EDMONTON — For a decade now, we’ve chronicled all the moments that Connor McDavid has provided that none of his peers give us. Feats that nobody else can pull off, that few could even dream of.
Then his contract comes up, and somehow he gives us another.
McDavid signed a surprisingly short, two-year contract with the Edmonton Oilers on Monday for a surprisingly low $12.5 million dollars per season. It is exactly the salary he has played for over the course of the eight-year deal he signed as a 21-year-old.
No raise, no bump.
Name a player who is right in his prime, who has led his team to consecutive championship series — and all the revenue therein — who did not seek even a modest raise? Any sport, any player.
We’ll wait…
“This is unique,” said Oilers general manager Stan Bowman, wh