EDMONTON — Connor McDavid lay there behind the dislodged Calgary net, clutching his leg while looking up at Flames goalie Mike Smith and defenceman Mark Giordano. "It's broken," he appeared to say.
Was he talking about his leg? The Oilers franchise as a whole?
Or perhaps it referred to his will to play out the remaining seven years of his contract with an Oilers team that can't seem to get things right, despite having two of the Top 4 scorers in the National Hockey League with McDavid and 50-goal-man Leon Draisaitl.
"I thought my leg was in two pieces," McDavid admitted a bit sheepishly on Sunday. "I've never had a lower-body injury before. This was something new for me."
McDavid walked into a media scrum Sunday morning without even the aid of crutches, quite relieved that X-rays had been negative, but still wary of what may come from an MRI scheduled for later in the day.
Then the 21-year-old showed a welcome side of his personality that is beginning to emerge in his fourth NHL season, as McDavid grows comfortable in his skin as hockey's best player. Asked about what he would say in an exit interview with acting GM Keith Gretzky and CEO Bob Nicholson, McDavid was short and to the point:
"My message is, let's get this right. Let's fix this," he said. "It doesn't matter what has to happen, let's just get this right. That's all."
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