Red-hot Oilers visit Blues Monday night
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During the first month of the season, the Edmonton Oilers didn't look like a playoff team, and Connor McDavid didn't look like a scoring champion.
During the first month of the season, the Edmonton Oilers didn't look like a playoff team, and Connor McDavid didn't look like a scoring champion.
Their appearance is much different these days.
After starting the season 2-9-1, the Oilers have gone 43-14-3 heading into their game Monday night against the Blues in St. Louis.
After scoring two goals and earning eight assists in his first 11 games, McDavid scored 27 goals and earned 88 assists in his next 59 games to climb into a three-way race with Nathan MacKinnon of the Colorado Avalanche and Nikita Kucherov of the Tampa Bay Lightning for the scoring title.
MacKinnon leads the league with 127 points, followed by Kucherov (126) and McDavid (125).
"It's nice, I guess; it's a position I've been in many times before," McDavid told reporters after he scored two goals and earned an assist in Edmonton's 6-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Monday night. "We're playing for things bigger than that. We're playing to make sure our game is in order, and we're still playing for (playoff) positioning.
"Lots of hockey left -- 10 games left. You never know what can happen down the stretch, and we'll see what happens."
