McDavid Is Day-To-Day After Lower-Body Injury Scare

Any injury note tied to McDavid sets off alarm bells, because the margin for error gets very thin when the league's best player is not at full throttle. The early read here suggests the situation is being handled cautiously, which is exactly how contenders talk when they know the calendar matters more than the panic meter. Even a short-term absence would ripple through everything from line combinations to game-planning, and nobody around the Oilers wants to find out how wide that ripple gets.