Team Canada’s Connor McDavid has set a record for many points in a single Olympic tournament involving NHL players.
McDavid registered his twelfth point of the Milan Cortina Games with a secondary assist on Sam Reinhart’s goal to chop Finland’s result in 2-1 within the second period of Friday’s semifinal.
The Edmonton Oilers superstar, wearing the “C” after captain Sidney Crosby was ruled out with a lower-body injury, has two goals and 10 assists partway through his fifth game in Milan.
He ended the sport with 13 points after an assist on Nathan MacKinnon’s game-winning goal, scored on an influence play with 35.2 seconds left within the third period.
The Canadians battled back from a 2-0 deficit to advance to the title game with a 3-2 victory over Finland and now wait to see who they’ll face off against in Sunday’s gold metal match.
The USA and Slovakia semifinal game is about for late Friday at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena.
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McDavid eclipsed the previous mark set by Finnish forwards Teemu Selanne and Saku Koivu, who each registered 11 points on the 2006 Turin Games.
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Selanne still holds the profession NHL-era Olympic record with 32 points. Crosby holds the Canadian NHL-attended Games record with 16.
McDavid is making his Olympic debut after the NHL skipped the 2018 and 2022 Games.
A generational talent, the 29-year-old from Newmarket, Ont., has won the Art Ross Trophy because the NHL’s leading scorer five times. He has 1,178 points (395 goals, 783 assists) in 770 profession contests — a per-game rate exceeded only by Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux.
Canada is seeking to punch its ticket to the gold-medal game after the country’s NHL players topped the rostrum in 2002, 2010 and 2014.
The USA and Slovakia face off in the opposite semifinal later Friday at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena. The bronze-medal game is scheduled for Saturday, followed by Sunday’s matchup for gold.
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