{"id":949175,"date":"2026-11-01T21:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T21:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949175\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T21:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T21:50:08","slug":"mcdavid-kaprizov-and-kochetkov-named-nhls-three-stars-for-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949175\/","title":{"rendered":"McDavid, Kaprizov and Kochetkov named NHL&#8217;s three stars for October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-mcdavid\/8478402\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-mcdavid\/8478402\" target=\"_blank\">Connor McDavid<\/a> was named the NHL\u2019s first star for the month of October on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/minnesota-wild\/30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/minnesota-wild\/30\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> left-winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kirill-kaprizov\/8478864\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kirill-kaprizov\/8478864\" target=\"_blank\">Kirill Kaprizov<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/pyotr-kochetkov\/8481611\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/pyotr-kochetkov\/8481611\" target=\"_blank\">Pyotr Kochetkov<\/a> were second and third in the monthly honours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McDavid led the NHL with 27 assists, the most by any player in a single October in league history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He also had 35 points \u2014 the third-most by any player in a single October in NHL history \u2014 to lift the Oilers to a 10-2-1 month and the top of the Western Conference standings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kaprizov scored a league-high 14 goals, two more than the next-closest player, to lead the Wild to a 9-3-3 record in October and into first place in the Central Division. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kochetkov was a perfect 9-0 in October, with a 1.66 goals-against average and a .919 save percentage to help the defending Stanley Cup champion Hurricanes finish the month with the best record in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers centre Connor McDavid was named the NHL\u2019s first star for the month of October on Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,20049,575,85],"class_list":["post-949175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-human-interest","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949175","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=949175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}