{"id":273213,"date":"2025-11-10T01:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T01:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/273213\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T01:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T01:26:07","slug":"mcdavid-expects-more-from-flat-oilers-against-blue-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/273213\/","title":{"rendered":"McDavid expects more from \u2018flat\u2019 Oilers against Blue Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/connor-mcdavid-8478402\" title=\"Connor McDavid\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor McDavid<\/a> wants to see more emotion from the Edmonton Oilers in their game against the Columbus Blue Jackets at Rogers Place on Monday (8:30 p.m. ET; Prime, FDSNOH).<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton is 6-6-4 after 16 games this season, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/colorado-avalanche-edmonton-oilers-game-recap-november-8-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 9-1 loss<\/a> here to the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday. McDavid, its captain, believes the intensity level needs to be raised after its third straight defeat (0-2-1) and sixth in 10 games (4-3-3).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been flat &#8212; that starts with me as a leader,\u201d McDavid said after practice Sunday. \u201cThere has maybe not been enough energy, not enough emotion, and we have to find a way to bring some of that into the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Slow starts have become a trend for the Oilers the past three seasons, but they have been able to overcome them the previous two and made consecutive trips to the Stanley Cup Final, losing to the Florida Panthers each time.<\/p>\n<p>But the loss Saturday was their worst at home since a 10-2 defeat against the Buffalo Sabres on Jan. 27, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe talk about in here [that] everybody is trying to bring something,\u201d McDavid said. \u201cEven if it\u2019s not in your nature to be the loudest guy, you have to try a little bit. If it\u2019s not in your nature to play a physical game, you have to try a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all have a hand in bringing just a little bit more &#8212; emotionally, physically and just to our game as a whole. Everybody has a little bit more to give, and I expect everyone to have a good one tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON &#8212; Connor McDavid wants to see more emotion from the Edmonton Oilers in their game against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-273213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}