Another day, another milestone for Shaq Hyman.

On Wednesday against the Dallas Stars, the gritty winger played his 300th game with the Edmonton Oilers. Hyman scored the team’s third goal in the match as the Oilers tried to power back from a four-goal deficit, ultimately falling short, losing 4-3.

Now in his fourth season with the franchise, Hyman has arguably become one of Edmonton’s best free agent signings in team history, becoming a franchise cornerstone en route to the team’s first Stanley Cup finals appearance in nearly two decades.

Hyman was drafted in the fifth round of the 2010 NHL entry draft by the Florida Panthers while playing in the OJHL, before playing four years at the University of Michigan, working his way up to assistant captain with 89 points across four years. After college, he opted not to sign with the Panthers and his rights were traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he signed an entry-level contract.

The 32-year-old winger spent six years with the Leafs, with 185 points in 345 games played through the team’s rebuild. At the conclusion of his ELC, he signed a four-year, $9 million contract extension with the team and became an alternate captain in the 2020-21 season.

After failing in contract negotiations with the Leafs in the summer of 2021, Hyman signed as a free agent with the Oilers on a seven-year, $38.5 million contract. In his first season with the Oilers, he put up then career highs across the board with 27 goals and 27 assists for 54 points. The following year he became a point-per-game player for the first time in his career, finishing the year with 83 points in 79 games.

Last year, he became an all-star sniper, setting a career-high of 54 goals, then adding 16 in the playoffs to set the NHL record for most goals in a single postseason in the salary cap era. Between the regular and postseason, he was tied with Auston Matthews in leading the league in goals with 70.

This season, Hyman has seen slightly slower production, with 26 goals and 43 points in 65 games played. Nevertheless, he continues to be a key part of Edmonton’s continued quest for glory, locked in with the Oilers for at least three more seasons.