{"id":435617,"date":"2023-05-15T10:17:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T14:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435617"},"modified":"2023-05-15T10:18:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T14:18:43","slug":"edmonton-mocked-by-fans-for-wasting-mcdavids-prime","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/edmonton-mocked-by-fans-for-wasting-mcdavids-prime\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton mocked by fans for wasting McDavid&#8217;s prime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another campaign ended agonizingly for Connor McDavid and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/edmonton-oilers\/\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> last night.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian franchise couldn&#8217;t benefit from having the best NHL player in his prime as they were defeated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/vegas-golden-knights\/\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> 5-2 at home in Game 6, and Connor again will not be able to compete for the Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Oilers reached the Western Conference Finals, but now they were eliminated even earlier. However, Edmonton started in the best possible way as in Game 5, as they had a 2-1 lead after the 1<sup>st<\/sup> period with goals from McDavid and Foegele.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and 3rd periods, Golden Knights totally dominated the match and eliminated them from the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Fans turn to Twitter to name their opinion about Oilers and McDavid:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/edmonton-oilers\/\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> have wasted 8 seasons of Connor McDavid&#8217;s career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How do you fail to build a franchise around Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sidney Crosby will forever clear Connor McDavid.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t ever want to hear their names spoken in the same sentence again. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rf0438PMJg\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rf0438PMJg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KJ (@FreeCandy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreeCandy\/status\/1657968194030817281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another campaign ended agonizingly for Connor McDavid and Edmonton Oilers last night. The Canadian franchise couldn&#8217;t benefit from having the best NHL player [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":435618,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17089,17007,17844],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[18682,17889,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The Golden Knights eliminated Oilers.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435617"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435617"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}