“We’ve haven’t shown who we are these first few games”, he said.
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“It hit me high in the thigh and squeezed through”, Miller said. And Benning saw Stamkos, Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, John Tavares and others. The Oilers had lost all five games against their provincial rival last season, when they were outscored 21-8.
McDavid was invisible for one shift. “They went after it and it was a lot of fun to play like that”.
But things are starting to look up for Dupuis. McDavid recorded his first multi-goal and multi-point performance with two tallies and an assist after recording one goal in his first four National Hockey League contests. When a teammate falls, we’ve got to pick him up. He scored his first goal by deftly rifling a shot through the shin pads of defenceman Kris Russell and past Hiller, then buried the final goal of the game on a luscious cross-crease pass from Taylor Hall (one goal, three points).
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Connor McDavid scored a pair of goals to help the Edmonton Oilers defeat the Flames 5-2 on Saturday night in Calgary.
But his assist, after Sbisa stepped up on him aggressively as McDavid carried the puck in the Canucks’ zone, was a moment of brilliance. We’re not putting enough pucks to the net, bottom line.
But such is the interest in McDavid – and in these parts, how his presence affects the largely dormant rivalry between the Oilers and Flames – that friend, foe and even family all want to see him, live and in person.
“Just getting more and more comfortable. It’s tough to lose this many early, but I don’t think we can panic or anything”. He was clear that you go from playing 18 to 20 minutes on your regular team and coming here and maybe playing 13 to 15 [minutes] and having to play different positions.
Despite the fact that the Oilers have been in most of the first four games, there is definitely a sense of frustration around the team.
In 2013-14, he registered 36 goals and 91 points in 57 games with the Kingston Frontenacs.
“Yeah, but he’s an unreal player”, Burrows said of McDavid. He’s going to evolve and develop as a dominant player in the League. And he’s only 18.
“Overall, we did a pretty good job against him”. Truly, when people say “it’s a process”, this is what they mean.
Regardless of how well McDavid remembers his first game in Vancouver, it didn’t sound like Burrows will forget the game he went head-to-head against the best prospect in a generation.
The Calgary Flames, it must be said, are a train wreck right now. You and I have gone back and forth about who should coach Team North America in the World Cup and we no longer have to wait. Sometimes there were nine Olympians on the ice and me, and I’m thinking: “‘I don’t belong here.’ But you always want to play against the best”.
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Sunday, McDavid wasn’t the best.
