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 Steve
Messages: 128
Registered: October 2006
Location: Ottawa
No Cups
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| Jay wrote on Wed, 17 September 2025 12:39 |
If we get to game 1 of the season and he hasn't signed an extension rip the C of his chest and give it to the real captain. The guy who signed a second max term deal with the Oilers after playing the majority of his last max term deal as the best bargain in the league. The guy who has committed to being part of the solution in Edmonton and making the team better by his play and leadership - not gravy training and bouncing around to the team that already has the best chance to win. It's a fundamental difference in approaches. Building something yourself vs looking for the best opportunity to take advantage of what someone else has built.
If Mcdavid leaves to go chasing cups I'm fine with it - it's his legacy and it will be hilarious when he ends up playing for 4 or 5 teams and is still chasing. The only problem I really have is if he marners them. In that scenario any loyalty the team or city had to him should be out the window.
I'm still relatively optimistic that he will sign but IF he doesn't (by the start of the season) then it's time to cut bait and make it very clear that he needs to waive his NMC so they can get something for him. If he won't? Make his life as miserable as possible in Edmonton until he does. The team or city doesn't owe him a thing and letting him walk for nothing after stringing the team along all year is a disaster.
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It doesn't sound like you're fine with it. That's OK, but I think it's better to think of McDavid as a UFA rental this year. There is a better chance of the Oilers winning a cup if he stays and plays out the year, than if they trade him. There is no possible return in a trade that would make the Oilers better this year, unless another team is silly enough to also take Nurse and give back a #1D, #1/2 Centre, and a Top 10 goalie.
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
- Calvin
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