Edmonton Oilers captain and three-time MVP Connor McDavid said earlier today that he plans to take his time deciding whether or not he wants to re-sign with Edmonton, as his present contract is about to run out subsequent low season. In 2017, he signed an eight-year, $100 million deal that runs via the tip of the 2025-26 season.
“I mentioned on the finish of June, I had each intention to take my time with it, and I nonetheless really feel the identical manner,” McDavid told reporters. “I’ll take my time and undergo all the pieces.”
McDavid was one in all a number of NHL stars attending the Canada Males’s Olympic Orientation Camp forward of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. He joked that he hoped to start out by answering Olympics-based questions, however reassured Oilers followers that he’s solely targeted on profitable.
“I’ve each intention to win in Edmonton,” McDavid mentioned. “It’s my solely focus, perhaps subsequent to profitable a gold medal with Canada. However that’s my intention: to win there.”
Since being drafted by the Oilers in 2015, Connor McDavid has helped the franchise grow to be a perennial playoff workforce, reaching the postseason seven instances in his first ten years as a professional. Sadly for him, the Oilers have fallen in need of a Stanley Cup championship after struggling back-to-back losses to the Florida Panthers the final two years.
Ideally, McDavid and the Oilers want to finalize a deal earlier than the common season begins on October seventh. However, he mentioned that the 2 sides haven’t even began negotiating a brand new contract.
“All choices are on the desk, actually,” McDavid defined. “We’re going via it. I don’t have a choice both manner. I need the group to be as targeted and dialed in, and able to roll from Day One as potential, and we don’t want any distractions.”
McDavid’s former agent, Jeff Jackson, who’s now the CEO of hockey operations for the Edmonton Oilers, doesn’t appear all that involved in regards to the negotiation course of. He believes the 2 sides will be capable to get a deal executed shortly.
“He has one other yr. He loves enjoying in Edmonton. And positive sufficient, we received a deal executed [in] early September with Leon (Draisaitl), and we’re tremendous comfortable about that. So, I kind of really feel it’s the identical with Connor,” Jackson said during an interview on The Sheet with Jeff Marek podcast. “It’s not going to be a protracted negotiation… It’ll be in contrast to every other kind of negotiation as a result of it’s probably not, and I feel that when Connor’s prepared, we’ll have the dialogue, and we’ll get a deal executed.”
No matter Jeff Jackson’s expectations, McDavid reiterated that he’s not in a rush to get something executed.
“I’ll take my time going via it with my household, my agent, and all people concerned,” he defined. “We’re going via it slowly.”
The Edmonton Oilers open coaching camp on September seventeenth. Their first recreation of the common season will probably be in opposition to the Calgary Flames on October eighth at 10:00 p.m. EDT.
