For every Wayne Gretzky, a legendary scorer but in the eyes of most an even better dish, there was a Jari Kurri to push the trigger. For every Brett Hull an Adam Oates, for every Alex Ovechkin a Nicklas Backstrom. But what about Leon Draisaitl, who on Sunday became just the 24th player in NHL history to record the second 50 goals, 100 points of his career? What is Draisaitl, we ask after a decisive 6-1 victory at Anaheim, Edmonton’s fourth consecutive ‘W’? Is he a better passerby? Or a better scorer? “I do not know if you can really… I do not know,” began Oilers goalkeeper Mike Smith, who was just steady on a night when being spectacular was simply not a requirement. “I have never seen a player pass like him. His vision on the ice is incredible and he can spend it both in his forehand and in his backhand. But he also has an incredible shot. “This goal tonight, there are not many guys who can score from this angle and with an NHL goalkeeper.” As a mix between Mike Gartner and Dave Andreychuk, Draisaitl scores from distance, but protects an elf and is extremely strong on his skates around the net. He hired his office to score from Mike Bossy, and his magic with backhands made Oilers fans forget about Doug Weight, who learned to hang a ping pong ball in the kitchen from linoleum as a child. These abundant skills have made Draisaitl one of the top 3 points in the NHL since becoming a full-time NHLer in 2015-16. When Dreisaitl joined the Oilers out junior, the No. 3 overall pick in the 2014 draft was center. But when he arrived, both Connor McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins were in the center. The then GM Peter Chiarelli had transported both Phil Kessel and Tyler Seguin to the wing while working in Boston and was ready to experiment with Draisaitl. “Leon may not be as good on the wing as (Kessel and Segin), but he does some things that fit the wing better than they do. “It protects the elf and can play in small spaces,” Chiarelli said at a 2015 Rookie Tournament in Penticton. “We can find out that Leon is a better winger than a center. Is it fair to him? It was fair to Kessel. It was fair to Seguin. “These guys were shooters,” Chiarelli added. “Leon, he has a good shot, but I do not think he is a shooter. “He plays good games on a regular basis.” Even then we were not sure what it was. Three years later, Darnell Nurse seemed pretty sure he understood. “He has this ability to analyze the game in his mind and make these little toys that you can see from above in the press box,” the Nurse said one day in 2018. “You could see when he was younger, that he had the ability to do these projects. “Now, every night he makes a pass that falls on his jaw.” Dreisitl scores the best scorer in today’s game, Oston Matthews, behind the Leafs star with 124 goals in 139 in the last three seasons. But he surpasses Matthews every year (295 to 234 during this period), plus kills penalties. He is the man who relies more on the face of his team. Sorry for the Leafs fans, but he is a better, more complete player than Matthews, as the last two players to score 50 goals and 100 points. Connor McDavid had one goal and two assists to cover his NHL lead of 105 points, while Draisaitl was just behind him at 101, the only two 100-point players in the National Hockey League as we enter the final month of the season. “I’m proud,” Draisaitl said of the milestone. “I am just happy for that, there is no doubt. But does it also show you how great my teammates are? You know, they are the ones who put me in these situations, they are the ones who bring my foot to the right moments “. Who had Brett Kulak in the pool for goal service No. 50, a great cross-ice feed from Kulak’s point to the left. It was a patented monometer for No. 50, with a lethal injection behind goalkeeper John Gibson from the edge of the right circle. It came almost four minutes after he had assisted on Kulak’s first goal as Oiler, on a night when Stony Plain’s product went co-5, while partner Tyson Barrie (goal, two assists) was co-4. But tonight was about the great German, who has firmly shattered the narrative that he is somehow just a lucky planet orbiting McDavid. There are only four 50-100 men in Oilers history: Glenn Anderson (once), Draisaitl (twice), Jari Kurri (four times) and of course the Great One did it eight times. All but one of these players have won a Stanley Cup. There is Draisaitl’s head, even on a night of historic personal achievements. “You know, we’re all getting older,” said Draisaitl, 26, whose Oilers have a 10-2-1 record in their last 13 games. “We all come to a point where we all want the same thing. “This team has been through a lot of negative things, but you know, we seem to be moving in the right direction.”