<p>Connor McDavid&#8217;s night lasted just 37 seconds Monday, before he was removed from the game with what the Edmonton Oilers are calling a lower-body injury.</p>
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<p>McDavid was on the ice for the opening faceoff, and 15 seconds in, burst towards the right offensive blueline, trying to grab a loose puck. Columbus Blue Jackets defenceman Zach Werenski was near, tripping McDavid as the Oilers captain crashed hard into the boards. A slow-motion look at the collision showed McDavid&#8217;s left skate jamming into the boards. There was no penalty on the play.</p>
<p>He would stay on the ice for a 37-second shift, but as he left the ice, he was holding his left skate off the ice, and entered the Oilers bench gingerly.</p>
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<p>In his wake, the Oilers struggled through the rest of the first period, outscored 3-0 by the Blue Jackets who took a commanding lead.</p>
<p>All concern, however, will be on the status of McDavid, who has rarely missed games during his career. While he missed a chunk of his rookie season with a broken collarbone, and in the Oilers final game of the 2018-19 season, <a href="https://oilersnation.com/news/laing-connor-mcdavids-recovery-nothing-short-of-unbelievable">suffered a significant knee injury</a> that included a fully torn posterior cruciate ligament, torn medial and lateral menisci, fully torn popliteus muscle, a complete tear of the posterior capsule and a tibial plateau fracture. McDavid, however, didn&#8217;t undergo surgery for the injury, and was on the ice for Game 1 of the 2019-20 season, scoring the game-winning goal in a 3-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks.</p>
<p>The Oilers captain had appeared in nine games prior to Monday&#8217;s, scoring three goals and 10 points, including a two-assist night Sunday in a 3-2 overtime victory over the Detroit Red Wings.</p>
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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zach Laing is the Nation Network’s news director and senior columnist, making up one-half of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@daily_faceoff/streams">DFO DFS Report</a>. He can be followed on Twitter at</span></i> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/zjlaing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@zjlaing</span></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, or reached by email at zach@thenationnetwork.com.</span></i></p>
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Connor McDavid's night lasted just 37 seconds Monday, before he was removed from the game with what the Edmonton Oilers are calling a lower-body injury.


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McDavid was on the ice for the opening faceoff, and 15 seconds in, burst towards the right offensive blueline, trying to grab a loose puck. Columbus Blue Jackets defenceman Zach Werenski was near, tripping McDavid as the Oilers captain crashed hard into the boards. A slow-motion look at the collision showed McDavid's left skate jamming into the boards. There was no penalty on the play.

He would stay on the ice for a 37-second shift, but as he left the ice, he was holding his left skate off the ice, and entered the Oilers bench gingerly.

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In his wake, the Oilers struggled through the rest of the first period, outscored 3-0 by the Blue Jackets who took a commanding lead.

All concern, however, will be on the status of McDavid, who has rarely missed games during his career. While he missed a chunk of his rookie season with a broken collarbone, and in the Oilers final game of the 2018-19 season, <a href="https://oilersnation.com/news/laing-connor-mcdavids-recovery-nothing-short-of-unbelievable">suffered a significant knee injury</a> that included a fully torn posterior cruciate ligament, torn medial and lateral menisci, fully torn popliteus muscle, a complete tear of the posterior capsule and a tibial plateau fracture. McDavid, however, didn't undergo surgery for the injury, and was on the ice for Game 1 of the 2019-20 season, scoring the game-winning goal in a 3-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks.

The Oilers captain had appeared in nine games prior to Monday's, scoring three goals and 10 points, including a two-assist night Sunday in a 3-2 overtime victory over the Detroit Red Wings.

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<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zach Laing is the Nation Network’s news director and senior columnist, making up one-half of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@daily_faceoff/streams">DFO DFS Report</a>. He can be followed on Twitter at</span></i> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/zjlaing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@zjlaing</span></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, or reached by email at zach@thenationnetwork.com.</span></i>

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