{"id":405991,"date":"2026-01-11T10:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T10:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/405991\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T10:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T10:09:07","slug":"mcdavid-extends-point-streak-to-18-games-but-kings-edge-oilers-in-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/405991\/","title":{"rendered":"McDavid extends point streak to 18 games, but Kings edge Oilers in shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Draisaitl put the Oilers on the board first, 1-0, at 9:12 of the first period. Forsberg passed the puck out from behind his net, only to have it bounce to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/kasperi-kapanen-8477953\" title=\"Kasperi Kapanen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kasperi Kapanen<\/a>, who centered it to Draisaitl for a one-timer in the slot.<\/p>\n<p>Draisaitl was honored prior to the game in an on-ice ceremony for earning his 1,000th point on Dec. 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a fun night for him, an exciting night,\u201d McDavid said. \u201cA special night for him, celebrating his 1,000 points and having his family in town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perry tied it 1-1 at 17:50, pouncing on the rebound and knocking it past Ingram\u2019s left pad after the goalie was unable to hang onto the puck after appearing to catch a long wrist shot by Clarke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s going through a tough time, and this is a hockey player through and through,\u201d Hiller said of Perry, who missed the two previous games for personal reasons. \u201cHe comes, he shows up here, he wants to play hockey, he wants to help his team, and in difficult circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then he goes out and scores a goal, and plays 15, 16 minutes, a lot of times against McDavid\u2019s line. It\u2019s pretty incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Draisaitl made it 2-1 at 1:07 of the second period, winning a face-off and then sliding over to the right dot for a one-timer off Bouchard&#8217;s pass that beat Forsberg glove side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Draisaitl put the Oilers on the board first, 1-0, at 9:12 of the first period. Forsberg passed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-405991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405991","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=405991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}