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<\/p>\nBut he has the highest shooting percentage, albeit in an extremely small sample size. He isn\u2019t wasting any shots, and even if he does start shooting more, you wonder how it is possible to score more points, but with McDavid I wouldn\u2019t rule out anything. He\u2019s been outstanding offensively, but also defensively and in the neutral zone. McDavid\u2019s line is chipping and chasing more than I\u2019ve ever seen. McDavid currently has outscored opponents 13-2 on the ice at five-on-five. The most five-on-five goals he\u2019s been on for in a season is 90 (2024), and the fewest against was 47 in 2017.<\/p>\n
The most five-on-five goals for a forward on the ice in the salary cap era has been 100. Nathan MacKinnon was on for 100 in 2024 and 2026, and he was on for 69 in 2025. Things can fluctuate drastically from season to season, and it is clear McDavid won\u2019t finish the season at his current pace (182) of on-ice goals at five-on-five, but his dominance has not just been in the offensive zone.<\/p>\n
POINTS ARE FUN\u2026<\/p>\n
\u2014 Make no mistake, scoring is fun, and last night McDavid became the ninth player in NHL history to have 50-plus games with four points. He is ninth in four-game, but you can see where he is in multi-point games.<\/p>\n
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He ranks 838th in games played, but is 45th in points, 26th in two-point games, 15th in three-point games, 9th in four-point games and tied for seventh in five-point games. I hope you enjoy watching one of the truly elite players in NHL history.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Evan Bouchard\u2019s six goals are the most by an Oilers defenceman through the first 10 games of a season, and he\u2019s only played six games. His 14 points have tied the franchise best start with Paul Coffey, who had 14 points in 10 games in 1984-85. Bouchard\u2019s start has been arguably better than McDavid\u2019s when you consider he\u2019s a D-man. Bouchard has 14 points, but he\u2019s outscored opponents 15-2 at five-on-five. Utterly asinine.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Vasily Podkolzin has seven goals in six games. Gretzky owns the franchise record with 12 (1983-84), while McDavid (2022-23), Glenn Anderson (1985-86) and Gretzky (1984-85) are tied for second with 11. Leon Draisaitl (2021-22), Jari Kurri (1984-85) and Mark Messier (1981-82) had 10 goals. Podkolzin needs three goals in four games to join an elite group. Regardless of what he does in the next four games, his start has been a massive boost for the team with injuries to Zach Hyman, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Matt Savoie. Podkolzin looks like he will score 30 goals for sure this year, and I wonder if he can reach 40.<\/p>\n
\u2014 The Oilers remain the only team without a regulation loss at 5-0-1, but they are still not in first place, as Vegas has 12 points, but they\u2019ve played two more games. Edmonton won\u2019t face Vegas until their 27th game of the season on Nov. 24 in Edmonton.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Devon Levi<\/a> was solid last night, but the 40-17 shot differential was misleading in terms of high-danger scoring chances. The Kings had the puck more in the final two periods and had more possession, but they didn\u2019t generate more quality scoring chances.<\/p>\n Los Angeles had four high-danger, two mid and 31 low-danger chances.<\/p>\n Edmonton had four high-danger, one mid and 10 low-danger chances.<\/p>\n The Kings had more possession, no doubt, at least after the first period, but the Oilers only gave up three inner-slot shots.<\/p>\n I like Clear Sight Analytics the best for scoring chances. These are theirs, and they had LA at 1.79 xGF and Edmonton at 1.58.<\/p>\n The Oilers won 4-1 and scored on three of their four great-danger chances. Levi was very solid, but even when LA had the puck, the Oilers didn\u2019t expose him to too many dangerous chances.\u00a0<\/p>\n THE EDMONTON ORIGINALS ARE BACK These nostalgic favs are now built for everyday wear on premium Levelwear apparel. It\u2019s time to get some new classics back in the rotation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His ascent up the NHL all-time scoring charts has been quick and lethal. His four-point night gave him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-934040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934040","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=934040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792074528_367_image.webp\"\/)
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