McDavid has 26 points in nine games, and Minnesota's bench gave him the last one

By the Data Desk · Published 21 OCT 05:35

First reported by NHL.com (Gerry Moddejonge)

With 1:59 gone in overtime, Minnesota were caught with too many men on the ice, and 93 seconds later Evan Bouchard beat Jesper Wallstedt high on the short side from a Connor McDavid pass. Edmonton won 4-3 at Rogers Place on Tuesday, McDavid assisted on all three Oilers power-play goals, and he now has 26 points in nine games, the official NHL game summary shows.

• McDavid has 6 goals and 20 assists in 9 games and a point in every one of them. He leads the NHL by eight points: Auston Matthews, Jack Eichel and his teammate Bouchard are next with 18.
• Edmonton went 3 for 5 on the power play and McDavid set up all three: Leon Draisaitl's 5-on-3 goal with three seconds left in the first period, Draisaitl again at 1:03 of the second, and Bouchard's 4-on-3 winner at 3:32 of overtime.
• Minnesota came back from 3-1 down with goals from Kirill Kaprizov, his 11th of the season and the most in the NHL, and Ryan Hartman. The Wild went 0 for 3 on their own power play.

The first power-play goal came out of two Minnesota penalties 56 seconds apart. David Spacek went off for interference at 18:37 of the first period and Matt Boldy for hooking at 19:33, and with three seconds left Draisaitl hit a low one-timer past Wallstedt's glove from a no-look cross-ice pass by McDavid, NHL.com's Gerry Moddejonge wrote. Boldy's minor was still running when Draisaitl scored again at 1:03 of the second, this time from a McDavid feed behind the net.

Mathieu Joseph made it 3-1 at 6:01 of the second, and for a while the game looked done. Kaprizov cut it to 3-2 at 10:30 of the third and Hartman tied it at 13:07, both at even strength. Shots finished 32-30 for Edmonton; Devon Levi stopped 27 of 30 and Wallstedt 28 of 32. Joel Eriksson Ek had opened the scoring at 3:32 of the first.

The numbers around McDavid keep growing. He played 25:31 on Tuesday, and he has a point on 26 of Edmonton's 41 goals this season. After eight games NHL.com noted that his 17 assists tied Wayne Gretzky (1986-87) and Mario Lemieux (1995-96) for the most through a player's first eight games of a season; he added three more on Tuesday. Edmonton score 4.56 goals a game, the most in the league, and are 7-1-1 with 15 points.

What happens next: both teams play again on Thursday night, 22 October, at 19:00 local, 01:00 UTC on Friday. Carolina (7-2-1) visit Edmonton, and the Wild (6-2-2) go to Calgary, where the Flames are 2-6-0 and allow 4.62 goals a game, the most in the NHL.