“Ice-time is a good indicator of what the coach is saying (and thinking). He’s played top six minutes because he’s able to retrieve pucks and that’s important. He hasn’t been putting up points yet but you want a good 200-foot game and he’s doing that. He can make plays. The more experience he gets, the more comfortable he becomes"

Christmas is coming, but Kris Knoblauch isn’t into gifting Matt Savoie a spot on a line with Connor McDavid because he’s young and fast and a homegrown talent who was once a first-round draft pick of Buffalo Sabres. Article content

That’s not how it works with the head coach of the Edmonton Oilers . Article content Article content

And truth is, it’s not how it works with McDavid.

If McDavid didn’t want to play with Savoie he wouldn’t be there.

But, h

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