John Tavares met Connor McDavid before the phenom had ever played a shift in junior.
Both will once again try to find an answer for the milestone-reaching Oilers captain Saturday when Edmonton visits the Toronto Maple Leafs .McDavid became the fourth-fastest player in NHL history to reach 1,000 career points Thursday, hitting the mark in a jaw-dropping 659 games. The three Hall of Famers ahead of him on the list are Wayne Gretzky , Mario Lemieux and Mike Bossy .
“A lot of attention,” Tavares said Friday following practice. “A very unique, a different time in terms of social and those types of things.‘Difficulty of the business’: Treliving addresses Keefe’s firingLeafs hope to capitalize on momentum in first home game vs. Boston“I don’t want to say he was uncomfortable, but you could just sense it was a lot for a teenager and a kid. I think he just wanted to play hockey.
Matthews, however, appears set to miss a sixth straight game with an undisclosed upper-body injury that started with a day-to-day timeline. The three-time Maurice Richard Trophy winner as the league’s top goal-scorer would have gone head-to-head with McDavid on Saturday. Toronto will instead have to continue getting things done by committee.
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