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Connor McDavid handed some actually elite firm on Saturday evening.
The Edmonton Oilers captain broke the file set by Wayne Gretzky for many assists in a single postseason in the course of the Oilers Sport 4 matchup in opposition to the Florida Panthers within the Stanley Cup Remaining.
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CONNOR MCDAVID HAS BROKEN THE RECORD FOR MOST ASSISTS IN A SINGLE POSTSEASON 🍎🚨 pic.twitter.com/MA6q8giUXf
The file was damaged on his third help of the evening, which got here on a Dylan Holloway aim within the third interval of the Oilers 8-1 victory over the Panthers. This broke Gretzky’s mark from 1987, when he had 31 for the Oilers.
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HOLLOWAY GETS HIS SECOND OF THE NIGHT 👀 pic.twitter.com/jjK5aw2xD9
The third help was McDavid’s thirty second of the postseason, and his 4 factors on the evening gave him 38 factors in the course of the playoffs. That leads your complete league and he’s simply 9 factors behind Gretzky’s all-time file of 48 from the 1984-85 season.
For Edmonton to win the Stanley Cup, McDavid may have to interrupt that file. Whereas Sport 4’s victory was vital, it was the staff’s first victory within the sequence. Edmonton now trails Florida 3-1 within the sequence, and have to carry out to an identical caliber for the rest of the sequence.
Just one staff has ever come again from a 3-0 deficit within the Stanley Cup last spherical. That got here in 1942 postseason, when the Toronto Maple Leafs accomplished a reverse sweep on the Detroit Purple Wings.
The final time a staff overcame a 3-0 deficit generally was within the 2014 first spherical when the Los Angeles Kings knocked down the San Jose Sharks
