{"id":940952,"date":"2026-10-21T06:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T06:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940952\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T06:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T06:02:14","slug":"oilers-connor-mcdavid-sets-nhl-record-for-assists-through-first-nine-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940952\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; Connor McDavid sets NHL record for assists through first nine games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/connor-mcdavid\/8949dceb-26ac-4cb1-b08d-2d5903d75611\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"8949dceb-26ac-4cb1-b08d-2d5903d75611\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Connor McDavid<\/a>&#8216;s torrid start to the 2026-27 season hit a new level on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/edmonton-oilers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"edmonton-oilers\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> held off the Minnesota Wild for a 4-3 overtime win on home ice, McDavid dished out a trio of assists, including his 20th helper of the year on Evan Bouchard&#8217;s game-winning goal.<\/p>\n<p>It set the NHL record for most assists through the first nine games of a season, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SNstats\/status\/2112756465010135348\" rel=\"nofollow\">per Sportsnet Stats.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already a three-time Hart Trophy winner, McDavid appears to have his eyes set on a fourth early into his 12th campaign.<\/p>\n<p>McDavid now has an NHL-leading 26 points and has helped the Oilers break out to a 7-1-1 record as they look to bounce back from a disappointing first-round exit in the Stanley Cup Playoffs last spring.<\/p>\n<p>That blistering start puts the 29-year-old on pace for 242 points over 84 games, which would shatter the NHL record of 215 set by Wayne Gretzky in the 1985-86 season.<\/p>\n<p>McDavid&#8217;s previous career high came in 2022-23, when he scored 64 goals and dished out 89 assists for 153 points.<\/p>\n<p>Numbers that seem to have a small chance of standing up beyond this season, so long as the superstar centre can keep producing at this historic pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor McDavid&#8216;s torrid start to the 2026-27 season hit a new level on Tuesday night. As the Edmonton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-940952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940952","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=940952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}