Team captain McDavid, who also got an assist, has now scored 81 points in 46 games and leads the points league in the NHL.

McDavid's third hat-trick of the season was his ninth overall in his career.

Edmonton moved up to second place in the North Division, where the seven Canadian teams play, and have six wins out of eight possible against Winnipeg this season.

The Canadian teams play in a bubble and only meet each other during the regular season.

- Our team seems to enjoy playing against them.

We go in hard and are prepared to play well every time and we manage to go on them hard, McDavid tells the Edmonton Sun.

- I'm sure there are some players who have played very well, but from my point of view who get to watch him every night, I know what he does for our team.

I have a hard time believing that any player can have a greater influence on their team than Connor has for ours.

There are few players who can dominate a match like he does, says Edmonton's coach Dave Tippett to Edmonton's website quite confident that McDavid will be named the league's MVP.

German wrote NHL history

McDavid's three goals were in different ways: At 2-0, he elegantly eased the puck over goalkeeper Connor Hellebuyck with a backhand after a quick turnaround.

At 3-0, he shot low between leg guards free from a narrow angle from the left.

At the end 6-1 already at the end of the second period, he stole the puck at his own blue and came free from there.

He tricked Hellebuyck and got the puck in via the leg protection.

McDavid glanced from the side that the puck really went in.

After that, Hellebuyck was replaced and Laurent Brossoit was able to save the seven shots he had against him in the third period.

Adam Larsson assisted Alex Chiasson's 1-0 goal for Edmonton.

Leon Draisaitl also got an assist, also scored the 4-0 goal, and historically became the best German scorer in the NHL, this already as a 25-year-old.

He scored 488 points and passed Marco Sturm who scored 477 points during his NHL career in which ended in Florida in 2012.

- What he did in the league at such a young age is quite fantastic.

It is a milestone that I do not think so many German guys will catch up, says McDavid, himself only 24 years old, about his teammate.