The Oilers are coming off a tremendous season, but also, another Stanley Cup heartbreak. The only real question in Edmonton at the moment is, will the team be able to convince Connor McDavid to stay? TSN Hockey analyst Mike Johnson and TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button discuss the One Big Question facing the Oilers this season.
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I have a team in mind that could use a center, and actually has a chance to win for the next 10 or so years…
Yes he is staying stop with the BS.
He'll stay out of guilt. How are the Oilers one of the best TEAMs? They have the best player ever and a top 5 forward. They have a weak d-core and no goaltending let alone a weak bottom 6. No depth…
Years of opportunities for the Oilers to get a solid goaltender and they fail to do it year after year.
Give him a ''Kawhi Leonard'' side hustle….. Money for nuthin' and your cheques for free.
Trade him and get a king's ransom. He's shown himself to be a terrible character, deliberately handicapping the team. The thought of him getting 18-20 million is disgusting. 50+ million on four players, two of whom are mediocre.
Please enough with this crap! lol
If he leaves he’s taking the easy way out. Would remind me of LeBron leaving Cleveland. Win a championship then if you wanna leave then leave. However look at Crosby live and die a penguin. Depends how McDavid wants to be known for.
Mcdavid will sign a 3 yr contract on Monday worth 15.5 mill heard it here first
Sucks anyways
It’s important to realize Mcdavid elevates players on his line. I dont think thats the problem. He can play with anyone. It’s those depth players on the 3rd and fourth lines you need to win a Cup. They dont have it. They dont have a bottom 6 either. This isnt just goaltending.
Katz will pass ownership over to Connor…….or he leaves.
He wants 40
Toronto sports network just love these headlines
95% of the teams have "questions"
McDavid wants 500 million
2 x 15
I always start the TSN videos cause they are interesting, however as soon as I see Craig's face I stop the video as he is 1) clueless about the Oilers and 2) non-sensically hating the Oilers. Bye!
MLB doesn't have the salary cap like NHL, it is not the same type of environment for free agents, the Dodgers could spend as much money as they want to support the star players with other good players, Oilers, Maple Leafs can't because of the salary cap, even if the NHL cap goes up. Trust me the Oilers would have already had a good supporting cast including goaltending if there was no salary cap
Only creator knows 🙏 and let's pray it's oilers he chooses
Plz darnell nurse for us lifelong die hard oilers fans plz ask for a trade and accept a trade so we can get that cup we so deservingly need
If he's leaving Edmonton, New Jersey makes the most sense to me if he wants to win for the foreseeable future.
Can't wait until he announces his intention to explore other options next spring!
If McDavid wants to win a cup he knows he can't win one playing for a Canadian Team – Bettman 31-Canada ZERO. Not a conspiracy. Not a coincidence that no two Canadian teams ever met in the finals since he hijacked the league in 94. He rigs the finals through the crooked officiating with the blatant noncalls against the US team and the excessive calls against the Canadian team. He has been doing it since 94 – the first victim was Vancouver.
He'll sign four years at 75 million (or 18.75 million per season)
McDavid should leave before he starts regressing like The Oilers are going to this year. Similar to the Sharks who were always close it just isn't going to work in Edmonton. He'll have his choice of any team he wants. Besides who wants to play for a team with a GM that supports sexual assault.
An absolute joke we still haven’t gotten a competent goaltender. Remember when Holland passed on drafting Wallstedt so that they could pick Xavier Bourgault because he didn’t believe in spending a first on a goalie? Wallstedt could’ve very well been their number 1 goalie by now!
There was supposed to be a podcast filmed in the HoF room at Ice District on Monday. It got moved to Tuesday because OEG said that the room is busy on Monday morning now.
Oilers beat ANYONE in their way in the West and have more success than 31 teams in the NHL for 2 years straight. And TSN acts like they are the worst team ever that still needs to "prove" they can compete.
TSN also shat on the Oilers bottom 6 and defence for YEARS, and yet every single year this Bottom 6 and defence out plays the apparently much deeper bottom 6s of Van, VGK, Dallas etc etc.
Ducks over Canucks is absurd
We dont sign our young stars we let them walk to St Louis
Why is buttons still on here gawd
Us hockey fans just know, No!!! The Oilers dont have enough defense and special teams when it counts. McDavid is tired of the choking in the playoffs. He's gone!!
He's re-signing in the next week… No need to convince someone who is 100% all in already