Hockey Reaction with British Guys reacting to the greatest NHL Player of the 2022-2023 season, Connor McDavid. In this Connor McDavid Reaction, we watch his Top 25 Greatest Moments from his Hart Memorial Trophy winning season!
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The thing is you really get to learn how to track the play and not the puck. In soccer you might look at the ball, but in hockey you more look at the flow of the game and almost stay ahead of where the puck will be next? That might not make sense but it’s the best way to describe it
First off I want to say I love your videos! As a Canadian who grew up with hockey and have played my whole life it's been really great seeing both of you get invested in the most underrated sport in the world. You should definitely react to Auston Matthews (greatest NHL debut ever) and Nathan MacKinnon (truly the closest thing to McJesus).
Loving the videos!
Play number 7
The spinorama assist to Maroon.
The player he danced around was Duncan Keith. Hall Of Fame Defenseman and corner stone of 3 Hawks Championships from 2010 to 2015.
Keith did everything right on that play. McDavid is truly out of this world
I’m a huge Gretzky fan, McDavid greatest ever!
My gosh, this guy is an artist at work. He makes his opponents look they are playing in the wrong league. Or maybe he is just one of those rare athletes that makes the game look like he knows something the rest of the players don't. Hard to imagine that anyone is better than him. ♠
I've been to a 3-4 Buffalo Sabres games each year since 2019. I try to get the same seat near the ice where the home team attacks in the first and third periods. Even with this great view of the net, I don't always see the goal scored.
The 2nd best goal was during his first game back after a collarbone injury that he sustained earlier in the season, it really is just shocking what he can do.
Hockey is much easier to watch in person. You don’t have motion blur from a camera to deal with.
The goal at #1 was a very special night. Kevin Lowe who was on the great 80's Oilers teams with Gretzky was nominated to the Hockey Hall of Fame. As is tradition with the Oilers, when one of them gets into the Hall they retire their number which includes a pregame ceremony. Lowe won 5 cups with the Oilers and was one of several former Oilers who were on the Rangers 1994 cup winning team which is why they retired his number on a night they were playing the Rangers. The Oilers were down by a goal late in the third period when McDavid performed the magic that was the number one goal on this list. He then helped set up Leon Draisaitl for the overtime winner.
It's already been answered, but in my experience, you definitely have to be watching to know it went in. It's easy to miss if you look down or elsewhere. The scoreboard will show the replay a few times so you can see what happened. The Oilers are my hometown team, so I have been to a few games all the way back to the 1980s when they were winning all those Stanley Cups. But the current arena, Rogers Place, is amazing. Love that building.
Referring to number 2, Connor had broken his collarbone earlier in the season during his rookie year and that was his first game back. And also being at the game, everyone is watching the jumbotron to see how the heck he did it
You guys should watch the movie Miracle
You get used to watching hockey and figure out where the puck is even without seeing it at times. Look at where the players are looking and how they are positioned, how they are reacting. Once you figure out where it is you can follow it. And not really the puck itself, although you can see it, but in general more experienced watchers will tell you what you are really watching is the body language of the guys on the ice.
The more hockey you watch the more intune you get with the game. You don't have to actually see the puck to know where it is and what is happening.
I'm a Rangers fan and that last goal I believe was the tying goal in a game the oilers were down by 3 and ended up winning. It was so gross!
Connors acceleration is just ridiculous, I feel bad for all the defensemen he embarrasses
I’ve spent my whole life in a rink and around hockey and even I have to take a second to figure out what the hell mcdavid does sometimes
The reason they said "Welcome back conner" on #2 is that was his first game back after missing almost half the season with a broken collar bone. That was his rookie year.
A couple fun facts about this list. #4 and #3 happened literally 1 week apart during the regular season. My mans was on a heater. #1 has been replayed over and over everywhere and it's been 2(3?) seasons since it happened. It might genuinely be the greatest goal ever scored. Some might be more emotional or more meaningful in terms of context, but pure skill-wise this is a strong contender for top goal of all time.
Please 🙏 react to nfl big man moments. The big guys get to shine and show off they are more than quarterback killers.
#2 was his first game back after like a year injury. People were wondering if he was the same. Yes. He was.
When you watch something enough, you can fill in the Blanks, Some plays Especially McDavids always require 2 or 3 looks to full understand what happened.
This is Auburn vs LSU week. One of the most insane games in the history of college football took place in 1994. Take 30 minutes and look at the game, you won't regret it.
Use the you tube video that is 27:16, the announcers add to it. I won't bother you again with this, your decision….
As someone that has played hockey as a goalkeeper(not professionally, just in my youth around 17 or 18 yrs old), i feel has given me a unique perspective on whats happening or has happened during a hockey play.
The speed at which a player is coming at you is often under looked. How are they coming at you? What angles are they showing you with their skates/blades/edgework? How are they holding their stick? Are they showing you multiple angles?
So much i could say here. Mcdavid does so much well at such a high level.
As a goalie you have to assess so much, so fast its insane; and i never had to play against nhl guys. I did play against some talented guys though.
It's difficult to see sometimes live like you guys say. But you learn to follow the puck with their movement and almost anticipate a little bit what is going to happen even though you might get faked out the same way a defender does. You might not also see details of a move the same way you would on a replay if bodies are covering your view. Redirections are incredibly hard to follow live, at least for me, and then you just look at the jumbotron and hope to catch what happened. You know someone got a stick on it but it's hard to catch, especially multiple redirections (stick into skate into whatever). So don't feel bad!
The commentator said “welcome back” because it was his first game back after breaking his collarbone.
Only thing that sucks is the timezone the Oilers are in. Most of their games are going to start VERY late for you guys, if Nick wanted to watch them live.
Tbh, it's way easier to track the puck when you're there live. The slow motion replays at the stadium do help though for getting some better angles. But the TV will never do a live game justice, it's just too fast. McDavid's stick handling will always be hard to track, though.
I watched the #1 goal live on tv and it still dumbfounds me how he went between 4 guys like that and put the goalie on the wrong side of the net. He’s special to watch man I’m just happy I’m alive to see it.
Most of the time it’s pretty easy to tell what has happened even live at a game personally just due to the amount of hockey I’ve watched but with mcdavid sometimes I need those replays to understand the amazing moves that mcdavid has some how pulled off
That 2nd goal was his first game back after breaking his collar bone, was his rookie year and he almost won the Calder after being out for 4-5 months.
My boy referencing the Vols jerseys! Gotta get yall to Neyland for a game and you’ll never see sports the same again! It’s church for sports fan, but a day early.
Great stuuf as always….You must check out "when NHL preseason game got out of hand" by hockey psychology. Just came out. Relates directly to the Unwritten nhl fight rules video you did. Been watching hockey 30+ yrs. Never saw what happened in this video before.
I played hockey for 22 years. My insight to help. Hockey players full sprint about 23mph. That is like watching a football player run a 40m in 1.7 seconds.
Connor is special not for the goal scoring or the assist count. It all starts at a young age going to specialized training camps called dry land training & skilled camps. What made us great as kids, 2 practices per day, breakfast, lunch and video training. It would be every winter, every summer. What made Connor even better? He would take his work home with him. While many of us would practice stick handling for 30 minutes before dressing for a game, Connor would practice stick handling for 2-3 hours daily. When he would train in weightlifting rooms, they were not standard equipment. He would train on two treadmills pushed together with a coating on top that simulates the ice. He would wear a harness and be able to skate as fast as he could without risk of falling. The scariest thing to a player who can’t train like Connor, is that full speed potential. In a real game, going full speed slows down your abilities of puck control but not for Mcdavid for some reason. If you went 23 mph in to the boards, you can become paralyzed or die from a concussion. Not many guys I played with, ever tried to operate a game full speed the entire game. Mcdavid does. He also spent continuous years in power skating. One of the biggest reasons for his speed, is how strong his strides are and quick crossovers. He used his blades to sharpen the ice and cut through like butter, as he crosses over, it begins to function like a wheel on a chain…more build up, more speed.
Now, what makes an athlete in hockey different from guys like us who played for 20+ years since age 3? Injuries. When you sustain an injury in hockey bad enough or to a position of the body that requires significant surgery, time is against you. My brother played against Patrick Kane in the Junior days and Select 17’s. My brother passed me once I got injured. My injury, cost me 2 years of shoulder recovery and 2 years of a potential career. Mcdavid, only ever hurt his hand so he has been allowed to get better and better each year.
The NFL is similar. If a guy in college D1 messed up his MCL or UCL in his thumb, his career will likely never be in the NFL bc the recovery time, puts you years behind everyone else.
Yes. No. You are not alone.
Most lifelong fans know most of what happens on one look. Yet more so with fans that actually play the game.
We don’t generally even have to see the puck to know what’s happened because we know what the body movements of the players mean. You need to see it sometimes of course.
There are occasions when replay is needed to clear up whether it was deflected or not, etc, though.
PS: going to a game is a different experience because the speed of the players appears different than on TV. It’s something else if you sit close and see them go by and see the hits right in your face. You also learn how big they are. On TV, they’re mostly the same size as each other so you lose the perspective. At a game, you’re there yourself. Plus they’re 3” taller on skates so they end up around 6’5”.
you gotta watch the connor mcdavid documentary, it shows his career ending injury and how he came back from it
theyve got jumbotrons (massive screens suspended over the ice) so you can watch replays right after, but when you go to the game you see the puck so clearly because the ice is so perfectly white, and then you got the black puck. if you played the sport or watched it alot youll start seeing it. but weve never seen anyone like mcdavid, gretzky is still the best of all time in my opinion for now, but his style was very different to mcdavid.
After playing and watching hockey my whole life I know exactly what’s going on even if I’m in the nosebleeds or watching on a blurry tv it’s mostly the motions and the stick work that gives it away
I don't know if hockey fans truly realize how special he is. MJ, Messi, Ohtani – McDavid is the most evolved player the sport has ever seen. Once his team wins a championship or a gold medal for Canada, he'll be up on Mount Rushmore with Gretzky, Lemieux, Orr, and Howe. Thanks for the video, guys!
You're still new to hockey. All real hockey fans cheer for the Leafs and definitely not the Habs. If the Leafs don't make the playoffs you can cheer for any Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup.