Nugent-Hopkins scored again on a power play at 18:26, tapping in McDavid\u2019s feed at the far post to give Edmonton a 3-0 lead. He has three goals in five games since making his season debut Oct. 22. Nugent-Hopkins missed the Oilers\u2019 first nine this season because of a lower-body injury sustained during practice on Sept. 28.<\/p>\n
With the assist, McDavid became the first player to have at least 35 points in a single calendar month since Mario Lemieux<\/a> did so three times during the 1992-93 season (37 in March, 36 in December and October).<\/p>\n \u201cHe has the puck the whole game,\u201d Edmonton defenseman Ryan Shea<\/a> said. \u201cI feel like every time he touches the puck, whether it’s behind our net or behind their net, in my head I feel we’re going to score because when the puck\u2019s in him and Leo and those guys’ hands, good things happen.<\/p>\n \u201cI’m surprised by how good of a leader he is on and off the ice. All those guys are, the way they’re back checking, the way they’re tracking, the way they\u2019re using their body. They’ve been physical. If they can do it, then everyone should.\u201d<\/p>\n Jason Dickinson<\/a> scored an empty-net goal at 17:23 of the third period for the 4-0 final.<\/p>\n \u201cWe just didn’t generate enough offense,\u201d Islanders captain Bo Horvat<\/a> said. \u201cObviously, and credit to them, they played us hard tonight. They were ready for us, but yeah, we just took too many penalties. It wears you down, and it’s tough to create momentum after that.<\/p>\n \u201cIt wasn\u2019t our best today, but we\u2019ve got to learn from it and move on.\u201d<\/p>\n Oilers forward Isaac Howard<\/a> left 2:22 into the game after a collision with Islanders forward Emil Heineman<\/a>, who received a five-minute major penalty for kneeing and game misconduct.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don’t think it’s as serious as it looked,\u201d Babcock said. \u201cWe’re hoping for a real good kind of recovery day for him tomorrow, and then if he doesn’t (feel better), then we’ll get on with the medical part of looking into it. But they think it’s favorable.”<\/p>\n NOTES: It was McDavid\u2019s 23rd primary assist this season; Toronto Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews<\/a> and Rangers defenseman Adam Fox<\/a> are next closest in the League with 10 each. \u2026\u00a0Jarry became the fourth Edmonton goalie in the past 20 years, and the first since Mike Smith<\/a> in 2021-22, to post back-to-back shutouts. \u2026 The Oilers are the fifth team since 2014-15 to win each of their first six road games of a season. \u2026 Draisaitl (12 goals, 13 assists) joined McDavid (eight goals, 27 assists) as the only players in the NHL to reach 25 points this October. \u2026 Horvat was minus-3 in 20:29 of ice time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nugent-Hopkins scored again on a power play at 18:26, tapping in McDavid\u2019s feed at the far post to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-954214","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\/954214","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=954214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}