{"id":101134,"date":"2025-08-28T02:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101134\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T02:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:45:07","slug":"pacific-notes-mcdavid-patterson-papirny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101134\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Notes: McDavid, Patterson, Papirny"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Canada\u2019s Olympic orientation camp got underway today, plenty of the focus was on Connor McDavid<\/a>\u2019s contract situation with the Oilers, namely that an extension hasn\u2019t been completed yet.\u00a0 Speaking with reporters today including Sportsnet\u2019s Eric Francis<\/a>, the center indicated that he has every intention to win with Edmonton and that is his only focus.\u00a0 However, when asked if he\u2019d be okay opening the season without a deal, McDavid indicated that all options are on the table.<\/p>\n

At this point, it doesn\u2019t appear as if there have been any substantive conversations between the two sides.\u00a0 TSN\u2019s Ryan Rishaug reports (Twitter link<\/a>) that there hasn\u2019t been a back-and-forth between the Oilers and McDavid\u2019s camp regarding either salary or term.\u00a0 Given that McDavid could plausibly sign a short-term or a long-term deal, it\u2019s not a situation as simple as focusing on an eight-year deal and only worrying about the money.\u00a0 He\u2019ll carry a $12.5MM AAV for the upcoming season and is expected to beat that by several million per season whenever he puts pen to paper on a new deal.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the Pacific:<\/p>\n

A day after his trade request was made public, Canucks prospect Riley Patterson<\/a> is on the move in the OHL. Niagara announced<\/a> that they\u2019ve acquired the center from Barrie in exchange for five draft picks.\u00a0 The 19-year-old was a fourth-round pick in 2024 and has averaged just under a point per game in the past two seasons with the Colts, including a 25-goal, 59-point effort last season.\u00a0 Vancouver has until June 1st to sign Patterson to an entry-level deal or lose his rights so there will be a lot riding on the upcoming season for him.
\nThe Golden Knights\u2019 AHL affiliate announced<\/a> that they have brought back goaltender Jordan Papirny<\/a> on a one-year minor-league deal. The 29-year-old has spent the last three seasons in their system but he hasn\u2019t been able to secure an NHL deal.\u00a0 Last season, Papirny played in 28 games with ECHL Tahoe, putting up a 2.50 GAA and a .920 SV% along with four shutouts while getting into a pair of games with AHL Henderson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Canada\u2019s Olympic orientation camp got underway today, plenty of the focus was on Connor McDavid\u2019s contract situation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[3063,64,63,18672,3275,73540,575,31033,73541,85,2371,7529],"class_list":["post-101134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ahl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-connor-mcdavid","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-jordan-papirny","tag-nhl","tag-ohl","tag-riley-patterson","tag-sports","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}