McDavid passes 130 points

Connor McDavid went into San Jose on April 8 and touched every Edmonton goal himself: three goals, two assists, and a 5-2 win that pushed him past 130 points with three games left. Edmonton also moved two points ahead of Vegas for first in the Pacific Division that night. (nhl.com) (hockey-reference.com) That jump did not come from a slow build. McDavid had 126 points through 77 games before Wednesday, then added five more in one night, the kind of swing that can rewrite a scoring race in a single period. (nhl.com 1) (nhl.com 2) Crossing 130 is rare air even for him. McDavid had already posted 153 points in 2022-23 and 132 points in 2023-24, so this is the third time in four seasons he has cleared 130. (nhl.com) (hockey-reference.com) Most stars have one career year that looks like a mountain peak. McDavid keeps turning the mountain into a plateau: 100 points in 2016-17, 123 in 2021-22, 153 in 2022-23, 132 in 2023-24, and now 130-plus again in 2025-26. (nhl.com) The way he gets there is not just goals. Through 77 games he had 83 assists, which means before the San Jose game nearly two-thirds of his points were passes that directly set up Oilers goals. (nhl.com) Edmonton is built around that engine. The Oilers had scored 275 goals through 79 games, and McDavid’s 133 points mean he has been on the scoresheet for nearly half of them, even before counting secondary effects like drawn defenders and power-play entries. (hockey-reference.com) That is why one five-point night can move the standings. Edmonton improved to 40-29-10 after beating the Sharks, and the same game gave the Oilers sole possession of first place in the Pacific with the regular season almost over. (nhl.com) (hockey-reference.com) It also dropped him back into the middle of the Art Ross Trophy chase, which is the National Hockey League award for the regular-season points leader. National Hockey League reporting two weeks earlier had Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon, and Nikita Kucherov packed tightly together, and McDavid’s San Jose explosion changed that race again. (nhl.com) (hockey-reference.com) The bigger picture is that McDavid is still only 29 and already sits above 1,200 career points. When a player is averaging this kind of production before age 30, every 130-point season stops being a nice addition and starts becoming all-time resume material. (nhl.com) So the headline is not just that he crossed a round number. It is that Edmonton entered the season’s final week with its captain producing at a 130-point clip again, leading the division race again, and forcing every opponent to plan a game around one player again. (hockey-reference.com) (nhl.com)