FINAL: Edmonton Oilers 3, New York Rangers 1
Connor McDavid scored the opening goal on Monday, November 9, 2026, as the Edmonton Oilers beat the New York Rangers 3-1 at Rogers Place in Edmonton. The goal stretched his season-opening point streak to 19 games, a mark only three players in NHL history had ever reached, on the same night his record season-opening assist streak came to an end at 18 games.
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How to watch: New York Rangers at Edmonton Oilers, Monday, November 9, 2026, 8 p.m. ET at Rogers Place, Edmonton
TV (Canada): TVA Sports
Stream: Sportsnet+ (Monday Night Hockey)
Radio: Oilers Radio Network, including 880 CHED
Connor McDavid Point Streak Reaches 19 Games
The point arrived early, and it arrived as a gift. Rangers goaltender Dylan Garand went behind his net to play the puck 6:42 into the first period, sent it off the side of the net and straight onto McDavid’s stick, and the captain slid it into the empty cage for his 11th goal of the season. As The Canadian Press reported through Sportsnet, the goal extended McDavid’s point streak to 19 games (11 goals, 37 assists, 48 points) and made him just the fourth player in NHL history with a 19-game season-opening point streak, joining Wayne Gretzky, Dany Heatley and Mats Sundin.
The shorter list underneath that one shows how fast the ground has thinned out. Heavy, citing the NHL’s records site, noted that the goal pushed McDavid past the 18-game season-opening marks of Bill Cowley and Marcel Dionne. McDavid arrived at Rogers Place with 47 points in 18 games, needing three more to join Gretzky and Mario Lemieux as the only players to reach 50 points in 19 games or fewer. He scored one, so that particular door stays shut for now, with the 50-point mark two points away heading into Wednesday.
The Assist Streak Ends At 18 Games
The other streak did not survive the night. McDavid went without an assist for the first time this season, and as the Oilers’ official recap on NHL.com records, his NHL-record assist streak to begin a season came to an end at 18 games. It closes as the longest season-opening assist streak the league has ever seen: McDavid passed the old mark of 12, shared by Gretzky, Ken Linseman and Sebastian Aho, against Calgary on October 28, and added six more games to it from there.
On the all-time assist list, the run also stops in rare company. When he tied Adam Oates at 18 against Vancouver on Saturday, as iimiTV reported that night, McDavid moved to second in NHL history for consecutive games with an assist, behind only Gretzky’s 23-game run in 1990-91. The chase to 23 that Saturday’s post mapped out, through the Rangers, Philadelphia, Toronto and Florida, is now over five games short. What remains is the point streak itself, which has no such ceiling yet: McDavid has a point in every game Edmonton has played this season.
Draisaitl And Levi Close The Game Out
Leon Draisaitl supplied the rest of the scoring. He made it 2-0 at 2:59 of the second period, finishing a cycle with help from Mattias Ekholm and Vasily Podkolzin for his 17th goal, then sealed the game at 18:47 of the third, firing a shorthanded empty-net goal from distance while Edmonton killed a late penalty with the Rangers’ net empty at six-on-four. The pair took Draisaitl to a league-leading 18 goals, extended his goal-scoring streak to four games and his point streak to six. They came two nights after a different milestone: his second goal against Vancouver on Saturday was the 450th of his career, reached in his 873rd game, the seventh-fewest games to 450 goals by a centre in NHL history, and it set an Oilers franchise record with his 85th game-winning goal across the regular season and playoffs.
Between the goals, Devon Levi held the lead. Levi made 28 saves to improve to 8-1-0, winning his second straight game since returning from injury, and his best stop was a sprawling two-on-one denial of Tye Kartye in the second period that protected the two-goal lead. The Rangers’ only goal came at 5:05 of the second, Jaroslav Chmelar stepping out of the penalty box onto a Mika Zibanejad feed and scoring shorthanded on the breakaway. Zibanejad’s assist was the 36th shorthanded point of his career, passing Mikael Backlund for the fourth most by a Swedish player. New York outshot Edmonton 29-20 and still lost, with Garand making 17 saves.
What The Streaks Mean Now
The team picture moved with the personal one. Edmonton is 13-3-3, has won two straight, swept its two-game season series with New York after a 4-1 win at Madison Square Garden on November 1, and climbed to first place in the Western Conference and second overall with 29 points. Scoring first remains the tell: the Oilers are 11-0-2 when they get the game’s first goal, while the Rangers (10-8-1) saw a three-game winning streak snapped, fell to 2-6-1 on the road, and remain the only team in the league without a win when allowing the first goal.
Gretzky, the man whose records fill every paragraph of this chase, has already given his read on it. Speaking in Toronto on Friday, he called McDavid’s start “truly remarkable,” as TSN reported, and pointed past the points to the captain’s purpose: “He’s on a mission to win a Stanley Cup, he wants it desperately, and that’s what you need out of your best player and your captain.” The pace is still historic even after a one-point night: 48 points in 19 games is 2.53 points a game, a 212-point pace over Edmonton’s 84-game schedule, against a single-season record of 215 that only Gretzky has ever approached and a McDavid career high of 153.
Edmonton closes its four-game homestand on Wednesday, November 11, when the Philadelphia Flyers visit Rogers Place, and the Rangers continue their trip the same night in Calgary against the Flames. The assist streak is finished at 18, level with Oates and behind only Gretzky. The point streak carries into that Flyers game at 19, with Gretzky, Heatley and Sundin as the only company left, and McDavid two points from 50.
