How to watch: Philadelphia Flyers at Edmonton Oilers, Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 9 p.m. ET at Rogers Place, Edmonton
TV (Canada): Sportsnet West (Oilers region)
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Radio: Oilers Radio Network, including 880 CHED
FINAL: Edmonton Oilers 3, New York Rangers 1
Connor McDavid scored early last night and extended his season-opening point streak to 19 games, but his NHL-record season-opening assist streak stopped at 18 in Edmonton’s 3-1 win over the New York Rangers at Rogers Place on Monday, November 9. Leon Draisaitl scored twice and Devon Levi made 28 saves. The full story of the game itself is in iimiTV’s breaking report on McDavid reaching 19 as the assist streak ended.
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What settled overnight is how the assist streak actually ended. It did not fade out over 60 quiet minutes. For a few moments late in the third period, the streak was alive at 19 games, and then a scoring ruling took it away.
The Connor McDavid Assist Streak Ended On A Scoring Ruling
With the Rangers pressing six-on-four in the final two minutes, a rebound came out to McDavid in front of the Oilers net. He battled J.T. Miller for the puck, it squirted out toward the blue line, and Draisaitl flipped it the length of the ice into the empty net at 18:47. McDavid was initially credited with a helper on the goal, which would have stretched the assist streak to 19 games. Sportsnet reported that after a quick ruling from the NHL, the assist was pulled off the scoresheet: on closer inspection, Miller’s stick was the last to touch the puck before Draisaitl scored, so the goal stands as unassisted.
The league’s own record of the night agrees. The Oilers’ official live updates on NHL.com list the play plainly: “EDM GOAL | Leon Draisaitl (2) – unassisted.” By Tuesday morning the dispute was closed, with Edmonton Hockey Daily noting that the NHL website still carried no assist for McDavid on the play and that the run of 18 straight games with an assist to open the season is over.
Levi, who watched the scramble from his crease, still gave his captain the hockey credit even if the scoresheet could not. “We locked that down in the third period (with) some huge plays from the guys,” Levi said in the Oilers’ official recap on NHL.com. “‘Davo’ (McDavid) winning that battle at the end, and ‘Leo’ with that lob shot for the empty netter. I mean, that’s incredible. If he doesn’t score there, we’re on a 6-on-4 for another minute and a half.” The battle was real. The assist, by the rule that the last Oiler stick has to touch it, was not.
Watch the play and the rest of the night in the NHL’s official highlights:
What The Record Book Now Says
The settled numbers still describe a start almost nobody has matched. With assists in 18 straight games, McDavid tied Adam Oates for the second-longest assist streak in NHL history, behind only Wayne Gretzky’s 23 games in 1990-91, and his 18 remains the longest season-opening assist streak the league has ever recorded. The point streak is the one still running: at 19 games, McDavid is just the fourth player with a 19-game season-opening point streak, alongside Gretzky, Mats Sundin and Dany Heatley, whose 22 games in 2005 are the next mark in front of him.
One more line settled into place overnight. The NHL.com recap’s notes record that McDavid became the fourth player in league history with 48 or more points before his 20th game of a season, joining Mario Lemieux, Gretzky and Joe Malone. He also finished the night two points short of a smaller, louder club: three points against New York would have made him the third player ever to reach 50 points in 19 games or fewer, after Lemieux and Gretzky. He scored one, so the 50-point question moves to Wednesday, with 48 points in 19 games and a 2.53 points-per-game pace.
The goal that kept the point streak alive was the strangest of the 11 he has scored this season. Rangers goaltender Dylan Garand went behind his net, played the puck off the side of the cage and straight onto McDavid’s stick, and the captain put away the easiest finish of his year at 6:42 of the first period. The NHL’s official clip of the giveaway is worth the ten seconds:
What It Means Next For Edmonton
The team picture around the streaks kept moving. Edmonton is 13-3-3 with 29 points, first in the Western Conference, and 11-0-2 when it scores first. Draisaitl’s two goals took him to a league-leading 18, with six goals across a four-game goal streak, and Levi improved to 8-1-0 in the second game back from injury. “I think he’s the main reason that we won the game,” Draisaitl said of Levi. “He made the right saves at the right time. A couple of really, really big ones. He’s been incredible for us.”
Wednesday brings the Philadelphia Flyers to Rogers Place to close the four-game homestand, and McDavid starts it with two live chases instead of three. The point streak can reach 20, two games behind Heatley’s season-opening mark. Fifty points needs two more. And a third target sits inside the assist column itself: the Oilers’ official game notes point out that McDavid, with 37 assists in 19 games, can still become the fastest player in NHL history to 40 assists in a season, a mark Gretzky holds at 22 games. The assist streak is finished at 18, ended by a stick that was not his. The season it belonged to is still running at full speed.
