Connor McDavid was, well, Connor McDavid tonight. The Oilers hosted the Wild, a team they generally tend to have a difficult time with, but the captain scored two nice goals to help push Edmonton to a 4-1 win.
McDavid opened the scoring in the second period. He grabbed the puck at the blueline and managed to get his wheels rolling so quickly that he swivelled the normally-very-good Ryan Suter into the ice. He dragged the puck to the front of the net, had his shot stopped, but picked up his own rebound and fired it past the sprawling Devan Dubnyk. Look at those wheels.
This guy. pic.twitter.com/VPuDbnfAzz
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A few minutes later, McDavi pushed the lead to 2-0 with this power play snipe over the shoulder of Devan Dubnyk. McDavid is usually a pass first kind of guy, especially with the man advantage, but this time, he took matters into his own hands and ripped a wrister right past a helpless looking Dubnyk.
Friends, Connor is putting on a McShow tonight. pic.twitter.com/bYvS2nKipG
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It was a three-point night for McDavid which pulls him a little closer to Nikita Kucherov in the Art Trophy race.
Get the Post-gamer up, lets get this cheers party started!!!!
BOO BAGGEDMILK
#NugeandConnorforever His left wing dilemma has been solved at long last. Only took fans screaming for it all season, but hey… they look dangerous almost every shift! Who would have thought?!? Lol
It still pains me that the Oilers got this guy. Gross incompetence rewarded.
That’s how it works. Toronto got Matthews the same way.
Yeah. One 1st overall. Not 4.
If you wanted Conner you would have had to have been awful for another season. Which sounds like you wished would have happened. But then you would have had to be awful for multiple seasons also, which it sounds like you are against? This makes no sense man.
You are a fan. I am a fan. When your team sucks its painful. No one has gone through more pain than the Oilers. We deserve this player because we did nothing to cause the decade of darkness.
Sour grapes Dude.
All in. Grab two scoring titles in a row Connor.
Remember when the losers at FN thought gudreau would beat connor.