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Connor McDavid is knocking on the door of some very unique historical past. His scorching streak continued Wednesday with two objectives in a 5-2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs. In doing so, the Edmonton Oilers star grew to become simply the fifth participant in NHL historical past to report a multi-goal streak of no less than 5 video games as he joined an elite group that options Alexander Mogilny (5 in 1992-93), Mario Lemieux (5 in 1988-89).
McDavid can have the chance to affix Punch Broadbent (six in 1921-22) and Joe Malone (six 1920-21) within the report books if he pulls of a sixth straight multi-goal sport because the Oilers face the Winnipeg Jets on Friday.
With his fifth consecutive multi-goal sport, McDavid broke a tie with former Oilers nice Wayne Gretzky for essentially the most consecutive multi-goal video games in Oilers historical past. Gretzky had recorded 4 consecutive multi-goal video games through the 1984-85 season.
All three of McDavid’s factors on Wednesday got here within the opening interval, along with his first objective approaching the power-play simply 3:49 into the competition.
It marked the twenty first time wherein McDavid tallied three-plus factors in a interval in his profession. In doing so, McDavid joined Jaromir Jagr (47), Mario Lemieux (34), Sidney Crosby (24), Teemu Selanne (23), Paul Kariya (22), Alex Ovechkin (21) and Patrick Kane (21) as the one gamers in NHL historical past to have three-plus factors in a single interval on no less than 21 events.
McDavid’s multi-goal streak started on Feb. 21 towards the Philadelphia Flyers when he recorded two objectives and an help in a 4-2 Oilers win. The 26-year-old star additionally made historical past in that exact sport as he grew to become the fifth-fastest participant in NHL historical past to report his 800th profession level.
During this multi-goal sport stretch, he is racked up a mind-boggling 10 objectives and 6 assists. He’s additionally registered no less than three factors in all however a type of contests.
As a results of his latest objective explosion, McDavid presently leads the league in objectives (52) and has a 10-goal benefit over Boston Bruins star David Pastrnak, who’s second within the NHL in that division. He is already having a season for the ages, and it might get much more particular come Friday night time.
