{"id":248295,"date":"2025-10-29T08:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T08:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248295\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T08:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T08:49:08","slug":"connor-mcdavid-scores-two-goals-as-oilers-cool-off-mammoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248295\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor McDavid scores two goals as Oilers cool off Mammoth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 29, 2025, 01:12 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>EDMONTON, Alberta &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"8e2e22e8-01b6-8acb-8a50-47f4941b52c6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3895074\/connor-mcdavid\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor McDavid<\/a> had a pair of goals and <a data-player-guid=\"89ce494d-c7d3-ea64-f7d1-f0f65f4f4ed4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4352722\/evan-bouchard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Bouchard<\/a> added three assists as the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c78600f3-cea1-f6e0-11cf-dfeefe1897ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/edm\/edmonton-oilers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> scored five second-period goals to get past the sizzling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/uta\/utah-mammoth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Mammoth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/game\/_\/gameId\/401802513\/mammoth-oilers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6-3<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"6b2cc7e8-2609-d4e0-5d7e-aef611d2037c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3114727\/leon-draisaitl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leon Draisaitl<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"bb1958d7-af11-2378-d41e-94d65ad44e3b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/2558631\/mattias-ekholm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mattias Ekholm<\/a> each had a goal and an assist, and <a data-player-guid=\"9a49e699-674e-392a-bb00-7826a718c2f4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5080179\/isaac-howard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaac Howard<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"0a924f02-7e14-b557-66a4-8eb46160331c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4587566\/ty-emberson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ty Emberson<\/a> also scored for the Oilers (5-4-2), ending a two-game losing skid with a resounding effort from McDavid, who surprisingly had only one goal this season before Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were talking amongst ourselves, and gave ourselves a little kick in the butt,&#8221; Edmonton forward <a data-player-guid=\"f42c65fe-0bc3-dfa1-cd32-7d32c0d1de67\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/2562624\/ryan-nugent-hopkins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a> said referring to a first period in which the Oilers trailed 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s much more comfortable to start well, and kind of roll from there. But to be able to show up well, after a poor first period like that, shows a lot of good signs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"73fac2cc-3934-3b3d-a741-2d53f59b2a04\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5080143\/logan-cooley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Cooley<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"2a81e025-9e30-3ebd-941a-a4f3c094df65\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4697438\/jj-peterka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JJ Peterka<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"d91228f4-fb0d-8f51-353a-9bab5ef5e818\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4352699\/barrett-hayton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barrett Hayton<\/a> scored for the Mammoth (8-3-0), who saw an impressive seven-game winning streak halted.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"8cbb2141-3895-67e0-318a-1a012cd17466\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4268767\/stuart-skinner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stuart Skinner<\/a> registered 20 saves to collect the win for the Oilers, and <a data-player-guid=\"2c69f173-a8a9-5ca7-d88a-b4a7934bb24e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3942065\/karel-vejmelka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karel Vejmelka<\/a> made 21 stops for the Mammoth.<\/p>\n<p>It was Cooley&#8217;s league-leading fourth game-opening goal of the season and he became the first player in league history to score each of his first eight goals of the season in the first period.<\/p>\n<p>Although their winning streak ended Tuesday, Utah&#8217;s eight wins in October mark the first time in franchise history (including previous incarnations in Winnipeg and Arizona) that the team has ever recorded eight wins in a calendar month.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 29, 2025, 01:12 AM ET EDMONTON, Alberta &#8212; Connor McDavid had a pair of goals and Evan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-248295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}