SIMMONS: What Connor McDavid is doing in this Edmonton Oilers' playoff run is legendary

When Wayne Gretzky broke his own record — becoming the first player to accumulate 30 assists in the Stanley Cup playoff season of 1985 — he did so in a year in which the Edmonton Oilers scored more than five goals per game. Gretzky ended that season with a breathtaking 208 points, numbers that seem impossible today, the second most that year in NHL history. There have been four 200-point scorers in the 100-plus years of NHL hockey. Gretzky has all four of them.