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Leon Draisaitl is at 100.

The so-called German Gretzky has played exactly 100 mean-something hockey games so far this season.

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It’s funny, as the Anaheim Ducks return from two days in Kelowna that Draisaitl’s general manager, Peter Chiarelli, thinks his guy will be the biggest benefactor on the ice tonight of having taken a trip to the Okanagan.

“I think the playoff experience in Kelowna really helped him,” said Chiarelli of the Oilers pulling the parachute on Draisaitl’s rookie season two years ago to join the Rockets and go all the way to be MVP of the Memorial Cup.

“He’s played a lot of hockey this year starting with that Olympic qualification and the World Cup. I think playing at that high level really helped him through the season.

“Todd had a great quote the other night about how it’s been with Leon and Connor McDavid. They push and they pull each other.”

For Connor McDavid, the next actual Gretzky, it’s 94 mean-something games played to this point.