* Connor McDavid (48-73—121 in 81 GP) led the League in points this year, edging Mikko Rantanen (34-79—113 in 83 GP) – two of seven players to reach the 100-point mark (also Nathan MacKinnon, Nikita Kucherov, Evgeni Malkin, Claude Giroux and Sidney Crosby). The past 12 months marked the first calendar year to feature seven or more players each with at least 100 regular-season points since 1996, when eight skaters reached the plateau (Mario Lemieux, Jaromir Jagr, Joe Sakic, Wayne Gretzky, Sergei Fedorov, Petr Nedved, Teemu Selanne and Peter Forsberg).

* Twenty-four double-digit point streaks took place entirely in the 2018 calendar year (10 to close 2017-18 and 14 to start 2018-19). The last calendar year with more such runs was 1993 (37).

* Alex Ovechkin (54-37—91 in 80 GP) paced the NHL with 54 regular-season goals in 2018, four more thanPatrik Laine (50-19—69 in 81 GP). Ovechkin also led the League in regular-season goals in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2013 and 2015; only Maurice Richard (7x) and Phil Esposito (6x) have accomplished the feat in as many calendar years.

* Ovechkin (33 years, 106 days as of Jan. 1, 2019) became the fourth player in NHL history to lead the League in regular-season goals during a calendar year at age 33 or older. The only other players to do so: Nels Stewart in 1937 (35 years, 3 days), Richard in 1954 (33 years, 150 days) and longtime Capitals forward Peter Bondra in 2001 (33 years, 328 days).
^Ages as of Jan. 1, 1938, Jan. 1, 1955 and Jan. 1, 2002, respectively

* Regular season and postseason combined, Kucherov led the League with 126 points (40-86—126 in 101 GP), while Ovechkin paced the NHL with 69 goals (69-49—118 in 104 GP) – including 15 in the playoffs to help the Capitals capture their first Stanley Cup in franchise history.

* The 2018 calendar year featured five instances of a rookie recording five points in a regular-season game, achieved by three different skaters: Mathew Barzal (2-3—5 on Jan. 13, 0-5—5 on Feb. 9), Elias Pettersson(2-3—5 on Nov. 2, 1-4—5 on Dec. 9) and Ryan Pulock (1-4—5 on Jan. 20). Only three calendar years in NHL history have featured six instances of a rookie recording five or more points in a regular-season game: 1918,1981 and 1982.

* Pettersson (19-20—39 in 36 GP) is the only rookie to lead his team in points, while 11 players age 23 or younger are their team’s leading scorer in 2018-19. Sixteen of the League’s top 30 point-getters this season are age 25 or younger.

* Marc-Andre Fleury led all goaltenders with 44 regular-season wins since Jan. 1 (44-22-7 in 73 GP), marking the third calendar year in which he has recorded 40 or more victories (also 46 in 2009 and 45 in 2013). The wins leader in 2017 was Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby, who had 49 (49-13-2 in 66 GP).

* Brent Burns paced NHL defensemen with 82 regular-season points in 2018 (12-70—82 in 87 GP), whileMatt Dumba led all blueliners with 19 goals (19-32—51 in 75 GP).

* The Lightning led the League in wins (57), points (119) and goals for (313) in regular-season games in 2018. Tampa Bay (31-7-2, 64 points) occupies first place in the NHL standings this season, 10 points ahead of Toronto (26-11-2, 54 points).

* There were 557 comeback wins, 216 third-period comeback wins, 143 multi-goal comeback wins and 21 three-goal comeback wins during the regular season in the 2018 calendar year.

* The 2018 calendar year began with the Golden Knights in the midst of win and point streaks that extended to eight and 13 games (12-0-1), respectively – the longest such runs by an NHL team in its inaugural season. The final month of 2018 saw the NHL welcome a 32nd franchise to the League when it granted an expansion franchise to Seattle, which will begin play in 2021-22.

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