Will The Chosen One Follow The Great One Out Of The City Of Champions?
It’s no secret that Connor McDavid is the greatest player in hockey by a mile. For those who are geographically challenged, that equals approximately 1.6 kilometers, but nobody uses those anymore.
That kind of talent deserves to win championships, but the Stanley Cup has not been in Edmonton, Alberta, since 1990. In fact, the Stanley Cup has not been held by a team in Canada for 30 years and counting.
During the 2022-23 NHL season, the Edmonton Oilers finished strong with a record of 53 wins, 23 losses, and 9 overtime/shootout losses. That was good enough for 109 points on the season, which only qualified for second place in the competitive Pacific Division of the Western Conference.
Fortunately, it was good enough to qualify for the postseason, where it doesn’t matter what your record was. The only thing that matters in playoff hockey is doing whatever it takes to win. Just ask the Vegas Golden Knights, they know what it takes to win.
The Edmonton Oilers, on the other hand, just didn’t have the balls it takes to swing big dicks in the playoffs. In the NHL, defense can still help you win championships, especially if you can score the puck while stopping the other team’s advances.
Edmonton had to dig deep just to beat the Los Angeles Kings in the first round of the NHL. Connor McDavid and the Oilers ultimately proved victorious in the series, winning four games after literally handing the Kings two of the games, for free, by choosing to lose in overtime. Did they throw those two games?
Then, the Edmonton Oilers fell flat against the eventual Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights in the second round of the playoffs. What’s even worse is their pathetic performance was against a recent NHL expansion team. Expansion teams should never win championships, yet the Knights were skating circles around the oil slicks, causing them to lose the series four games to two.
Connor McDavid Can’t Play Six Positions At Once
One thing is for sure, it wasn’t Connor McDavid’s fault the Edmonton Oilers didn’t hoist the Stanley Cup after the 2022-23 season. McJesus had 10 points in the series against Vegas alone.
However, the Oilers’ defense didn’t show up at all. They really dropped the soap together by surrendering 3.67 goals against per game to the Golden Knights. Blame Stuart Skinner all you want, but he tried his best to keep his soap on a rope. Things got a little slippery, to say the least.
The Vegas Knights were literally pegging Skinner with pucks out there. He was even pulled and told to hit the showers early a couple of times in the series.
Someone had to show him some mercy from the barrage of rubber penetration going on. However, in Stu’s defense, your goalie should be the last line of defense, not the only line.
In the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Edmonton Oilers and their fans carried the weight of lofty expectations that come with having hockey’s best player in Connor McDavid. Unfortunately, McDavid and the Oilers ultimately fell short of those expectations with a disappointing early exit from the tournament.
Connor McDavid Left Money On Table To Help Oilers Build Losing Roster
The early exit from the Stanley Cup Playoffs is definitely not sitting well with Connor McDavid or his agent. First of all, Connor McDavid literally left money on the table while negotiating the terms of his contract that currently keeps him in an Edmonton sweater.
Where did that get him? Edmonton certainly did not use the extra money to build a championship-caliber team around McDavid, that’s for sure.
There is also a no movement clause in Connor’s current contract which means the Oilers can’t trade their best player as they once did with Wayne Gretzky. Unless, of course, Connor McDavid requests a trade which is seemingly becoming more likely with each passing day.
It’s no secret to anybody in hockey that Connor McDavid aspires to lift the Stanley Cup multiple times throughout his career. As he skates into the prime of his career, the window for dynastic dominance on a level no sport has seen since Tom Brady suited up for the New England Patriots is a very real possibility for McDavid’s team.
That is, only if Connor has the right supporting cast around him.
After making terrible moves in free agency this offseason, the Edmonton Oilers are going to struggle to emerge as legit contenders with this current roster. Let’s face it, the Oilers are cap-strapped and as a result, they got worse this offseason, not better.
The biggest moves the Edmonton Oilers made this offseason were unloading Kailer Yamamoto and Klim Kostin to the Detroit Red Wings for pennies. Other than that, the oil slicks added some standard operating procedure cap-strapped bums and no-talent ass-clowns.
It’s the equivalent of filling your school staff with substitute teachers while expecting a Nobel Prize winner to emerge from your institution. Good luck with that.
That’s not how you improve a team that thinks they are ready to compete for a Stanley Cup. However, as a franchise, the Edmonton Oilers’ hands are tied. There is nothing they can do because of gross salary cap mismanagement in one of the most desolate places on the planet, Canada.
On top of that, it’s an agent’s job to do what’s best for their client’s long-term interests. McDavid could be a huge star in an American city that can offer him more alluring money in off-ice endorsements. He’ll never get that kind of international marketing push in Edmonton and that’s a fact. If it worked for Wayne Gretzky, it will work for McDavid.
It would be wise for Connor McDavid to weigh his options with an open mind. He doesn’t owe loyalty to anyone. If he wants to win a Stanley Cup right now, there are plenty of teams where he could do that. It just probably won’t be the Edmonton Oilers.
Just like Wayne Gretzky, America is prepared to embrace Connor McJesus without leaving any money on the table. Sorry Edmonton, but as The Great One already proved, that’s a pretty difficult offer to pass up. Thanks for playing.
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