Mark Giordano responds after seriously injuring Connor McDavid.

Another failed season for the Edmonton Oilers ended in total catastrophe on Saturday night when the organization's most marketable superstar, and their captain, Connor McDavid appeared to suffer a serious injury in the final game of the 2018 - 2019 National Hockey League regular season.

The Oilers were taking on the Calgary Flames for the final "Battle of Alberta" of the season, a game that had nothing on the line for either team except for their own personal pride. You would think that both the Oilers and the Flames would want to play a relatively uneventful game with the Oilers season already over and the Flames likely already looking ahead to the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Unfortunately for the Oilers it was anything but that.

During the second period of the game the aforementioned Connor McDavid was on a rush into the Calgary Flames zone and as he has shown so many times in the past he simply has too much speed for some defensemen to handle. As a result McDavid was able to blow past the Flames defense, including Flames veteran and captain Mark Giordano, which left Giordano looking for a desperation play in a tie game. Giordano would slide down on the ice and reach out for the puck with his stick, missing his target in the process. What would happen next would be an unmitigated disaster for the Oilers. 

Instead of reaching the puck Giordano's stick would take out McDavid's legs from under him, knocking him off balance in the process. As a result of this McDavid with go crashing awkwardly into the Flames net with his left leg colliding hard against the post and leaving him in pain out on the ice. Initially on the ice McDavid seemed to be handling things pretty well but it was not long before reporters began to report on the screams of agony coming from the Oilers locker room and from McDavid himself. By the time it was all said and done there were reports that McDavid had to leave the arena in a wheelchair, indicating that he was in fact seriously injured 

The only update that has been provided thus far by the Oilers themselves was to report that the x-rays on McDavid's leg had come back negative, which may be good or bad news based on how you see things. Should fans be happy that McDavid has no broken bones? Of course they should. However if his leg was indeed that badly damaged, ligament damage in the leg or knee can often times be far more severe than a broken bone is. 

Of course, as you would expect, reporters swarmed Flames captain Mark Giordano after the game in an effort to get a quote from him, and Giordano did not sound at all pleased with the way things had turned out.

"I feel terrible, again, I tried to obviously dive and get the puck and you never want to see, he's the best player in the game, so we need him in the game and tried to find out how he's doing out there and you're not going to get much from them, they're pretty mad about it and I understand that."

"I honestly thought I could get that puck and I dove for it, and watching the replay I missed it and stick sort of trips him. He’s obviously a great player and it was tough, I was trying to ask him right away. He was in a lot of pain there so he wasn’t saying much. Obviously with the result being what it is, if I had to do it all over again you’d almost want to see myself let him go and not injured him, but easy to say after the fact, so I’m going to ask around and hopefully get an answer and see if he’s doing alright."

"Hopefully it’s better than it looked because it looked like he wasn’t doing well there. Obviously my intention was to just get the puck. He’s a player, I’m not trying to do any dirty play on him and trying to play a one-on-one, really."

Something tells me fans in Edmonton won't be so quick to forgive him in spite of the fact that he genuinely seems to regret having injured McDavid.

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