“He’s on a 1-on-1 and he’s right in front of you and you’re in trouble. “I see people panic when he’s on the ice,” Ken Hitchcock said. The highlight reel goal was largely due to the 21-year-old’s superior skating. McDavid finished off the play with a pull of the stick and a flick of the wrist, his shot from the lip of the crease ending up over the right shoulder of goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury and under the crossbar. “When he’s coming down on you, you just try to get your feet going,” McNabb said. Good morning and here's another unreal goal. It took two strides before McDavid beat him to the outside. He didn’t lose a modicum of speed and found himself even with McNabb. Instead of stopping to corral it, however, McDavid spun backwards to pick it up and then instantly pivoted back up ice. McDavid was ahead of the puck, which had been slowed after a carom off the boards. Linemate Leon Draisaitl chipped the puck into the neutral zone and it trickled past McNabb’s partner Nate Schmidt. “The skates were a little big, but they did the trick,” he said.One of McDavid’s most recent works of beauty went something like this.

Before you go thinking that a new skate size will give him a boost, McDavid said afterwards that the fit recommended to him, surprisingly, wasn’t right. McDavid has 11 points in his past nine games (including two assists against the Bruins) but, to some, isn’t living up to expectations this season. “The lady was trying to give me some advice on what size I should go with,” McDavid said to NHL.com. The three were trying to rent skates at the rink, when an employee let McDavid know that he was asking for the wrong skate size. Highlight of the weekend was when the skate lady corrected Connor about his skate size, explaining that his skate size should be one less than his shoe sizeĪ post shared by Cam McDavid on at 1:38pm PSTĪccording to NHL.com, McDavid, brother Cam, and a friend went to skate on Boston Common’s Frog Pond last Saturday when the Oilers were in town for a Sunday matchup against the Bruins.

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