{"id":362570,"date":"2025-12-22T22:19:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/362570\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:19:18","slug":"oilers-mcdavid-named-nhls-first-star-for-second-straight-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/362570\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; McDavid named NHL&#8217;s first star for second straight week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edmonton\u00a0Oilers captain Connor McDavid has once again been named the NHL\u2019s first star of the week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the second week in a row the 28-year-old superstar has earned the honour and comes after he put up five goals and five assists over four games, scoring in each appearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McDavid now has 62 points (23 goals, 39 assists), the most in the NHL, one ahead of Colorado Avalanche powerhouse Nathan MacKinnon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His play across the week helped the Oilers improve to 18-13-6, good for third place in the Pacific Division.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Senators goalie Linus Ullmark was named the second star of the week after going 3-0-0 with a 1.32 goals-against average, a .943 save percentage and one shutout.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Defenceman Zach Werenski of the Columbus Blue Jackets took the third star spot with five goals in three contests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 22, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton\u00a0Oilers captain Connor McDavid has once again been named the NHL\u2019s first star of the week.\u00a0 It\u2019s the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-362570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}