{"id":898545,"date":"2026-10-29T08:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T08:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898545\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T08:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T08:40:07","slug":"mcdavid-sets-nhl-season-opening-assist-streak-mark-oilers-shut-out-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898545\/","title":{"rendered":"McDavid sets NHL season-opening assist streak mark, Oilers shut out Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dustin Wolf<\/a> made 20 saves on 23 shots in 40 minutes of relief duty for the Flames (5-7-0), who had won four in a row and five of their previous six.<\/p>\n

Devin Cooley<\/a> stopped eight of the nine shots he faced before sustaining a lower-body injury following a collision in the crease with Oilers forward Colton Dach<\/a>\u00a0with 12 seconds left in the first period.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t want to see anyone get hurt, let alone a guy that\u2019s been playing some of his best hockey,\u201d Wolf said of Cooley, who started all four games of Calgary\u2019s winning streak.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate, we have to try and build around it and not rely on one guy, we\u2019re a whole group in here, that\u2019s how we have to play.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll just come back in here tomorrow, it\u2019s a new day and focus on Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dach was assessed a goalkeeper interference penalty, and Wolf came in to start the second period.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, I hate going out for the second period and seeing him not lead their team out,\u201d Dach said. \u201cI’m just trying to take it to the net and create a chance. But really unfortunate that he got hurt. That’s part of my game, getting to front of the net. Obviously, I don’t want to take a goalie out. That’s not my intent. But being hard below the net, in the crease and just trying to get a goal that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mathieu Joseph<\/a> put Edmonton ahead 1-0 on their first shot of the game at 7:46 of the first period. McDavid sent a pass from the right dot across the slot to Joseph for the put away underneath Cooley\u2019s right arm.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor two periods it was a really hard game, there was not a lot of room on the ice, it was more of a grind-type game,\u201d said Flames coach Ryan Huska. \u201cCertain players, I felt, for us could have been much harder than they were tonight in those types of situations and that might have been a result of the sporadic going-to-the-net-harder type of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mattias Ekholm<\/a> made it 2-0 at 4:52 of the second period with a wrist shot from the point over Wolf\u2019s left shoulder, off the crossbar and in. The defenseman returned to the lineup after sitting out two games with a concussion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we were a little too much in the perimeter, on the outside today compared to other games,\u201d said Flames captain Mikael Backlund<\/a>. \u201cWe didn\u2019t get enough traffic and bodies around.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got enough shots, but I think that\u2019s something we\u2019ve done well lately and it\u2019s something that we can do better than we did today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dustin Wolf made 20 saves on 23 shots in 40 minutes of relief duty for the Flames (5-7-0),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-898545","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\/898545","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=898545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}