McDavid’s performance over the past 500 games

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Since January 5, 2018, McDavid has played 500 games. After four helpers last night, he has scored 287 goals and 536 assists for 823 points in those 500 games. That’s a 1.646 PPG for over 6 full seasons worth of games, in nearly 7 years of real-time passing, or the equivalent of a 135 point season/82 games.

He has done this while missing just 22 games during the run and while being rushed back and playing through nagging injuries during 2023-2024 in particular.

From what I can tell, like a lot of these point milestones and sustained runs of excellence, only Gretzky and Lemieux have scored more points over any 500 game stretch.

The closest players to him during this stretch are Draisaitl who has 108 fewer points while playing 17 more games. MacKinnon is the closest non-teammate, behind by 139 points while playing 22 fewer games. Panarin is next at 198 points behind while playing 8 fewer games, and Kucherov rounds out the top 5 at 207 points behind while playing 78 fewer games. Those leads range from 15-34% in total points and 13-30% in PPG.

During this close to 7 year run, he has added 1 Conn Smythe, 2 Harts, 3 Lindsays, 4 Art Rosses, 5 Hart Finalist nominations, 6 top 2 scoring finishes, and 7 top 2 PPG finishes.

Well on the way to a new Big Five.
 

PaulD

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Yep. We know all of that.

I like McDavid too, and this thread title should be simply :
"Let's talk about Connor McDavid shall we"
 
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From what I can tell, like a lot of these point milestones and sustained runs of excellence, only Gretzky and Lemieux have scored more points over any 500 game stretch.
Impressive for sure, but it wouldn't just be Gretzky and Lemieux that have more points over a 500 game stretch. I'm sure others can dig up stats, but Esposito certainly scored more than this over his best 500 game stretch.
 

ijuka

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He's honestly exceeded any expectations people had for him coming into the league which doesn't even sound like it should be possible.

Those of reading this today may never see a player this good again in our lifetimes and I'm not sure a lot of us really appreciate that enough.
Has he actually exceeded them? When he was entering the league, I wasn't expecting him to compete equally with players like Kucherov and MacKinnon for scoring titles. There have been maybe 2 dominant seasons or so. Otherwise, he's been rather evenly matched with the top scorers, though more consistent than them.

Someone who's exceeded expectations is Draisaitl. McDavid? I don't think so.
 
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Has he actually exceeded them? When he was entering the league, I wasn't expecting him to compete equally with players like Kucherov and MacKinnon for scoring titles. There have been maybe 2 dominant seasons or so. Otherwise, he's been rather evenly matched with the top scorers, though more consistent than them.

Someone who's exceeded expectations is Draisaitl. McDavid? I don't think so.

Since 2020-21, regular season
McDavid, 1.73ppg 548 points
Kucherov, 1.55ppg 360 points
Mackinnon, 1.52ppg 444 points

Playoffs
McDavid, 1.74ppg 99 points, 57gp
Kucherov, 1.26ppg 72 points, 57gp
Mackinnon, 1.24ppg 60 points, 48gp

Here's the thing, the only players that compete with McDavid, are top 4 players having career years while McDavid has poor to average years.

His expectation was being the best player in the league, not the clear cut #1, no contest, so yes he has exceeded expectations.
 

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I know Espo had 866 in a 500 game stretch but I’m not sure anyone else besides Wayne and Mario did better

I see it’s been said already though lol
 
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Has he actually exceeded them? When he was entering the league, I wasn't expecting him to compete equally with players like Kucherov and MacKinnon for scoring titles. There have been maybe 2 dominant seasons or so. Otherwise, he's been rather evenly matched with the top scorers, though more consistent than them.

Did you read the closing statement in the original post? He’s rocketing into top 5 all-time status, where he’ll likely sit uncontested for at least four decades before someone better may or may not show up. If your expectations were higher than that, then you expected him to be Gretzky on steroids and win every single Hart and Art Ross for an entire twenty season career, and you’re existing somewhere other than reality.
 

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