Oilers star rookie McDavid out with shoulder injury

“Oilers fan Reginald Carty has equal worry for his team going forward this season without McDavid”. And it would also be a massive understatement. McDavid hasn’t been just any first overall pick though.

In the four games Neuvirth has played from start to finish this season, he is 2-2 with a 1.52 GAA and a. 959 save percentage. “It was good for our team because we did a lot of good things tonight”. I can’t help myself, after the last nine years this is how my brain works now.

“(McDavid) will be out indefinitely and not week to week – we’re talking months”, Chiarelli said Wednesday.

And now we wait for an injury update.

That’s what Wayne Gretzky is calling the incident between Connor McDavid and two Philadelphia Flyers defencemen that saw the generational talent suffer a broken clavicle after crashing hard into the boards. “It’s more a freak accident, I think he just lost his balance and guys tripped over him”. Until then all we can do is sit and wait. In the days after baseball’s Kansas City Royals proved that smart drafting and patient development could make long years of suffering worthwhile, the Oilers were beginning to reap the rewards of their own decade of despair. “It’s the players-they have no heart, you can watch it when they play”.

So expect McDavid back in “months”, which could easily mean early January, depending on the severity of the injury and the recovery time.

Racing down the left wing toward the Flyers goal late in the second period, with Flyers defenders Brandon Manning and Michael Del Zotto beside him, McDavid appeared to lose the edge on his skate.

McDavid left the ice favouring his left shoulder. “I’m sure it’s his shoulder or collarbone … he was sliding on his a- on the way in and you could tell he could not protect himself”. “It was a hockey play”. I suppressed the cynicism as long as I could.

The 49 shots were the most the Flyers had surrendered since December 28, 2010, when they allowed 49 in a 6-2 loss at Vancouver. Enforcers simply are not a deterrent. The first stop of their Western Canada tour was Monday night in Vancouver, where the Canucks won 4-1. The two of them, combined with the first line of Taylor Hall, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Leon Draisait, have put Edmonton in an upward swing.