McDavid heating up, what are odds on 150 points this season?

[Calderon]

I'm still waiting for a 10 point game. No joke. It will happen.

Edit: Obviously not necessarily tonight, but at some point, he will have a crazy game like that, I'm sure.

That's nice and all but how about 7, 8 or 9 points before a 10 point game? Only one 6 point game so far, too: List Of 6+ Point Games By Active NHL Players | StatMuse

 

[BallardEra]

Heh, I already quoted him too. Don't remember if he responded with a plate of crow or not.

He did respond and to his credit was gracious:

McDavid heating up, what are odds on 150 points this season?

 

[TheSanny]

That's nice and all but how about 7, 8 or 9 points before a 10 point game? Only one 6 point game so far, too: List Of 6+ Point Games By Active NHL Players | StatMuse

Never thought of that. So what you're saying, is that for McDavid to score 10 pts, he needs to put up 7, 8 and 9 first?

Never crossed my mind.

 

[B A T M A N]

Which is what I think as well, ppl think Lemieux is some untouchable great god, but if you delve deeper you also see he played the majority of the full 2 min PP.

Mcdavid does the same but I don't view that as a negative. Mcdavid detractors used to use TOI argument for why Matthews and Marner would score less than Mcdavid. But we can see their productivity doesn't increase linearly. Matthews especially doesn't seem to have the tank/stamina to play big minutes like Draisaitl and Mcdavid. He seems to get gassed even playing 20-21 minutes.

It's insane he can be equally productive in his 28th minute of icetime as he is in the first 10 minutes.

 

[TheAngryHank]

Never thought of that. So what you're saying, is that for McDavid to score 10 pts, he needs to put up 7, 8 and 9 first?

Never crossed my mind.

This is the way.

 

[lawrence]

I hope he beats Yzermans stats, so he will officially be in the company of mario and Wayne.

 

[La Bamba]

Never thought of that. So what you're saying, is that for McDavid to score 10 pts, he needs to put up 7, 8 and 9 first?

Never crossed my mind.

Yeah he hasn’t unlocked that skill yet obviously

 

[CokenoPepsi]

Jagr definitely helped Lemieux with his production in 2001, but Lemieux didn't need him.

Jagr is pretty underrated on these forums imo, but McDavid is better than him.

If anything Jagr has become overrated around here...he really remade his image as sort of a clown his final years

 

[Calderon]

Never thought of that. So what you're saying, is that for McDavid to score 10 pts, he needs to put up 7, 8 and 9 first?

Never crossed my mind.

Yes, one does not simply go from 6-pointers to 10-pointers, the ascension must be gradual. It's somewhere in the, uh... handbook.

 

[BallardEra]

Point #135

 

[CpatainCanuck]

Ya, about that...

He's at 135 points: Montreal Shadow isn't wrong yet. McDavid might go scoreless in his last 12 games.

 

[Video Nasty]

Point #136 pulls him into a tie with Lafleur’s career high (and Maruk) for the 31st highest scoring season of all-time.

 

[Kerberos]

He could have hit 140 tonight with a little bit of luck. Hit a post, set up Bouchard and Drai for gimmes. One of those typical nights where McDavid gets 2 points but could have conceivably had 5 or 6 easily.

But staying on pace for 156.

 

[KCC]

He could have hit 140 tonight with a little bit of luck. Hit a post, set up Bouchard and Drai for gimmes. One of those typical nights where McDavid gets 2 points but could have conceivably had 5 or 6 easily.

But staying on pace for 156.

Yup. should have had around that many easily. Bad luck tonight but he continues the 2 point pace which he will need to do to (hopefully) hit 156.

 

[QJL]

39 points in his last 17 games. 14 of those were multi-point games. Incredible consistency.

41 multi-point games this season.

McDavid could play a 62 game season and still lead the league in scoring over Kucherov (and probably Draisaitl given mutual impact).

 

[antropomorphia]

off night for McDavid

still got two points, lol.

 

[Montreal Shadow]

Ya, about that...

Heh, I already quoted him too. Don't remember if he responded with a plate of crow or not.

He’s reached a level that I didn’t think we would see so soon. Many of us speculated that a modern day Gretzky or Lemieux would score 150pts in the new era and I didn’t think McDavid was that good. I thought he was a cut above Crosby but this season puts him in the fabled Lemieux/Gretzky tier.

 

[Mulletman]

Why is the coach sitting McDavid in overtime and playing Nurse, Yamamoto and Nugent-Hopkins?! McDavid is on a historic run and the coach goes and pulls something like this?!

 

[GreeningOil]

Nah and he won't sniff 150pts. Isn't it this the third time he has a crazy pace to start the season and people start 150pts thread?

His ceiling is 130-135 and that's as many as a player can get in the modern era. No one touches 150.

Nice

 

[LarKing]

What a treat to be able to watch potentially a top 5 player of all time in his prime.

 

[KCC]

Why is the coach sitting McDavid in overtime and playing Nurse, Yamamoto and Nugent-Hopkins?! McDavid is on a historic run and the coach goes and pulls something like this?!

I guess you didn’t watch the game. He played a lot. was just briefly resting. He can’t play the entire 5 minutes. Come on. Lol

 

[Montreal Shadow]

Nice

Off by 1 point. He’ll go scoreless the rest of the way. I’ll die on that hill. Come at me.

 

[SuperScript29]

This is the highest season we have had since Mario Lemieux back in 1996, and the last time a leading player was ahead of his competition by 30+ points was back in 1991 by none other than Wayne Gretzky. Let that sink in for a bit. My opinion on his play so far, he is the greatest player to play the game since Gretzky/Lemieux. Crosby/Ovechkin were more of a Jagr level.

 

[Montreal Shadow]

This is the highest season we have had since Mario Lemieux back in 1996, and the last time a leading player was ahead of his competition by 30+ points was back in 1991 by none other than Wayne Gretzky. Let that sink in for a bit. My opinion on his play so far, he is the greatest player to play the game since Gretzky/Lemieux. Crosby/Ovechkin were more of a Jagr level.

Yeah the gap between Crosby and Lemieux/Gretzky was always large and I think McDavid fits nicely in there. I’d argue this year is as good as a good year for Lemieux but obviously not quite as good as a peak year.

 

[Goose]

It’s at the point where I check my sports app in the morning, see Edmonton scored 5, open up the box score, and am disappointed to see McDavid only had two assists.