{"id":276328,"date":"2025-11-10T22:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276328\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T22:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:28:12","slug":"mcdavid-expects-more-from-flat-oilers-against-blue-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276328\/","title":{"rendered":"McDavid expects more from \u2018flat\u2019 Oilers against Blue Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"

McDavid leads Edmonton with 22 points (five goals, 17 assists) in 16 games but is minus-6 due to his team\u2019s inability to generate at even strength. Leon Draisaitl<\/a> has 18 points (10 goals, eight assists), and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a> has 16 points (five goals, 11 assists) but is minus-11, along with defenseman Evan Bouchard<\/a>, who has 10 points (two goals, eight assists).<\/p>\n

The Oilers will be without Nugent-Hopkins on Monday; coach Kris Knoblauch said he’ll be out one week<\/a> because of an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s a belief in the room that we\u2019ll always figure it out,\u201d McDavid said. \u201cThat being said, enough is enough here and we have to find a way to just put a good game together. It starts with a good start and go from there. We have to find a way to put a good game together here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last season, the Oilers started 1-1-2 but were able to right the ship quickly and were 9-4-3 after 16 games. They went on to finish third in the Pacific (48-29-5) and advanced to the Cup Final. In 2023-24, they dropped to a share of last in the NHL standings with a 2-9-1 start, which led to the firing of coach Jay Woodcroft on Nov. 12, 2023. Woodcroft was replaced by Knoblauch.<\/p>\n

Helped by a 16-game winning streak from Dec. 21-Jan. 27, the Oilers went on to finish second in the Pacific (49-27-6) and went all the way to the Cup Final.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s lots of belief in the room that we\u2019ll figure it out,\u201d McDavid said. \u201cWe\u2019ve kind of let things get to this point, I guess, and I think [Saturday] night was the accumulation of a lot of different things. Last night is a great warning to the group of what happens when you\u2019re not ready to roll in this league; it\u2019s humbling and we stand better for it. We have to move on tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McDavid leads Edmonton with 22 points (five goals, 17 assists) in 16 games but is minus-6 due to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-276328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276328","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=276328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}