Las Vegas — Before the winner of NHL’s most valuable player award was revealed Wednesday night, somebody asked Avalanche star Nathan MacKinnon: Which of the three finalists would you vote for: Anze Kopitar of the Los Angeles Kings? Taylor Hall of the New Jersey Devils? Or yourself?
“What kind of question is that?” MacKinnon replied. “I’ve got no idea. … It’s not for me to vote.”
MacKinnon is good at putting the biscuit in the basket. But does he blow smoke? Never.
Yes, he has become one of the league’s elite players, like Sidney Crosby, who grew up in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia (population 25,161), just as MacKinnon did.