Leon Draisaitl and Alphonso Davies. Different, but the same. It will be fascinating to watch these two ascend in their sports, writes SportsnetSpec, as both appear destined for a place at the top, where only the very best players reside.
, while Alphonso Davies, born to Liberian parents in a refugee camp in Ghana, stars in the German Bundesliga.
Today, Draisaitl is the Art Ross Trophy winner, the first German to become a scoring champion in an international league. Meanwhile Davies is in Deutchland, playing for Bayern Munich and fast becoming the best left back in the Bundesliga, if not the world.The African kid with dazzling feet met the Cologne kid with 100-point hands when Davies dropped a puck at an Oilers game over the winter. He rolled in for the morning skate, and the two exchanged numbers.
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