Connor McDavid extended his own NHL record on Sunday night, scoring 50 seconds into the game and adding an assist as the Edmonton Oilers beat the New York Rangers 4-1 at Madison Square Garden. The Connor McDavid assist streak record, a mark no player in league history had held before this season, now runs to 15 straight games to open the year, and his point streak reached 15 games alongside it.
FINAL: Edmonton Oilers 4, New York Rangers 1
How to watch: Edmonton Oilers vs New York Rangers, Sunday, November 1, 2026, 6:00 p.m. ET at Madison Square Garden in New York
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The record assist arrived on the power play in the second period, but the night was announced in its first shift. McDavid took a pass from Evan Bouchard at his own blue line, burned Vladislav Gavrikov on the outside and flipped the puck over Dylan Garand’s glove, a coast to coast goal the NHL’s official channels posted within the hour:
Connor McDavid Assist Streak Record Reaches 15 Games
The streak became a record on Wednesday, when McDavid collected two assists in a 4-0 win over the Calgary Flames to reach 13 straight games with an assist to open a season. The previous mark of 12 was shared by three players across four decades: Wayne Gretzky with the 1982-83 Oilers, Ken Linseman with the 1985-86 Boston Bruins and Sebastian Aho with the 2018-19 Carolina Hurricanes. McDavid pushed it to 14 on Saturday in a 4-0 win over the New York Islanders, then to 15 on Sunday, setting up Bouchard’s power play goal at 9:49 of the second period for his 30th assist of the season.
The numbers around the streak keep stacking. McDavid’s 15 game point streak now reads nine goals and 30 assists for 39 points, the sixth longest point streak of his career and 12 points clear of the next player in the league scoring race, his own teammate Leon Draisaitl at 27. His first period goal was the 418th of his career, moving him past Glenn Anderson for the fourth most in Oilers franchise history. The two point night was the 383rd multi point game of his career, which moved him past Brett Hull and Teemu Selanne for the 23rd most in NHL history. Even his teammates describe the run in terms of inevitability. “He just finds ways, and even if things aren’t going his way or the team’s way, he’ll find a way to kind of get us some momentum, and usually that ends up in a goal for us,” Ryan Nugent-Hopkins said after scoring twice on Saturday. “It’s been a lot of fun to watch, and I know he’s not going to slow down.”
Bouchard And Dach Build The Lead At The Garden
Edmonton needed less than seven minutes to turn McDavid’s opener into a cushion. Colton Dach scored at 6:19 of the first period, taking Bouchard’s second assist of the night and sliding the puck five hole on Garand on only the Oilers’ fourth shot. Bouchard had a goal of his own disallowed minutes later for goalie interference by Dach in the crease, but he got it back on the power play in the second, blasting a shot into the top shelf from between the circles with Draisaitl and McDavid drawing the assists. Bouchard finished with a goal and two assists, his 60th career multi assist game and his 93rd career multi point game, passing Craig Simpson for the 13th most in franchise history on both counts. His power play goal was the 26th of his career, moving him past Charlie Huddy for the second most by an Oilers defenceman, behind only Paul Coffey at 69. The top three scorers in the NHL all wear Edmonton colours right now: McDavid at 39 points, Draisaitl at 27 and Bouchard at 26.
The Rangers, who had not played since Monday and were trying to stop a three game losing streak, pushed hardest in the second period, outshooting Edmonton 15-7 in the frame. Pavel Dorofeyev got them on the board at 13:22 of the second, scooping a loose puck over Matt Tomkins in close with Scott Morrow assisting. The goal ended Edmonton’s team shutout streak at 159 minutes and 20 seconds, the fifth longest in franchise history, after back to back shutouts against Calgary and the Islanders. New York never got closer. Dach closed the night with an empty net goal with 39.4 seconds left in the third period, the first two goal game of his career, and the Rangers’ losing streak reached four games.
Tomkins Holds The Door On The Second Night Of A Back To Back
The win came with the Oilers’ third goaltender in net. Matt Tomkins made 28 saves for his first victory as an Oiler, in his first start for the team and his first NHL game since April 17, 2024. Edmonton was playing the second night of a weekend back to back in New York after Tristan Jarry stopped all 18 shots he faced in Saturday’s 4-0 win over the Islanders, his second straight shutout. Tomkins was perfect through the first period and into the second, and his only blemish was the Dorofeyev goal in a middle frame the Rangers controlled for long stretches. Garand made 21 saves in the loss for New York.
The result also finished a piece of team history. The Oilers have now won seven straight road games to open the season, matching the best road start in franchise history, the standard the 1983-84 team set. They entered the night having outscored opponents 31-13 across their first six road games, and they leave New York at 11-2-2, first in the Pacific Division and the Western Conference. Defenceman Ryan Shea summed up the feeling of playing in front of this top line after Saturday’s win: “I feel like every time he touches the puck, whether it’s behind our net or behind their net, in my head I feel we’re going to score because when the puck’s in him and (Draisaitl’s) and those guys’ hands, good things happen.”
A Record October From A Richmond Hill Captain
Sunday’s game closed the book on one of the great opening months the league has seen. McDavid, from Richmond Hill, Ontario, recorded 27 assists in October, an NHL record for the month, passing the 22 that Gretzky posted in 1986 and Mario Lemieux posted in 1988. His 35 points in October were topped only by Lemieux’s October totals of 38 in 1988 and 36 in 1992. The assist streak is also the longest of McDavid’s career at any point of a season, passing his previous best of 13 games, and it has been built in every kind of game: shutouts, a back to back in New York, and a Battle of Alberta.
What makes the record awkward for the rest of the league is that it is still running. Every game Edmonton plays now opens with the same question, whether the streak survives another night, and McDavid has answered it 15 times in a row with at least one assist and at least one point. The Oilers finish their New York area road trip against the New Jersey Devils next, and the Rangers get no relief from the schedule either, with eight games in 16 days now under way. For one night at the Garden, though, the story was simple: the best playmaker in the game needed 50 seconds to score, one power play to set a new standard at 15, and a full team effort behind him to make it stand up in a 4-1 win.
