MILAN \u2014 Connor McDavid set a record for most points in a single Olympic tournament involving NHL players with two assists in Canada’s 3-2 semifinal win over Finland on Friday.<\/p>\n
McDavid registered his record-breaking 12th point of the Milan Cortina Games with a secondary assist on Sam Reinhart\u2019s power-play goal to cut Finland’s lead to 2-1 in the second period.<\/p>\n
The Edmonton Oilers superstar then set up Nathan MacKinnon’s winning goal with 35.2 seconds remaining to push his total to 13 and send Canada into Sunday’s gold-medal game.<\/p>\n
McDavid, who wore the \u201cC\u201d Friday after captain Sidney Crosby was ruled out with a lower-body injury, has two goals and 11 assists partway through five games in Milan.<\/p>\n
He eclipsed the previous mark set by Finnish forwards Teemu Selanne and Saku Koivu, who both registered 11 points at the 2006 Turin Games.<\/p>\n
Selanne still holds the career NHL-era Olympic record with 32 points. Crosby holds the Canadian NHL-attended Games record with 16.<\/p>\n
McDavid is making his Olympic debut after the NHL skipped the 2018 and 2022 Games.<\/p>\n
A generational talent, the 29-year-old from Newmarket, Ont., has won the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL\u2019s leading scorer five times. He has 1,178 points (395 goals, 783 assists) in 770 career contests \u2014 a per-game rate exceeded only by Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux.<\/p>\n
Canada is looking to punch its ticket to the gold-medal game after the country\u2019s NHL players topped the podium in 2002, 2010 and 2014.<\/p>\n
The United States and Slovakia face off in the other semifinal later Friday at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena. The bronze-medal game is scheduled for Saturday, followed by Sunday\u2019s matchup for gold.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 20, 2026.<\/p>\n
Daniel Rainbird, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN \u2014 Connor McDavid set a record for most points in a single Olympic tournament involving NHL players…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[19,155,198,146,5300,56434,5,15207,517,4,3264,24,33378,18089,252,768,6059,6739],"class_list":["post-465210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton-oilers","tag-canada","tag-connor-mcdavid","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-edmontonoilers","tag-games-record","tag-hockey","tag-milan-cortina-games","tag-nathan-mackinnon","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-players","tag-oilers","tag-record-breaking","tag-saku-koivu","tag-sam-reinhart","tag-sidney-crosby","tag-teemu-selanne","tag-the-canadian-press"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116105978193384154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465210","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=465210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}