Morning Flurries: MacKinnon getting attention, Pickard flying high elsewhere

With the midway point on the season now firmly in our rearview mirror, it’s time to accept it: Nathan MacKinnon is having a stupidly unreal season.

Maybe this is his career from here on out. Maybe he’s finally hit his stride, and we’re never going to see him struggling to put up a 20-goal season again.

Even if this is an anomaly, though, it’s one hell of an impressive run. Consider this: even if MacKinnon doesn’t score again in a single game for the rest of the year, he’ll finish with 24 goals and 60 points. That would be tied with his career-high in goals and just three points shy of his career-high in that respect; given the absurdly unlikely chance of that happening, it’s safe to assume…