{"id":464988,"date":"2026-02-20T21:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/464988\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T21:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:52:19","slug":"canada-f-connor-mcdavid-sets-olympic-record-with-12th-point-of-milano-cortina-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/464988\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada F Connor McDavid sets Olympic record with 12th point of Milano Cortina 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Connor McDavid has made history at Milano Cortina 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With his secondary assist on Sam Reinhart\u2019s power-play goal against Finland in Friday\u2019s semifinal, McDavid recorded his record-setting 12th point of the Winter Olympics. Reinhart\u2019s goal cut Canada\u2019s deficit to 2-1 in the second period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McDavid extended his record to 13 points with an assist on Nathan MacKinnon\u2019s game-winning goal to secure Canada\u2019s spot in the gold-medal game with a 3-2 win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 29-year-old\u00a0Edmonton Oilers\u00a0superstar entered the semifinal tied with Teemu Selanne and Saku Koivu for the all-time record for points in a single Olympics involving NHL players with 11. His nine assists entering the game were already an Olympic record.<\/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 native of Richmond Hill, Ont.,\u00a0McDavid\u00a0has already won gold medals with Canada at a World Junior Hockey Championships, an 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor McDavid has made history at Milano Cortina 2026. With his secondary assist on Sam Reinhart\u2019s power-play goal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,32611,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-464988","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-hockey","11":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116105179617513261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464988","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=464988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}