After the second Stanley Cup final bankruptcy in a row, the sting sits deep at the Edmonton Oilers. In the upcoming NHL season, the Alberta team wants to take a new attempt on the NHL crown. Possibly one last time with superstar and captain Connor McDavid.
The 28-year-old, who will go to the last year of his eight-year contract over $ 100 million in the next year, recently announced that he had to collect his thoughts in a row after the second Stanley Cup final. He wants to decide with friends, agents and family how things will continue for him in the future.
“I don’t have a hurry to make a decision, so I don’t think there has to be a schedule,” McDavid followed up at a press conference on Wednesday: “I know that people want to look at the 1st July and see if something happened. But for me it’s not that, I just don’t have it in a hurry.”
ESPN According to the superstar’s surroundings, it should be heard that even a farewell to the Edmonton Oilers cannot be excluded. “He tries to find reasons to stay, not to go,” an anonymous source is quoted: “But everything is currently open to Connor.”
NHL: Connor McDavid leaves the whereabouts open
McDavid said he “ultimately had to do what is the best for me and my family. You have to take care of them first.” Words that make you doubt whether the face of the franchise really signs a new working paper in Alberta. The striker waves a record contract.
Loud ESPN However, the center will only stay with the Oilers if the team can explain how it can be enough for the first Stanley Cup triumph since 1990. If McDavid does not see the title perspective, the chances of staying in Edmonton are probably bad.
“This core has been together for a long time and we have worked for this moment all the time. The work behind the scenes, the conversations, the endless disappointments and of course some good times on the way there. We are all sitting in the same boat and trying to reach the finish line,” he explained.