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Connor McDavid was rusty handling the puck but his knee, injured at the end of last season, looked fine in preseason action against the Arizona Coyotes as the NHL star saw his first action since he tore the posterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.
Hockey beat writers Jim Matheson and Derek Van Diest join host Craig Ellingson to talk about McDavid, and the state of the team in training camp on both offence and defence, particularly the fight among forwards for spots among the bottom six and how the blueline corps might look with an injury to Joel Persson.

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"McDavid returns to Oilers game action" is an episode of Oil Spills: A podcast on the Edmonton Oilers. Runtime 0 min. Published September 25, 2019. Hit play above to stream it here, or open the free Spot Sports app for background play and offline downloads.