Hyman reached the milestone by tapping in a centering pass from Connor McDavid on the power play to give the Oilers a 3-1 lead at 3:34 of the second period.
“From a guy that was just supposed to be a checker in the League, not sure if he’d ever make it to this league,” McDavid said of Hyman. “He’s worked for everything that he’s gotten, and now he’s a 50-goal scorer at the age of 31. It’s pretty impressive. It’s been cool to see and cool to kind of witness his transition to a goal-scorer.”
At 31 years and 289 days, Hyman became the third-oldest player in NHL history to record his first 50-goal season.
“In university, I had two goals my first year,” Hyman recalled. “I was drafted, and I was just a draft pick. I was no longer a prospect. Everybody kind of wrote me off. And then I started to score again, and then all of a sudden I was an NHL player, but I was an NHL player who had no hands and was a grinder playing next to [Auston Matthews] and [William Nylander] (with the Toronto Maple Leafs). That was kind of the narrative. And then I scored 10 goals, and then 15 and 20, and then, ‘Oh, he’s an OK player, he just plays with good players.’ And I still have that narrative, which is great. It’s awesome. I think it just shows that you just hit little milestones on the way and you just block out outside noise and you work really hard and you have a positive attitude and good things happen.”
Jakob Chychrun scored twice, and Drake Batherson and Tim Stützle each had a goal and two assists for the Senators (30-36-4), who have won two straight after a three-game losing streak. Joonas Korpisalo made 33 saves after he made 20 saves in a 5-2 win against the New Jersey Devils on Saturday.
“Not a lot of [offensive] zone time in the third, that's for sure,” Chychrun said. “The boys did a heck of a job of sticking with it and finding a way. We talk about it all the time. We feel like we've had games this year where we play really well and have a lot of chances and outchance the other team and don't get the result we want, and it was kind of the opposite tonight. They outchanced us, and we had a goalie that was standing on his head for us.”