Oilers’ McDavid becomes third-fastest player to register 1,200 points

Connor McDavid has made a habit of making history, and Tuesday night was no different.

The Edmonton Oilers’ captain scored twice in the team’s 5-2 win over the Utah Mammoth, and achieved two major milestones in the process: he recorded his 400th goal and became the third-fastest player in NHL history to register 1,200 points.

Only Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux have reached the 1,200-point mark faster than McDavid.

McDavid’s first goal came midway through the second period when he took a bouncing puck on a breakaway and chipped it past Karel Vejmelka to make it 3-2 Oilers. It was both his 39th of the season and the 400th career regular-season goal.

He reached the 1,200-point mark after scoring his 40th of the season, an empty netter, late in the third to seal the 5-2 win for Edmonton.

McDavid now has 40 goals and 78 assists for 118 points in 72 games this season.

Through 11 NHL seasons, McDavid has 401 goals and 799 assists for 1,200 points in 784 career regular-season games. He has nine 100-point seasons, the third-most in NHL history.

McDavid also has 44 goals and 106 assists for 150 points in 96 Stanley Cup Playoff games. He led the Oilers to two consecutive Stanley Cup Final appearances in 2024 and 2025, losing both to the Florida Panthers.

McDavid, taken No. 1 overall in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft, has won the Art Ross Trophy five times, the Ted Lindsay Award four times, the Maurice “Rocket” Richard Trophy once and the Hart Trophy three times. He also won the Conn Smythe Trophy in 2024.

His best statistical season came in 2022-23, scoring 64 goals and 89 assists for 153 points, becoming the first player since Lemieux in 1995-96 to break the 150-point mark in a single season. Only three players in history had scored more points in a season than McDavid: Lemieux, Gretzky and Steve Yzerman.