Connor McDavid is on track for one of the best NHL seasons of all time

Edmonton Oilers forward Connor McDavid is the most dominant player in the NHL, and he is putting together one of the best single-season performances in league history. 

He scored two more goals in the Oilers' 3-2 loss to the Boston Bruins on Monday night, making him the first player in the league this season to reach the 50-goal mark. He was already the first player to reach the 100-point mark this year, and with two more points on Monday is up to 115 for the season in only 61 games.

For context, the closest player to him in the scoring race is his teammate, Leon Draisaitl, who as of Tuesday morning had 89 points, 26 points behind McDavid. That means the gap between McDavid and Draisaitl in the scoring race is the same as the gap between Draisaitl at second place and the 23rd leading scoring in the league, Los Angeles Kings forward Kevin Fiala (63 points).

It is absurd how much McDavid is completely lapping the field in terms of offensive production.

With those numbers through Monday's game, McDavid is now on pace to score 67 goals and 154 points in 82 games this season. If he maintains that pace, he will join a pretty exclusive -- and historic -- list.

The only players to ever top both 65 goals and 150 points in a single season is a short and distinguished list of Hall of Famers.

It includes only Wayne Gretzky (who did it four times), Mario Lemieux (four times), as well as Bernie Nicholls, Phil Esposito and Steve Yzerman, who each did it once. 

Nobody has done it since the 1995-96 season when Lemieux accomplished it, and Lemieux is also the only player to do it since the 1989 season. 

The NHL simply does not see individual offensive performances like this anymore, and has not since the 1980s when goaltending was at an all-time low and scoring was at an all-time high. 

Every night McDavid is worth the price of admission or tuning in to watch because nobody in the league is doing anything like what he is doing. 

Despite his dominance (and the brilliance of Draisaitl, his teammate) the Oilers are still only a bubble playoff team in the Western Conference and need some additional help before Friday's trade deadline so they do not waste this historic offensive season from the game's best player.