The gap
Scoring against every skater with 10 or more games. The orange bracket is his lead over the next-best player.
The legs
NHL Edge puck-and-player tracking: how fast, how often and how far. Top-10 boards where Edge publishes one, league average where it doesn’t.
How it’s calculated
- The field is every skater with at least 10 regular-season games this season, from the NHL’s skater summary. Fewer games than that and a hot week looks like a career.
- Rank = 1 + the number of skaters with a higher number. Ties share a rank.
- The gap is McDavid minus the next-best skater. “Wider than #2 to #12” means the drop from second place to twelfth place is smaller than his lead.
- Median is the middle skater in the field. “8x the median” is McDavid divided by that player.
- Edge numbers (top speed, bursts, distance, zone time) come from NHL Edge. Ranks are from Edge’s league top-10 boards; percentiles and league averages are Edge’s own.
- Categories he doesn’t lead stay on the page. Goals and top speed are close races, and that’s worth knowing too.
- Numbers refresh hourly from the NHL.