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While acknowledging this remarkable achievement, it’s worth noting that he did this in 545 games, while Wayne Gretzky took 352 games to achieve this. Furthermore, Gretzky scored his 1600th point in 667 games, 315 games from his 800th point. Really puts his (Wayne) talent in perspective.

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Slow news day? Lol. 5th place. Wow!!!

great comment Artur 👍

You have to apply a scaling factor to Wayne in my opinion. Goaltending standards have improved unfathomably in that time. Completely different game now and a record like Wayne's will never be touched for that reason

Ovechkin has a shot at the goals record.

I grew up watching Gretzky. Maybe my bars set a little high?I don’t know. Anyone else remember those days? Now it seems like anything is made into “news” just to fill the air.

I believe he is referring to points.

That does make more sense

Gretzky forced the entire game to change. People can try and diminish what he accomplished because of how much the game has changed since his time but like... He's one of the biggest reasons why the game changed. Sure eventually it would have evolved on its own but he moved it forward in a way that few players will ever be able to. His impact evolved the sport.

The stats are impressive enough on their own but the truth is Gretzky's legacy is way more important than that. Heck it could easily be argued that American hockey owes much of its popularity to the Gretzky to LA trade but that's another topic entirely.

Well, him going to LA made the NHLPA very happy.

mcdavid is five times as skilled as gretzky ever was. the game as a whole has evolved like crazy yet mcdavid still dominates it, might as well appreciate it

The comparison to Crosby is a little misleading in my opinion. Crosby missed basically a season and a half (so probably around 120 games or so) in the prime of his career due to concussion, and he reached the 800 point milestone less than 30 games later

You have a point. I’m not going to argue especially since It’s about how you feel and I feel like hockey was better back in my day. To each their own.

If Gartner had 700 goals, Conor would have 1200 in that same era.

Hard to compare when the game has changed so much.

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Well, goalies like Hasek , Roy, Belfour?

All of those guys dominated in the 90s, and that was when goalies in general improved considerably and the game was changing a lot.

Look at Gretzkys stats through the 90s. They fall off a cliff in comparison to the 80s. After 1990, he only had 2 seasons with more than 100 points. Still very good obviously, but pales in comparison to when he was putting up 200+ in the 80s. His numbers look much more comparable to numbers you'd see in today's game, in comparison to the ridiculous numbers in the 80s.

If you look at era-adjusted points:

Gretzky: 2475 points in 1487 games (1.66 points per game)

McDavid: 923 points in 545 games (1.69 points per game)

Given that Gretzky's totals include some later-age years it isn't quite fair to say that McDavid is outpacing him, but the other commenter is correct that the records can't be compared straight up.