McDavid Sets 5 Records As Oilers Score 5 Goals In Game 5 Win – Hockey Writers – Edmonton Oilers

It was Saturday (June 15), when Connor McDavid scored once and added three assists as the Edmonton Oilers staved off elimination and kept their championship hopes alive by defeating the Florida Panthers 8-1 in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals at Rogers Place. .

Then the Oilers captain sat down in the postgame press conference and uttered those famous words that have now become Edmonton's rallying cry: “We've got to go to Florida and do the job and drag them back to Alberta.”

On Tuesday (June 18), in front of 20,000 Panthers fans at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Fla., McDavid presented his mission statement.

The five-time Art Ross Trophy winner had two goals and two assists to lead his team past the Panthers 5-3, as the Oilers swept Florida in the best-of-seven series 3- 2. .

Edmonton's victory means the Panthers will fly north to Western Canada, where the teams will face off in game six at Rogers Place on Friday (June 21).

It was a performance for the ages from McDavid, who was not to be denied on this South Florida spring night. The astronomical center is doing things in the snow that are still hard to believe even after seeing.

But our eyes weren't deceiving us, because the final Stanley Cup section of the NHL record book now lists five records broken by McDavid in Game 5:

He helps in the Postseason

McDavid continued to add to his record for most assists in a single NHL season, with two more on Tuesday to bring his total to 34 in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Wayne Gretzky had the previous record of 31 apples, set with the Oilers in 1988, before McDavid surpassed it on Saturday when the current Oilers captain recorded 32 of his own.^n.d help this postseason.

Final points per active player

With three goals and eight assists through the first five games of the championship series, McDavid now has the most points in the Stanley Cup Final of any active NHL player. His 11 points in the Finals are the most since Daniel Briere had three goals and nine assists for the Philadelphia Flyers in 2010. The 27-year-old McDavid is now just two points shy of tying the single-game series record, held by. Gretzky had three goals and 10 assists for the Oilers as they beat the Flyers for their fourth Stanley Cup in 1988.

Last Consecutive Games with 4+ Points

McDavid became the first player in Stanley Cup playoff history to record consecutive games of at least four points at any time in a single championship series. Before Tuesday, Gretzky was the only player with multiple games with at least four points in a single series. In the 1985 Finals against Philadelphia, he had three goals and one assist in Game 3, then one goal and three steals in Game 5.

Times with 3+ Points in Finals

Edmonton made it three in the second half of Game 5. McDavid scored one of those goals and assisted on two others, repeating his performance in Game 4, when he also scored once and took out two apples in the middle frame.

That made McDavid the first player in Stanley Cup playoff history to have the most three-pointers in a single championship series. Only two other players have recorded three or more points in a single playoff period in their entire career: Hall-of-Famers Bernie Geoffrion and Stan Mikita.

Points Against Final Elimination

McDavid's total of eight points over the past two games is the most for a player to be eliminated in one Stanley Cup Final series. The previous record of seven was shared by three players and was most recently achieved in the 1942 Finals by Syl Apps and Don Metz of the Toronto Maple Leafs against the Detroit Red Wings.

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As the only team in Stanley Cup Finals history to win the championship after trailing the series 3-0, those 1942 Maple Leafs have become a perfect reference point for this Edmonton team.

Suddenly, the 2024 Oilers have a real chance to do something that hasn't happened in 82 years. If McDavid can have two more games like his last two, it's hard to imagine how the Oilers don't end this postseason by hoisting hockey's most famous trophy.