{"id":272912,"date":"2025-11-09T09:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T09:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272912\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T09:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T09:03:07","slug":"nathan-mackinnon-helps-rolling-avalanche-crush-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272912\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan MacKinnon helps rolling Avalanche crush Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDMONTON \u2014 Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> had two goals and a pair of assists as the Western Conference-leading Colorado Avalanche<\/a> embarrassed the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> 9-1 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Cale Makar<\/a>, Parker Kelly<\/a> and Jack Drury<\/a> each had two-goal games, and Gavin Brindley<\/a> also scored for the Avalanche (9-1-5) who have registered at least a point in six straight games. Devon Toews<\/a> chipped in with three assists.<\/p>\n

Connor McDavid<\/a> replied for the inconsistent Oilers (6-6-4), who have lost three straight.<\/p>\n

Scott Wedgewood<\/a> registered 23 saves to collect the win for the Avalanche, while Stuart Skinner<\/a> allowed four goals on 13 shots for the Oilers, before being replaced by Calvin Pickard<\/a>, who made 17 stops.<\/p>\n

TAKEAWAYS<\/p>\n

Avalanche: Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> assisted on Colorado\u2019s first goal, picking up the 700th even-strength point of his career, joining Joe Sakic as the only other player in franchise history to reach that mark. MacKinnon also stretched his points streak to eight games.<\/p>\n

Oilers: Edmonton defenceman Mattias Ekholm<\/a> played in his 900th NHL regular-season game. Ekholm leads all active Oilers in career games (43) against Colorado.<\/p>\n

KEY MOMENT<\/p>\n

Just over a minute after starting the scoring with 6:31 left in the opening period, defenceman Makar struck again, beating Skinner with a wicked wrist shot for his sixth of the campaign and already giving him 20 points on the season. It also extended Makar\u2019s season-opening road point streak to nine games.<\/p>\n

KEY STAT<\/p>\n

Colorado\u2019s top scoring trio of MacKinnon, Makar and Martin Necas<\/a> came into the contest with a combined rating of plus-28 and left it sitting at plus-39.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

Avalanche: Visit the Vancouver Canucks<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Oilers: Host the Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 8, 2025.<\/p>\n

Shane Jones, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 Nathan MacKinnon had two goals and a pair of assists as the Western Conference-leading Colorado Avalanche…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-272912","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\/272912","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=272912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}