{"id":44894,"date":"2019-04-07T01:01:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T05:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=44894"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:33:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:33:50","slug":"edmonton-oilers-connor-mcdavid-leaves-game-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/04\/07\/edmonton-oilers-connor-mcdavid-leaves-game-with-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers Connor McDavid Leaves Game With Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/oilers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> announced that centre<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcdavco01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connor McDavid<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0left tonight&#8217;s game vs <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/flames\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Calgary Flames<\/a> with a lower-body injury. It was feared that McDavid broke his leg, but x-rays were negative and he&#8217;ll be given an MRI in Edmonton.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">X-rays on Connor McDavid&#39;s left leg came back negative. He will return home with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Oilers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Oilers<\/a> tonight &amp; have an MRI in Edmonton. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G7VJh2nbqG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/G7VJh2nbqG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdmontonOilers\/status\/1114749476751568898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcdavco01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connor McDavid<\/a> Leaves Game Early<\/h2>\n<p>McDavid went hard into the goal post early in the second period. The Oilers captain would need help assistance getting off the ice. Calgary defenceman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/giordma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Giordano<\/a><\/strong> was trying to deny McDavid a scoring chance when the Oilers&#8217; captain went down.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season,\u00a0McDavid has scored 41 goals and 75 assists for 116 points to go along with 20 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 50.6 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of +3 percent. This is the second straight 40-goal season for McDavid as he also had 41 goals last season.<\/p>\n<p>McDavid\u00a0has spent his entire\u00a0three-year career with the Oilers.<i>\u00a0<\/i>The 2015 first overall pick has 128 goals and 244 assists for 372 points in 286 career games.<\/p>\n<p>McDavid held his left leg for several minutes before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/26460487\/mcdavid-exits-leg-injury-x-rays-negative\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">being helped off the ice<\/a> by teammate <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kassiza01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zack Kassian<\/a><\/strong> and a trainer.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>With the Oilers season ending\u00a0tonight, this won&#8217;t be a huge blow for them moving forward this season. McDavid was easily one of the top players on the Oilers season along with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/draisle01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leon Draisaitl<\/a><\/strong>. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nugenry01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a><\/strong> would move up to the top line to fill in for McDavid. Nugent-Hopkins has 28 goals and 39 assists for 67 points in 81 games this season. The main concern is that he couldn&#8217;t put any weight on that leg when leaving the ice.<\/p>\n<p>The good news for Oiler fans would be that McDavid would have the whole off-season to recover if this turns out to be a serious injury. McDavid still has seven years left on his current contract with the Oilers and is the face of the franchise. It wouldn&#8217;t be a shock if the Oilers keep him out for the rest of the game seeing that their season ends tonight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/04\/Connor-McDavid.jpg\" alt=\"\">ANAHEIM, CA &#8211; JANUARY 25: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcdavco01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connor McDavid<\/a> #97 of the Edmonton Oilers skates against the Anaheim Ducks at the Honda Center on January 25, 2017 in Anaheim, California. The Oilers shutout the Ducks 4-0. (Photo by Bruce Bennett\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Edmonton Oilers announced that centre Connor McDavid\u00a0left tonight&#8217;s game vs Calgary Flames with a lower-body injury. It was feared that McDavid broke his leg, but x-rays were negative and he&#8217;ll be given an MRI in Edmonton. X-rays on Connor McDavid&#39;s left leg came back negative. He will return home with the #Oilers tonight &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":9198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,34],"tags":[139,138,5738,193,1518,2569,955,145,722],"class_list":["post-44894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oilers","category-news","tag-connor-mcdavid","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-hockey-news","tag-leon-draisaitl","tag-mark-giordano","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-ryan-nugent-hopkins","tag-zack-kassian"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}