{"id":382451,"date":"2026-01-01T22:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/382451\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:59:07","slug":"mcdavid-leads-3-stars-of-the-month-for-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/382451\/","title":{"rendered":"McDavid leads 3 Stars of the Month for December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013 Edmonton Oilers center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/connor-mcdavid-8478402\" title=\"Connor McDavid\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor McDavid<\/a>, Colorado Avalanche center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nathan-mackinnon-8477492\" title=\"Nathan MacKinnon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> and San Jose Sharks center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/macklin-celebrini-8484801\" title=\"Macklin Celebrini\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macklin Celebrini<\/a> \u2013 three No. 1 picks selected for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockeycanada.ca\/en-ca\/news\/mens-olympic-roster-named-2026-olym\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada\u2019s roster<\/a> at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 \u2013 have been named the NHL\u2019s \u201cThree Stars\u201d for the month of December presented by GEICO.<\/p>\n<p>FIRST STAR \u2013 CONNOR McDAVID, C, EDMONTON OILERS<\/p>\n<p>McDavid led the League with 13-21\u201434 in 15 contests \u2013 the most points by any NHL player in a single calendar month since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mario-lemieux-8448782\" title=\"Mario Lemieux\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Lemieux<\/a> in December 1995 (12-22\u201434 in 14 GP w\/ PIT) \u2013 to lift the Oilers (20-15-6, 46 points) from sixth to first place in the Pacific Division via a 9-5-1 December. McDavid failed to find the scoresheet in his first appearance of the month (Dec. 2 vs. MIN), but closed December with points in 14 straight outings \u2013 his seventh career run of at least 14 games and first since March 11 \u2013 April 13, 2023 (10-19\u201429 in 16 GP). He produced nine multi-point efforts over his final 14 contests, including five straight from Dec. 4-13 (7-8\u201415), his 13th career hat trick (Dec. 4 vs. SEA: 3-1\u20144), and his second career five-assist and 12th career five-point performance (Dec. 23 vs. CGY: 0-5\u20145). McDavid additionally placed among the top December performers in power-play assists (1st; 12), power-play points (1st; 16), assists (t-1st; 21), power-play goals (t-1st; 4), goals (2nd; 13), shots on goal (2nd; 71), even-strength goals (t-3rd; 8) and even-strength points (t-3rd; 17). The 28-year-old McDavid, who sat eight points behind MacKinnon for the League scoring lead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/stats\/skaters?reportType=game&amp;dateFrom=2025-10-07&amp;dateTo=2025-11-30&amp;gameType=2&amp;sort=points,goals,assists&amp;page=0&amp;pageSize=50\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at the end of November<\/a>, now shares first place with 24-46\u201470 through 41 total appearances this season. The five-time Art Ross Trophy winner also paces the NHL in assists (46), power-play assists (23) and power-play points (30) in 2025-26, while ranking fourth in goals (24), even-strength points (38) and shots on goal (145).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2013 Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid, Colorado Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon and San Jose Sharks center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-382451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}