{"id":954024,"date":"2026-11-01T06:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954024\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T06:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:14:13","slug":"connor-mcdavid-extends-his-assist-streak-to-14-games-as-the-oilers-beat-the-islanders-4-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954024\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor McDavid extends his assist streak to 14 games as the Oilers beat the Islanders 4-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1793513653_106_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Edmonton Oilers&#8217; Connor McDavid (97) and New York Islanders&#8217; Bo Horvat (14) battle for the puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo\/Pamela Smith)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tOct 31, 2026 | 1:57 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Connor McDavid extended his NHL-record season-opening assist streak to 14 games by setting up Ryan Nugent-Hopkins\u2019 second goal, and the Edmonton Oilers opened their road trip by beating the New York Islanders 4-0 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Nugent-Hopkins scored on a power play in the third period to give McDavid his league-best 29th assist. McDavid has a big lead in points with 37 and is on pace for more than 200.<\/p>\n<p>Longtime running mate Leon Draisaitl recorded a pair of assists, including a perfect skate-to-stick exchange that led to Vasily Podkolzin putting the puck into a wide open net. Ilya Sorokin similarly had little chance on Nugent-Hopkins\u2019 shot from point-blank range off a feed from Kasperi Kapanen 68 seconds earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton\u2019s Tristan Jarry stopped all 18 shots he faced for a second consecutive shutout, and Jason Dickinson scored into an empty net to seal the victory. The Oilers have won 10 of their first 14 games this season, their first with <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/cdb5ab2a34888dea0bdca029e8a2e920\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Babcock as coach<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers&#8217; Connor McDavid (97) and New York Islanders&#8217; Bo Horvat (14) battle for the puck during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-954024","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\/954024","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=954024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}