{"id":641168,"date":"2026-05-01T16:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641168\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:56:11","slug":"mcdavid-calls-oilers-average-following-playoff-elimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641168\/","title":{"rendered":"McDavid Calls Oilers &#8220;Average&#8221; Following Playoff Elimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, they were a tired bunch. Most of this team played more hockey than anyone in the past few seasons. McDavid looked like he was running on fumes. At the same time, tired or not, this group in Edmonton never found its identity. Night-to-night, and all season long, they were inconsistent, suffered defensive lapses, and couldn&#8217;t go on a run that would have made anyone inside or outside the organization confident they were a top contender.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes, they were a tired bunch. Most of this team played more hockey than anyone in the past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-641168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641168","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=641168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}