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Nhl highlights today connor mcdavid ot goal winner in nhl preseason 2023 , but that created a much larger discussion for this hockey season for 97. Stick with johnny hawkey this year for daily nhl news, picks and predictions, hockey highlights, power rankings and top 10, preseason games coverage, fantasy hockey, mic’d up reaction, trade rumors, top plays / goals and more upon request. Vancouver canucks vs edmonton oilers highlights connor mcdavid goal overtime winner aka canucks vs oilers preseason 2023
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You can tell McDavid is fired up and wants to win the Stanley Cup!
He gets injured this season 🤞
Steve Yzerman did it. He's not a bad role model to look to for motivation, if I were McDavid.
Can’t wait for Johnny Hawkey to drop the red and yellow for the copper and blue. Do you really want to spend your life cheering for Alberta’s B city? Oilers are huge right now and it looks like it’s going to stay that way for a long time.
He said he was focusing more on the defensive side of things this off-season, so he may indeed get less points this upcoming season, but it is McDavid, so who knows… sky is the limit.
he should play without draisaitl as much as possible this year. By playing with other players regularly should help during the playoffs for line matching. If he can play with a couple of defensive minded players then the other teams wont be able to so easily shut him down.
NOT ! mindless! Mc Saviour can DO that!
don"t think theres EVER been a visionary like Mc D. >>> guy just KNOWs before he scores how its gonna go down}}} he PARALYZEs ! the goalie!! bango another goal
took OVEN CHICKEN, Alex that Russian phenom 13 thats Thirteen years to get his only Coupe! Patience Mc Saviour! and kudoes to Mc Drysaitl…….! love his play as well
200 pts lol? Ehh i don't see 200 being hit ever again lol. And it has only been done 4 times
Oh ok nobody else was going 40% on the Canucks allowing McDavid that breakaway (looking at you Kuzmenko). The Oilers couldn’t do shit on their PP that game, and you know they’re trying to gear that up as the teams biggest asset.
I think you are right that he will work on all three zones this year, same with Draisaitl. It is funny though that in general Mcdavid and Drai get knocked for their defensive games when they both finished in the top 10 in takeaways last year. You don't get takeaways unless you are playing at least some defense
he needs to move the puck around more and stop trying to skate thru the entire opposition. if he does that, they got a shot.
The only reason he got enough space for that OT goal was because Hughes was trying to make a line change that was ill timed.
Untill they get better defence and goaltending they're not winning the cup.
As for the Canucks having a better lineup than the previous game…yes they had a few more veterans but not as many as the Coilers had. Also if were talking the Stanley Cup for them then beating the Nucks in OT isn't saying much…lol
once Ovie commited to defense he won a cup seems Mcdavid realized this a little sooner lol
I'm with you, I bet McDavids goal this year is Selkie. I wanna see him deny breakaways a la Lebron James backtracking easy layups slamming them off the backboard🤣
So hyped
Had a great view behind the Oilers bench last night. One vibe from McDavid and company, they're serious and they are here to win. Mad even. Yes its preseason but they mean business.
No matter how many times people are hypnotized by McDavid and Draisaitl, I will repeating it. Edmonton needs defense. 33-year old Ekholm is not enough. If you're Cody Ceci is your top pair RD, then you lack defense. You will never win a Cup like that.
This gushing over McDavid is probably the reason he is such an empty personality and struggles to be an effective leader because even a lack luster effort is impressive.
Look at what Yzerman did, transformed his game to more of a 2 way became a champ. There where 97 comments on here I hesitated to do the 98th.
Lol, not a chance he could get 200pts. He was playing all out last season.
I have a bad feeling McDavid gets injured this year…the oilers will never win a cup while McDavid is there, and i never want to see him get hurt. But I also have seen the amount of knee on knee and shots from behind he’s been taking……I can see a torn acl in his future
As an Oilers fan, I'd be perfectly fine seeing McDavid getting about 90-100 points and then absolutely empty the magazine against teams in the playoffs to get the cup. I think in order to do that he would need to pace himself. And avoid injuries of course.
He's an actual cyborg. Prove me wrong.
STOP SAYING COOKIES
makes sense, best to rest your stars as much as possible when ever possible. Playoff hockey isn't like the season.
I'd rather see Connor get 140 pts but also see Hyman, Kane, Nuge, Bouchard and Nurse get career high pts at the same time, spread the scoring out, display depth thats needed to go far in the playoffs. I agree Connor doesn't need to get 170 pts, let him save some magic and energy for the playoffs!
The Best Showing up Flop Was The Flyers . Off Season Training . Super Season . Burnt come Playoff Time . They had the Best Games without a Loss that year . I think Montreal had 26 or 27 without a loss and Philly extended the record to 30 something .
he might end up getting the points through his drive of wanting the cup.
in the mind set of getting the cup we know that he still wants to score to some extent. maybe the percentage of him reaching those point is lower than if his goal was to continue to reach the goal of getting a lot more points, but, even if that % is lower, theres still a chance.
the points he gets may take longer to achieve, because obv it takes longer to win the cup.
so, maybe he will, but at a slower rate than hes been rolling on. I think he knows exactly what hes doing, and is trying to play his cards right.
Greatest Player Of ALL TIME. Have less players won the cup? Absolutely. They had a better team.
This is the choice that mid-career Steve Yzerman made. Went from 140, 150 point seasons to setting the example as a more complete player and the rest is history. Even won a Selke eventually.
McDavid is insane, but he's awful in his own end. If he focused more on playing defense he would have maybe 110 points, which he obviously doesn't seem to want. That's the difference between McDavid and someone like Crosby.
It would be so cool to see McDavid win all the same hardware in the 140-150 point range and a Selke this year…. THAT WOULD BE NUTS.