Edmonton Oilers -Fans should not be nervous yet, but that can start when the season starts
TSN: Pierre Lebrun on TSN Overdrive on Connor McDavid in no hurry, because he wants to know the future and the direction of the Edmonton Oilers. If he decides to sign up again, negotiations will be short. The oilers knew that the process would not be fast and they are good with it. The earliest fans should have a little concern, the start of the regular season could be, but he could clearly sign at any time.
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Lebrun: “McDavid, it was clear before many of us went on holiday and we talked about this, he would never be hurry. We had said we didn’t think it would be a July 1 -thing. But you know …”
Jeff O’Neill: “What is he not in a hurry, for Pierre? Like, what is he …”
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Lebrun: “Well, I understand, yes, I understand that the situation is that he is going through his own internal process with his agent Judd Muldaver. This is not about, I hope that everyone understands that this is not as if they started back and forth with numbers. That part of it is the easiest part of the care. Years.
The process is that McDavid has had a number of conversations with the management of the oil, but more importantly, with his own agent about what the future has in store. What is this team? What will this team look like in a few years? And that is important to him. He is a really smart guy and, before he commits them for a number of years, I think he wants to know what he is committed to in his heart and spirit.
Nobody in Edmonton can scare that, although I think it was that it was not a slam -thunk, but he is just super careful and works through it. And when it is that one day he wakes up and concludes: ‘Okay, I brought myself to the end of this process. Now we are ready to go to the next level and to negotiate. ‘Then he will tell, tell his agent, but until that moment happens, that is where they are.
And I know, you met Stan Bowman yesterday at the GM meetings in Detroit, and and Bowman insisted that they, they understood that this was the process that would continue 97 and that they are super patient. They have not been there from their end. They are just saying there, “Hey, we’re ready when you’re done.”
And in the meantime, you know, they have had a number of conversations with, with the agent, and it’s pretty warm, the back and forth. But that doesn’t matter until she, until number 97 decides that he is ready. And that can be next week. It can be in a month. Can be around Christmas. Who knows when he decides he is ready. Could be tomorrow. But the reality is that he simply was not at ease, but still went to that conversation at the next level. “
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Because the same thing happened to John Tavares. It was like: ‘This is business. I have to weigh all my options. I have to do this. ‘And then January, it was, ah, it’s business, man, it’s between my agent and the GM. It’s business. And then the season ended, the same stuff, and then all suddenly, you had a leaf sweater. ‘
Lebrun: “Yes. Well, by the way, I don’t propose anything. Well, I don’t think. I don’t propose anything. Leon Draisaitl signed his extension exactly a year ago, on 3 September.
Yes. I mean, I think, I think you should start to get nervous, as a fan of oilers, as soon as the puck falls in October, if there is no extension. Again, I tell you that it doesn’t mean it can’t happen during the year, because I think part of what McDavid is going through, what does this team look like? You know, this season and then.
I will also tell you that, regardless of how this is happening, I think it is really important for McDavid, such as, say he is not signing, and I think that is the least likely of the options. But let’s say he will eventually take himself, I am pretty sure that it is important to him, I think, in a sense, to ensure that the oilers get value in return, if there is ever an exit. As if he really gives a ton around that market.
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But again, that would not be to my best options. I think he eventually signs. I don’t think it’s for the long term. I think if he draws, it is for a shorter term. Whether that is short or medium, you know, you choose. I think it is still about still wanting to win a cup in Edmonton. But I don’t know, you know how many years that would be. That’s just my gamble. It is clear that nobody is even there, so you skirt, but that’s where I would be. “
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