A seven-game slate on Wednesday will feature a pair of games on TNT packed with stars and top scorers including Jack Hughes and the Devils visiting Matthew Tkachuk and the Panthers followed by Jason Robertson and the Stars hosting the League's top-two points leaders in Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl. The Dallas-Edmonton game will also be seen nationally in Canada (SN1 & TVA Sports).
* Hughes (17-20-37 in 32 GP) leads all Devils skaters in goals and points in 2022-23 and has recorded 35-44-79 in 66 GP during the 2022 calendar year (1.20 P/GP). With one more point, he can become the fourth different Devils player since 2000 to post 80+ regular-season points in a calendar year. He would join Taylor Hall (94 in 2018), Zach Parise (92 in 2009) and Patrik Elias (3x; most recently 82 in 2006).
* In his first season with Florida, Tkachuk (14-25-39 in 30 GP) leads all Panthers skaters in assists and points. With a point in tonight's contest, he would become the second fastest to 40 points in a season in franchise history, behind only Pavel Bure (29 GP in 1999-00). Tkachuk (1.30 P/GP) is on pace to post his second consecutive 100-point season and the second ever by a Panthers player - Jonathan Huberdeau, the player he was traded for this past offseason, did so in 2021-22.
* Robertson (24-23-47 in 33 GP), who has been held off the score sheet just seven times in 33 appearances this season, ranks third in the League in goals and fourth (tied) in points. Robertson has recorded 15 multi-point games in 2022-23, tied with Draisaitl (15) for the second most in the NHL this season behind McDavid (19). One of those multi-goal performances included 1-2-3 in a 6-2 W at EDM on Nov. 5.
* McDavid (28-36-64 in 33 GP) and Draisaitl (21-33-54 in 33 GP), who have combined to win the Art Ross Trophy in five of the last six seasons, find themselves in familiar territory holding down the top two positions in the NHL scoring race. McDavid, who enters with the NHL's longest active point streak (12-17-29 in 13 GP), and Draisaitl have ranked Nos. 1-2 in the scoring race for 63% of the season to date (47 of 75 days) including 18 straight days dating to Dec. 3.
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