{"id":954910,"date":"2026-11-02T00:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T00:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954910\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T00:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T00:20:09","slug":"mcdavid-kaprizov-and-kochetkov-named-nhls-three-stars-for-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954910\/","title":{"rendered":"McDavid, Kaprizov and Kochetkov named NHL\u2019s three stars for October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1793578809_272_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Edmonton Oilers&#8217; Connor McDavid (97) skates with the puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders, 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\tNov 1, 2026 | 2:35 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton Oilers centre Connor McDavid was named the NHL\u2019s first star for the month of October on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild left-winger Kirill Kaprizov and Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov were second and third in the monthly honours.<\/p>\n<p>McDavid led the NHL with 27 assists, the most by any player in a single October in league history.<\/p>\n<p>He also had 35 points \u2014 the third-most by any player in a single October in NHL history \u2014 to lift the Oilers to a 10-2-1 month and the top of the Western Conference standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers&#8217; Connor McDavid (97) skates with the puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-954910","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\/954910","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=954910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}