The EDMONTON Oilers remain optimistic that the star striker Connor McDavid will accept a long -term contract extension, the director general Stan Bowman saying this week: “He wants nothing more to win in Edmonton.”
McDavid heads for the last season of a $ 100 million over eight-year-old contract which paid him on average $ 12.5 million per season, and officially $ 10 million during the 2025-26 season, tied to the 25th in the League.
Oilers’ teammate, Leon Draisaitl, is expected to be the best paid player in NHL this season at $ 16.5 million.
McDavid did more than take to get a significant increase, winning the Art Ross trophy for managing the League in points five times. He is a quadruple winner of the Ted Lindsay Prize for the League MVP, as it was voted by the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association and helped the Oilers participate in the playoffs for six consecutive seasons.
“I take it in the word,” said Bowman when he was asked about McDavid signer at the extension at a given time. “He goes through his own process, and you have to understand this and respect it, and I do it. When it is ready, it will be ready.”
In 67 games last season, McDavid scored 26 goals with 74 assists to reach 100 points for the fifth consecutive season and the eighth time in the last nine seasons. The former choice of draft n ° 1 of the Oilers in 2015 led the team to the Stanley Cup final in each of the last two seasons.
McDavid has 361 goals and 721 assists (1,082 points) in 10 career seasons (712 games).
“This is one of those things where we had several conversations, and he was very consistent with what he said to the media as well as to myself and we are just going a little (to leave),” said Bowman.
– field level media
