Connor McDavid is doing Connor McDavid-like things Thursday in Edmonton.

The speed, the dekes, the finish, it's all really just unfair.

The goal was McDavid's 28th of the season, the first short-handed marker of his young career, and paired with an assist, he's now up to 91 points on the season.

McDavid's also the first player 20 or younger to hit 90 points in a season since Steven Stamkos did it in 2009-10, according to TSN's StatsCentre.

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The Toronto Maple Leafs are reportedly "working towards" a long-term extension with rookie defender Nikita Zaitsev, according to TSN's Bob McKenzie.

Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman adds that the deal would average $4.5 million annually, and that the two parties are "closing in" on an agreement.

More to come.

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Some good news in a lost season.

With a second-period assist Thursday, Detroit Red Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg hit the 900-point mark for his career, putting him in some stellar red-and-white company.

Zetterberg, a Red Wing his entire career, is only the seventh player in franchise history to make it to 900. The other six guys were kind of good:

The assist gave Zetterberg a team-leading 64 points this season. At 36, he's still going strong, bouncing back from a down 2015-16, when he averaged 0.61 points per game - the second-lowest mark of his career.

He has 325 goals and 575 assists in 995 regular-season games.

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Another game, another franchise record broken for the Toronto Maple Leafs' incredible crop of rookies.

Just two days after Auston Matthews broke Wendel Clark's rookie goal record, Mitch Marner set a mark of his own.

With a secondary assist on James van Riemsdyk's first period goal Thursday night, Marner established a new franchise record in assists by a freshman (41), eclipsing the previous mark set by Gus Bodnar in the 1943-44 season.

The helper also pushed Marner into a tie with William Nylander - the other prominent figure in Toronto's rookie triumvirate - for second in team scoring with 58 points on the season.

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Anthony Mantha's solid rookie season is over.

The Red Wings forward sustained a fractured finger Thursday against the Tampa Bay Lightning and won't play in Detroit's remaining five games, general manager Ken Holland said, according to MLive.com's Ansar Khan.

That means the kid will miss Detroit's final game at Joe Louis Arena on Sunday, April 9.

Mantha finishes his freshman NHL campaign with 17 goals and 36 points in 60 games. He averaged 16:09 in ice time and did most of his damage on the road, with 14 goals and 24 points in 33 games as a visitor.

The 22-year-old was drafted 20th overall in 2013 and will be relied upon heavily in the coming years to make the Red Wings great again.

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By no means was it his prettiest goal of the season, but Brad Marchand's first-period tally Thursday versus Dallas was certainly a memorable one.

The Boston Bruins winger was able to bank his 38th goal of the season off the pad of Antti Niemi, establishing a new career-high in the process.

The goal also put Marchand in a tie with Nikita Kucherov for second place in the "Rocket" Richard race.

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Must-win game on the road, No. 76 out of 82, playoff chances about as slim as they can get, and the New York Islanders simply didn't show up to play Thursday against the Philadelphia Flyers.

Ten minutes into the game, New York was stuck four. It was 5-0 at the end of the first period. Nightmare.

Islanders fans did what any respectable supporter would do: Tweet.

Here are some of the better ones:

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Dale Weise came ready to do a little bit of everything Thursday.

The Philadelphia Flyers forward opened the scoring against the New York Islanders at the 4:30 mark of the first period, assisted on his club's third goal at 8:06, and fought Travis Hamonic at 8:28.

Gordie Howe hat trick, just like that. Impressive.

Thomas Greiss started for the Islanders but was pulled after he was beat three times on eight shots. Jaroslav Halak came into the game and made one save before Jordan Weal made it 4-0 Flyers less than a minute later.

By the time the first period ended, Wayne Simmonds had himself a Gordie Howe hat trick, too, after assisting on Weal's tally, scoring his 30th to make it 5-0, and fighting Anders Lee.

The Islanders came into the game four points back in the Eastern Conference wild-card race, and their season may have gone down in flames in under 10 minutes.

Also impressive, but in a bad way.

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Huge blow for the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Nikita Kucherov is sick and won't play against the Detroit Red Wings, the club announced 30 minutes before puck drop.

The 23-year-old Russian sniper is Tampa Bay's most productive player this season, with 38 goals and 80 points in 68 games, but the Lightning will have to find a way without him Thursday at home.

The good news is the opposition is Detroit, officially eliminated from the playoffs for the first time in a generation. Tampa Bay, on the other hand, is three points back of the Boston Bruins for the second wild-card spot in the East, with a game in hand.

With Boston hosting Dallas on Thursday, and likely to take those two points, Tampa Bay needs to win to stay within three.

Kucherov has three goals and five points in three games versus Detroit this season.

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Ottawa Senators captain Erik Karlsson will not play Thursday versus Minnesota, the team announced.

Karlsson was injured after blocking a shot Tuesday in Philadelphia, and while no specifics of the injury have been reported, the Sens' top defenseman will miss his first game of the season, ending his personal streak of 324 consecutive contests.

25-year-old Jyrki Jokipakka, who was acquired from the Flames in the Curtis Lazar trade, will make his Senators debut in place of Karlsson.

Karlsson, of course, has been a workhorse for Ottawa this season, registering 68 points in 75 games while logging an average of 26:52 of ice-time per game.

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