It’s simply not much of a story, but I’ll admit that the narrative from the detractors is getting pretty old. This make believe tale that he’s at full strength and playing like this is some of the most dishonest stuff I’ve seen from people who supposedly love following sports.
McDavid is playing hurt; it’s obvious, but the most vocal trolls who don’t watch a single shift of his games, have ammo because his season stats say 13 points in 14 games.
For the stat hounds, he has 5 pointless games in the 9 games since he has returned. He had just 7 in all 82 games last season and had a point in 59 out of his final 62 games, which was followed up with a point in all 5 games to start the season before he was injured. Yeah, he’s really fallen off a cliff for no reason; keep telling yourselves that while you’re marching in the hate parade, head-scratchingly led by the Captain.
It’s pretty clear he’s been rushed back; he probably feels it was a mutual decision at worst, because he’s still pretty young, is an elite athlete, and thinks his management cares for anything beyond ‘can he play the next game to cover up our poor decision-making?’
He was originally projected to miss at least 3-6 games. They brought him back after 2 due to desperation. Just another symptom of both short and long-term bad decision making by the Oilers, made necessary by the past, at the expense of the present and futures.
Eventually, McDavid will get healthy and rip the league to shreds again, and most of you will slink back into the shadows and safely vote the negative option in any McDavid poll, anonymously of course.
I enjoy that while I can.
