{"id":506999,"date":"2026-02-27T06:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/506999\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T06:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:42:07","slug":"mcdavid-reaches-100-points-oilers-cruise-past-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/506999\/","title":{"rendered":"McDavid reaches 100 points, Oilers cruise past Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"

McDavid, who reached the mark for the sixth straight season, ranks third in League history in 100-point seasons, behind Wayne Gretzky<\/a> (15) and Mario Lemieux<\/a>\u00a0(10).<\/p>\n

Leon Draisaitl<\/a> had a goal and three assists, and Zach Hyman<\/a> had a goal and two assists for the Oilers (29-23-8), who responded after blowing multiple leads in a 6-5 loss at the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday. Connor Ingram<\/a>\u00a0made 21 saves.<\/p>\n

Darcy Kuemper allowed four goals on 15 shots before being replaced midway through the second period for the Kings (23-21-14), who were coming off a 6-4 loss against the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday and are 0-4-1 in their past five games. Anton Forsberg made 18 saves in relief.<\/p>\n

Ty Emberson put Edmonton up 1-0 at 7:26 of the first period, scoring on a 3-on-2 rush with a wrist shot from the right circle that went in off Kuemper\u2019s left shoulder.<\/p>\n

Vasily Podkolzin made it 2-0 at 8:19 with a wrist shot from the left circle that trickled under Kuemper\u2019s glove arm.<\/p>\n

Warren Foegele cut it to 2-1 at 12:15 when he redirected Joel Edmundson\u2019s shot from along the left boards short side on Ingram, who didn’t appear to see it.<\/p>\n

The Oilers extended their lead to 3-1 at 2:59 of the second period after Andrew Mangiapane elected to keep the puck on a 2-on-1 rush and scored glove side on a wrist shot from the left circle.<\/p>\n

McDavid made it 4-1 at 4:58. He pulled Kuemper out of position at the left post before skating around the net and out into the right circle, where he shot into an open net over a sprawling Drew Doughty.<\/p>\n

Kuemper was pulled for Forsberg during the next television timeout.<\/p>\n

Hyman put Edmonton ahead 5-1 during a power play at 8:44. He chipped in a rebound with his backhand after Draisaitl\u2019s slap shot caromed off the end boards.<\/p>\n

Draisaitl scored his own power-play goal 31 seconds into the third period to make it 6-1. He skated into a drop pass from McDavid and beat Forsberg blocker side from above the left circle.<\/p>\n

Jake Walman made it 7-1 at 5:24 on a slap shot from the point following a face-off win by Draisaitl. Walman then pushed it to 8-1 at 7:36 from the bottom of the right circle.<\/p>\n

Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said before the game that forward Mattias Janmark will be out for an extended period after aggravating a undisclosed chronic injury in the first period of their 6-5 loss at the Ducks on Wednesday. With Janmark unavailable, Edmonton played with 11 forwards and six defensemen.<\/p>\n

Kings forward Joel Armia left in the first period with an upper-body injury, and Doughty left after the second period because of a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McDavid, who reached the mark for the sixth straight season, ranks third in League history in 100-point seasons,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-506999","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\/506999","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=506999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}