Connor McDavid said Monday that he has no timetable to return from a knee injury sustained April 6 and is "just aiming for training camp" with the Edmonton Oilers in September.
The 22-year-old center and Oilers captain continues to rehab from a torn PCL in his left knee sustained in Edmonton's season finale against the Calgary Flames. He is attending the annual BioSteel Camp in Toronto this week but will not be on the ice.
General manager Ken Holland said June 14 that the injury would not require surgery and McDavid was expected to be healthy at the beginning of training camp in September. McDavid agreed with the GM four days later at NHL Awards Media Day, saying Holland "nailed it" and that he had nothing further to add.
The No. 1 pick in the 2015 NHL Draft, McDavid was a finalist for the Hart Trophy, given to the best player in the League, last season after he had an NHL career-high 116 points (41 goals, 75 assists), which were second to eventual winner Nikita Kucherov of the Tampa Bay Lightning (128 points).
McDavid won the Hart Trophy in 2016-17. He also won the Ted Lindsay Award as the League's most outstanding player as voted by members of the National Hockey League Players' Association twice, most recently in 2017-18.
The Oilers (35-38-9) finished second to last in the Western Conference last season, 11 points behind the Colorado Avalanche for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and did not reach the playoffs for the second straight season and third time in McDavid's four NHL seasons. Edmonton advanced to Game 7 of the Western Conference Second Round in 2017.
McDavid has 372 points (128 goals, 244 assists) in 287 NHL games. He's entering the second season of an eight-year, $100 million contract extension he signed with the Oilers on July 5, 2017. Once healthy, he'll play for coach Dave Tippett, who was hired May 28 to replace Ken Hitchcock.
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