{"id":589245,"date":"2026-04-17T06:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589245\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T06:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:27:09","slug":"oilers-mcdavid-wraps-up-nhl-scoring-title-with-4-assist-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589245\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers’ McDavid wraps up NHL scoring title with 4-assist finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apr 17, 2026, 12:20 AM ET<\/p>\n

EDMONTON, Alberta — Connor McDavid<\/a> had four assists to take the NHL scoring title with 138 points and the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> beat the Vancouver Canucks<\/a> 6-1 on Thursday night to finish second in the Pacific Division and open the playoffs at home.<\/p>\n

Edmonton will host Anaheim on Monday night in Game 1. The Oilers were 7-2-2 in their last 11 to finish 41-30-12.<\/p>\n

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McDavid, who finished eight points ahead of Tampa Bay<\/a>‘s Nikita Kucherov<\/a>, won his sixth Art Ross title as the NHL scoring leader to tie Mario Lemieux and Gordie Howe for second — four behind Wayne Gretzky. McDavid reached 1,220 career points, passing Jeremy Roenick, Larry Murphy and Jean Beliveau to advance to 47th on the NHL list. McDavid entered the season 71st.<\/p>\n

Rookie Matthew Savoie had his first hat trick, Josh Samanski<\/a>, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a> and Colton Dach<\/a> also scored and Evan Bouchard<\/a> had three assists. Connor Ingram<\/a> made 11 saves, giving up only Ty Mueller<\/a>‘s first career goal.<\/p>\n

Edmonton was buoyed by the return of forward Zach Hyman<\/a> and is expecting star forward Leon Draisaitl<\/a> back during the opening series.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 17, 2026, 12:20 AM ET EDMONTON, Alberta — Connor McDavid had four assists to take the NHL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-589245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589245","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=589245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}