{"id":64783,"date":"2025-08-12T20:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64783\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T20:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:08:07","slug":"nhl-insider-provides-update-on-contract-negotiations-between-connor-mcdavid-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64783\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL insider provides update on contract negotiations between Connor McDavid, Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it&#8217;s all said and done, Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid will likely be remembered as this generation&#8217;s premier hockey player.<\/p>\n<p>His resume, even though it is missing a Stanley Cup, speaks for itself: three Hart Memorial Trophies, five Art Ross Trophies, four Ted Lindsay Awards, seven NHL All-Star Games (including six captaincies at said games) and five appearances on the NHL First All-Star Team at the end of the season. McDavid also has the numbers to back it up, as he has averaged more than one point per game across both regular-season and postseason play.<\/p>\n<p>But McDavid is heading into the final year of an eight-year, $100 million contract extension he signed as a 22-year-old in 2017. Now 28, the Oilers&#8217; superstar will be an unrestricted free agent at the end of the 2025-26 season if he does not sign another extension.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation surrounding contract talks between McDavid and the Oilers have become one of the league&#8217;s major storylines this summer. On Tuesday, NHL insider Frank\u00a0Seravalli shared the latest intel involving McDavid&#8217;s contract situation that he gathered from sources.<\/p>\n<p>While no concrete offers have been put on the table yet, Seravalli said it is not worth speculating a potential McDavid departure from Edmonton at this time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a very busy social summer for Connor McDavid, as everyone saw on social media, overseas in Europe at best friend Leon Draisaitl&#8217;s wedding&#8230; Yet, Connor McDavid does not have a contract extension to stay with the Edmonton Oilers,&#8221;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/br_openice\/status\/1955322299558625392\" rel=\"nofollow\">Seravalli said during a Bleacher Report Open Ice livestream<\/a>. &#8220;Should people be nervous? Well, my understanding is that numbers haven&#8217;t even been exchanged yet. They&#8217;re still very early on in the process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yet, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be any hint of nerves, or panic, or fear, from either the Edmonton Oilers&#8217; side, as best I can tell, and also the McDavid side,&#8221; Seravalli continued. &#8220;I&#8217;d expect in relatively short order here\u00a0\u2014 whether it&#8217;s in the next week or two\u00a0\u2014 that that process will begin to ramp up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seravalli later said that the target date for a contract extension will ultimately be on McDavid&#8217;s terms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The minute that Connor McDavid picks his head up off the pillow and decides he would like to have a contract extension done, that&#8217;s the day that it&#8217;ll happen,&#8221; Seravalli said. &#8220;It could be that quick.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it&#8217;s all said and done, Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid will likely be remembered as this generation&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-64783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64783","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=64783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}