Oh my goodness, what a game. What a game. MacKinnon has had some extremely impressive performances this season (that five-point game in Buffalo has been overlooked all year) and I’ve written numerous times in this exact space about what a dominant player he was from the start of January 1 and it just never stopped.
To refresh: When MacKinnon woke up the morning of January 1, he was tied in goals (8) with the likes of Dillon Dube, Ryan Donato, and Scott Laughton, among others. Those three finished with a combined 50 goals this year. MacKinnon’s hat trick tonight put him at 42 on the season.
The assist MacKinnon had on the Devon Toews goal put him at 69 assists on the year, a nice easy number to remember for rest of human history. The 77 even-strength points MacKinnon finished the season with led the entire NHL, two more than Connor McDavid, who is on his way to another Hart Trophy after an unbelievable 153-point season.
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