Forty-eight hours after one of their best defensive performances of the season, Connor McDavid and the Oilers got the best of the Maple Leafs’ blue line. (By lukefoxjukebox)
“A hell of a play,” John Tavares conceded. “We would want to make it tough on him. We didn’t do the job.”
“We just gave him way too much space,” Auston Matthews said. “He’s the most dangerous player in the world for a reason, so when you just let him fly through the neutral zone with the speed and skill that he has, he’s gonna make us pay.”Yet none were more seductive than McDavid’s ankle-snapping, inside-out, upside-down humbling of Morgan Rielly and relief goalie Michael Hutchinson in the third period.
For his league-leading 69th point of the season, McDavid had all the time in the world to perform a triple bypass on Rielly’s soul, threaten Hutchinson to the deep end of his crease with an infinite toolbox of possibility and then shelf the puck way up where they keep the Goals of the Year. Could Rielly try to give the rest of us commoners some sense of what it’s like to try to post up McDavid one-on-one?“We just gave him way too much space. He’s the most dangerous player in the world for a reason." —Auston Matthews on Connor McDavid
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