EDMONTON — You can play a hell of a hockey game against a team that has 100 points on March 20, under the gaze of a local-boy-turned-Prime-Minister, but when Connor McDavid leaves the game with an injury and does not return, everything else falls under the heading, “And in other news…”
McDavid left the game late in the second period after taking a Josh Morrissey stick to the ribs or wrist — we’re not sure which — and did not take another shift. The team listed it as a “lower-body injury,” and Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch has absolutely nothing to report post-game.
McDavid was seen without any visible aids — no sling, no cast — after the game, smiling and speaking with a teammate’s son, and Knoblauch did manage a chuckle or two in his post-game media address, both signs that whatever nicked up McDavid is likely not catastrophic.
And in other news, playing without Leon Draisaitl (who missed the game with an undisclosed injury), then McDavid, and then goalie Stuart Skinner, who was removed late in the game by the concussion spotter, Edmonton rallied with a late goal before losing 4-3 in overtime on Kyle Connor’s 13th shot attempt of the night.
Tristan Blackwood