{"id":432013,"date":"2023-03-27T12:48:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T16:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432013"},"modified":"2023-03-27T10:29:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T14:29:39","slug":"connor-mcdavid-attacks-the-70-goal-milestone","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/connor-mcdavid-attacks-the-70-goal-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor McDavid attacks the 70-goal milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The centre, captain, and star of the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/edmonton-oilers\/\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> notched 60 goals so far this season and has 139 points before the game against <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/arizona-coyotes\/\">Arizona Coyotes<\/a> on Monday. However, he needs to score 10 more goals to become the 1<sup>st<\/sup> player to hit 70 goals milestone in 30 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">CONNOR MCDAVID IS A 60-GOAL SCORER! \ud83e\udd29 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FcJcS4B1ed\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/FcJcS4B1ed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL (@NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL\/status\/1638773119119949824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, sure, nothing&#8217;s impossible,&#8221; McDavid told the NHL site in an interview published Sunday. &#8220;You know, obviously, you need to go on a big run, and certainly anything is possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Again, is it something I will be looking for or pressing for? Probably not. I mean, it&#8217;s more important how our team is playing heading into the playoffs. That&#8217;s the most important thing, the thing we work all season for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Connor is the 4<sup>th<\/sup> NHL player to score at least 60 goals in the regular season since Mario Lemieux ended up with 69 notches in 1996-97. The other 3 players that hit the 60-goal milestone are Alex Ovechkin, Steven Stamkos, and Auston Matthews.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">CONNOR MCDAVID SCORES 60TH GOAL FOR THE WIN \ud83e\udd2f\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BR_OpenIce?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BR_OpenIce<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eLflhpyrjU\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eLflhpyrjU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1638775455682805760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>No one notched at least 70 goals since the 1992-93 season when 2 players did &#8211; Alexander Mogilny and Teemu Sel\u00e4nne each finished with 76 goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The centre, captain, and star of the Edmonton Oilers notched 60 goals so far this season and has 139 points before the game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":432015,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17007,17844],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[17889,6811],"acf":{"announce":"McDavid has already achieved the best statistical season of the 21st Century in the National Hockey League.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432016,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432013\/revisions\/432016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432013"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432013"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}