{"id":521116,"date":"2026-03-07T20:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521116\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T20:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:33:08","slug":"oilers-connor-mcdavid-lost-at-the-nhl-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521116\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers’ Connor McDavid lost at the NHL trade deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Edmonton Oilers<\/a> didn’t do anything major at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

They brought aboard Connor Murphy and Jason Dickinson, both defensive-minded players who can help at least shore up that weakness for the Oilers.<\/p>\n

What they didn’t do was find more firepower to help Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.<\/p>\n

That’s why The Athletic’s Mark Lazerus<\/a> wrote after the deadline that one of the biggest losers of the week was McDavid himself.<\/p>\n

“Connor Murphy and Jason Dickinson are good defenders who make Edmonton better at five-on-five and on the penalty kill, but they don\u2019t add much scoring punch,” Lazerus writes. “It\u2019s still all on McDavid and Leon Draisaitl to carry the load offensively.”<\/p>\n

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McDavid was due to be out of his contract after this season, but he signed a two-year extension at a discount rate to stick around.<\/p>\n

The Oilers don’t seem to have taken advantage of that relative discount.<\/p>\n

“The Oilers needed a scoring winger and got two defense-first players,” Lazerus writes. “The Oilers needed a true No. 1 goalie and got Tristan Jarry.”<\/p>\n

Where do they go from here? They’ll just have to hope McDavid’s greatness can carry them anyway.<\/p>\n

“The extraordinary mediocrity of the Pacific Division means there\u2019s still a path back to the final four, if not the Stanley Cup Final, for Edmonton,” Lazerus writes. “But Bowman didn\u2019t do enough to make the Oilers feel like a real threat to the Colorados, Dallases, Minnesotas, Tampas, Carolinas and Buffalos of the world.”<\/p>\n

The clock is ticking for McDavid. And this trade deadline, there was no effort to make it slow down.<\/p>\n

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