Chris Johnston believes the Edmonton Oilers don’t sign Connor McDavid before the start of the season
TSN: Ryan Rishaug and Chris Johnston discuss Connor McDavid’s contract situation as training camp and the start of the regular season.
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Rishaug: “To be clear, it’s not a back and forth salvo, the term and the money in one direction and the reverse and back. It’s not what’s going on here. There’s already a discussion about the big picture between the organization, McDavid and his agent. It’s going to look like going forward, team, team, organization, organization, organization, organization, organization, organization, organization, organization, organization, organization, organization, etc.
But McDavid and his agent are working on it, to some extent, they will be incorporating with the oilers.
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You and I are studying this story. You know, we both followed closely behind. CJ, what place your intuition tells you about possible landing? My instinct tells me, you know, I don’t know that the most likely contract here is the most likely option here. I think maybe somewhere in four years or so might land.
According to what we heard. It turns everything into some flux. But what you come as a reporter is, what does your intuition tell you? ”
Johnston: “Well, of course I can share that assumption. If he signed in Edmonton, I don’t think it would be a complete deal. Look, he tells us what he wants, right? I mean, there’s not a lot of mysterious things here. He hopes to win again and again, part of what he said in June in Edmonton.
You know, for me, the fact that I don’t think he’s in a hurry to sign a contract tells you, at least there are some concerns, will this happen? Look, every team has unknowns. I mean, you look at any team’s block table as 26-27 and there will be unsigned players. There will be a limit space. You don’t know how the team will allocate it.
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You know, in the vacuum, what I want to say is to me, he wants to see what the Oilers are going to do this year. But, you know, the important warning is, what he mentioned is, do they need another kind of distraction? Actually, is this distracting? I think that’s what he’s working on.
So if you have to pin me down, my guess is that the season will start without him signing the extension, but you know I’m not saying it’s 100% of the thing. ”
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