Overview
- Connor Ingram stopped 27 shots for the shutout as Edmonton recorded a 5–0 victory to open an eight-game homestand.
- Nugent-Hopkins became the first player to reach his first 1,000 NHL regular-season games entirely with the Oilers and is within 37 games of Kevin Lowe’s club record of 1,037.
- He is the 417th player in NHL history to reach 1,000 games and one of just 63 to score in the milestone outing.
- Zach Hyman scored twice with an assist, Connor McDavid and Mattias Ekholm each posted two assists, and Andrew Mangiapane and Vasily Podkolzin added goals.
- Fans chanted “Nuge” and teammates lauded him as a model teammate, with coverage noting minor discrepancies in career totals that do not affect the milestone.