BLOG: McDavid notches his 150th point

SAN JOSE, CA -Make it 150 points in Connor McDavid's historic season.
The Oilers captain buried his 63rd goal of the season in the first period of Saturday's matinee against the San Jose Sharks to officially cross the 150-point threshold. With the milestone, McDavid became just the sixth player ever to score 150 points in a season; joining Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Phil Esposito, Steve Yzerman and Bernie Nicholls.
"You know what? I hadn't put a ton of thought into it, and then the guys put a little video together of all the other five guys that have done it and it kind of hit me," McDavid said towards his milestone goal. "That was special for them to do, and to hear from all five was was amazing. It meant a lot."
"A special player joined an elite group of players in the history of the game," Head Coach Jay Woodcroft said after the game. "Obviously, what drives him is making sure that the team wins and he's a big reason why we won today."

The 26-year-old is in the midst of one of the best seasons in NHL history. McDavid currently leads the league in scoring by 27 points over his teammate Leon Draisaitl and by 42 points over the next non-teammate. The 150-point campaign is the first since Lemieux achieved the feat during the 1995-96 season, and is 22 more points than anyone has ever scored in the salary cap era.
In a season full of milestones, McDavid has already notched his 300th goal and his 700th and 800th points The captain's 2022-23 campaign is already the 17th-highest scoring in NHL history and if McDavid were to finish the year with 156 points, it would be the most by any player not named Gretzky or Lemieux.
The former Hart Trophy-winner entered Saturday's contest sitting two points away from the milestone and was looking to avoid going three games without a multi-point effort for the first time this calendar year. McDavid assisted the first goal of the afternoon with some excellent cycle work from himself and Zach Hyman before Ryan Nugent-Hopkins finished off the play at the side of James Reimer.

McDavid scored his milestone marker at the 1:44 mark of the first period after some hard work down low and in front of the Sharks goal by Warren Foegele. Foegele tied up his man in front of Reimer, before sliding the open feed to McDavid for the tap in goal. Before the game was done, he added his 64th goal of the season in classic McDavid breakaway style. The soon-to-be Rocket Richard winner collected a subtle feed from Nugent-Hopkins, bared down on Reimer and beat the goalie with a classic head fake for the goal.
The tally was his 12th goal at the SAP Center, the second most by McDavid at any visiting arena for his career. McDavid is now a goal away from tying Alexander Ovechkin's salary cap era record of 65 goals, set back in 2007-08.
"I can't say enough things about him," Zach Hyman said about his captain. "Obviously, just the best player in the world and just continues to push his own envelope and continues to make himself better and make our team better."