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“It’s cup or bust.” – Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl on expectations around the Edmonton Oilers



Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl meet with the media at Oilers locker clean out day.

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  1. Matthews, Marner and Knies for Leon and Mcdavid anyone agree with this trade? Both teams can’t make it so let’s swap see if change of scenery is going to work? Lol

  2. No team has won a Cup with one 10 mill+ player, let a lone 2. Look in the mirror if you want to know why you have not had enough playoff success.

  3. I absolutely hate the media and the dumbass questions they ask. Yeah I'm sure Conner decided to wait until he was 34 before winning a championship. How do these "journalists" get hired? This is embarrassing

  4. And my phones volume is all the way up and I can barely hear anything. The standards for media have fallen because merit is being vilified but this is the result and state of hockey coverage

  5. They played with a lot of jam against two strong opponents in both series. The Oilers were the better team. But then again, a team like Boston got knocked out in the first round.. It's nothing they did wrong overall. It's just that you are rolling the dice over only 7 games at a time. If the Oilers continue persevering, a Cup is likely going to happen soon.

  6. There is no chance in hell that McDavid is staying in Edmonton. An injured Colorado getting knocked out early should have given Edmonton an easy path to the final. McDavid is probably hoping that Toronto and Matthews either fail to make a deal or only sign one for short term, cause anyone can sense his frustration and lack of patience. If I were Holland, I too would consider trading him before he walks to Toronto, his childhood dream team, for free in 2025. Half the cap being spend on four players = braindead decision.

  7. 2 Consecutive Games EXTREMELY WEAK 5 on 3's awarded to Vegas. THAT decided the games and the series……a 2 HANDED OVERHEAD LUMBERJACK CHOP to Draisaitl from the gutless COWARD PietrAngelo and the league gives him ONE game???….What a disgusting and disgraceful slap in the face to Draisaitl, The Oilers, Edmonton and real Hockey fan's everywhere.
    The NHL could not look anymore BUSH LEAGUE!!!….If an Oiler pulled that garbage he would have been
    gone for the playoffs and everyone knows it….
    ……And the 2 BEST players in the League have to sit and put on a smiley face for the League and try and sell this BUSH LEAGUE GARBAGE after the League just basically gave the Green light for a PSYCHOPATH TO BASH THEM OVERHEAD.
    How they do it is amazing…….the fact that Gary Bettman can look these 2 in the eyes shows what a despicable piece of shit that man truly is….Bettman has to go.

  8. What is difficult to talk about…is the psychology of the game….the split second intuitive decisions….and learning to simply be present at your best…as a team.

  9. Interesting to hear McDavid. Ya…that's life in the NHL. Gotta go through another season of playing tons of games as a team….to get back to that same spot again…where you get to take another run for the cup. Not easy to stomach right now…but it gets better as the next season gets going…and you get caught more in the moment of what the team is doing.

  10. TSN has more money than anyone in Canada to cover sports but can’t properly mic and audio record the two best players in the world after losing in the playoffs in the primes of their careers. Nice job 👌🏼

  11. Connor is so full of sh*t. When asked about the coach and his own team, what made them so great he couldn't really elaborate on it. It almost reminded me of one of those losers who tries to impress a member of the opposite sex by saying they're a fan of something, but when pressed more about what they like about it they come up short and say something dumb and generic.

    You can tell he just hates being on the oilers, not just by his responses to the reporters questions but his own body language in response to Leon's responses. @ 8:43 look at the man's eyes. You can tell he wants to win anywhere BUT here in Edmonton. He'd probably kill to be on a team like Vegas.

  12. It's CUP or BUST for EVERY TEAM
    Average player play only 7 years in the league, they all want to win the cup, losing one year is lower a lot your chance to achieve your dream

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