{"id":82848,"date":"2025-07-22T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82848\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T09:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:39:09","slug":"oilers-connor-mcdavid-leon-draisaitl-join-beer-league-game-in-viral-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82848\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl join beer league game in viral moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beer league team in Ontario just earned themselves a lifetime\u2019s worth of bragging rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl turned up in Oilers jerseys at a pickup game at Magna Centre in Newmarket, Ontario, last Wednesday night in a dream-come-true moment for local fans and players.<\/p>\n<p>Making the moment even sweeter for the locals: neither of the NHL superstars scored a goal, and their teammates walked away with a dominant 6-2 win.<\/p>\n<p>Oilers star Connor McDavid before Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final on June 17. NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Neither McDavid nor Draisaitl were skating at full speed, but a local goalie did manage to pull off a few dazzling saves on No. 97.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd that jammed into the stands at the rink ooh\u2019d and aah\u2019d each time McDavid or Draisaitl touched the puck, and clips of the game instantly blew up on social media, with dozens of fans impressed with the goalie who repeatedly stonewalled McDavid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine being that goalie. Legend forever,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RyanWinsBets\/status\/1945807584851599503\">one user wrote on X<\/a>, with<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Lord_Vader1978\/status\/1945741064272330848\"> another adding<\/a>: \u201cEdmonton should sign that goalie, he looks better than [Oilers starter Stuart] Skinner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do we buy the goalie a beer?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/45777216\/connor-mcdavid-leon-draisaitl-edmonton-oilers-beer-league\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked a third<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Connor McDavid handles the puck during a beer league game in Ontario on July 16. @BarDown\/X<\/p>\n<p>The game took place at a rink just a quick drive from McDavid\u2019s hometown of Richmond Hill, Ontario.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a league I played in with my buddies for over ten years now. We joined that league back when I played junior hockey. I was a little bit surprised to see it get blown up,\u201d McDavid told ESPN. \u201cI\u2019ve been playing in those games for over a decade now. So it\u2019s pretty funny that it just kind of came up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a second consecutive loss to the Panthers in the Stanley Cup Final, McDavid, Draisaitl and the Oilers are preparing to make another run at the Cup next season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oilers star Leon Draisaitl during Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final on June 17. Sam Navarro-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>First, though, McDavid\u2019s contract status with Edmonton hangs in the balance, as he\u2019s eligible for an extension this summer before potentially becoming an unrestricted free agent after next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A beer league team in Ontario just earned themselves a lifetime\u2019s worth of bragging rights.\u00a0 Connor McDavid and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":82849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[3260,2997,293,62,1486,67,132,68,5631],"class_list":{"0":"post-82848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-connor-mcdavid","9":"tag-edmonton-oilers","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-entertainment","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-viral-videos"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114896225284134929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}