From simmonssteve: McDavid all alone at top of NHL and everyone knows it
They are sitting a few podiums apart just off the Florida beach on Media Day at the NHL All-Star weekend, with the sun shining, the sky blue and the great MacKinnon not far from the even greater McDavid, and at almost every stop where the players sit and informally talk — as much as hockey players ever informally speak — there is praise and more praise for McDavid.Article content
“It’s not one player and one year. He’s consistently doing it. Every year. It’s cool to see. It’s great for us. It’s great for fans. It’s great for the kids.”Article content Of all the scoring champions to follow Lemieux — 16 in all the past 26 years — none accumulated points the way McDavid is accumulating points this season.
“He got a taste of it in last year’s playoffs and I think it motivated him,” said Bruce Cassidy, the All-Star coach from the Vegas Golden Knights. “That’s what drives elite players. They want to win. He wants to build off their own playoff success.” All-time great play is so very rare. Gretzky won four Stanley Cups. Lemieux won two. McDavid remains in pursuit. Gretzky and Lemieux were Brady. McDavid is more Manning-like with more electricity and fewer championships to call his own. This is Year 8 for McDavid as a professional and a certain symmetry for this All-Star weekend. This is the place he was drafted. He still remembers racing around with rented jet skis on the morning of the draft. His family was here then.
It isn’t often the Hart Trophy race is locked up after 50 games but barring any kind of injury, the most valuable player award will go to McDavid this season. It will be his third Hart. The scoring title will be his fifth. The individual awards make for nice trophy rooms. The trophy he would push them all aside for — the Stanley Cup.Article content
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