{"id":10550,"date":"2026-10-21T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/?p=10550"},"modified":"2026-10-21T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T10:00:19","slug":"evan-bouchard-celebrates-27th-birthday-by-scoring-overtime-winner-against-minnesota-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/evan-bouchard-celebrates-27th-birthday-by-scoring-overtime-winner-against-minnesota-wild","title":{"rendered":"Bouchard Celebrates 27th Birthday By Scoring OT Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Evan Bouchard scored his seventh goal of the season with 1:28 left in overtime.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He secured the Edmonton Oilers\u2019 4-3 win against the Minnesota Wild.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Edmonton improved to 7-1-1 with its seventh win in eight games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/edmonton-oilers-lose-key-forwards-as-they-lock-in-evan-bouchard\">Evan Bouchard<\/a> celebrated his 27th birthday with an overtime winner as the Edmonton Oilers beat the Minnesota Wild 4-3 on Tuesday, October 20, extending their strong start to the NHL season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bouchard settled the game with a powerful shot with 1:28 remaining in overtime<\/strong>, taking advantage of a too-many-men penalty against Minnesota. The defenseman scored <strong>his seventh goal of the season<\/strong> to give Edmonton its second straight victory and seventh win in its last eight games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bouch with the ULTIMATE birthday goal \ud83e\udd73 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/LetsGoOilers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LetsGoOilers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nGthFPvcUr\">pic.twitter.com\/nGthFPvcUr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EdmontonOilers\/status\/2112757203065274753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leon Draisaitl<\/strong> scored twice for the Oilers, while <strong>Connor McDavid<\/strong> collected three assists. <strong>Mathieu Joseph<\/strong> also found the net as Edmonton improved its record to 7-1-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Goaltender <strong>Devon Levi made 27 saves in the win<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f GLOVE SAVE AND A BEAUTY\u203c\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/LetsGoOilers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LetsGoOilers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4rFsh6Kv2U\">pic.twitter.com\/4rFsh6Kv2U<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EdmontonOilers\/status\/2112735846625661252?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minnesota, which entered the game on a two-game winning streak, had goals from Joel Eriksson Ek, Kirill Kaprizov and Ryan Hartman. Jesper Wallstedt stopped 28 shots for the Wild, who fell to 6-2-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mcdavid-keeps-scoring-streak-alive\">McDavid Keeps Scoring Streak Alive<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McDavid continued his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/connor-mcdavid-leads-edmonton-oilers-past-winless-los-angeles-kings\">remarkable start to the season<\/a>, recording at least one point in all nine games. His three assists took his total to 26 points, putting him more than a quarter of the way toward a 10th career 100-point season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Oilers captain also reached a milestone that places him among some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/records.nhl.com\/records\/skater-records\/scoring-plateaus\/most-100-or-more-point-point-season\">NHL&#8217;s most productive players<\/a>. He became just the <strong>sixth player in league history to record at least 25 points before his team&#8217;s 10th game of a season<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mario Lemieux achieved the feat three times, reaching a high of 33 points. Wayne Gretzky did it twice, with his best mark at 27, while Mike Bossy recorded 28. Brent Sutter and Marcel Dionne also reached 25 points before their teams&#8217; 10th games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kaprizov continued to lead Minnesota&#8217;s attack. His goal, along with an assist, brought him to 17 points through 10 games. That total ranks second in Wild franchise history for that stage of a season, behind the 21 points he recorded in 2024-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"top-lines-drive-both-teams\">Top Lines Drive Both Teams<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tuesday&#8217;s matchup highlighted how much both teams depend on their leading forwards. Before the game, Edmonton&#8217;s top line had accounted for 19 goals, compared with 18 from the rest of the team. Minnesota&#8217;s leading trio had scored 16 goals, while the remaining players had combined for 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Oilers will look to maintain their momentum when they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/hockey\">host the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minnesota, meanwhile, continues its five-game road trip with a visit to the Calgary Flames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summary: Evan Bouchard celebrated his 27th birthday with an overtime winner as the Edmonton Oilers beat the Minnesota Wild 4-3 on Tuesday, October 20, extending their strong start to the NHL season. Bouchard settled the game with a powerful shot with 1:28 remaining in overtime, taking advantage of a too-many-men penalty against Minnesota. 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That\u2019s why I created a website called Betting.ca and began writing reviews of top Canadian sports betting operators and casino sites, while also writing some sports news on the side.","sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/DHirdle"],"url":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/author\/doug-hirdle"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}