Has any player ever been as wasted as McDavid?

[Nickmo82]

Most of those guys played on a contender at some point, many even went to a finals. McDavid is trapped in the basement of the league, on a team with no cap space to make meaningful moves.

Fair enough. He had a decent run that one year the Oilers went to the post-season. It's not like they were swept in the first round or anything.

 

[Matty Sundin]

Tho not as good as Conor, Olli Jokinen was a pretty good player that didnt make the playoffs until he was already in decline

 

[Brunomics]

Shane Doan

 

[JaegerDice]

Fair enough. He had a decent run that one year the Oilers went to the post-season. It's not like they were swept in the first round or anything.

They won one round. I think people overstate just how well they did that one year they made the playoffs.

 

[MPGA]

Once they get Jack Hughes, they'll only be a few 1st overall picks away from getting it together. Give it time.

 

[United]

Paul Gascoigne.

 

[Saekk]

Heard rumours that Hudler was pretty wasted 2017.

 

[Avelanche]

Most of those guys played on a contender at some point, many even went to a finals. McDavid is trapped in the basement of the league, on a team with no cap space to make meaningful moves.

he's like 22

 

[Nick Hansen]

Matthew Le Tissier.

Or Francesco Totti.

 

[RustyCat]

Bryan Fogarty literally wasted away his career...and life. Too bad, he had HOF like potential.

 

[JaegerDice]

he's like 22

And he'll be on a bad team for at least another 3-4 years.

 

[Sweet Leaf]

Marcel Dionne.

 

[Stive Morgan]

Hate saying this but Price and Lundqvist if they don't win a Cup.

 

[SharksCyclops]

Ray Bourque

 

[ZJuice]

Ovechkin was pretty wasted last Summer.

As great as McDavid is, I find it hard to believe he'd be able to outdrink him.

With how huge and athletic Ovechkin is I’m curious to how much it actual takes him to get drunk

 

[EdmFlyersfan]

Marcel Dionne and Adam Oates

 

[ZJuice]

Ray Bourque

He got his cup eventually.. Bringing tears to the eyeballs of many men

 

[I Hate Philadelphia]

John Gibson.

 

[Thrasymachus]

Well, probably Yakupov for starters

 

[IceNeophyte]

Patrick. Kane.

The guy with his name engraved on the Stanley Cup 3 times? Sure, total waste.

 

[ZJuice]

The guy with his name engraved on the Stanley Cup 3 times? Sure, total waste.

I think he means Nolan Patrick and Evander Kane

 

[Sens With Benefits]

He’s the Barry Sanders/Calvin Johnson of the NHL. The Oilers and Lions have a had a lot in common since 1991.

 

[NeverBeNormal]

Wade Boggs. The man once drank 70 beers on a cross country flight then totally destroyed the Seattle Mariners the next day. Rest in Peace.

 

[7even]

I mean Giroux grabbed a cop's butt

 

[The List Of Jericho]

Just read: https://www.tsn.ca/the-oilers-are-squandering-mcdavid-s-excellence-1.1255904

Now I'm trying to think of a worse ratio of player ability:team performance over a sustained period of time, but can't really think of anything that comes close to a generational player missing the playoffs in (probably) 3 of 4 years. There's got to be a case of somebody in the pre-cap world though, right?

Wasted? Probably so, McDavid looks like a light weight when it comes to alcohol consumption.