{"id":65467,"date":"2025-09-28T03:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/elliotte-friedman-hints-at-surprisingly-modest-deal-for-connor-mcdavid\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T03:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:36:57","slug":"elliotte-friedman-hints-at-surprisingly-modest-deal-for-connor-mcdavid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/elliotte-friedman-hints-at-surprisingly-modest-deal-for-connor-mcdavid\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliotte Friedman hints at surprisingly modest deal for Connor McDavid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Connor McDavid’s impending contract extension with the Oilers is now expected to be lower than the previously speculated $16 million, potentially around $15.5 million. This revised figure, influenced by Edmonton’s tight salary cap and McDavid’s focus on winning, could establish a new ceiling for future superstar contracts across the NHL.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Connor McDavid’s impending contract extension with the Oilers is now expected to be lower than the previously speculated $16 million, potentially around $15.5 million. This revised figure, influenced by Edmonton’s tight salary cap and McDavid’s focus on winning, could establish a new ceiling for future superstar contracts across the NHL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":65468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}