{"id":59147,"date":"2025-08-11T04:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T04:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59147\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T04:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T04:20:09","slug":"3-questions-facing-edmonton-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59147\/","title":{"rendered":"3 questions facing Edmonton Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NHL.com is providing in-depth roster, prospect and fantasy analysis for each of its 32 teams from Aug. 1-Sept. 1. Today, three important questions facing the Edmonton Oilers.<\/p>\n<p>1. Will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/connor-mcdavid-8478402\" title=\"Connor McDavid\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor McDavid<\/a> re-sign?<\/p>\n<p>McDavid is entering the final season of his eight-year, $100-million contract ($12.5 million average annual value) signed on July 5, 2017, and can become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton&#8217;s continued success is largely dependent on McDavid signing a new contract beyond this season, but the three-time Hart Trophy winner as the NHL&#8217;s most valuable player (2016-17, 2020-21, 2022-23) and four-time Ted Lindsay Award winner as most outstanding player as voted on by the NHL Players&#8217; Association (2016-17, 2017-18, 2020-21, 2022-23) said he will take his time on a decision.<\/p>\n<p>Although forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/leon-draisaitl-8477934\" title=\"Leon Draisaitl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leon Draisaitl<\/a> re-signed long term and is entering the first of an eight-year, $112-million contract ($14 million AAV), McDavid said there are a number of factors to consider in his decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHL.com is providing in-depth roster, prospect and fantasy analysis for each of its 32 teams from Aug. 1-Sept.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-59147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59147","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=59147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}