The 26-year-old center led the NHL in goals (64), assists (89) and points (153), setting NHL career highs in each category and becoming the third player to lead the League in each category in a season. Phil Esposito did it with the Boston Bruins in 1972-73 and Wayne Gretzky did it with the Oilers in 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1984-85 and 1986-87.
McDavid had three more goals than Bruins forward David Pastrnak, six more assists than Tampa Bay Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov and 25 more points than teammate Leon Draisaitl. He has won the Art Ross three years in a row.
He passed Esposito, who had 152 points (76 goals, 76 assists) with the Bruins in 1970-71, for the 15th highest-scoring season in NHL history. Only Gretzky (nine times), Mario Lemieux (four times) and Steve Yzerman (once) have had more points in a season.
McDavid became the first player in NHL history with three point streaks of at least 15 games in a season. He has five point streaks of at least 15 games in his NHL career, tied with Peter Stastny for third in NHL history behind Gretzky (19) and Lemieux (seven).
He had more than three times the number of games with at least three points (22) than games with no points (seven). Only three players in the past 30 years have had as many games with at least three points in a season: Lemieux (32 in 1992-93 and 29 in 1995-96), Jaromir Jagr (25 in 1995-96) and Sergei Fedorov (22 in 1993-94).
Selected by the Oilers with the No. 1 pick in the 2015 NHL Draft, McDavid has 850 points (303 goals, 547 assists) in 569 games in his NHL career.
Since the start of the 2015-16 season, he has 115 points more than the next-closest player, Draisaitl, even though he has played 32 fewer games. He has 102 assists more than the next-closest player, New York Rangers forward Artemi Panarin, and is third in goals (303) behind Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin (347), one behind Draisaitl (304).
The Oilers (50-23-9) finished second in the Pacific Division and will play the Los Angeles Kings (47-25-10) in the Western Conference First Round. Game 1 of the best-of-7 series will be at Rogers Place in Edmonton on Monday (10 p.m. ET; ESPN, CBC, SN, TVAS).
McDavid had 14 points (four goals, 10 assists) when Edmonton defeated Los Angeles in seven games in the first round last year. He led the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs with 33 points (10 goals, 23 assists) even though the Oilers played only 16 games over three rounds, defeating the Calgary Flames in five games in the second round and being swept by the Colorado Avalanche in the Western Conference Final.
