{"id":950604,"date":"2026-10-29T12:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950604\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T12:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:04:15","slug":"oilers-mcdavid-sets-nhl-record-with-13-game-season-opening-assist-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950604\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; McDavid sets NHL record with 13-game season-opening assist streak"},"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> is red-hot to start the season, and the records are starting to pile up. <\/p>\n<p>With an assist in the first period against the Calgary Flames on Wednesday, 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> captain set an NHL record for the longest season-opening assist streak. <\/p>\n<p>McDavid now has at least one assist in each of Edmonton&#8217;s first 13 games this season, which breaks the previous record of 12 season-opening games held by Wayne Gretzky (1982-83), Ken Linseman (1985-86) and Sebastian Aho (2018-19).<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s apple brought McDavid&#8217;s point total to a ridiculous 35 points (12 goals, 27 assists) in just 13 games. <\/p>\n<p>He also has 33 points in the month of October, which tied Gretzky (33 in 1986) for the third-most points in a single October in NHL history.<\/p>\n<p>McDavid&#8217;s hot start has helped the Oilers to an 8-2-2 start this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor McDavid is red-hot to start the season, and the records are starting to pile up. With an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-950604","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\/950604","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=950604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}