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Old 08-13-2024, 01:58 PM   #231
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I am extremely confident where this coming from is accurate. Also, Ken Holland chose to not continue in an organization that barely missed winning the SC last season, he doesn't leave if he did not know this, no GM is deciding to ride off into the sunset when they are that close. The Oilers can't trade the biggest name in the game again, they can only try and convince him to stay but it isn't going to work. I believe the game plan is to put all the chips in this year, this is it. There is a reason Draisaitl and McDavid said Cup or bust before last year but the Oilers media don't want to see that message for what it was. I suspect because Draisaitl knows his best friend is moving on he has the same plans. If Draisaitl was going to sign it would have happened by now imo.
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You keep saying this as if Holland was ever offered a chance to stay. Anyone saying they know what McDavid is doing at this juncture is just flat out lying.
They're just confidently speculating based on what they've heard, but even without that the context lends itself to the idea that the best player the game has seen in 25 years would want control of his own future.

With how that franchise has been run since the 80s, and the fact that it is Edmonton (a negative for a lot of reasons), it seems a good chance McDavid will want to complete his legacy somewhere else.
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