Connor McDavid's next contract has reportedly been confirmed and this is wild
Connor McDavid and Stan Bowman just got pulled back into extension talk after Bob Stauffer's latest read lit up Edmonton again.
The claim making the rounds is simple: Stauffer said he expects McDavid to stay and that the next contract would be a 7-year extension. That is a strong message for Oilers fans, but it still sits in prediction territory, not official team news.
That matters because the real contract picture is already on the board. McDavid officially signed a 2-year, $25 million extension with Edmonton on Oct. 6, 2025, and it begins with the 2026-27 season.
So the story here is not that McDavid just agreed to 7 more years. The story is that a connected Oilers voice is signaling he still believes the long-term future ends in Edmonton.
That signal lands because McDavid's last decision already said plenty. He could have pushed toward free agency after this season, and instead he chose a shorter bridge that kept the window open while still keeping pressure on the organization to win.
Edmonton also is not coming off some quiet year. The Oilers finished 41-30-11 for 93 points, then fired Kris Knoblauch on May 14 without naming a replacement.
Bob Stauffer just said on Fan590 in Toronto that Connor McDavid will re-sign with the Edmonton Oilers for seven more years.
"I don't think there's anybody more committed to Edmonton than Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl... I expect the next contract to be a seven year extension."
Oilers fans will love hearing that. ????????
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Here is the full clip in question :
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The biggest Connor McDavid question may have just been answered
Because McDavid's commitment has always been tied to action, not slogans. NHL.com quoted him after the extension saying Edmonton was where «our hearts are,» but that same 2-year term also gave the club a firm deadline to turn belief into a Cup.
McDavid's own season gives this more weight. He put up 138 points, which is exactly why every contract whisper around him hits harder than it would for almost any other player in the league.
So Stauffer's comment is not meaningless noise. It reads more like an insider belief that the short deal was never the exit ramp some feared, but a pause before the bigger choice.
Still, the clean fact has to stay first. McDavid has already signed for 2 more years, and there has been no official 7-year extension announced by the Oilers or the NHL.
That leaves Edmonton in a familiar spot. The captain has shown loyalty, the team still has its window, and the next stretch will say whether that short extension really was the setup for a much longer stay.
For Oilers fans, that is the real takeaway from Stauffer's line. Connor McDavid is already locked in for now, and the long-game belief around Edmonton clearly has not cooled at all.
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| Tomas Hertl | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Jordan Staal | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Shea Theodore | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Sebastian Aho | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Brayden McNabb | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Taylor Hall | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Jordan Martinook | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Andrei Svechnikov | 1 | - | 1 | |
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| Jack Eichel | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Brett Howden | - | 1 | 1 | |
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