Connor McDavid was suspended three games by the NHL on Monday, and now, his teammates can't stop complaining to the league about it. The past few days in the NHL have been full of discussion about Connor McDavid and the situation involving Vancouver's Conor Garland,
Edmonton Oilers' veteran Corey Perry and head coach Kris Knoblauch blatantly criticized the NHL for Connor McDavid's three-game suspension. Yesterday,
Edmonton Oilers veteran Corey Perry snapped after the NHL assessed a three-game suspension on Connor McDavid, dropping a brutally honest statement to the league, comparing the situation to that of superstars Patrick Mahomes and LeBron James in their respective leagues.
Face the music, Corey Perry. After Perry pile-drived Quinn Hughes into the ice on Thursday night, you figured there’d be some sort of response from Hughes’ Vancouver Canucks teammates. There sort of was.
Edmonton Oilers forward Corey Perry criticized how the NHL handled Connor McDavid, saying the league doesn’t protect its superstars enough.
The Oilers' Leon Draisaitl says he guesses the NHL doesn't care about their best players playing, while Corey Perry says every other league protects superstars.
Pierre-Luc Dubois starred for the Capitals, scoring a goal and assisting on another one, while Tom Wilson and Matt Roy also found the back of the net. For Edmonton, Leon Draisaitl and Corey Perry scored, but the Oilers struggled to fill the void left by McDavid, who sits fifth in NHL scoring this season with 65 points.
Corey Perry took down Quinn Hughes in a scrum as frustration boiled over between the Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver Canucks during Thursday's matchup.
Tom Wilson, Matt Roy and Pierre-Luc Dubois scored and Logan Thompson made 30 saves during a 3-2 win in Edmonton.
The Edmonton Oilers will be without suspended superstar Connor McDavid when they host the struggling Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night in the second game between the Pacific Division rivals in less than a week.
Connor McDavid, it seems, has had enough of waiting for the officials to give him the room he requires to be the best player on earth. For now, he’ll cut his own swath, rather than waiting patiently for a striped arm to go up.