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EDMONTON, AB - OCTOBER 16: Edmonton Oilers Center Connor McDavid (97) celebrates his first goal of the season in the first period during the Edmonton Oilers game versus the Calgary Flames on October 16, 2021 at Rogers Place in Edmonton, AB. (Photo by Curtis Comeau/Icon Sportswire)
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Connor McDavid was named NHL Second Star of the Month for October on Tuesday.
The Oilers captain paced the NHL in points (16), power-play points (9), points per game average (2.29), multi-point games (6) and shots (39) in October. McDavid also ranks tied for second in the league in goals (7), tied for second in assists (9), second in power-play goals (4) and tied for second in power-play assists (5) through seven games.
McDavid led the Oilers to a 6-1-0 record (third-highest points percentage in the NHL at .857) and registered a point in all seven games he played in. The 24-year-old fell one point shy of equaling Wayne Gretzky’s franchise record for most consecutive multi-point games to start a season at seven in a 2-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday. Still, McDavid had nine straight multi-point games on the road going back to last season.
Last month, he was named NHL Second Star of the Week for October 18-24 with three goals and eight points in three games. McDavid scored his 10th career NHL hat trick in a 5-2 victory over the Calgary Flames on October 16. That night, McDavid also recorded his 578th career NHL point, passing Doug Weight for the seventh-most points in franchise history.
Even more impressively, McDavid scored his 200th career NHL goal in a 5-1 win over the Arizona Coyotes on October 21. McDavid became the fourth-fastest player in franchise history to reach the 200-goal mark (411 games), behind only Gretzky (242 games), Jari Kurri (328 games) and Glenn Anderson (348 games).
