Where Does McDavid’s 20-Game Point Streak Rank in NHL History?

In the Edmonton Oilers’ 4-3 overtime loss to the Nashville Predators at Bridgeport Arena on Tuesday (Jan. 13, 2026), centre Connor McDavid notched two assists to extend his streak to 20 games with at least one point.

McDavid was on an incredible run since beginning that streak on Dec. 4, when he had a hat trick and added an assist to lead Edmonton to a 4-1 victory over the Seattle Kraken at Rogers Place. Over the next 20 games, he totalled 19 goals and 27 assists.

Before that streak, McDavid’s longest run of consecutive games with a point in a single season was 17, which he had achieved three times (Spanning multiple seasons, McDavid’s longest streak of games with a point is 25, from the end of 2020-21 through the beginning of 2021-22).

But this was not just the longest single-season point streak of the Oilers captain’s career. It was arguably the best stretch of hockey by any NHL player in a generation. Here’s a closer look:

McDavid Is in Rare Company

McDavid is only the 23^rd player in NHL history to record at least one point in 20 or more games in a single season. Most of the other members of that club, however, played during the NHL’s highest-scoring era in the ‘80s and early ‘90s: Since the 1996-97 season, there have now been just eight single-season point streaks of 20 or more games. Prior to McDavid, the last to do it was Mitch Marner, who had 23 straight games with at least one point as a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2022-23.

The last season that saw someone reel off 20 straight games with a point while wearing an Oilers jersey was 1985-86: From Nov. 3, 1985, to Jan. 25, 1986, nearly 40 years ago, Wayne Gretzky had a streak of 39 consecutive games with at least one goal or assist.

Gretzky has the most single-season point streaks of at least 20 games, with seven. Five of those came as a member of the Oilers, including his remarkable NHL record of 51 games during 1983-84. Besides Gretzky, the only other Edmonton player to achieve the feat is Paul Coffey, who during the 1985-86 season had a point in 28 straight games, which is an NHL record for defencemen.

McDavid Is Piling up Points

It obviously takes tremendous consistency to pick up a point for 20 games in a row. But McDavid is rarely limited to just one mention in the scoring summary: during the streak, he had 14 multipoint games. As a result, he totalled 46 points over the 20 games, which is near-inconceivable in this era of NHL hockey.

The last time an NHL player had more than 45 points over a stretch of 20 games within a single season came almost 30 years ago, from Dec. 11, 1996, to Jan. 26, 1997, when Mario Lemieux scored 21 goals and recorded 25 assists. Lemieux and McDavid are the only players to rack up 46 or more points in a span of 20 games during one season since 1991-92.

As far as Oilers history is concerned, McDavid’s 46 points are the most by an Edmonton player over a 20-game stretch in a single season since Gretzky totalled six goals and 40 assists from Feb. 14 to April 3, 1988. Besides McDavid and Gretzky, the only other Oilers to record at least 45 points over 20 games in one season are Coffey, Jari Kurri and Mark Messier, all during the 1980s.