen-X that grew up in the ‘80s, well…we had 99 problems but scoring 200 points wasn’t one.

They been making changes to goalie equipment the past 15 years this was the tail end of the dead puck era. It's not just mcdavid going crazy its been the entire league. I do find there is a lot less structure in today's game than year's prior

I was into the game last night and heard he scored his 100th and 101st points last night. Then it dawned on me, wow, we have something like a quarter of a season to go. The guy is a special player. I can't believe how good my Rangers look right now after their slow start. I'm pumped. Question: What do you mean by the dead-puck era?

i wonder how much league scoring has gone up since the 2010's

Great vid

It was so much harder to play hockey even.10 years ago now the game is more offensive then.ever

He had more in covid season in Canadian division in the same amount of games

After growing up with the Oliers in the 80's and 90's, I hated the dead puck era so much that I stopped watching. It gives me joy that that lifeless time of hockey was called that. I've started watching just recently, and I am thrilled again. However, I have spent months trying to figure out why I can't watch every game... Stupid broadcasters.

This was still a different era and the game wasn’t the same as it is now. The game was still more physical, physical defense was emphasized, players could use their stick WAY MORE leniently, goalies had slightly bigger pads and weren’t expected to get involved in breakouts or breaking up plays, rules became stricter and enforced more. I’m not taking away anything from McDavid because he’d dominate in any era but it’s not surprising he’s scoring at this rate. It’s still insanely impressive. Just not surprising. That’s just how good he is. Still If anything 0:54 is a testament to how great Crosby is. He was well over a PPG when it wasn’t as easy. Hell Datsyuk never achieved a career PPG. Times have changed quickly

I'm having flashbacks to the 90's. Once upon a time even the terrible teams had 100 point players

growing up in 2004 lol thats cute. I was growing up in 1974

The future players will be even more skilled. Kids are being born to play sports now. It's not just for fun anymore. Plus the stick technology has improved greatly.

Es-tu francophone ? La manière que tu as dis Alexis Lafrenière m'a vraiment surprise.

Just like ESPN says it’s the “new golden era” .. not just marketing bs. and with Connor bedard coming in with mcdavid hitting his peak it’ll be interesting. I just hope bedard lives up to the hype and gets to 100pts his rookie season.

It shouldn’t be blowing your mind. Scoring is way up. On early 1990s levels. What Crosby did is more impressive. When he was hurt he averaged 1.63 ppg. In the dead puck era. He was on pace for 130-140pt seasons. So it actually isn’t nutty at all in this era that McDavid is doing what he is doing. Adjusted for era a 25 year old Crosby would be around 1.8-to 2ppg today. He is at 1.2ppg at 35 years old.

They said he could only do it in the Canadian division. Lol

Bonne vidéo, merci !

It’s mid February and he’s at 100 it’s so insane

Crazy that hyman, nuggent-Hopkins and Leon Drisital are also on pace for over 100 points

He honestly is chasing the 10th most points in a season record now....held (of course) by Gretzky who had a mere 164 points in the 1980-81 season. McDavid has 100 points in 56 games, assuming a 2 point a game pace for the remaining 26 games---that takes him to 152 points. 164 for him with the odd 3 or 4 point night for those remaining 26 games....yep it is totally possible he passes 164 points on the season. MIKE BOSSY is 20th all time in a season with 147 points. McDavid only needs a mere 48 points in 26 games to at least get 20th all time. I say McDavid gets there and then some. But how well the Oilers do in the playoffs (just like the LEAFS) is still the big big question. Ridiculous though to have a guy like McDavid on the team, another guy like Draisatl and a guy like Hyman and NOT make it past Round 1 or Round 2 though.

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All true but can we please get this guy a Cup? As in most of the other North American based major sports leagues, there will always be an asterisk on his accomplishments as long as he does not win a championship (See Dan Marino, Barry Sanders, Jim Kelly and others. Yes, I know those are all football. Those are the ones that came to mind most readily)

I feel like scoring has gone way up out of no where

Happy I'm not the only one who noticed

Excellente mise en lumière d'un phénomène qui dépasse notre entendement.

mcdavid has elevated the whole league, people below him in points still have 70+ points right now

Either they change the game or make an NHL A tier league for mcdavid to play in.

0:11, Bless you.

For Toronto going all in this season. Edmonton should do same I don't think Matthew's,McDavid stay if major changed and same old keeps happening

If you want to talk crazy - he's 4 points off his pace from the COVID season - he had 104 points in 56 games.

sure 100 is crazy but hes 5on 5 is not sticking out from the rest in any way its only the PP thats insane and with playoffs most of the time harder to get powerplays i tent to like to look the 5 on 5 stat alot. mcdavid is 5th in 5 on5 points with ek 65 leading the hole league. 2. Matthew Tkachuk 3. Crosby 4.pettersson.

They said similar things about 99 and 66

Of note, east is WAAAAAY better than the west this season, and mcdavid is feasting. But oil blew a 4-1 lead. Playoffs in the west is a toss up. East will be a trench war. I fear the finals will dominated by whichever east team makes it. As a blues fan i dont care, i just wanna see playoff hockey, but now rangers have my boy tarasenko, im rooting for them.

Surprisingly he is only a +4 this season so far.

Look at the Bruins from their Cup-winning season of 2010-2011. Lucic & Krejci lead the team with 62pts each!

To me they still don’t make the cup final this year. Look at where they are in the standings and wonder how they are in that spot with all that talent! It proves that it’s still a team game and they are too too heavy.

Is there anything more haunting than 2004-05?

My take is that the referee has a lower bar in penalty which led to advantage for fast smaller players and at the same Time it seems like defense is getting worse every year . The bigger physical style is almost gone. What do you think about that ?

If this guy was alive during the Great Ones reign he might os shit his pants to see how many points he had

"10 years" Ah yes like in the 00s or something *talks about 2013-2014* Wait... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

We're witnessing the greatest hockey player of all time. He will finish 2nd all time in points to Gretzky, and will be the only player in history to score over 2,000 points. Only difference is, hockey is 3x harder than it was in 1980. Do not take this gift for granted!!

That art ross win by Benn in 2015 was the weakest art ross win I've ever seen. I'm glad scoring is up once again

Well back in 13-14 and 14-15 the goalies were a lot better than they were now there is still goalies who are unreal but there's less of the goalies who are unreall now then they were like 8 years ago if you know what I mean.

Can you make a video on your thoughts about the Ryan O'Reilly trade?

It's blowing your mind the next coming of Gretzky has 100 points in 57 games? Shouldn't be that mind blowing if you watch McJesus and Draisaitl play hockey.

lot of point matthews too but how many cup?????????

That’s messed up

I know it's very unlikely they miss but it's possible that the Oilers miss the ploffs with two 100 point scorers. Only one other team has ever done that and it was of course this same franchise with the same players

Imagine, if Malkin was allowed to play with Crosby on the same line like Draisaitle and MacJesus. They can own the points in the regular season, not in the playoffs though haha. MacDavid probably won't eclipse Crosby in cups, so individual accolades are awesome....but who cares.....pffff.

Ahhh the 10's hahaha such low point totals like what was going on

I guess you were not around in the gretzky Kurri years.

For the scale of where McDavid is at: Gretzky 1.9ppg, Lemieux 1.8ppg. Bossy 1.5ppg, McDavid 1.47ppg - everyone else ever below them. Crosby, Ovechkin and Malkin are generational talents, McDavid may just end up the third best player ever - and the best not to play in the 80's. 1 Wayne Gretzky 1.921 2 Mario Lemieux 1.883 3 Mike Bossy 1.497 4 Connor McDavid 1.470 5 Bobby Orr 1.393 6 Marcel Dionne 1.314 7 Sidney Crosby 1.270 8 Peter Stastny 1.268 9 Peter Forsberg 1.250 10 Kent Nilsson 1.241 11 Phil Esposito 1.240 12 Guy Lafleur 1.202 13 Joe Sakic 1.191 14 Dale Hawerchuk 1.186 15 Pat Lafontaine 1.171 16 Steve Yzerman 1.159 17 Evgeni Malkin 1.159

No one is as consistent as mcdavid when it comes to 100 points

Easy to get a ton when goalies are playing that ridiculous style

Honestly the league is growing at an exceptional rate. People say Bedard is going to be an exceptional player. Imagine McDavid competing every night with Bedard for Points. Making everyone better competing to keep up I think the league will be something different in 5 years maybe players having 250 300 points tbh.

Talk to me when he gets 100 points over the next guy... And actually leads the NHL in even strength points

You never quit against rangers there rolling right now

Scoring is up league wide.

I said it before and I will say it again. Edmonton will continue to go down this path as they have for years now. They were one dimensional before and even with all their acquisitions the last few years, they are still one dimensional. THIS is the problem with having a star player like Mac on a team and this should be very concerning with him as well, he may be our generational Gretz but I am for sure he wants a Cup and he won't do it with this team.

His presence on the ice is like no other's right now. He acts like MJ. Just give me the puck and I'll make the play and score from wherever

I was at that game 😒