{"id":5257,"date":"2025-10-06T16:51:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=5257"},"modified":"2025-10-06T16:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:51:23","slug":"connor-mcdavid-agrees-to-extension-with-edmonton-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=5257","title":{"rendered":"Connor McDavid agrees to extension with Edmonton Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> and superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-mcdavid\/8478402\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-mcdavid\/8478402\">Connor McDavid<\/a> have agreed on a two-year contract extension with an average annual value below $14 million, TSN\u2019s Ryan Rishaug reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McDavid clearly left money on the table in his extension, which comes less than a week after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/minnesota-wild\/30\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/minnesota-wild\/30\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kirill-kaprizov\/8478864\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kirill-kaprizov\/8478864\">Kirill Kaprizov<\/a> reset the market with his record-setting eight-year, $136 million contract ($17M AAV) last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McDavid seemingly confirmed the extension with a post on X, writing \u201cOur journey here continues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Reaching a deal comes less than a week after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\">Oilers<\/a> general manager Stan Bowman said Wednesday it\u2019s not a guarantee that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-mcdavid\/8478402\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-mcdavid\/8478402\">McDavid<\/a> would enter the season as a pending unrestricted free agent, despite all signs seemingly pointing that way at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McDavid is entering the final year of his eight-year, $100 million deal signed in 2017 and hasn\u2019t committed to reaching an extension with the Oilers as of yet. The team opens its 2025-26 season Wednesday, hosting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\">Calgary Flames<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t have expectations either way on that,\u201d Bowman said last week of when asked if it\u2019s clear McDavid will reach next week without a new deal in place. \u201cI think we\u2019re continuing to talk to [McDavid\u2019s agent Judd Moldaver] regularly, I talk to him almost every day and had good chats with Connor all along the way too. I don\u2019t like to make predictions, we\u2019ll see where it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 28-year-old superstar\u2019s future has been a source of speculation since he said in June he wanted to see a commitment to winning before opening talks just days after the Oilers fell to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\">Florida Panthers<\/a> in the Stanley Cup Final for the second straight year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McDavid is a generational talent with three Hart Trophies who has led the league in scoring in five of his 10 seasons. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McDavid recorded 26 goals and 100 points in 67 games with the Oilers last season. He added seven goals and 33 points in 22 playoff games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More details to follow. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/rishaug-good-chance-oilers-mcdavid-reach-extension-today\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Edmonton Oilers and superstar Connor McDavid have agreed on a two-year contract extension with an average annual value below $14 million, TSN\u2019s Ryan Rishaug reports. McDavid clearly left money on the table in his extension, which comes less than a week after Minnesota Wild winger Kirill Kaprizov reset the market with his record-setting eight-year, &#8230; <a title=\"Connor McDavid agrees to extension with Edmonton Oilers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=5257\" aria-label=\"Read more about Connor McDavid agrees to extension with Edmonton Oilers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Connor-McDavid-agrees-to-extension-with-Edmonton-Oilers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5259,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions\/5259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}