{"id":463098,"date":"2026-02-19T07:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/463098\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T07:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:39:37","slug":"canada-forward-connor-mcdavid-ties-olympics-points-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/463098\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada forward Connor McDavid ties Olympics points record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Teemu Selanne and Saku Koivu have some company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With an assist on Macklin Celebrini\u2019s opening goal against Czechia and a second-period goal from Nathan MacKinnon, Connor McDavid has tied the all-time record for points in a single Olympics with 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both Selanne and Koivu notched 11 points in Finland\u2019s silver medal-winning performance at Torino 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After suiting up for Canada on numerous occasions at both junior and senior levels, McDavid is making his Olympic debut with NHL participation for the first time since Sochi 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 29-year-old native of Richmond Hill, Ont., the Edmonton Oilers superstar has already won gold medals with Canada at a World Junior Hockey Championships, a IIHF World Championship and at last February\u2019s 4 Nations Face-Off in which he scored the tournament-winning goal in overtime against the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada went on to defeat Czechia 4-3 in overtime to book a spot in the semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teemu Selanne and Saku Koivu have some company. With an assist on Macklin Celebrini\u2019s opening goal against Czechia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,32611,32610,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-463098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-connor-mcdavid-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8478402","10":"tag-edmonton-oilers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-22","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}