EDMONTON, AB \u2013 Oilers forward Connor McDavid has been named the\u00a0NHL’s First Star of the Month for November, the League announced on Monday.<\/p>\n
McDavid led the NHL with 27 assists \u2013 the most by any player in\u00a0a single October\u00a0in League history (ahead of the 22 by\u00a0Mario Lemieux\u00a0in 1988 w\/ PIT and\u00a0Wayne Gretzky\u00a0in 1986 w\/ EDM) \u2013 and 35 points, the third-most by any player in\u00a0a single October\u00a0in NHL history (behind only the 38 in 1988 and 36 in 1992 by Lemieux w\/ PIT) \u2013 to lift the\u00a0Oilers\u00a0(10-2-2, 22 points) to a 10-2-1 month and the top of the Western Conference standings.<\/p>\n
McDavid collected at least one helper in each of his October appearances to extend his season-opening assist streak to 14 games, surpassing the previous League record of 12 contests shared by\u00a0Sebastian Aho\u00a0(2018-19 w\/ CAR),\u00a0Ken Linseman\u00a0(1985-86 w\/ BOS) and Gretzky (1982-83 w\/ EDM). McDavid \u2013 who finished 11 assists and 10 points ahead of the No. 2-ranked player(s) in each category \u2013 additionally placed among the October leaders in even-strength points (1st; 20), power-play points (1st; 14), power-play assists (1st; 14), average time on ice among forwards (1st; 23:32), even-strength assists (t-1st; 13) and plus\/minus (2nd; +17).<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old\u00a0McDavid, a six-time Art Ross Trophy winner and the reigning recipient, owns a League-best 8-29\u201437 through 14 total outings in 2026-27. No player in NHL history has recorded more assists within their first 14 games of a season (the previous benchmark was 25, by Gretzky: 3x and Lemieux: 1x), while only Lemieux has compiled more points through that stage of a campaign (42 in both 1995-96 and 1992-93 as well as 41 in 1988-89, all w\/ PIT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, AB \u2013 Oilers forward Connor McDavid has been named the\u00a0NHL’s First Star of the Month for November,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-954814","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\/954814","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=954814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}