What is wrong with Mcdavid?

[EdmFlyersfan]

With how some of their top stars are performing and body language, there must be locker room issues, they are not on the same page and seem very dysfunctional compared to last year.

 

[Kegs]

Nothing is wrong with mcdavid.

End thread.

 

[JaegerDice]

He might be a bit injured, but mostly he’s just sulking

 

[Just Linda]

Someone who works for the Oilers (though not high up the ladder) told me that there's a pretty bad bug running through the Oilers room. If true, would explain everything to me.

 

[Scrantonicity 2]

Someone who works for the Oilers (though not high up the ladder) told me that there's a pretty bad bug running through the Oilers room. If true, would explain everything to me.

lol. not this again. Is there anyone in the league who gets sick more often than McDavid?

 

[Faceboner]

lol. not this again. Is there anyone in the league who gets sick more often than McDavid?

Used to be Vanek he would get the flu every year maybe it's the vid

 

[SillyRabbit]

Even when the Oilers are losing games, he usually at least guns for the scoring title right?

I wouldn't sleep on him dropping 20 points in 8 games or something like that.

 

[Stealth1616]

Anyone who thinks the NHL is a men's league and don't appreciate the way he disgraces the sport with his diving, tantrums, and floating. Great player but I have no respect whatsoever for that gutless coward.

The irony in this post is hilarious given the time you spend having temper tantrums about McDavid

 

[VivaLasVegas]

Why should he be depressed?

IMHO, McDavid and Draisatl have come to a determination that they will never seriously compete for a Cup with this Oilers' build and so they have both hit their "Well, what's the point?" moments. And, yes, that might very well have been true in fact all along anyway, but getting kicked out of the playoffs they way they did last season, after the individual seasons they had last year, finally brought it home to them.

I include Draisatl because he and McDavid are basically joined at the hip, and while McDavid is obviously playing through injuries, Draistatl has no excuse for his rather open apathy and general don't-give-a-shitness of this season, i.e., what's going on with Draisatl is a better indication of what they are thinking as opposed to McDavid whose situation is clouded by the injury.

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

He plays on the Oilers. It’s McDavid, Draisaitl, Kane, Hyman and 25 plugs. Bouchard, Nurse, Ekholm are 2nd pairing defencemen, their goaltending is and always has been atrocious. Seems like he’s depressed. Imagine if he played on a really good team with a Dman like Hughes, Makar, Hedman, Fox etc. setting him up, he’d be racking up 170+ point seasons while winning Cups, what a wasted career.

 

[333359]

Someone who works for the Oilers (though not high up the ladder) told me that there's a pretty bad bug running through the Oilers room. If true, would explain everything to me.

Aids? The season has been going for a month and half now.

 

[AmabileCassarole]

Someone who works for the Oilers (though not high up the ladder) told me that there's a pretty bad bug running through the Oilers room. If true, would explain everything to me.

I thought it was Tobias Reider spiking the water like last time.

 

[AmabileCassarole]

IMHO, McDavid and Draisatl have come to a determination that they will never seriously compete for a Cup with this Oilers' build and so they have both hit their "Well, what's the point?" moments. And, yes, that might very well have been true in fact all along anyway, but getting kicked out of the playoffs they way they did last season, after the individual seasons they had last year, finally brought it home to them.

I include Draisatl because he and McDavid are basically joined at the hip, and while McDavid is obviously playing through injuries, Draistatl has no excuse for his rather open apathy and general don't-give-a-shitness of this season, i.e., what's going on with Draisatl is a better indication of what they are thinking as opposed to McDavid whose situation is clouded by the injury.

They play for the Edmonton Oilers. A team that plays in a city that regularly tops "do not want" lists for players. It's not like they weren't aware what they were getting into - at some point, his team must've told him about the Oilers and their issues, but he still signed that ELC. He still signed that extension. He still hasn't put his foot down and says enough is enough. I get losing sucks and all, but it's not like anyone's forcing him to stay. He can ask them for a trade at any time. Drai can tell them he's not going to resign.

He knew what he was getting into, and I'm sure that's why he sulked when they announced the Oilers won the draft lottery in 2015. But maybe he felt he could just roll with it, make his money, but unfortunately, Oileritis got to him just like it did everyone else.

 

[EdmFlyersfan]

They play for the Edmonton Oilers. A team that plays in a city that regularly tops "do not want" lists for players. It's not like they weren't aware what they were getting into - at some point, his team must've told him about the Oilers and their issues, but he still signed that ELC. He still signed that extension. He still hasn't put his foot down and says enough is enough. I get losing sucks and all, but it's not like anyone's forcing him to stay. He can ask them for a trade at any time. Drai can tell them he's not going to resign.

He knew what he was getting into, and I'm sure that's why he sulked when they announced the Oilers won the draft lottery in 2015. But maybe he felt he could just roll with it, make his money, but unfortunately, Oileritis got to him just like it did everyone else.

Maybe everytime the topic of leaving comes up the Oilers organization dusts off the DVD that Kevin Lowe made for Michael Nylander back in the day... and it convinces them to stay...lol

 

[Sugi21]

He probably knows Draisatl has one foot out the Edmonton door

 

[DearDiary]

What's wrong with McDavid is the Edmonton Oilers

 

[VivaLasVegas]

They play for the Edmonton Oilers. A team that plays in a city that regularly tops "do not want" lists for players. It's not like they weren't aware what they were getting into - at some point, his team must've told him about the Oilers and their issues, but he still signed that ELC. He still signed that extension. He still hasn't put his foot down and says enough is enough. I get losing sucks and all, but it's not like anyone's forcing him to stay. He can ask them for a trade at any time. Drai can tell them he's not going to resign.

He knew what he was getting into, and I'm sure that's why he sulked when they announced the Oilers won the draft lottery in 2015. But maybe he felt he could just roll with it, make his money, but unfortunately, Oileritis got to him just like it did everyone else.

Probably all correct, but merely pointing out that the entire tilt of the Oilers' organization for years preceding McDavid has been for super offense at the expense of a putrid defense, i.e., simply outscore everybody, and that sort of team probably appealed to McDavid's desires insofar as it allowed him to to what he wanted to do -- at least for a while -- which was to showcase his unique talents and rack up the individual hardware to where he is (or at least was) regularly compared to Gretzky. When it came time to recognize that his legacy would be limited unless he lifted the Cup, McDavid probably thought that the Oilers' offense-heavy build would allow him to get to the promised land, and indeed just two season ago they got to the WCF even with an injured Draisatl and gave the eventual Cup champs Avs about all they could handle. So, if McDavid thought that last season they could finally break through to the SCF, it was not that unrealistic, especially coming off a regular season where the Oilers PP seemed unstoppable. But then the wheels came off when they were tossed out in the second round of last season's playoffs and McDavid likely finally realized that a Cup was not in the cards with the Oilers.

Oh sure, you can say that he should have come to this realization long before, but that also comes with a heavy dose of hindsight and assumptions that might not be true, such as that McDavid knew for a fact that he would have ended up playing for a team that had a better chance of getting to the SCF than it then appeared to him that the Oilers had. And this bring me to my final point, which is that for all McDavid's skill on the ice he is still human off the ice and prone to human mistakes like everybody else, including continuing to play for the Oilers when perhaps that wasn't such a hot idea. McDavid would certainly not be the first or last star athlete to make wrong careers turns, just as one can speculate endlessly about what might have happened had Marino left Miami or Barkley had left the 76ers.

And, BTW, I am no Oilers fan or McDavid fan by any definition; to the contrary, the Oilers downfall has been great entertainment. But I can see where McDavid could have reasonably believed that he would hoist the Cup in Edmonton, even if the ultimate truth turned out to be very different.

 

[ChurchOfMatthews]

Q: What's wrong with Connor McDavid?

A: He lives and plays for Edmonton.

/thread

 

[Breakers]

"Have you seen McDavid in the pressers? this guy has aged 15 years in 15 games. This guy is gonna look and sound like Joe Biden by the end of the year"

- Jamie McLennan on TSN Radio

 

[Hank Plank]

2016

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

"Have you seen McDavid in the pressers? this guy has aged 15 years in 15 games. This guy is gonna look and sound like Joe Biden by the end of the year"

- Jamie McLennan on TSN Radio

Confirmed that Jamie McLennan posts on here and is a massive Rangers fan.

 

[Mohar Ikram]

We have to accept sometimes big time athletes have down years. McD is no exception to that.

The ones who do not have it (Beliveau, Crosby, Messier, Bourque) are savant and not normal.

 

[mdobbs]

We have to accept sometimes big time athletes have down years. McD is no exception to that.

The ones who do not have it (Beliveau, Crosby, Messier, Bourque) are savant and not

 

[Digital Kid]

Jonathan Huberdeau holds the record for the largest points drop from one season to the next at -60.

He had 115 points with Florida in 2021-22 and then 55 points with Calgary in 2022-23.

Connor McDavid had 153 points in 2022-23.

As of November 23, he has 16 points in 16 games. Missed a couple games, but a 1.0 point/game projection (for a full season) would be 82 points in 2023-24.

That is a difference of 71 points.

Do we dare consider Huberdeau's record in jeopardy from one of the most unlikely sources?

 

[AmabileCassarole]

Just as winning the Heritage Classic was such for the Oilers, this will be Calgary's Stanley Cup this year.