The Oilers' 8-1 mark matches the 1985-86 team for a franchise record, Draisaitl is keeping pace with 2002 Lemieux — the early-season accolades are quickly piling up. The focus, though, is on the silver trophy at the end of the road. (SportsnetSpec)
isn’t sure if he’s streaking or slumping — he hasn’t scored a goal yet, but he’s leading the entire National Hockey League with 13 assists.
Well, Draisaitl may just be the second-best player in the game today, as lethal from his spot on the Oilers' power play as Alex Ovechkin is from his in Washington.Draisaitl had two goals late in the game against Nashville when he broke in on a two-on-one with Jesse Puljujarvi. An open net awaiting, Draisaitl passed away the hat trick puck, settling for the final assist in a tidy 5-2 win over Nashville.
“The confidence is there right now. I don’t know what else to say,” began Draisaitl, who we can attest likes nothing less than to be sitting on a podium speaking to his own fine play.Us writers are here to chronicle every one of these marks, longing for some of those records set by the dynasty Oilers, or Lemieux’s untouchable marks, to fall.
“We’re all here to win,” said Draisaitl, a Hart and Art Ross Trophy winner. “Individual stats, individual awards, I’ve been there and I’ve done that. I’m very proud of it, but that’s not why I’m here. That’s not why Connor’s here. That isn’t why anyone is here. It’s all very confusing to the longest-serving Oiler, Nugent-Hopkins, who has never enjoyed anything even resembling this kind of success — or been part of a lineup close to this deep — since the Hockey Gods damned him to a decade of futility here back at that 2011 draft.
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