Leon Draisaitl has only 175 NHL games under his belt, but despite that slim resume, the Edmonton Oilers pivot is already among the best to ever hail from his native Germany.

In fact, the 21-year-old is on the cusp of taking the crown as the country's unequivocal best big-league performer.

Draisaitl - who hails from Cologne, Germany - is just four points away from tying the single-season record for points scored by a German NHLer. Marco Sturm sits atop that list for now, his 29 goals and 59 total points from 2005-06 remaining the benchmark.

He won't be there long, as Draisaitl will almost certainly erase that all-time mark by this season's end. He's already got 23 goals and 55 points in the bag, with 16 games left to close that gap and set a new record.

The promise of delivering Germany a bona fide NHL superstar isn't lost on Draisaitl. He's been keeping that potential top of mind since before he joined the big leagues.

"I want to be a guy that maybe makes younger guys in Germany play hockey," Draisaitl said prior to his draft day in 2014, according to the Edmonton Sun. "... I want to make the country proud and make as many kids play hockey as possible."

Draisaitl's 55 points already rank as the fourth-most posted by a German-born player in a single NHL season. His 115 career points rank seventh all-time among the totals posted by his countrymen.

Germany has offered up some decent talents in the past, but the numbers speak for themselves.

No German forward has shown as much promise or made as immediate an impact as the Oilers' talented young pivot. Just two-and-a-half seasons into his career, it's clear Draisaitl has the potential to take the country's NHL legacy to an all-new level.

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