{"id":921945,"date":"2026-10-05T21:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921945\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T21:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:10:20","slug":"release-bouchard-named-nhls-second-star-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921945\/","title":{"rendered":"RELEASE: Bouchard named NHL&#8217;s Second Star of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bouchard led defensemen and ranked second in the league with four goals and four assists in three outings, helping the Oilers earn five of six possible points to open the 2026-27 NHL season.<\/p>\n<p>He opened the campaign with a hat trick and two assists\u00a0in a 6-5 overtime loss to the Vancouver Canucks on Sept. 29, becoming the first\u00a0defenseman in NHL history to record five points in a season opener as well as the third blueliner to register a hat trick in such a game (also\u00a0Mark Howe\u00a0in 1980-81 w\/ HFD\u00a0and\u00a0Bert Corbeau\u00a0in 1919-20 w\/ MTL).<\/p>\n<p>Bouchard then posted a goal and two assists in a 9-7 win against the Canucks on Oct. 1 to become the first defenceman in League history with at least eight points through his team\u2019s first two contests of a season.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old\u00a0Bouchard, who closed the week with 27:01 and a +1 rating in a 3-1 triumph over the Seattle Kraken on Oct. 3, has compiled 80 goals and 261 assists for 341 points through 432 career\u00a0NHL games \u2013 highlighted by career highs in goals (21), assists (74) and points (95) last season (82 GP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bouchard led defensemen and ranked second in the league with four goals and four assists in three outings,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-921945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921945","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=921945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}