With four assists, McDavid capped off his sixth-career season as the NHL’s top scorer, capturing the Art Ross Trophy with 48 goals, 90 assists for 138 points in all 82 games.<\/p>\n
Evan Bouchard’s three helpers made him the 10th\u00a0defenceman in NHL history and the second Oiler (Paul Coffey) to record 95 points in a season as he looks to lock down his first-career Norris Trophy as the League’s top blueliner.<\/p>\n
“The expectation is the same as always,” McDavid said. “We’ve got a great belief in here. Playoff hockey is unique. It’s a skill to win in the playoffs, and we feel pretty good about having that skill, having been there and having won a lot of playoff games. \u00a0That said, it’s exciting. It’s exciting for everybody, and we have to be ready to roll.”<\/p>\n
With the victory, the Oilers finish second in the Pacific Division and will have home-ice advantage in the First Round, where they’ll face the Anaheim Ducks for the third time in their franchise’s history and the first time since the 2016-17 season.<\/p>\n
“They’re a really good team,” Darnell Nurse said. “They battled at the top of our division all year. Obviously, it’s no easy feat to get into the playoffs in this league, and they’re a good, skilled team. \u00a0So it’s going to be a good test here right off the jump.”<\/p>\n
The series will begin with Game 1 on Monday at Rogers Place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With four assists, McDavid capped off his sixth-career season as the NHL’s top scorer, capturing the Art Ross…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[198,146,5300,5,4,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-554378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton-oilers","8":"tag-edmonton","9":"tag-edmonton-oilers","10":"tag-edmontonoilers","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-oilers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116419079961042990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}