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On Thursday night, Canadian hockey player Ryan Nugent-Hopkins became the eighth player in the ongoing NHL season to surpass the 100-point mark. The Edmonton forward managed to reach the 100-point mark for the first time in his professional league career.
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Striker Chris Kreider became the fifth best scorer in history for the New York Rangers, he has 264 goals in the “Riders” jersey, surpassing Vic Hadfield by two.
Edmonton confirmed the excellent form from the previous duels on the ice of Anaheim and won the sixth meeting in a row (3:1). The central figure of the evening this time was not the most productive players of the competition, Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, but their teammate Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. The 29-year-old forward scored an assist in the 59th minute and broke the 100-point mark for the first time in his career. The seventh most productive player in the profiliga has 36 goals and 64 assists.
He thus imitated McDavid and Draisaitl, who reached the hundred-point mark earlier. The Oilers became the first team since the 1995/96 season to have three players reach the 100-point mark in one season. In the aforementioned season, the trio of Jaromír Jágr, Mario Lemieux and Ron Francis from the Pittsburgh Penguins did it.
The Rangers started the winning duel against Tampa (6:3) in the absence of Patrick Kane with only 11 attackers. The members of the first attack of the “riders”, Swede Mika Zibanejad and American Chris Kreider, had the most significant share in the triumph. It was the second-named who scored twice, which with 264 goals broke away from the sixth Vic Hadfield (262) in the historical tables of scorers within the organization. Defenseman Darren Raddysh opened a scoring account in the NHL in the guests’ jersey, scoring for the first time in the seventeenth meeting in the pro league at the age of 27.
Calgary forward Mikael Backlund contributed an assist to the important victory of the Flames on the ice of Winnipeg (3:1). It was the 54th point of the season for the Swedish center, setting a new high in his professional league career (18+36). The goal of 300 points in the competition was reached by Jets forward Pierre-Luc Dubois, who has 61 points on his account and equaled his maximum in the NHL, which he recorded in the 2018/2019 season in the jersey of Columbus.
