{"id":643592,"date":"2026-05-02T19:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/643592\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T19:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:15:09","slug":"edmonton-oilers-connor-mcdavid-played-with-foot-ankle-fracture-in-round-1-of-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/643592\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers Connor McDavid played with foot\/ankle fracture in round 1 of playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edmonton Oilers<\/a> head coach Kris Knoblauch confirmed on Saturday that captain Connor McDavid<\/a> played through a foot injury in the first round of the playoffs. <\/p>\n

During the team\u2019s end-of-season media availabilities, Knoblauch said that both McDavid and forward Jason Dickinson<\/a> dealt with fractures in the foot\/ankle area in the team\u2019s first-round exit against the Anaheim Ducks<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cWith Connor and Dickinson, both had fractures around the foot\/ankle area,\u201d said Knoblauch. \u201cPlaying through a lot of pain. And yeah, that was the two most significant injuries. They spent a lot of time with the training staff getting through that. <\/p>\n

\u201cObviously it affected their play but a lot of admiration for them for wanting to be out there and contributing as much as they did during the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Edmonton\u2019s six playoff games this season, McDavid had six points but had just one goal and was a -8 through the series. He was a game-time decision due to the injury ahead of Game 5, but played. <\/p>\n

McDavid said after the Game 6 loss on Thursday that the Oilers struggled all season long to find consistency coming off back-to-back trips to the Stanley Cup Final. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been searching for consistency all year and we didn\u2019t find it here in the playoffs,\u201d said McDavid. \u201cIt\u2019s tough. We were an average team all year. An average team with high expectations, you\u2019re going to be disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the regular season, McDavid scored 48 goals with 138 points in 82 games to capture his sixth career Art Ross Trophy as the NHL\u2019s top point-getter. He is also one of the three nominees for the Ted Lindsay Award, alongside San Jose\u2019s Macklin Celebrini<\/a> and Tampa Bay\u2019s Nikita Kucherov<\/a>. <\/p>\n

At Milano Cortina 2026 in February, McDavid scored two goals with 13 points in six games to help Team Canada capture the silver medal after losing in overtime to the United States in the gold-medal game. <\/p>\n

Prior to the 2025-26 campaign, McDavid, who was set to be a pending unrestricted free agent, signed a two-year, $25 million contract extension with Edmonton. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch confirmed on Saturday that captain Connor McDavid played through a foot injury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[712,49,48,79553,23752,79560,204043],"class_list":["post-643592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-connor-mcdavid-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8478402","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-oilers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-22","tag-jason-dickinson-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8477450"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643592","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=643592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}